Cognovi Labs

Cognovi Labs is a Dayton, Ohio company that builds what it calls Psychological AI: a patented engine that interprets and quantifies human emotion from language in order to predict how people will act. Founded in 2017 by Beni Gradwohl and James Mainord, the company grounds its models in decades of academic behavioral research rather than language models alone. It packages the engine into applications for government and defense customers — including early detection of suicide risk and measurement of influence campaign effectiveness — and for consumers through a relationship-coaching product. Cognovi Labs is a federal contractor and has raised roughly $13.5M to date.

A proprietary, patented psychological AI engine built on roughly fifty years of academic research into the emotional drivers of behavior, which predicts what people will do rather than only classifying what they said — applied in high-stakes government and clinical settings.