combining frontier tech with age-old wisdom to build a more deliberative and representative way for people to be heard — and elevate leaders who listen above those who simply shout.
We believe our communication platforms are too fast... perpetuating a dopamine fueled frenzy and elevating “leaders” better at developing slogans than delivering solutions.
The question is how.
We're using AI to deepen human connection and amplify our deliberative voices — so that everyday people have the agency they deserve and service-oriented leaders earn the trust they need to thrive and deliver.
...built for trust
started in healthcare because it's the issue that touches every single one of us — every family, every community — and it's in crisis.
founded with nurses because — at a time when trust is in scarce supply — they have been the most trusted profession, modeling the kind of service-oriented leadership we desperately need.
we hold ourselves accountable to:
elevate the voices most affected by an issue
make participation easy, meaningful, and refreshingly human
never share personally identifiable information without explicit consent
reflect the collective voice that emerges as fairly and accurately as possible
put these principles above profits
Slow Talk is a public benefit corporation — mission first, by law. We're a small but mighty team, distributed across the US, Costa Rica, and the Philippines.
Lucas Welch
Founder & CEO
Lucas has spent over two decades building new ways for people to talk across divides and be heard. He founded Soliya, a pioneering virtual exchange organization, and conceived of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative, which has deployed over $50 million to connect people across lines of difference. In 2015, he co-founded The Pluribus Project, which brought together political scientists, campaign operatives across the partisan spectrum, and technologists to explore how campaigns could win by relying less on money and outrage and more on constructive engagement — that work laid the groundwork for Slow Talk.
