An excellent cartoon.

Quoted: This animated short film can help you imagine how ClayValet’s personal advice service works.

Congrats Mikhail!

Quoted: The online personal shopper ClayValet has updated its look as well as added some new features to improve the user experience. With Mother’s Day quickly approaching, asking someone a question like “what do I get my 86-year-old, technophobe grandmother”, could come in handy, and ClayValet offers up actual people to give you suggestions as opposed to some sort of automated algorithms.

The Spokesman Review compares ClayValet and Mpire.

ClayValet ftw.

Quoted: Does human-aided search find the best deals? .
...Here’s what we found, pitting Mpire.com, which calls itself the Kelley Blue Book of online shopping, vs. ClayValet.com, a new site that says it is an online personal shopping service.

refave. go mikhail!

Quoted: Seregine left to start ClayValet, a company that claims to simplify online shopping by "having someone else shop for them." The 2002 Stanford computer-science graduate started building the service in January, received funding from undisclosed angel investors and launched on Friday, just in time for the holiday shopping frenzy.

I'm very proud to announce that the first version of ClayValet went public today. This is the startup I've been working on since January; we're now four people working in Capitol Hill. ClayValet is a new kind of personal shopping service: You come to our site and tell us what you're looking for, in plain English. Real people will read your request,, so you can use a single phrase or write a whole paragraph.

Our shoppers then scour the Internet on your behalf. They read customer reviews, compare prices and find expert opinions to decide which products would best fit your needs. We put their findings in a clear report and send it to you within 24 hours of your request.

Please check it out and tell me what you think.

http://clayvalet.com