Hird provides a data-driven neurotech solution using in-ear headphones to measure employee cognitive performance metrics like stress and focus in real-time. The platform delivers personalized insights to employees and anonymized organizational data to leaders to improve the working environment. This approach aims to boost productivity, minimize burnout, and enhance overall workforce wellbeing.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Workplace stress and poor mental health lead to significant financial losses for companies due to decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and higher employee turnover. Existing solutions often react too late, failing to provide proactive, real-time insights into employees' cognitive states.
Solution
Hird offers a data-driven neurotech solution that combines in-ear EEG headphones with a mobile app to provide real-time insights into employees' cognitive performance metrics, including stress, focus, and mental effort levels. The system delivers personalized feedback to employees and anonymized, aggregated insights to leaders, enabling proactive interventions to improve the work environment, job satisfaction, workflows, and processes. By measuring actual brain activity, Hird provides precise data that allows for immediate action and seamless integration with existing calendars for synchronized insights into daily activities.
Target Audience
Hird's primary customers are organizations and leaders seeking to mitigate the financial impact of workplace stress and burnout by proactively managing employee well-being and improving the work environment.
Features
- In-ear EEG neurotech headphones for continuous monitoring of brain activity
- Real-time cognitive performance metrics, including stress, focus, and mental effort levels
- Personalized insights delivered to employees via a mobile app
- Anonymized, aggregated insights for leaders to improve the work environment
- Integration with calendar applications for synchronized insights into daily activities