Being Human

What Being Human does

Being Human is a Future Systems Studio founded in 2006 by Kyle Jackson that builds AI-native ventures from first principles. The studio operates a platform-plus-products architecture anchored by two proprietary infrastructure assets: Lattice, a knowledge brain and operating system that captures context as typed nodes with queryable edges across all ventures, and Cinema Studio, an AI-powered filmmaking platform that orchestrates video, image, and sound models per shot. Over two decades, Being Human and its partners have founded nine companies, with notable exits including Tunnel Post (acquired by Apple in 2007), 5th Kind (acquired by Sohonet in 2023), and Talespin (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2024). Following a 2024 transition to an active venture studio model, the current portfolio comprises five AI-native ventures spanning enterprise SaaS (Kavlo, organizational contract intelligence), consumer EdTech (WonderCast, personalized AI storybooks), experiential education (Luminary, AI enrichment center in Singapore), real estate investment (Haven, AI-native property fund), and pet care (Shep, AI-powered pet health and financial planning).

Being Human's technology stack is built on an MCP-native architecture with domain-specific AI agents drawing from the shared Lattice knowledge brain across Product, Strategy, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and Operations. AI capabilities span generative AI (WonderCast storybooks, Cinema Studio film generation), predictive analytics (Haven's 100+ signal property scoring with 94.2% accuracy), knowledge retrieval (Kavlo's contract intelligence with 99.2% extraction accuracy across 50+ enterprise integrations), process automation, anomaly detection, and autonomous agents (Shep's health monitoring). The studio reports 20+ years of pattern recognition across five technology waves, with the leadership team having collectively executed multiple exits totaling $5B+ in IP under management and $250M+ in venture capital and IP investments deployed.

The studio operates globally with offices in Los Angeles, Singapore (regional HQ and home to Luminary), Sydney, and Toronto. Past and present enterprise relationships include Apple, Netflix, Google, Meta, Epic Games, Qualcomm, Lenovo, Paramount, Warner Bros, Walt Disney, Universal, PwC, Accenture, Pearson, and Morgan Stanley. The studio is privately held by its founders, has not raised external venture capital, and is operated by four core partners (Kyle Jackson, Stephen Cronan, Ram Venkat, Jaden Teo) augmented by AI agent domains. GTM is sales-led and relationship-based through four engagement pathways: Foundation (fee-based strategic consulting, 4-8 weeks), Build (6-18 months concept to market with shared equity), Launch (3-12 months product to scale with shared equity), and Grow (6-18 months scale with shared equity). Partnerships begin with conversations to assess fit, targeting visionary founders, domain experts, structural innovators, and incumbent leaders.

Name

Being Human

Legal name

Being Human

Website

http://beinghuman.studio

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Being Human is an AI-native venture studio founded in 2006 that builds and co-owns companies across enterprise SaaS, consumer EdTech, real estate, and pet care, using a proprietary Lattice operating system and domain-specific AI agents to compress venture build timelines for founders and incumbents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Studio Services

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Venture Studios / Company Builders (FSANAAAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multimodal Generation (Text-Image-Video-Audio) & Creative Toolchains (HDAAACAG), Human Capital & Workforce Transformation Consulting (BPAHACAE)

Keywords

• Venture studio services
• AI-native ventures
• Strategic consulting partnerships
• Contract intelligence platform
• Shared equity venture building

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Foundation - Fee-based Consulting: Strategic consulting engagements with fee-based pricing model. Engagements typically 4-8 weeks, focused on organizational diagnosis, strategic frameworks, and executable transformation roadmaps.
2. Build, Launch, Grow - Shared Equity Partnerships: Venture studio model where Being Human co-builds ventures from concept through scale, taking shared equity positions. Build: 6-18 months concept to market. Launch: 3-12 months product to scale. Grow: 6-18 months diagnosis to transformation.
3. Venture Portfolio Returns: Being Human builds and retains equity in internally developed ventures (Kavlo, WonderCast, Luminary, Haven, Shep). Returns generated through venture exits, IPOs, or ongoing revenue share.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Being Human is an AI-native venture studio that co-builds companies with domain experts and runs strategic transformation engagements for enterprises through four pathways - Foundation (fee-based consulting), Build (shared-equity 0-to-1 venture creation), Launch (GTM infrastructure for working products), and Grow (operational scaling). It underwrites these engagements with two proprietary platforms, Lattice (a typed knowledge graph that serves as the studio's operating brain) and Cinema Studio (AI-orchestrated film/multimedia production), and materializes outcomes as equity stakes in ventures such as Kavlo, WonderCast, Luminary, Haven, and Shep.

Product overview

Being Human is a Future Systems Studio that builds AI-native ventures. The company operates a platform-plus-products architecture: its core infrastructure consists of Lattice (knowledge brain and operating system) and Cinema Studio (filmmaking platform), which power five distinct venture products: Kavlo (enterprise contract intelligence), WonderCast (consumer EdTech storytelling), Luminary (AI education center), Haven (real estate investment), and Shep (pet care/FinTech). The ventures are organized around three strategic pillars: Radical Orientation (Clarity from Chaos), Narrative Coherence (Meaning from Noise), and Autonomous Sovereignty (Intention to Action).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kavlo: Organizational contract intelligence platform that turns contracts into queryable operational data, surfacing obligations through AI tools teams already use. Enterprise SaaS, Private Beta.
• WonderCast
• Luminary
• Haven
• Shep

Products and services

• Kavlo Enterprise SaaS platform that converts organizational contracts, vendor terms, renewals, and obligations into queryable structured data, surfacing inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, and existing tools. Serves large organizations managing high-volume contract complexity via AI-powered extraction (99.2% accuracy across 50+ enterprise integrations), renewal automation, compliance checks, and contract risk analysis.
• WonderCast Consumer/EdTech platform that uses a proprietary AI story engine to generate personalized storybooks, video books, and audiobooks starring the user's child, available across Web, iOS, and Apple TV. Serves families seeking personalized, engagement-rich content over passive generic media.
• Luminary AI-powered experiential enrichment center in Singapore for children ages 6-10. Children build imagined worlds with an AI companion that visualizes their creations and is experienced via room-scale immersive projection across a 4,000 sq ft purpose-built space. Pilot planned for Q3 2026 with limited cohorts and founding family rates.
• Haven AI-native residential property investment fund that uses proprietary algorithms analyzing 100+ data signals per jurisdiction to surface high-conviction opportunities 12-18 months ahead of the market. Targets wholesale investors and family offices seeking institutional-grade analysis and conviction scoring; fewer than 5% of screened properties pass threshold (94.2% model accuracy).
• Shep AI-powered pet care platform combining health tracking, legal pet trusts, financial planning, and emergency identification. AI-powered health monitoring tracks vaccinations, medications, vet visits, and behavioral changes with smart alerts surfacing potential issues. Targets pet owners who consider pets family but lack integrated legal and financial provisions (77% / <1% gap per source data).
• Lattice Central knowledge graph and operating system that powers every Being Human venture. Knowledge is captured from day one as typed nodes with queryable edges, serving as the foundation for agents, playbooks, and decisions; the brain compounds context with every decision across all ventures and is shared across the studio's AI agent domains (Product, Strategy, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Operations).
• Cinema Studio AI-powered filmmaking platform that orchestrates video, image, and sound models for production-grade film and multimedia output, with locked character references for consistency. Codifies 20+ years of Hollywood craft (camera, light, performance) into a plain-language directable pipeline where the machine generates and the people direct.
• Foundation - Strategic Consulting Engagements Fee-based strategic consulting engagements for enterprises (typically 4-8 weeks) covering organizational diagnosis, strategic frameworks, and executable transformation roadmaps. Begins with a conversation to assess fit; targets enterprises navigating structural change and incumbents needing AI-native re-platforming.

Quantifiable outcome

• Build costs dropped 10-100x for AI-native solutions in verticals that previously required hundreds of millions to realize value
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability17 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered major exit and core.

• Cornerstone OnDemandmajor exitOthers · 1 January 2024Talespin, a Being Human venture in the cognitive layer era (2015-2024), was acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand in 2024. Post-acquisition, Being Human team members led the AI & Spatial strategy for Cornerstone, integrating Talespin's engine into the Galaxy platform serving 7,000+ customers and 140 million users worldwide.
• Sohonetmajor exitOthers · 1 January 20235th Kind, co-founded by Being Human partner Stephen Cronan and providing CORE digital asset management platform, was acquired by Sohonet in 2023. The CORE platform integrated into Sohonet's global remote-collaboration ecosystem, now powering secure asset management for major studios.
• Marvel StudioscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarvel Studios used 5th Kind's CORE platform for metadata-driven digital asset management, enabling real-time collaboration between VFX teams, secure asset workflows, and distributed creative operations across global production pipelines.
• DisneycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDisney used 5th Kind's CORE platform for editorial department workflows, enabling secure distributed collaboration and asset management across major studio productions.
• Warner BroscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWarner Bros used 5th Kind's CORE platform as the DAM backbone for major productions, supporting secure asset management and distributed workflows.
• NetflixcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetflix partnered with Siren Studios for Hollywood's first fully connected studio campus, integrating fiber, data, and workflow into physical infrastructure. Also a customer of East End Studios for smart campus infrastructure.
• BuzzFeedcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBuzzFeed utilized Siren Studios and East End Studios campus facilities for content creation, benefiting from the smart campus infrastructure designed for digital-first operations.
• Universal StudioscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversal Studios used 5th Kind's CORE platform for secure asset management and distributed creative workflows across production pipelines.
• IlluminationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIllumination used 5th Kind's CORE platform for digital asset management supporting animation and film production workflows.
• Epic GamescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEpic Games used 5th Kind's CORE platform for secure asset management and distributed workflows supporting gaming and entertainment production.
• Riot GamescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiot Games used 5th Kind's CORE platform for secure asset management and distributed creative operations.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Visible Hands: Venture studio focused on supporting underrepresented founders building technology companies. Comparable in operating a venture studio model that combines founder support, shared infrastructure, and equity partnerships across multiple early-stage companies.
• Prehype: Venture studio that co-creates new companies with corporations and entrepreneurs. Comparable studio-plus-corporate engagement model, especially relevant to Being Human's Foundation and Grow engagements with enterprise clients.
• Runway: AI-powered video generation and creative toolchain platform. Comparable to Being Human's Cinema Studio as a multimodal AI creative production platform with overlapping capabilities in generative video, image, and audio production for film and media workflows.

Direct peers

• Betaworks: New York-based startup studio and venture fund that builds and invests in frontier-technology companies. Comparable in building companies around emerging technology shifts and operating a portfolio of internally incubated ventures.
• Idealab: Pioneering technology venture studio founded in 1996 that has launched 150+ companies. Comparable as a long-running, technology-focused venture studio with multiple exits and a thesis-driven approach to venture creation.
• Atomic: Venture studio that partners with technical founders to build companies from concept through Series A. Comparable studio structure with shared operational resources and equity-aligned partnership model.
• Science Inc. Los Angeles-based venture studio and operating company that builds and scales digital businesses. Comparable in geographic base, multi-venture portfolio approach, and operating model combining studio incubation with operational scaling.
• Founders Factory: Global venture studio that builds and scales startups in partnership with corporates. Comparable in operating a venture studio model with corporate-enterprise engagement pathways similar to Being Human's Foundation and Grow tiers.
• Antler: Global venture studio and early-stage VC that builds and backs startups from day zero. Directly comparable to Being Human in venture studio model, multi-stage support pathways, and global geographic footprint across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
• Pioneer Square Labs (PSL): Seattle-based venture studio that conceives, launches, and operates multiple startups simultaneously with shared infrastructure. Closely comparable studio model with internal venture creation, equity retention, and operational support.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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