Ventures

    Four Ventures, One Somatic AI Stack

    These are not four separate companies that happen to share a founder. They are four layers of the same system: measure the person, decide what the measurement means, and let the interface respond. Each layer can be licensed, integrated or deployed on its own.

    • Patent family: US 10,423,893 (2019), US 11,561,806 (2023), CN 111315278 B
    • AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, 2016
    • Techstars accelerator, 2021
    One stack, four layers
    1. TransformingAIResearch & IPThe umbrella research and intellectual-property layer for Somatic AI.
    2. Breathing AIApplied productA bio-adaptive productivity and wellbeing product for people who work on screens.
    3. VitalSign AISignal layer / APIContactless pulse-rate estimation from an ordinary webcam, delivered as an API.
    4. OptimizingAIInsight layerBio-adaptive user research: physiological response as a research signal for design decisions.

    Signal moves up the stack: VitalSign AI measures, TransformingAI defines how the measurement is interpreted, Breathing AI and OptimizingAI apply it in a product and in research.

    TransformingAI

    Umbrella / R&D

    TransformingAI holds the research programme, the patent family and the shared architecture that the operating ventures draw on. It is where the category work happens before it becomes a product.

    Somatic AI angle — Defines the sensing → interpretation → adaptation architecture the other ventures implement.

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    Breathing AI

    Consumer / Workplace

    The longest-running applied test of the thesis: a browser extension whose colour, pacing and break rhythm respond to the person in front of the screen instead of demanding their attention.

    Somatic AI angle — The interface responds to breath and physiological rhythm in real time.

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    VitalSign AI

    API / Developer

    The input layer of the stack. If an interface is going to adapt to a person, something has to measure the person — without a wearable, and without asking them to do anything.

    Somatic AI angle — The scalable physiological input layer every other venture reads from.

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    OptimizingAI

    UX Research

    Most user research asks people what they thought afterwards. This measures response while it happens, and treats that as one input among several — not as a verdict.

    Somatic AI angle — Turns physiological and expression-derived response into research-grade signal.

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    Domain portfolio — DomainGemstone

    Domains

    domaingemstone.com

    Where to start

    Licensing, integration, investment, advisory or a research collaboration — the fastest route is a short note describing what you are trying to build.

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