Socially, Emotionally, Culturally Intelligent AI

Empowering Authentic Connection

Humans are born communicating…

Even though we are wired for connection, communicating is difficult.

Humans are born communicating…

We are wired for connection
but communication is hard.

Humans are born communicating…

The question is how to get better at it so we can express ourselves well, deepen relationships, and achieve our goals.

What if it were easier to

Frequently Asked Questions

Meet Our Experts

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Harvard University
Best-selling author, Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, etc

Donna Hicks, PhD is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University where she served as Deputy Director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR). She worked extensively on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and as a member of the third party in numerous unofficial diplomatic efforts.

In addition to her work in the Middle East, Dr. Hicks founded and co-directed a ten-year project in Sri Lanka. She has also worked on the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Colombia and conducted several US/Cuba dialogues. She is the Vice President of Ara Pacis, an Italian non-governmental organization based in Rome. As a consultant to the British Broadcasting Company, Dr. Hicks co-facilitated encounters between victims and perpetrators of the Northern Irish conflict with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The encounters were made into a 3-part television program, Facing the Truth, which was aired throughout the United Kingdom and on BBC World.

Dr. Hicks has taught courses in conflict resolution at Harvard, Clark, and Columbia Universities and conducts trainings and educational seminars in the US and abroad on the role dignity plays in healing and reconciling relationships in conflict. She consults to corporations, schools, churches, and non-governmental organization. She is the author of the book, Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, published in 2011 by Yale University Press. Her second book, Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People, was published by Yale University Press in August 2018.

Donna Hicks

Center for Partnership Systems
Best-selling author, The Chalice and the Blade, Sacred Pleasure, etc

Riane Eisler, PhD pioneered the extension of human rights theory and action to the majority of humanity: women and children. Her multidisciplinary research and scholarship provide a roadmap for all of us who seek to build a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination.

Dr. Eisler received the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and other national and international awards for her ground-breaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, attorney, and historian.

Dr. Eisler’s pioneering work offers new perspectives for constructing less violent and more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future societies. Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Systems, Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, and a distinguished professor at Meridian University, which offers Ph.D. and Masters degrees based on Eisler’s Partnership-domination social scale.

Riane Eisler

University of Delaware
Best-selling co-author, Both/And thinking: Embracing creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Wendy K. Smith helps people engage opposition to achieve more creative solutions to challenging problems. She earned her BA from Yale University and PhD at Harvard Business School, where she began her intensive research on strategic paradoxes—how leaders effectively embrace contradictory, yet interdependent demands to achieve more sustainable outcomes.

Her research has won multiple awards, including the 2023 Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award and the Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher Award (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) and has been featured in top research journals in an outlets such as the Harvard Business Review. Her book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions To Solve Your Toughest Problems (Harvard Business School Press, 2022 with coauthor Marianne Lewis) makes 25 years of academic research accessible to anyone grappling with competing demands.

Wendy is the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management and Faculty Director of the Women's Leadership Initiative at the University of Delaware.

Wendy K. Smith

University of Washington Bothell
Sinai and Synapses

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, PhD is a Research Scientist at University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center and an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Washington Bothell. His research focuses on algorithmic nudging at scale, simulation modeling for machine learning, Responsible AI, and personality emulation.

He has had academic appointments at University of Washington, Center for Cognitive Science at University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center, and the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. Muhammad also has worked in applied AI in industry for several startups and advisor to various governmental bodies.

He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

University of Montreal

Patrice Brodeur, PhD is an associate professor at the Institut d`études religieuses at the Université de Montréal. Between 2005 and 2015, he was the Canada Research Chair (junior) on Islam, Pluralism and Globalization. His current research includes both contemporary Islamic thought and interreligious dialogue. His publications include more than sixty academic articles, book chapters and books.

Brodeur has lectured to a variety of academic audiences and conducted trainings on different forms of dialogue in over fifty countries around the world, exploring identity and power dynamics within intercultural, interreligious, and inter-worldview dialogues. Born in Canada, he was educated at McGill University (Montreal), at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) and at the University of Jordan. In 1999, he obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in comparative religion, with a special focus on Islam and Judaism.

Patrice Brodeur

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Nirmala Ravishankar is a health systems specialist with over 15 years of experience in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her area of specialization is health financing, with a focus on health expenditure analysis and the design and implementation of health financing policy reforms.

Key highlights include leading a multi-country project to improve how countries allocate and spend public funds for primary healthcare at ThinkWell, overseeing a research initiative to measure development assistance for health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, coordinating a technical assistance program to assist country governments measure and analyze health spending at Abt Associates, and managing a multi-partner initiative to link the delivery of primary care services through franchised private providers with government health insurance in Kenya.

Currently, Nirmala holds the position of Senior Fellow at ThinkWell and also works as a health financing consultant at the World Bank. Nirmala is based in Chennai, in India.

Nirmala Ravishankar

Film Marketing Executive, Award-Winning Creative Director
Los Angeles, CA

Tracy Pollard is an accomplished entertainment marketing executive who honed skills as an Agency Creative Director that she brought to her career as a studio executive in posts at 20th Century Fox, Focus Features, and Lionsgate, where she led award-winning 360° campaigns encompassing world-class Theatrical, TV, Print, Digital and Social executions.

A sharp and agile thinker, known for developing precision strategy, she is acclaimed as “a courageous and intentional creative.” A champion of bold ideas, she drives innovation through her inspirational leadership, thoughtful collaboration, and passion for spiritual wisdom that supports robust self-reflection and growth.

Tracy Pollard

Community Lead, Young Global Leaders at World Economic Forum
New York, NY

Danny Richmond is a Community Lead for the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Previously, he worked in roles focused on civic engagement, youth leadership, and social inclusion including at the Parliament of World Religions, Inspirit Foundation, Ve’ahavta, and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Danny got his start in interfaith engagement as a Faiths Act Fellow of Interfaith America back when it was Interfaith Youth Core. He has a passion to demonstrate the power of communities working together as a force of social change.

Danny Richmond

Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Naznin Musa is a dedicated advocate for social justice, whose deepest engagement is in initiatives addressing diversity and inclusion efforts in education and the workforce and the well-being of students and workers. Her leadership in the Innovation Fund VR x Reducing Stress project at Hogeschool van Amsterdam, secured a €10,000 grant. Her tireless work on this initiative, the first of its kind at the institution, led to her recognition as an Impact Maker of the year ('23) and garnered her the prestigious ECHO Award in 2022 for her educational contributions. In 2024, Naznin's commitment was further recognized with a nomination for the prestigious Frank Award.

Naznin has been instrumental in addressing the needs of student caregivers, a group often overlooked in higher education policies. She conducted research on their well-being and pioneered a platform at Hogeschool van Amsterdam focused on student caregivers, particularly on improving information channels, developing policy, and building community. Now as a member of DIHOO (Advisory Committee for Diverse and Inclusive Higher Education and Research), she is actively engaged in lobbying for the inclusion and recognition of student caregivers in the Dutch educational system through WHW legislation recommendations, directly contributing to policy changes that foster more inclusive academic environments, with advisories extending to the Minister of Education. Naznin was raised in The Netherlands, and her personal life is enriched by a love for her Hazara heritage, good food, and a firm belief in the power of humor.

Naznin Musa

German Council on Foreign Relations
Founder, RetroBrain

Manouchehr Shamsrizi, M.P.P. FRSA “is among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany’s younger generation” (Washington Post) and “everywhere where the improvement of political conditions still has considerable scope” (re:publica).

Lecturer at Leuphana University Lüneburg on future-oriented technology such as Blockchain, AI, and VR and its impact on society, and faculty of the Digital Transformation Masterclass at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, he is a member of various think tanks on issues of digitization and justice, including the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the ZEIT Foundation, and the Grameen Creative Lab of Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus.

Shamsrizi was a speaker at the Bellevue Forum of German President Joachim Gauck and was awarded The Germany Scholarship by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and Schering Foundation and was one of 100 handpicked European Founders invited to President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University and one of 2017’s Top 40 Under 40 Entrepreneurs of the business magazine CAPITAL. An Ariane de Rothschild Fellow of Innovative Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, Global Justice Fellow at Yale University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, Leader of Tomorrow of St. Gallen, he is Co-Founder of the Hamburg-based social business and digital health startup RetroBrain R&D which has been recognized as “a benchmark in the therapeutic gamification industry” (LIFT Basel). He is Co-Founder of Blockchain-NGO Kryptos, and also of gamelab.berlin, part of Humboldt Universität’s Cluster of Excellence in Berlin.

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Clinician and Designer, The Bill of Emotional Rights
Author of the bestselling book, You Are Not Depressed. You Are Un-Finished

Ardeshir Mehran, M.Ed, PhD is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, leadership coach, and author. He designed The Bill of Emotional Rights and developed Emotional Restoration Therapy. Across multiple industries, Mehran helps global leaders, star performers, products/services, engineering, sales, and marketing professionals achieve stronger results by stepping fully into their roles as leaders and has led the development of high-performance teams, global corporate universities, succession planning, culture change, customer experience innovations, and global sales force organization design and is credited with helping organizations revitalize their culture, driving stronger employee and customer engagement and developing the next generation of leaders. He has presented his research on business transformation, emotional strength, high-performance teams, global culture due diligence, leadership development, and change management innovations at conferences, and seminars. He also facilitates technology horizon, strategic planning, joint value creation, and “good to great” organizational redesign.

Dr. Mehran earned his PhD and MEd degrees in Organizational, Counsel, and Quantitative Psychology from Columbia University and has advanced training in psychoanalysis, group therapy, and team dynamics. He has been in leadership roles at Genentech/Roche, Dolby Laboratories, Kaiser Permanente, and Hewlett-Packard, and was a partner with Mercer-Delta Consulting

Ardeshir Mehran

Researcher and Community Mediator
Author, Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution: Traditional Jewish Perspectives on Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts

Howard Kaminsky, PhD is a research fellow at the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, and serves as a mediator for Community Mediation Services in Queens, NY. He has an EdD in religion and education from Teachers College at Columbia University and rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem.

Howard is the author of Fundamentals of Jewish Conflict Resolution: Traditional Jewish Perspectives on Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts, and has been recognized for making “a monumental contribution to the emerging field of religion and conflict resolution… a coherent and path-breaking account of Judaism’s contribution to conflict resolution. He has mastered the legal and non-legal literature and given it persuasive form as a plausible system of intervention in conflict… a new approach to the practice of Jewish intervention in destructive conflict.” — Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin, author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking; James H. Laue Professor, Director CRDC, The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University.

Howard Kaminsky

Communications Executive
San Francisco, CA

Brian Nelson has driven the communications strategy for some of the world’s most well-known and iconic brands. He has provided communications counsel and public relations support to companies and executives, ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 brands. His leadership has helped organizations manage their corporate reputation, launch products, announce funding and go public, and execute global consumer campaigns.

Previously, Brian led communications for eBay in North America, the company’s largest region with $40B in annual retail sales. He was a VP of Communications at The Walt Disney Company, where he propelled Disney’s perception shift from a traditional entertainment company to a tech-centric media organization. He also managed public relations and communications for all apps, videogames and digital products from the Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars franchises.

Earlier in his career, he led PR for Yahoo’s suite of content sites and advertising services, and held roles at tech start-ups and in politics, including the White House. Brian received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. .

Brian Nelson

Is my personal data kept private?

We take your privacy seriously. All communication data shared with BlueThread is encrypted in transit and handled according to strict data protection policies. Your data is never sold or shared with third parties without your explicit consent. Additionally, only the minimum amount of data needed for functionality is retained. Our platform is fully hosted in the U.S. ensuring data security and compliance with local regulations.

Will my personal information or messages be used to train AI?

No, your private data is not used to improve or train our AI models. We use separate, anonymized datasets for training. Your interactions are only processed to provide responses in real-time. We also utilize highly trained professionals to review responses and improve them based on scientifically proven principles.

How accurate and reliable is the advice provided by BlueThread?

BlueThread is designed to offer helpful and well-informed suggestions based on patterns in language and communication best practices. However, it is not perfect and may not always fully understand every nuance of your context. We recommend using it as a guide and always exercising your judgment, especially for sensitive situations.

Can BlueThread replace human advisors or coaches?

BlueThread is meant to complement, not replace, human expertise. It can assist with communication strategies, provide feedback, or help improve messaging, but human interaction offers emotional intelligence and context that AI cannot fully replicate. This tool is designed to help people be at their best with one another—not to replace people or relationships.

How secure are the messages I work on with BlueThread?

All data transmitted to and from our servers is encrypted using industry-standard protocols. Additionally, your session data is not accessible by any unauthorized personnel, ensuring that your communication remains confidential. Data that is analyzed in the ongoing development to improve the tool is anonymous and not associated with personal accounts.

What happens if BlueThread gives incorrect advice?

While we strive for accuracy, AI is not infallible. If it generates advice that seems off or incorrect to you, we encourage you to refine your input to get a more helpful response and also to provide feedback within the app. We continually refine our models based on user feedback to improve the quality of responses.

Does the AI work for non-English languages?

Yes! Our AI supports multiple languages, but the quality of advice may vary based on the language. Some features may be more advanced in English, but we are actively working to improve support for other languages.

Can I customize the BlueThread to better suit my communication style?

Yes! We offer customization options where you can provide more information about yourself, your situation and the people you are communicating with. This allows the AI to tailor its advice to match your unique communication needs and style, your organizational values, and more.

“In a complex, fast-paced world with pressure to shortcut thinking with over-simplifications and polarizing stereotypes, BlueThread empowers users to embrace complexity and nuance.”

Enrich your understanding/creativity/relationships/potential/joy/well-being/success as you model how people with diverse perspectives can hear one another and learn and build together.

How Is It Different?

Your Values Matter

Specify your communication goals and your personal values in your profile. Rather than one-size fits all messaging and advice, we support self-expression that reflects your core values.
Coaching Your Growth

Become a more effective, collaborative communicator simply by using the tool. Insightful feedback, interactive prompting, and situation-specific advice accelerate mastery of proven communication principles.
Enhancing Relationship

Built specifically to support humans in communicating more effectively in contexts interpersonal and international, this tool addresses multidimensional relational dynamics

Reasons People Use BlueThread.Ai

Improve Outcomes

Applying social science research to your own real life situations empowers you to achieve your goals while developing your skills.

Increase Authenticity

Personalized communication guidance boosts confidence in your ability to express yourself authentically.

Build Trust

Situation-specific tips reduce misunderstandings and conflict while improving quality interactions, promoting dignity, understanding, trust, and collaboration.

Develop Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Learning through practice builds neural pathways that guide you even when you are not using the tool. Improved EQ helps in other areas of life, too.

Dialogue Constructively

Conflict can be healthy if we speak in ways that reduce the noise that gets in the way of genuine dialogue. Framing our ideas in culturally-sensitive ways can help.

Boost Creativity

Reducing tension improves neurological function, expands peripheral vision, improves listening, and enhances our ability to be curious. Challenge can generate new possibilities.

Enhance Well-Being

Less stress=more health. When we can communicate with ease, as needed, in real time, we function better—sleep better, think better, digest better, and feel more alive.

Learn AI

The platform is human-friendly, offering interactive prompts that are intuitive to use, yet provide a tool for learning how to apply AI to solve complex problems.

Feel Supported

With a tool available at all hours of day and night, there’s no need to hold your breath or put life on hold when you’re stuck. Simply input your challenge, get the help you need, and get back to life.

“In a complex, fast-paced world with pressure to shortcut thinking with over-simplifications and polarizing stereotypes, BlueThread empowers users to embrace complexity and nuance.”

Enrich your understanding/creativity/relationships/potential/joy/well-being/success as you model how people with diverse perspectives can hear one another and learn and build together.

Who We Are

Our team is passionate about shaping AI that is informed by ethics to be human-centered, socially-responsible, and culturally-sensitive.

With the support of extraordinary thought leaders in diverse fields from applied psychology to neuroscience, education to ethics, culture and technology, we are bringing the power of cutting-edge AI to ancient wisdom and the natural drive of people to connect with one another, to become not only better communicators but better at being the people they aspire to be in all situations.

We strive to empower people to feel more deeply, hear more fully, and be understood more fairly, to enhance human well-being and relationships, one interaction at a time.

Meet the Team

Our Motivation

We created BlueThread.Ai to empower people to express themselves more authentically, collaborate more successfully across differences, and fulfill their potential individually and collectively.

We support human flourishing around the world by boosting people’s courage to connect in real life.

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Our Motivation

We created BlueThread.Ai to empower people to express themselves more authentically, collaborate more successfully across differences, and fulfill their potential individually and collectively.

Our mission To support human flourishing around the world by applying tech to enhance relational intelligence and communication skills in real life.

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Our Commitments (QUESTS)

Quality

Perform reliably, producing positive results with precision and consistency. Monitor to identify and address flaws in a timely way.
Universal Needs

Center human nature, dignity, relationships, and experience to empower and encourage people to thrive together in real life (IRL).
Equity of Voice

Assure that diverse cultures, identities, and experiences shape the tool to promote inclusiveness and safeguard against bias.
Safety

Provide a space free of bias, where users’ sensitive information is protected against unauthorized access, corruption, and misuse.
Transparency

Communicate openly about the purpose, benefits, and risks of AI so that users can better understand, evaluate, and use the tool.
Sustainability

Design, develop, and deploy the tool in ways that honor physical and emotional safety, social wellbeing, and planetary heath.

Improve how you communicate

BlueThread helps when you’re unsure how your words will land or when you hesitate because the situation is complex and unfamiliar. Communication can be challenging, but BlueThread equips you to express yourself effectively and ensure you’re understood as intended. Reduce misundertanding, learn new skills, and grow your confidence in real time.

Improve your relationships

Bluethread helps us by modeling how to be more open and empathetic in our communication so that we can express our feelings, desires, and concerns and navigate differences, more constructively. Being authentic and ensuring that our conversation partners feel valued and respected—whether they are family, friends, co-workers, or romantic partners—builds trust and helps us navigate differences constructively.

Enrich creative collaborations

BlueThread helps groups tackle complex issues together, blending cultural awareness, principles of inclusion, and expert insights on group dynamics. When people feel safe to share their perspectives, better solutions emerge. Our platform guides organizations in fostering a culture of respect and collaboration in multiple languages and across diverse disciplines.

Reduce Stress

No more sleepless nights over finding the ‘right words.’ No more forgetting ‘theory’ when you are triggered in a crisis. BlueThread combines wisdom and science to meet you where you are, to guide you in clarifying your goals, finding your voice, and trusting your instincts, in real time. Feedback and follow-up tips provide support to reduce stress and help you focus your energy where it’s needed.

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How Does It Work?

Young woman in front of whiteboard of ideas

Step-by-step Overview

Tell us your challenge.
Tell us what you want to say.
Receive our recommendations: situation-specific, empowering and actionable feedback based on contemporary research, best practices, and ancient wisdom to achieve your goals.
Get ongoing follow-up support.
Revel in your improving abilities as a communicator, just from using BlueThread when you need it most.

Individuals & Families

Filling in the Gaps

Most of us don’t live where we grew up or face challenges that we learned how to deal with as kids…

Role Modeling

How much time and energy could you save by reducing conflicts and misunderstandings? What value would it add to prevent opportunity losses and productivity lags that result solely from ineffective communication. And what talent could you retain, recruit, and amplify by enhancing EQ skills of everyone on your team?

Resilience and Relationships

Bring everyone on your team up to speed with in-real-time® training software. Customize the platform to include company values, protocols, for mission-aligned communication that increases fluency in…

Equity—recruit new talent from…

Some relevant resources:

Free Up…

How can departments that have never collaborated before and that speak different languages—begin to communicate effectively with one another? How can inevitable disagreements be resolved in productive ways that neither side expected because they have never been imagined before? How can we make the most of circumstances that come flying at us without waiting for a manual of best practices to sort it out? And how can we channel intense emotion in the workplace and the country—into passion that fuels us rather than burning us out and burning bridges between us?

Some opinion pieces:

Why work manuals are not going to help us deal with election anxiety

Why leaders need to know what trauma-informed… is

Companies/Organizations

Human-Centered Workplace

All research (Gallup, Forbes, LinkedIn, Network for…. etc) points to one unmistakable factor of success: employees feel valued as human beings.

BlueThread supports your team in the workplace and in their life beyond the workday and the office.

Deepen the sense of loyalty, shared values, and upskill EQ and AI abilities in your workplace.

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Unbeatable ROI.

How much do you spend on your annual DEI inservice, company trainings, and manuals? How about lawsuits?

How much time and energy could you save by reducing conflicts and misunderstandings? What value would it add to prevent opportunity losses and productivity lags that result solely from ineffective communication. And what talent could you retain, recruit, and amplify by enhancing EQ skills of everyone on your team?

Up-Level Your Talent Pipeline

Bring everyone on your team up to speed with in-real-time® training software. Customize the platform to include company values, protocols, for mission-aligned communication that increases fluency in…

Equity—recruit new talent from…

Some relevant resources:

Leadership Agility

EQ is the most reliable predictor of success among business leaders. Today’s fast-paced world more than ever requires an ability to pivot, to model courage and humility, and to deal with challenges in novel ways, as groundbreaking technology shifts long-established communication patterns.

How can departments that have never collaborated before and that speak different languages—begin to communicate effectively with one another? How can inevitable disagreements be resolved in productive ways that neither side expected because they have never been imagined before? How can we make the most of circumstances that come flying at us without waiting for a manual of best practices to sort it out? And how can we channel intense emotion in the workplace and the country—into passion that fuels us rather than burning us out and burning bridges between us?

Some opinion pieces:

Why work manuals are not going to help us deal with election anxiety

Why leaders need to know what trauma-informed… is