Company | Muse Platforms
THE MUSE STORY
Inspired by possibility. Grounded in practice.
Muse connects consulting experience, product thinking and creative work to help people turn a meaningful idea into something useful.
Original Muse artwork · An interpretation of the work, not client photography.
People to purpose.
Purpose to performance.
We bring together the business question, the technology behind it and the people who make it happen.
OUR APPROACH
One goal. The right combination.
A product may be part of the answer. So might an architect, a content team or a well-run discovery process.
We begin with the customer need and connect the capabilities around it. Clear scope makes the relationship concrete: the deliverables, responsibilities and review process.
THE CONTINUITY OF THE WORK
A practice that keeps evolving.
FOUNDATIONS
Enterprise platforms
Consulting and implementation across marketing technology, including Adobe, with architecture, customer-data and delivery expertise.
2017–2018
Early AI voice exploration
An Oracle Cloud voice-chatbot project explored a new use of AI. The work did not become a commercial product.
2021–2025
From media vision to platform
A vision connecting music and television developed into Subamerica and the Expression Cloud technology stack.
2026
Platforms with a business model
Ask Hercules connects AI visibility audits with human-approved improvements and repeat tracking. Shoppable Networks brings the technology behind Subamerica into a licensing offer: channel operations, six TV feed integrations, creator relationships and commerce under a customer’s own brand. Muse connects those products with implementation, production, training and managed services.
Adobe collaboration · 2016–2022 ＋
- 2016: Muse joined Adobe’s community partnership program.
- 2017: Demonstrated the Adobe Cloud experience to customers and presented a Roku channel concept.
- 2018: Presented the AOIDE voice-search innovation at Adobe Summit.
- 2021–2022: The published history records an expanded Bronze-level co-selling relationship, followed by joint go-to-market planning, enablement and demos.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT
Led by Colleen Nagle. Built through collaboration.
Muse brings consulting and creative expertise into specific assignments, with a named delivery owner and an agreed way to work together.
POSSIBILITY, IN PRACTICE
A question. A real piece of work.
Explore the challenge, the work and what the evidence tells us.
B2B technology · Connected experiences
Make the next resource the relevant one.
How do we turn a collection of marketing tools into a connected experience?
Web / Mobile / Display channels in the recommendation work
Retail · Product discovery
Help people find the product they came for.
How do we make a large product catalogue easier to explore?
10,000+ products in the project’s catalogue
Muse-built platform · Media and discovery
Build the stage. Help people find it.
How do publishing, commerce and discovery work together?
3,142 active users in the September 2026 report snapshot
A LITTLE MORE CLARITY
People Also Asked
Good questions.
Useful answers.
What connects Muse’s consulting, AI and media work?+
The common thread is turning complex ideas into experiences people can use. Enterprise architecture informs the systems; creative work gives them purpose; product development makes them tangible.
What experience can Muse bring to a new engagement?+
Published work includes enterprise search, personalization and platform integration. More recent examples include Ask Hercules visibility services and the operation of Subamerica. Its underlying Shoppable Networks technology connects network programming, creator destinations and commerce in a licensing offer backed by implementation and operating expertise. The case studies explain each example in context.
Are Muse Platforms and muse.ai the same company?+
Muse Platforms is the company behind these offerings, Ask Hercules and the Shoppable Networks product lineage. This site does not claim an affiliation with the separate muse.ai business.