What it sells
Building socially intelligent AI
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
AI research labs and companies deploying AI (post-training and evaluation teams).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Models need social intelligence evidence; labs need real human interaction data and benchmarks (e.g. LISTENER-BENCH).
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Study real human interactions, define and measure social intelligence, publish benchmarks, and supply datasets of real conversations or custom data collection for a specific research problem.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
UnverifiedData and evaluation provider selling existing datasets or custom data; no prices shown.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Inbound contact form ("describe your data need") and published research; dataset access requested directly.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2025 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.