What Human Discovery EAII does

Human Discovery EAII (operating as Human Discovery) is an early-stage AI infrastructure company building a full-stack emotional AI platform that it positions as "the safety, memory, consent, and audit layer for the AI era." The product comprises four integrated layers: the Emotional AI Engine (real-time cognition APIs covering state detection, tone analysis, intention parsing, safety filters, readiness scoring, and adaptive response); E-DNA Identity (a persistent, encrypted, user-owned emotional identity portable across apps); the Emotional Graph (a graph-based model of emotional relationships mapping compatibility, resonance, timing, and trajectory); and Emotional OS (a system-level layer for cross-device continuity, agent coordination, and environment calibration across devices, agents, and robots). A Consent Ledger sub-product provides trace IDs, consent status, and event logging as the audit backbone.

The company sells these capabilities through plug-and-play APIs distributed via an enterprise early-access partnership program, with a subscription/recurring revenue model. Target use-case segments include AI assistants, wellness applications, dating and social platforms, enterprise customer experience automation, and robotics/automotive. The cited quantified outcome is up to a 56% reduction in customer complaint escalations through sentiment-adaptive AI.

Leadership combines serial entrepreneurship (Patrick Brunet, Co-Founder/Executive Chairman — prior media business reaching 100M+ viewers in 22 countries), enterprise go-to-market scale (Michelle Yates, CEO — 3,000-agency broker network, 180+ integrations, 35M+ employees reachable), enterprise compliance rigor (Dustin Borklund, COO — former Toyota Financial Services), and AI/ML technical depth (Matt Elenniss, Co-Founder/CTO — prior AI hedge fund; Joann Sum, Founding AI Engineer — former NASA JPL and Lawrence Berkeley Lab researcher with IEEE publications). The company operates in the broader Emotional AI market projected to reach $51.25B by 2030 at 9.4% CAGR.

Name

Human Discovery EAII

Website

https://eaii.ai

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Human Discovery EAII is an early-stage AI infrastructure company building a full-stack emotional AI platform — APIs, a portable emotional identity layer (E-DNA), a relationship graph, and a system-level Emotional OS — sold to enterprise partners across AI assistants, wellness, dating, CX, and robotics via subscription licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emotional AI Infrastructure

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Emotion, Sentiment & Paralinguistic Intelligence (HDAAAFAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG), Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH)

Keywords

• Emotional ai apis
• Ai safety infrastructure
• Developer ai platform
• Identity layer software
• Enterprise ai middleware

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise API/SaaS Platform Licensing: Plug-and-play APIs bringing emotional understanding to any product in minutes. Enterprise partner integrations with licensing model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Human Discovery EAII builds a full-stack emotional AI infrastructure platform delivered through plug-and-play APIs. The platform comprises four integrated layers: a real-time Emotional AI Engine for cognition, an E-DNA Identity layer for portable user-owned emotional identity, an Emotional Graph for mapping relational dynamics, and an Emotional OS system layer for devices, agents, and robots, supplemented by a Consent Ledger for safety, memory, consent, and audit.

Product overview

Human Discovery EAII builds a full-stack emotional AI infrastructure as a unified platform consisting of four core layers: the Emotional AI Engine (real-time cognition APIs), E-DNA Identity (user-owned emotional identity), Emotional Graph (relationship mapping), and Emotional OS (system-level device/agent layer). Together these components create 'The Safety, Memory, Consent, and Audit Layer for the AI Era' - making AI systems emotionally aware, memory-capable, and consent-respecting across any platform, device, or agent.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emotional AI Engine Real-time emotional cognition engine providing APIs for emotional understanding. Includes State Detection, Tone Analysis, Intention Parsing, Safety Filters, Readiness Scoring, and Adaptive Response capabilities for integration into any product.
• E-DNA Identity Persistent, user-owned emotional identity layer that is portable across apps, evolves over time, and is encrypted by default. Includes Emotional Traits, Rhythms & Cycles, Cross-App Portability, User Ownership, Encryption, and Permission-Based access.
• Emotional Graph The first graph-based model of emotional relationships. Maps compatibility, resonance, timing, and trajectory between people and agents. Features include Compatibility, Resonance Scoring, Timing Engine, Group Dynamics, and Trajectory Prediction.
• Emotional OS System-level emotional intelligence layer for devices, agents, robots, and entire ecosystems, designed as the iOS or Android equivalent for emotion. Features include Cross-Device Continuity, State Routing, Agent Coordination, Safety Kernel, and Environment Calibration.
• Consent Ledger Consent and audit layer providing trace IDs, consent status tracking, and event logging across the emotional AI system, enabling compliance and traceability for AI-era deployments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sentiment-adaptive AI reduces customer complaint escalations by up to 56%
• +1 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Enterprise Partners (Early Access)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorking with a small number of enterprise partners on early integrations of emotionally-aware AI infrastructure. Partners receive early access to the company's four-layer emotional AI technology stack including Real-Time Cognition APIs, E-DNA Identity layer, Emotional Graph, and Emotional OS.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Cogito: Provides real-time emotional intelligence and behavioral coaching for customer support agents; directly overlaps with Human Discovery's Enterprise CX use case and the cited 56% escalation-reduction outcome.
• Hume AI: Direct competitor building emotional intelligence APIs (expression measurement, speech prosody, empathic voice) with plug-and-play developer tooling — overlapping on the Real-Time Cognition layer of Human Discovery's stack.
• Soul Machines: Builds emotionally responsive digital people and AI agents for enterprise CX, directly comparable on the proposition that AI needs emotional alignment to be accepted by humans.
• Affectiva (Smart Eye): Pioneer in emotion AI / affective computing, acquired by Smart Eye; comparable in emotion detection technology though historically focused on facial analysis for automotive and research, overlapping with Human Discovery's emotional AI engine.
• Realeyes: Emotion AI platform measuring attention and emotion via webcam for marketing and CX optimization; comparable as an emotion-detection SaaS serving enterprise customers with similar ROI-driven GTM.
• Uniphore: Enterprise conversational AI and emotion/sentiment analytics platform for contact centers; comparable as a full-stack enterprise platform with sentiment APIs and CX outcomes.

Broad incumbents

• OpenAI: Frontier model provider whose GPT-4o and other models increasingly handle tone, persona, and emotional nuance; comparable as the platform whose lack of emotional depth creates the demand Human Discovery serves.
• Google Cloud Natural Language AI: Incumbent cloud NLP suite including sentiment and entity analysis; comparable as a broad incumbent whose sentiment features could subsume niche emotional AI APIs.
• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Provides general-purpose sentiment analysis, text analytics, and conversational AI APIs inside a much broader cloud portfolio; comparable as incumbent infrastructure that could compete with the Real-Time Cognition layer.

Emerging players

• Replika: Consumer AI companion product centered on emotional connection and memory; comparable as evidence of consumer pull for emotionally aware AI and as a potential integration partner for the Emotional OS layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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