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Pearl Universal Widget: Go live with AI + human answers in under 5 minutes
Experience Pearl AI + Expert with zero setup.
The Pearl Universal Widget is a plug-and-play iframe you can drop into any website or app—no backend integration, no access key required. Let your customers interact with Pearl’s AI, backed by 12,000 vetted Experts, in minutes. Explore multiple conversation modes, customize the experience, and see what human-verified AI really looks like.
👉 Get started with live code examples and a ready-to-embed snippet in our latest blog post.
Jun 12, 20254 min read


Quick start guide: Connect your AI agent to Pearl’s MCP Server
Supercharge your AI agent with real-time access to verified human Experts using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This guide walks you through the fastest way to get up and running.
Jun 6, 20251 min read


Who do you trust?
We compared findings from the 2025 KPMG AI Trust Survey with publicly available data on trust in human professionals, like doctors, lawyers, and mechanics, as well as our own research on hybrid systems that combine AI with real Experts. Conclusion: People trust AI more when a real human Expert stands behind it. Even more than doctors, vets, tech pros, or AI on their own
Jun 2, 20251 min read


To make people believe in your AI, start with assurance mechanisms that actually work
AI trust won’t be won through better branding or shinier UX. It will be won through rigorous, accountable, transparent systems that stand up to scrutiny.
Organizations that want users to trust their AI must do more than promise integrity. They must prove it with assurance mechanisms that are visible, verifiable, and human-backed
May 31, 20253 min read


Building trustworthy AI: Integrating Human Expertise with OpenAI's Responses API and the Pearl MCP Server
OpenAI’s support for remote MCP servers is a leap forward for agentic AI. Services like the Pearl MCP Server extend this by introducing human judgment into the loop. In domains where trust, accuracy, and expertise are critical, tools like askExpert turn MCP from a technical standard into a competitive differentiator.
Pearl delivers a secure, scalable, standardized way to connect AI to real human expertise, unlocking AI applications that are not just fast - but fundamentall
May 28, 20255 min read


Trusting AI alone? That’s not bold. That’s reckless
AI has become the world’s most confident intern.
It works fast, never sleeps, and talks like it knows everything. But press it on anything nuanced like legal ambiguity, medical context, or financial risk, and it stumbles. Worse, it doesn’t know when it’s wrong.
May 23, 20254 min read


Why OpenAI + Shopify is just the start: the case for human-validated AI
While OpenAI hasn’t officially announced the Shopify integration in a press release or blog, the feature is already live for many ChatGPT Plus users. Verified sources and user tests show product discovery, recommendations, and direct Shopify checkouts embedded within the chat interface. It’s a quiet but significant signal of what’s to come, positioning AI not just as a helper, but as a storefront, a sales rep, and a checkout flow.
May 21, 20253 min read


Download this free whitepaper now - Beyond AI: how Pearl’s MCP Server bridges your AI agents with real Experts
Download this free whitepaper now - Beyond AI: how Pearl’s MCP Server bridges your AI agents with real Experts
May 13, 20251 min read


Bridge your AI agents to human Experts—fast
If you're building with Claude, Cursor, LangChain, or any agentic framework that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Pearl offers a zero-fuss way to plug in real human Experts—lawyers, doctors, mechanics, and more—into your agent’s toolset.
May 12, 20252 min read


Opinion: Why AI agents need a human brain behind the bot
Agentic systems need more than tools. They need wisdom. And wisdom, for now, still belongs to humans.
May 12, 20252 min read


An AI Search Crash Is Imminent
By Andy Kurtzig, CEO of Pearl.com AI search platforms are barreling toward an inevitable crash. Billions are being burned on GPUs, yet...
Feb 27, 20251 min read


AI Won’t Replace Professional Services—It Will Unlock Them
By Andy Kurtzig, CEO of Pearl.com Think about it: there are very few conversations in life we pay to have—except with professionals like...
Feb 27, 20251 min read


Everyone’s betting on AI. We’re betting on humans.
By Andy Kurtzig, CEO of Pearl.com Here ’s the hard truth: AI gets answers wrong 37% of the time . And some say it will take over $1T to...
Feb 27, 20251 min read


The Pearl Manifesto: Redefining Intelligence in the Age of AI
At Pearl, we believe the future of intelligence is not about choosing between human intuition and AI precision—it’s about uniting them....
Feb 20, 20251 min read
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