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Team
SHOULD YOU BE HERE, TOO?
SOCIAL AI BUILT FOR HUMAN CONNECTION IS A GROUP EFFORT
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Anastasia Uglova
Category author of “agentic tech” / “tech for human agency” -- taking her academic research directly to builders and capital and shaping the ecosystem. Operator and visionary with a proven playbook for category creation; MS in privacy/infosec from UT Austin; six years as CIO at an East Africa edtech startup; and former AI security leader at Deloitte.
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
Bernhard Borges
Adaptive reasoning systems architect bridging cognitive science, distributed systems, and cryptography. Built advanced bounded rationality models at SFU, Max Planck, and PwCC. Former Distinguished Engineer at IBM and Chief Scientist at Fluence, designing protocols for verifiable compute and zero-knowledge proofs.
HEAD OF GROWTH & BRAND
Diana Chen
Community-driven media strategist, growth hacker, and podcast host known for making Rehash: A Web3 Podcast a must-listen in the decentralization community. Diana was the Content Lead at RabbitHole and Head of Content Marketing at Unstoppable Domains, and was a lawyer in a former life.
PROMPT ENGINEER
Suriel Arnold
Our resident martial artist and violinist, Suriel shapes conversation and personality design. He's been training custom agents for years and brings a strong operational skillset from his seven years as operations liaison to the Bank of America CIO.
Advisory Board
SAFETY & ETHICS
Nathanael Fast
Director of USC's Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and co-founder of the Psychology of Technology Institute. Dr. Fast's research on algorithmic management and tech ethics has been featured in the WSJ, NPR, and HBR. He serves on the National Academy of Sciences committee on AI risk management.
AI PSYCHOLOGY & EVALS
Roshni Lulla
Neuroscientist at USC's Brain & Creativity Institute studying how LLMs adopt Dark Triad traits (psychopathy, narcissism) and developing methods to identify AI misalignment. Her research on emotion processing and antisocial behavior using neuroimaging is supervised by with Antonio Damasio and Jonas Kaplan.