2024 MIT Digital Technology and Strategy Conference: Lightning Talk - ProjectUs ai

PAUL BOSCO: Hey, everyone. My name is Paul Bosco, Head of Product at ProjectUs.ai, the AI that makes us better. Are you a chess player? AI can outplay you. Are you a web developer? AI can do a week's worth of coding in nearly 45 seconds. Yes, AI is fast, cheap, and quite good at nearly any job.

But are we asking the right questions? What if instead of asking how AI is better than us, we ask how AI can make us better? Emerging from the MIT Media Lab, ProjectUs is an AI system designed to help make us humans the best versions of ourselves.

So how does it work? ProjectUs sits in the background of any virtual meeting. It ingests a broad range of bio signals, including word choice, body language, breathing, and heart rate. The system continually learns about you and provides ongoing feedback on your behaviors. And as we improve individually, the organizations we work with become more cohesive, creative, and productive.

So where are we today? In 2023, we spun out from the MIT Media Lab, we raised our first round of funding, and oversubscribed our round. We're now partnering with over 10 organizations to help support their talent development initiatives.

Meet Julie, a chief executive at one of these client companies. Julie's been using ProjectUs during her day-to-day meetings to help support, track, and identify target behaviors. After just one month of usage on the product, we observed a 32% increase in these targeted behaviors. And this data can be anonymized and aggregated to help organizations understand the real challenges faced by their teams. And best of all, this data doesn't come from a pulse survey. It's not self-reported. It's real quantitative data from your team interactions.

It's been an honor to help grow this company with my friends and colleagues and to be recognized by some of the leading organizations in the world, such as the UN, NVIDIA, and the NSF. So now we're looking to partner with organizations. We're sector agnostic, we can work with truly any sized company, and we can deploy in almost any environment. We're looking for companies to form strategic partnerships and to deploy pilots. If you're interested, stop by the booth and please reach out.