Noah Shinn

Noah Shinn is the founder of Instinct, an AI personal assistant startup that operates through messaging, voice calls, and email without a dedicated app. He previously worked as an early research scientist at Sierra and coauthored the influential paper Reflexion: Language Agents With Verbal Reinforcement Learning while an undergraduate at Northeastern University. He is best known for building Instinct into a viral, invite-only assistant platform and for his prior research on AI agents that learn from their own failures through verbal reflection.