A replacement for IBM Watson personality insights API

Humantic has pretty good reviews from users who have migrated already. One reason is that it supports Linkedin as an input along with text, which really makes it valuable for B2b use cases. Accuracy wise too, it has shown higher correlation scores. The blog actually covers a bunch of these questions, check it out.

They haven't said why, but the reason seems commercial and not technical.

Unless a service is bringing in millions or maybe tens of millions of $$ in revenue, a big company like IBM would not find it to be attractive enough. And some big manager one day is gonna cut it down as part of 'house cleaning'.

Whereas for a smaller startup, that same 'millions of dollars' in potential revenue might be a VERY attractive opportunity.

To paraphrase Bezos, big company's need for scale is the startup's opportunity.