Partners
Build on the Emotional Signal Infrastructure Layer.
ARA is foundational infrastructure. Partners embed our SDK to make AI, software, robotics, and digital experiences understand declared human internal state.
We are opening a small Founding Design Partner cohort rather than a general partnership programme. Every integration is co-shaped with our founding team and built to last.
Cohort 01
Founding Design Partner Program.
A limited number of teams are being onboarded during the primitive's formative period. Design partners help shape the SDK, the ontology, and the developer surface before the layer opens broadly.
Status
Cohort 01, accepting applications
Seats
Small by design
What design partners receive
- Direct SDK access with integration support from the founding team
- Co-shaped roadmap influence during the primitive's formative months
- Preferred long-term pricing locked at design-partner rates
- Joint technical notes and case studies, published only with mutual consent
- First look at new signal primitives before general SDK release
Who fits this cohort
- A live product or research programme where declared emotional context materially changes the outcome
- A technical team capable of integrating an SDK and returning meaningful feedback
- Alignment with our privacy-first, declared-not-inferred posture
- Willingness to move on a defined outcome within a quarter, not an abstract POC
Current standing
Where we already sit.
Institutional affiliation
NVIDIA Inception Member
Active member of NVIDIA's programme for AI companies building foundational technology.
In active conversation
Selective, under NDA
Technical conversations and access are arranged directly with the founding team. No customer or integration is implied by this public overview.
Verified platform activity
Completed Pulse signals
Lifetime RAE outputs
SDK foundations, L0 to L5
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Languages live
7
Who we partner with
Five tracks.
AI labs & foundation-model teams
Add a declared, privacy-first context stream to language, multimodal, and agent systems that today can only guess at user state.
Robotics & embodied AI
Give machines a way to read human internal state without cameras or biometrics, so interaction becomes safer, gentler, and more trusted.
Developer platforms & tooling
Embed the ARA SDK to make third-party products emotionally aware, from creator tools to consumer software to enterprise workflows.
Research institutions
Collaborate on human-aware computing, pre-verbal interaction primitives, and privacy-preserving emotional telemetry.
Brand, media & advertising
Participate in moments instead of interrupting them. Aggregate mood signals only, never individual profiles, never diagnosis.
Principles
How we work.
Privacy-first by design
Declared, never inferred. No facial recognition, no camera analysis, no emotion scraping.
Aggregate signal only
Partners receive aggregate emotional streams, never individual user data.
Consent as foundation
Every signal is voluntarily contributed, revocable, and versioned against explicit consent.
Never diagnoses, never manipulates
ARA reflects and adapts. It does not label, diagnose, or exploit emotional state.
Apply
Join Cohort 01.
Tell us what you're building and how declared emotional context could change it. If it fits, we'll move fast.