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David Ring
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Empathease

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  • Proposal for BGI Nexus 1
  • Funding Request $50,000 USD
  • Funding Pools Beneficial AI Solutions
  • Total 7 Milestones

Overview

Empathease is a mobile app that teaches empathic communication and disrupts mental health with on-demand empathy. Inspired by NVC, it uses AI-powered feedback, gamified learning, and interactive exercises to improve communication, especially in relationships. The MVP includes multiple-choice, voice-based, and word-order challenges, with real-time AI tutoring. Built with React Native, it’s cross-platform for iOS and Android. Future features include AI-driven conversation analysis, real-time coaching, and an on-demand empathy network connecting users with vetted human and AI coaches.

Proposal Description

How Our Project Will Contribute To The Growth Of The Decentralized AI Platform

Empathease aligns with BGI’s mission by leveraging AI to enhance empathic communication, addressing a critical social need. By democratizing access to emotional intelligence training through AI-driven coaching, it fosters individual and community well-being. The app’s emphasis on decentralized, scalable AI solutions ensures ethical considerations and safety, providing a transformative, real-world impact on relationship and mental health dynamics.

Our Team

David Ring. Project lead.

Jeffrey Alvarez. UI/UX designer.

Omar Mimouni. Mobile dev.

AI services (New or Existing)

Needs Listener

Type

New AI service

Purpose

Hears for the underlying needs being expressed in a statement.

AI inputs

Written or verbal statement.

AI outputs

Underling needs not being met. Empathetic response.

Empy

Type

New AI service

Purpose

Response with empathy.

AI inputs

conversation (plain text)

AI outputs

conversation (plain text). With an emphasis on hearing understanding and reflecting empathically.

NVC pitfall highlighter

Type

New AI service

Purpose

Highlight the areas of a statement that fall into the pitfalls on empathetic conversation.

AI inputs

statement (text)

AI outputs

json separating input text by pitfall.

Company Name (if applicable)

Blockchain Solutions LLC

The core problem we are aiming to solve

Empathease addresses the widespread struggle with effective, empathic communication, particularly in relationships. Many people lack access to affordable emotional intelligence training, leading to misunderstandings, conflict, and emotional disconnection. Traditional therapy is costly and inaccessible to many. By leveraging AI-driven coaching, real-time feedback, and gamified learning, Empathease provides an accessible, scalable solution to improve communication skills, strengthen relationships, and enhance emotional well-being, disrupting the mental health space with on-demand empathy and support.

Our specific solution to this problem

Empathease is an AI-powered mobile app that teaches empathic communication through interactive, gamified learning. It combines multiple-choice, voice-based, and word-order challenges with real-time AI feedback, helping users refine their communication skills. AI-driven coaching analyzes conversations and provides personalized guidance. Built with React Native, it’s cross-platform and scalable. Future features include AI-powered conversation analysis and an on-demand empathy network, connecting users with vetted human and AI coaches, making emotional intelligence training affordable, accessible, and transformative.

Needed resources

Would love to connect with the community to tap into resources for better training and testing our AI and app.

Existing resources

We've already built a mobile app and a course.

Proposal Video

Placeholder for Spotlight Day Pitch-presentations. Video's will be added by the DF team when available.

  • Total Milestones

    7

  • Total Budget

    $50,000 USD

  • Last Updated

    13 Feb 2025

Milestone 1 - Challenges - Specs UI/UX

Description

Create specs and UI/UX for empathy challenges a training section of the app that will have the user go through various challenges to improve their empathy.

Deliverables

Detailed specs for challenges in Miro or Google Docs. Figma UI/UX.

Budget

$4,000 USD

Success Criterion

Completeness & Clarity – The specifications fully define the system’s functionality, constraints, and requirements, ensuring developers can implement without ambiguity. Usability & Accessibility – The UI/UX design follows best practices, ensuring an intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experience across devices.

Milestone 2 - Challenges - development

Description

Implementation of previous milestone's specs into backend ai logic and mobile.

Deliverables

Fully-functional "challenges" on mobile app that test user's ability to offer empathy.

Budget

$8,000 USD

Success Criterion

1. AI Backend Success Criteria Accurate AI Feedback – AI reliably evaluates user responses based on empathic communication principles, providing constructive feedback. Seamless Integration – The AI backend effectively processes inputs from the mobile app and returns feedback within 5 seconds to ensure smooth user experience. 2. Mobile App Success Criteria Fully-Functional Empathy Challenges – Users can complete challenges, including multiple-choice, voice-based, and word-order exercises, with AI-generated feedback. Engaging & Usable UI – The challenge interface is intuitive, with smooth navigation, clear instructions, and a seamless experience across devices. Error Handling & Edge Cases – The system gracefully handles incomplete responses, mispronunciations, or unexpected inputs without crashing.

Milestone 3 - Personal Trainer - Specs UI/UX

Description

Create specs and UI/UX for personal trainer challenges a training section of the app that will have the user go through adaptive challenges to improve their empathy. This includes an AI that gets to know you and uses this information to trigger and empathize with you!

Deliverables

Detailed specs for in Miro or Google Docs. Figma UI/UX.

Budget

$4,000 USD

Success Criterion

Completeness & Clarity – The specifications fully define the system’s functionality, constraints, and requirements, ensuring developers can implement without ambiguity. Usability & Accessibility – The UI/UX design follows best practices, ensuring an intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experience across devices.

Milestone 4 - Personal Trainer - Implementation

Description

Implementation of previous milestone's specs into backend ai logic and mobile.

Deliverables

Fully-functional "personal trainer" on mobile app that test user's ability to offer empathy. This will be a conversational AI with voice that is able to digest your personal info from a conversation and recall it. This will be become a daily challenge in which you have a personalized conversation with the trainer to meet empathetic goals.

Budget

$8,000 USD

Success Criterion

1. AI Backend Success Criteria Accurate AI Feedback – AI reliably evaluates user responses based on empathic communication principles, providing constructive feedback. Seamless Integration – The AI backend effectively processes inputs from the mobile app and returns feedback within 5 seconds to ensure smooth user experience. 2. Mobile App Success Criteria Fully-Functional Empathy Challenges – Users can complete challenges, including multiple-choice, voice-based, and word-order exercises, with AI-generated feedback. Engaging & Usable UI – The challenge interface is intuitive, with smooth navigation, clear instructions, and a seamless experience across devices. Error Handling & Edge Cases – The system gracefully handles incomplete responses, mispronunciations, or unexpected inputs without crashing.

Milestone 5 - Empy - Research experiment consult

Description

Research methodologies best practices existing models and potentially consult with others in order to gain a better understanding of how to best create Empy an AI that has compassionate communication with the user and remembers them.

Deliverables

A brief report on what has been learned and how to best implement Empy

Budget

$4,000 USD

Success Criterion

1. Depth & Breadth of Research Comprehensive Review of Existing Models – Analysis of AI systems that engage in emotional intelligence, memory retention, and compassionate communication (e.g., GPT models, RAG systems, therapy chatbots). Evaluation of Best Practices – Identification of methodologies from fields like psychology, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and AI ethics to enhance Empy’s capabilities. 2. Practical Applicability Framework Development – Creation of a structured approach defining how Empy will process, store, and retrieve user context while maintaining ethical standards.

Milestone 6 - Empy - Specs UI/UX

Description

Create specs and UI/UX for Empy an AI that has compassionate communication with the user and remembers them.

Deliverables

Detailed specs for in Miro or Google Docs. Figma UI/UX.

Budget

$4,000 USD

Success Criterion

Completeness & Clarity – The specifications fully define the system’s functionality, constraints, and requirements, ensuring developers can implement without ambiguity. Usability & Accessibility – The UI/UX design follows best practices, ensuring an intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experience across devices.

Milestone 7 - Empy - Implementation

Description

Implementation of previous milestone's specs into backend ai logic and mobile.

Deliverables

Fully-functional empathic communicator on mobile app that is available to offer on-demand empathy. This will be a conversational AI with voice that is able to digest your personal info from a conversation and recall it.

Budget

$18,000 USD

Success Criterion

1. AI Backend Success Criteria Accurate AI Responses – AI reliably engages in compassionate conversations, understanding user emotions and providing empathic, context-aware responses. Memory & Recall – The AI accurately retains and recalls key personal details from past conversations to create a personalized, evolving interaction. Seamless Integration – The backend processes voice and text inputs efficiently, returning responses within 5 seconds to ensure a natural conversation flow. Real-Time Speech Processing – AI understands and generates voice-based interactions with minimal latency, maintaining conversational fluidity. 2. Mobile App Success Criteria Fully-Functional Conversational AI – Users can engage in voice-based conversations where the AI listens, understands, and responds with contextual empathy. Engaging & Usable UI – The interface is intuitive, enabling easy voice interaction, clear feedback, and seamless accessibility across devices. Error Handling & Adaptability – The system gracefully handles mispronunciations, interruptions, and incomplete inputs without breaking the conversation. Secure & Ethical Memory Use – User data is stored and retrieved responsibly, with privacy safeguards ensuring consent-based memory retention.

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