Julia Shaw

Some point I was like, maybe I should do something about this.

And so.

And so I did.

And so I went to a, well, I did a TED Talk and I was invited to this tech conference called Founders Forum, which is a sort of meeting of tech founders and others in London, but in also a couple other places.

And I was invited to this.

And while there, I met the founder of Evernote, Phil Libin.

And so I met Phil Libin at this event, and I was talking to him about my research on memory and how I've been wanting to implement or translate what I've been doing into something that could prevent false memories.

And specifically, I was interested in creating an AI or at least machine-administered version of the cognitive interview system.

So that's the neutral approach.

It's already a scripted approach, which was helpful.

So it's been scripted for decades or a couple of decades.

It's been scripted for decades as a cognitive interview.

And when we train police on how to do it in places like the UK, it's literally just asking people to basically read.

a script that we have fine-tuned over the years.

And what can do that really well?

Well, chatbots can do that really well.

And so together with Phil Libin and my two co-founders, Dylan and Daniel, I ended up co-founding Spot, which is talktospot.com if you want to check it out.

And it ended up

sort of pivoting into this general reporting tool for workplaces, where this was before Me Too, but it was the idea being that in lots of workplace environments, you have important emotional events that are really important to understand, but are really hard to preserve.

And often you have this really bad evidence that you're relying on.