Our mission

Building AI for the people
who need it most.

The tools exist. The data exists. What's missing is the bridge — between the people building AI and the people who need it most. Between technical capability and lived experience. Between speed-to-market and responsibility to communities. We exist to close that gap — not by slowing AI down, but by making sure the right people are in the room, asking the right questions, and directing resources toward the problems that actually matter.

The founders

Built by practitioners,
not pundits.

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Angela Ng
Co-Founder
Director of Business Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University

Angela has spent nearly five years at Carnegie Mellon University leading sustainability, AI, and innovation programs across CMU's global campuses. With a decade of international development experience — water and sanitation in Bangladesh and the DRC, maternal and child health in India, disaster resilience across Africa and the Middle East — she brings a field-tested lens to emerging technology. She is passionate about responsible AI adoption in the social sector and actively exploring how AI can drive climate action, ocean conservation, and equitable access at scale.

"The most important work happens at the edges of disciplines, not the center of any one field."
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Paulina Muñoz
Co-Founder
Author, Do Good Capital

Paulina is the author of Do Good Capital, a newsletter at the intersection of technology, investing, culture, and social impact. Her path from international policy to investment banking at HSBC and into venture capital — where she backed companies serving low-income and historically marginalized communities at Equal Opportunity Ventures — has given her a rare, cross-sector view of how capital can be redirected toward the communities that need it most.

"The financial system is one of the most powerful levers for social change — and one of the most underused."
What we believe

Our values shape
every decision.

Practitioner-led, not pundit-led
We center the voices of people doing the work — in the field, in communities, in code. Proximity to the problem is the prerequisite for building the solution.
Honest about failure
Every domain we cover includes what hasn't worked. Hype doesn't help the communities we serve. Transparency about limitations builds the trust that makes real progress possible.
Global South as protagonist
Not beneficiary, but builder. The communities most affected by the world's hardest problems are also the ones best positioned to solve them — given the tools, capital, and stage.
Safety and ethics are not optional
Responsible AI isn't a branding exercise. It's a design constraint. We build with guardrails because the people we serve can't afford for us to move fast and break things.

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movement.

Practitioners, funders, and researchers who believe AI's most important work is still ahead of us.