Advisory · Licensing · Research · Speaking
Work with Hannes Bend
I work with teams building technology that responds to the person using it. That means physiological signal, adaptive interfaces, and the discipline of only claiming what the evidence supports. Six ways to work together are below — each routes to a pre-filled enquiry so nothing gets lost in a generic inbox.
How to work together
Advisory
Founders and product leaders building human-state-aware systems.
Ongoing or fixed-term advisory on architecture, signal choice, product framing and what can honestly be claimed. Usually a recurring session plus asynchronous review.
Licensing & technology partnership
Organisations that want the underlying bio-adaptive stack inside their own product.
Licensing of the adaptive-interface patent family, or an integration of the camera-based signal layer through VitalSign AI. Scope, jurisdiction and terms are handled case by case.
Research collaboration
Universities, labs and research teams.
Co-investigation on physiological signal, adaptive interface design and human-computer interaction — building on the AAAI 2016 work and the Metaverses research at the University of Oregon.
Speaking & workshops
Conferences, universities, museums and internal teams.
Keynotes and workshops on Somatic AI, bio-adaptive interfaces and the path from contemporary art to patented technology.
Venture & investment
Investors and strategic partners.
Conversations about the venture stack, the IP position and where the category is going.
Exhibitions & commissions
Curators, institutions and collectors.
New and existing works from the art archive, including bio-adaptive installations and virtual realizations.
The stack behind the work
Advisory and licensing conversations usually start with one of these four layers.
- TransformingAIResearch & IPThe umbrella research and intellectual-property layer for Somatic AI.
- Breathing AIApplied productA bio-adaptive productivity and wellbeing product for people who work on screens.
- VitalSign AISignal layer / APIContactless pulse-rate estimation from an ordinary webcam, delivered as an API.
- 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.
Why this is credible
Named inventor on US 10,423,893 (granted 2019) and US 11,561,806 (granted 2023), plus US 2019/0042981 and CN 111315278 B.
Primary — Public patent records
“Mindful Technologies: Research and Developments in Science and Art”, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, 2016.
Primary — AAAI and dblp bibliographic records
Breathing AI took part in the Roux Institute at Northeastern University Techstars Accelerator and presented at Techstars Demo Day in 2021.
Third-party — Techstars accelerator programme, 2021
Work presented at the Rubin Museum of Art (2018) and Frost Science Museum (August 2017).
Third-party — Institutional programme listings, collected on /media
What is not claimed
- No client names, revenue, funding or valuation figures are published. Reference conversations are arranged directly, with permission.
- A patent documents a filed and examined invention — not clinical accuracy or commercial deployment.
- No medical, diagnostic or clinical claim is made for any of the technology described here.
What happens next
- 1. You send a short note describing the problem and the timeline.
- 2. I reply personally, usually within a few working days.
- 3. If it is a fit, we book a call to scope it. If it is not, I will say so and point you somewhere better.