Applied AI · Science-driven

An applied AI company for health and human development.

AI ECD Inc. builds and deploys AI systems grounded in health, behavioral, and human-development science, and runs them in the settings where they actually have to work: clinics, homes, schools, and communities.

Funded by the American Diabetes Association Research partnership with NYU Langone Health
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Current work

What we're building right now.

Two active programs: a funded clinical research collaboration, and a consumer product live in the hands of families. Both run the same pathway from evidence to deployed system.

Research partnership

Smarter diabetes support, guided by your care team.

In partnership with NYU Langone Health researchers · Funded by the American Diabetes Association

A three-year research project co-designing an AI-supported messaging system for adults with type 2 diabetes. The AI drafts personalized, evidence-based nudges on medication, diet, activity, and follow-up care, and every message is reviewed and sent by the patient's own primary care team, keeping the trusted clinician relationship at the center.

  • Risk-stratified nudges powered by EHR-based prediction models
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish), culturally tailored, and co-designed with patients
  • Clinician-reviewed: no message reaches a patient without human approval
How it works

From data to doable steps.

A three-part pathway developed with patient advisors and primary care teams at NYU Langone-affiliated practices.

1

Identify

EHR data flags patients at moderate or high risk of diabetes complications.

2

Draft

The AI generates brief, guideline-aligned nudges tuned to each patient's language, literacy, and barriers.

3

Review & deliver

Primary care staff approve and send messages through familiar channels like the patient portal.

Kidooo
Consumer product · Live

Kidooo: our approach in action.

Kidooo brings the full pathway to life for families: it helps parents understand a child's behavior and development through everyday moments. Share a short video or describe what happened, and Kidooo, guided by Kola, our friendly koala, responds with grounded observations and gentle, personalized guidance.

  • Analyzes real moments across video, notes, and conversation
  • Personalized recommendations tuned to each child
  • Weekly reports that track growth over time

Visit kidooo.ai →

In the product

See Kidooo in action.

Actual screens from the Kidooo app: a real parent conversation, the AI's video analysis, and the to-dos it suggests.

Kidooo chat with a parent
Talk it through
A guided chat gathers the details.
Kidooo AI video report
AI video report
Observations + next steps.
Kidooo suggested to-dos
Personalized to-dos
Practical actions to try.
Scientific & technical foundation

Built on world-class experience.

Our multidisciplinary team brings research, technology, product, and implementation experience connected to leading universities and technology organizations.

Stanford University
Harvard University
UNC Chapel Hill
Santa Clara University
New York University

We bring together scientific rigor and startup execution to move ideas from research environments into products, programs, and systems that create measurable impact.

Working with us

What we bring to a collaboration.

Research partners come to us for the part that usually stalls after the grant is awarded: building the thing, deploying it in a live setting, and measuring whether it worked.

01

AI & ML engineering

Model development, evaluation, and the production engineering to run systems safely at scale.

02

Product & design

Interfaces that clinicians, families, and study participants will actually use, not abandon after week two.

03

Data infrastructure

EHR integration, risk and prediction models, data pipelines, and the governance that surrounds them.

04

Implementation

Designing for the real constraints of live clinics, schools, homes, and community settings.

05

Evaluation

Instrumenting for outcomes, incorporating expert and user feedback, and improving what's deployed.

Areas of impact

A platform for health and human development.

We aren't defined by a single condition, population, or product. We focus on opportunities where AI and scientific collaboration can create direct, responsible, and measurable impact.

Human Development

Supporting development, learning, behavior, and well-being from childhood through adulthood.

Health Behavior

Helping people understand, adopt, and sustain behaviors that improve long-term health.

Prevention & Chronic Health

Scalable tools that support prevention, self-management, and healthier daily decisions.

Health Information

Making complex health and scientific information more understandable, personalized, and actionable.

Care & Research Implementation

Helping researchers, clinicians, and organizations translate promising ideas into practical workflows.

Responsible AI & research integrity

Technology with a human purpose.

AI should strengthen human expertise, not replace it. These commitments are built into how our systems are designed, reviewed, and deployed.

Human oversight

Where our systems touch care, a person approves what reaches a patient. In our diabetes work, no message sends without primary care review.

Scientific grounding

Informed by credible research, domain expertise, and guideline-aligned evidence.

Privacy & data protection

Privacy, safety, and transparency designed in from the start, not retrofitted.

Human-centered design

Reflecting the needs, experiences, language, and constraints of real users.

Evaluation & learning

Real-world outcomes and feedback shape how technology is measured and improved.

Built to collaborate

The biggest challenges aren't solved alone.

We work with researchers, healthcare organizations, universities, technology teams, and community partners, especially where strong science meets a clear path to real-world use.

Research & grants →

Co-investigator roles, subawards, pilot studies, and grant-supported initiatives.

Partnerships →

Health systems, clinical workflows, technology integration, and commercial partnerships.

Everything else →

Press, general enquiries, and anything that doesn't fit the boxes above.