Our Story
I'm Daniel Fraser, an entrepreneurial business technology executive. I've led new business ventures and enterprise-wide technology initiatives leveraging conversational AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, among other technologies. But, I'd only had an emotionally healthy, intimate relationship at age 35. I was continually attracted to the wrong kind of intimate partners and often found myself in toxic relationships. I also noticed that some of my relationships with family members, close friends, and work colleagues were also unhealthy and had similar dynamics. I needed to understand why I had these relationship patterns.
Still, I didn't know where to start, so I worked with two personal therapists, other psychologists specializing in relationship dynamics, and an executive coach. During this time, I developed a tool to help me understand and share my relationship experiences during therapy sessions. After speaking with numerous others who had experienced similar relationship difficulties, I combined my professional and personal experience to develop a new Relational Insights tool to help understand close relationships - Kinection was born. What started as a personal tool to help me make relationship decisions has become a team with a mission to help others select helpful relationships and achieve their relationship goals.
After conducting extensive user research, we've validated demand for the product and grown our team.
Kinection launches in the app store at the end of Q3 2024.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help people understand and interpret their own relationship experiences by recognizing the patterns of behavior that can be either or helpful or unhelpful. We want to help people cultivate connections and avoid the lost years and pain of from missing out of beneficial relationships. And as with most things, our journey to healthy, happy relationships often starts within.
Our Solution
We provide a tool for self-reflection, personal growth, and learning, as well as a friendly AI that can guide users to relevant content, make suggestions, and provide encouragement. Users can, identify patterns, and learn crucial skills. Along the journey, the user will be psycho-educated on matters they're unaware of. The goal is to empower the user to build a healthy foundation to make better decisions based on their own needs and values while helping them feel supported along the way. Kinection helps users serendipitously discover the information they need know to grow.
Kinection will be available for iOS and Android devices to take advantage of the native data privacy and protection features. We will charge a monthly subscription.
Our Vision
By helping people better understand their own relationship dynamics, relationships will become easier to understand and simpler to navigate. Kinection's AI assists users in interpreting their own relationship experiences; the tool psycho-educates users on helpful and unhelpful relationship behaviors. We do not see AI as a replacing therapists, clinicians, coaches or real world connections, but rather as a companion tool for any self-growth journey.
Think of us as an everyday tool, like a GPS for relationships that shows you where you are, then provides directions to help you get to your destination - we're not replacing navigation, just making it easier. Inspired by the spirit of empirical inquiry and discovery, our visual design takes cues from the beige scientific manuscripts of thinkers like Huygens and Newton.
Privacy and Ethics
A responsibly designed AI, with the goal of psycho-educating it's users, holds the potential to improve the well-being of millions. While our tool has been designed by Phd's in psychology and machine learning, an AI may, like any actor providing relationship insights, make mistakes. We're committed to transparency with users about the reliability of our system.
Information provided by the system is intended as helpful feedback. Furthermore, data privacy and security will be critical - All information stored is fully anonymized and encrypted so that no data held on the system can be associated with a specific user.
Our system will not
• Seek to diagnose personality disorders
• Advise users to stay with or leave relationships
• Replace critical thinking
• Profile people based on Ethnicity, Religion, Gender or Sexual orientation
• Engage in sexual conversations
• Share or sell meta data to 3rd parties
Our product design has evolved out of the following premises
• Relationship experiences are intelligible
• Individuals have a moral responsibility to treat one another with dignity and respect
• Wisdom comes from recognizing one's own ignorance and striving to learn more
Kinection.AI is a product of the parent company, Blackbook AI Technologies, LLC. What originally began as a tool to for dating has become a mission.