A Potentially More Humane Way to Let the Machines In

Roark AI provides a comprehensive platform for monitoring, evaluating, and simulating customer calls specifically for Voice AI developers. Their innovative solution eliminates the need for hours of manual testing by instantly simulating real customer scenarios and identifying potential failures before they reach customers. Serving companies across healthcare, customer support, and service-oriented businesses, Roark AI's mission is to help businesses proactively enhance their voice AI solutions to ensure high customer satisfaction ratings.

Jammy, a voice-first wellness app that uses emotionally attuned music to support users in real time, is creating an emotional operating system designed to help users feel seen, heard, and supported without the friction of traditional wellness tools. The platform combines conversational AI with emotionally aligned music recommendations, allowing users to speak freely like they would to a trusted friend, and receive playlists, prompts, or support tailored to how they actually feel. Hume’s EVI plays a critical role in this experience, enabling Jammy to analyze vocal cues such as tone, intensity, and nuance. This emotional signal powers Jammy’s real-time content recommendations, making each interaction feel personally relevant and emotionally attuned.

MoodMetrics AI is revolutionizing financial markets by decoding the emotional undercurrents in central bank communications. Founded in 2024 at the University of Bath, the company empowers financial institutions with emotional intelligence insights by analyzing verbal and non-verbal behavior, including vocal tone, speech patterns, and micro-expressions. By integrating Hume’s Expression Measurement API, MoodMetrics detects subtle emotional cues that traditional models miss—helping investment banks, retail banks, and hedge funds anticipate market movements with greater precision. The company has been nationally recognized through awards such as the Santander UK University Startup Grant and a Sparkies Award nomination.