Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory
We measure what matters
Tools that help you think more clearly, powered by an algorithm that learns what carries weight.
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Tools that help you think more clearly, powered by an algorithm that learns what carries weight.
Who We Are
We built an algorithm that measures what things weigh in someone's life. It does not care about the domain. It cares about what matters to the person talking. Every product we ship generates real conversations. Those conversations feed the algorithm. The algorithm gets smarter. The thing people use and the thing we study are the same thing.
Read the full pitch →The algorithm does not know what music is. Or finance. Or healthcare. It knows what things weigh and how that weight changes over time. You bring the domain.
Not a form, not a chatbot. A thinking partner that helps you figure out what you're actually trying to say. Other AI tells you what to think. Polarity helps you think more clearly.
Human to human. Human to computer to human. Human to computer. Every product we build creates one of these environments. Every conversation inside them feeds the science.
The Science
How the things you say reveal the things that matter. The science behind measuring what carries weight in someone's life, based on how they talk about it.
Every conversation carries signal. What repeats. What gets emphasis. What you avoid. What you protect. The algorithm picks up all of it.
Things that repeat carry weight. Change carries weight. The algorithm measures how much something matters to you relative to everything else in your life.
The output is a living profile of who you are. Not a chat log. Comprehension. It knows what was heavy enough to keep and lets the rest go.
Our Products
The Studio
Keep your hand on the pulse. A digital broadcasting network by Polarity Lab.
Real conversations between real people about what it means to be a person right now. The kind of dialogue that helps us understand how people actually communicate when they care.
Watch on InstagramLive content delivery across WBRU and partner channels. Music, conversation, and culture.
Visit onpulse.tvThe Team
MD Candidate, Brown Alpert '26
MIT Boyden Lab. 11 years on this question. Radiology-bound.
Brown CS & Religious Studies '27
Built Waxfeed. Originated Patent #1. Music-tech expertise.
uOttawa Telfer Finance & BTM '26
Full stack. Helped formalize CCX. Patent #2.
Research
USPTO Patent Center
Conversational Connectomics: Methods for Bayesian Associative Strength Estimation, Cognitive State Classification, and Integrated Cognitive Fingerprinting
System and Method for Neuroanatomically Grounded Knowledge Graph Construction and Cognitive Biometric Authentication
Non-Negotiable
An algorithm that knows what matters to you could be misused. We know that. These are not aspirations. They are constraints we will not relax.
You generated it. You own it. No one sees it unless you say so.
Every access grant is opt-in and revocable. You say yes before anyone gets in. You can say no whenever.
If someone else is using your account, the system knows. Protective protocols kick in automatically.
Ask and it is gone. Every trace. No retention period. No exceptions.
We will never use this for risk scoring, preemptive judgment, or behavioral prediction. Full stop.
Anything involving human subjects goes through IRB. No shortcuts. No exceptions.
Your full profile. What matters to you. How your thinking has shifted over time. A living record of who you are. All of it stays between you and Polarity.
Anonymized patterns across thousands of people. We might learn that people going through career changes tend to talk more about their close relationships. That kind of insight. Never yours specifically.
Join the Research
You study how people think, remember, or communicate. We built an algorithm that measures it. We should talk.
Discuss Collaboration →Direction, ethics, clinical pathway. We want people who are honest, not people who are impressive.
Express Interest →Find a real problem. Build the solution. Own the outcome. That is the Pain Points model.
Explore →A digital broadcasting network by Polarity Lab. If you have something worth saying, we want to hear it. Early access open now.
Join Pulse →The ask: 30 minutes. See if there is alignment.
The Algorithm
What the algorithm measures. How it builds a profile. Why it works across domains. How you plug in. Everything is on one page.
algorithm.polarity-lab.com →