Empathetic AI for Emotional Wellbeing & Safety

Ziverny develops ethical, emotionally intelligent AI companions like Zaha — a digital emotional ally that listens, reflects, and helps users navigate stress, burnout, and domestic violence with care, safety, and integrity.

Meet Zaha

Ziverny Executive Overview

Ziverny develops ethical, emotionally intelligent AI companions that support individuals facing stress, burnout, or domestic violence. Its flagship chatbot, Zaha, serves as a digital emotional companion trained for listening, reflecting, and guiding users toward greater self-awareness and resilience while prioritizing safety, empathy, and ethical governance.

Purpose & Vision

Ziverny’s mission is to make emotional support accessible, stigma-free, and adaptive. By combining advanced AI with psychological science, the company aims to redefine mental wellness technology through responsible innovation and human-centered design.

Core Capabilities

  • Emotional Intelligence & Mood Tracking: Uses NLP (PRADO model trained on the GoEmotions dataset) to detect 28 nuanced emotions, enabling adaptive empathy and reflective dialogue.
  • Abuse Detection & Safety Framework: Multi-tiered risk detection identifies linguistic, contextual, and biometric signals of distress, with human oversight for escalation.
  • Behavioral Insight Engine: The Signal Taxonomy classifies over 50 linguistic and behavioral markers, helping Zaha distinguish transient stress from coercive control.
  • Positive Psychology Integration: Provides evidence-based interventions grounded in PERMA and MPPIs models to build resilience and well-being.

Ethical and Governance Framework

The Ziverny Ethical Protocol v1.0.1 ensures empathy, transparency, and safety in every interaction. Key principles include:

  • Empathy First — Emotional understanding above automation.
  • Safety Over Engagement — Crisis protection always prioritized.
  • Transparency & Data Minimalism — Clear user communication and minimal data retention.
  • Human Oversight — Clinicians review all high-risk cases within defined timeframes.

Strategic Value & Outlook

  • Ethical AI Leadership: Aligns with Responsible AI frameworks (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI).
  • Operational Efficiency: Automated triage and explainable AI for clinician review.
  • Human-Centered Innovation: Empathy-driven design for lasting user trust.
  • Scalable Impact: Extending care access for underserved and at-risk populations.

Ziverny’s roadmap focuses on expanding biometric integration, global partnerships in digital mental health, and continuous learning systems. By merging behavioral science and ethical AI, Ziverny positions itself as a pioneer in human-centered, emotionally intelligent technology for wellbeing and safety.

Zaha Companion

Primary Role

Digital emotional companion for stress, burnout, and domestic violence contexts.

Core Engine

PRADO-based NLP + Signal Taxonomy of 50+ linguistic and behavioral markers.

Safety Model

Multi-tier risk detection with human-in-the-loop escalation and Ethical Protocol v1.0.1.

Impact Thesis

Extending access to emotionally intelligent support for underserved and high-stigma populations worldwide.

How Ziverny Works

1

Start Learning

Begin with interactive, gamified modules that teach you the basics of emotional literacy, financial independence, and self-awareness.

2

Spot Harmful Patterns

Understand the subtle signs of coercive control, financial abuse, and relational harm through stories, guided reflections, and checklists.

3

Reclaim Control

Use your new knowledge and Zaha’s support to build a plan, make empowered decisions, and move toward a safer, more secure future.

Leadership

Z

Zaara

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Zaara leads Ziverny as Founder & CEO, bringing together lived experience, digital storytelling, and a deep commitment to psychological safety. She founded Ziverny after witnessing the devastating impact of domestic abuse within her family and now champions emotionally intelligent, culturally aware tools that help people recognize abuse, build independence, and reclaim their autonomy.

Our Story

After the death of a female relative due to an abusive partner, Zaara and the early Ziverny team saw the need for substantial course correction in societal norms.

Through learning more about domestic violence and its psychological underpinnings, they began to understand why victims cannot easily leave their relationships and regain control of their lives. After extensive communication with lawyers, policymakers, MPs, government organizations, NGOs, lawmakers, and the police, it became clear that although laws are in place to prevent elder financial abuse and domestic violence, implementation across several communities is impaired because of existing socio-cultural and socio-economic norms.

In the South Asian community in particular, as evidenced by the experience of a close member of Zaara’s family, social norms and narratives can make it extremely hard for victims to ask for help — even in nations where domestic abuse is explicitly outlawed.

Join us in the journey to eradicate domestic violence by addressing the psychological and cognitive root of this global health concern.

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