Kindred AI

Kindred AI provides a tool designed to measure, track, and improve emotional intelligence (EQ) across an entire company. The platform aims to enhance leadership skills, particularly in hybrid workplace environments, by focusing on empathy and other social and emotional skills.

The company's process begins with an EQ assessment for all employees, which evaluates four key areas: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Following the assessment, the platform provides individuals and HR teams with easy-to-read dashboards that visualize the organization's EQ scores. These results can be filtered by criteria such as team and department to provide a comprehensive overview. To foster growth, Kindred AI delivers personalized, AI-driven tools and unique experiences for each employee to help them develop in areas that require attention. A key feature is its seamless integration into existing workplace platforms like Slack, Lattice, and Zoom, which promotes high employee participation without the need for new accounts or applications.

The initial information provided about the company also pointed to a robotics firm with the same name. That Kindred AI, founded in 2014 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, James Bergstra, and George Babu, focused on developing AI-powered, piece-picking robots for e-commerce order fulfillment. This company was acquired by the Ocado Group in November 2020. The founders of the robotics firm have since moved on to other ventures, including Sanctuary.AI.

Keywords: emotional intelligence, EQ assessment, leadership development, hybrid workplace, empathy training, social skills, employee development, HR technology, people analytics, corporate culture, AI coaching, workplace wellbeing, soft skills training, performance management, employee engagement