Software understands almost everything about us except how we are doing. Empathics builds the layer that lets people share that — deliberately, with the applications they choose, and never at the moments they are least able to decide.
Software increasingly could serve people better by knowing how they are doing. An assistant, a media service, a coaching tool — each behaves the same at three in the morning as on a good afternoon, because none of them know the difference.
The applications that do know cannot easily share it, and for a sound reason: there has been no way to verify what a receiving application does afterward. Platform rules and privacy law respond with broad restrictions, because broad was the only option available. So people are asked to tell every application separately, which nobody does, and developers who could genuinely help face a choice between becoming custodians of sensitive personal data or working blind.
Both sides lose to the same missing piece.
Empathics builds that missing piece: infrastructure that carries emotional context between applications under limits the receiving application cannot override.
A person decides what is shared and with whom, in one place, and can withdraw it at any time. Certain states are withheld from third parties regardless of any permission granted — nobody should have to remember to protect themselves in the moment they are least able to. Every request is recorded and visible to the person it concerns. And the infrastructure keeps no store of how anyone has felt.
That last constraint is the one that shapes everything else. A company that accumulated this data would be asking to be trusted. We would rather not be in a position where trust is required.
The layer applications connect to. It enforces a person's permissions, withholds what should not travel, and shows them everything that has been asked. Developers integrate once and store nothing.
Helps couples understand each other's emotional patterns, grounded in what wearables actually observe rather than what either partner remembers to record. Built on Ward, and its first application.
Both products are built and running. Moods is in private testing on iOS, and the first third-party integration is live with real users.
What remains is the part no amount of building answers: whether people want this. That is what the next phase is for.
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