00 Opening
NDot AI is the growth platform for modern media
We help publishers turn their great content and trusted brands into direct audiences, deeper engagement, and sustainable revenue.
01 Why now
Why Now: Rented reach is running out
As referral traffic declines, NDot AI gives publishers the infrastructure to own their audience and take control of their growth — backed by more than a decade of scaling media products to tens of millions of users and hundreds of millions in revenue.
−33%
Global search referral traffic
Nov 2024 to Nov 2025
−60%
Small publishers’ search traffic
Past two years
−25%
Referral traffic lost to AI Overviews
Per publisher, on average
−43%
Further decline publishers expect
Projected through 2029
02 Why us
Why Us: We have done this at scale
Everything we build for you, we’ve already built and proven for ourselves.
10M+
NewsBreak daily active users
No. 1 local news app in the US
55M+
Active newsletter subscribers
NewsBreak, direct to the inbox
1M+
CrimeRadar daily active users
Newest app, still growing fast
2,500+
Publishers already trust our content network
1,500+
Advertisers actively monetizing our platform
03 Solution
Solution
Our platform spans app and newsletter development, audience growth, personalization, engagement, monetization, and publisher-advertiser networks — all proven at scale.
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Build
We turn your existing archive and daily output into a native app experience readers open every day.
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Grow
Automated marketing campaigns, smart notifications, and retention loops built on a decade of audience-growth expertise.
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Retain
Personalized feeds, ranked reader by reader, built on a decade of content recommendation expertise.
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Monetize
Advertising and/or subscription infrastructure tuned to convert engagement into revenue, from day one.
04 Mission & Vision
Mission
Empower media companies to own their audience, control their growth, and thrive in a changing media landscape.
We help publishers build direct audience relationships and grow, engage, retain, and monetize them.
Vision
Build the owned-audience growth infrastructure for the future of media.
We envision a future where publishers rely less on third-party distribution and have the technology, capabilities, and control to build sustainable growth on their own terms.
05 Founder
Founder
Jeff Zheng
“AI is breaking the search and social channels that sent audiences to publishers for two decades. Modern media need infrastructure of their own. NDot AI is that platform—the infrastructure to build, grow, engage, retain, and monetize. It brings together a decade of audience growth and engagement, personalization, recommendation, and advertising technology, developed and validated by operating media products at scale, and now purpose-built for publishers.”
NDot AI Founder Jeff Zheng has spent more than two decades using technology to connect people with information that matters to them. After earning a Ph.D. in computer science from SUNY Buffalo, he joined Yahoo! in 2004. He led global teams in search relevance and content recommendation before founding Yahoo! Labs China. In 2012, Jeff co-founded Yidian and scaled it to unicorn status before exiting in 2015.
Upon his return to the U.S., Jeff founded NewsBreak with a mission to make local news and community information easily accessible to people everywhere. Today, it is the nation’s leading local news platform, with over 10 million daily active app users and 55 million newsletter subscribers. Looking ahead, Jeff believes that the most valuable AI won’t be the most general model, but the one that understands one domain deeply enough to solve real problems and create real value: that’s the thinking behind NDot AI—a platform purpose-built for publishers.
06 Careers
Careers
Join Us to Build the Future of Media Growth
The future of media belongs to companies that own the relationship with their audience.