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The biggest opportunity of this decade isn’t automation. It’s rebuilding how we work together.
AI is automating the technical work. What it can’t do is the human work that’s left: trust, coordination, and the conversations that decide a life. COROS is the first AI built for exactly that.
The stakes
Two crises. One cause. Nobody connecting them.
Most jobs are being automated, and the workers left behind were never taught the skills that matter. Individuals are lonelier than they have ever been. Enterprises are racing to automate, about to discover their people can’t do the human work that remains. The same root sits under both.
Lost to disengagement every year, roughly 9% of global GDP (Gallup).
Of U.S. workers report loneliness (Cigna).
Of U.S. workers report disengagement (Gallup).
This is the work COROS was built for. The human root beneath both crises, taken on with rigor, and with results we can already show you.
The bet
Language shapes biology. Biology shapes action.
That discovery is the whole company. COROS is not a chatbot, not a therapist, not a productivity tool. It’s a linguistic technology built for one question: will this help a person transform? It remembers your world, reads your mood, provokes you, tracks your commitments, and maps your relationships, conversation after conversation.
It’s a new category: the first ontological AI, working where today’s tools don’t reach.
Why only we can build this
A proprietary data moat
10,000+ hours of real coaching conversations encode a way of listening no model can reverse-engineer.
Four decades of science
Built on communications research from Berkeley, Stanford, and Cambridge, carried into a new technological form.
Ontological, not psychological
COROS works on moods, language, and coordination, the level underneath behavior, where nothing else reaches.
Input agnostic
It works regardless of which crisis comes next, because it operates on how humans act, not on any single problem.
A decade of results, before a line of code.
Record revenue at a Planet Fitness franchise, now positioned for a $300M+ sale.
Reported a breakthrough in navigating their hardest breakdowns.
Received a promotion, a raise, or funding after the work.
Hours of live coaching, the data moat no competitor can copy.
Source: independent evaluation by Novi Research of COROS-driven coaching programs (abstract published by AcademyHealth), built on 10,000+ hours of live coaching across six years of Conceivian.
Backed by
People who have built and scaled the things you use.
Eddie Fong
Lead Investor & Product Mentor
Ex-VP of Product at Salesforce; also Dropbox & Microsoft
Bryan Starbuck
Investor
Ex-Microsoft, serial founder, 40 patents; CTO at Assurance ($2.35B exit)
Drew Nordstrom
Investor
Caprock multi-family office; co-founded ZenLedger with our founder
The invitation
The round is open. And it’s filling.
We’re closing our pre-seed to new conversations soon. If you want to help rebuild how people work, live, and grow, let’s start one.
You’re on the list ✓ We’ll be in touch soon, before the round closes.
Book a conversation, or reach the founder directly at [email protected].