SOAR AI Studio is a human-centered AI company building products into everyday life across work, family, learning, and community; to do more than automate tasks, to expand what people are capable of becoming.
Purpose-built AI for every community
Billions of people use AI tools designed for the broadest possible audience. Professionals lose hours to meetings that slow decisions rather than drive them. Families, founders, and communities of faith have no AI built for the way they actually live and work.
SOAR exists to fix this. We build specialized AI products for distinct communities — each one deep enough to genuinely serve its people, all of them powered by one shared technology core.
Rather than a single product, SOAR operates as a studio: we spin out specialized software ventures, each focused on its own vertical and each operating independently while building on our core infrastructure.
This means every SOAR product starts with capabilities that would take a standalone startup years to build — and every lesson learned in one vertical strengthens all the others.
Just as Ancestry.com helped millions uncover meaning from fragmented information, SOAR's platform brings human context, conversations, and memory into a single intelligence layer.
A persistent engine carrying user context and history across tasks — so you never have to repeat yourself.
Networked, specialized AI systems working together seamlessly on behalf of the user.
Turning proprietary data and conversations into clear, usable insights.
Workers own their tools. When an employee transitions, their customized fleet of agents goes with them — while corporate data stays secure.
Founder & CEO
Co-founded Ancestry.com, which grew to over 100 million users and a $4.7B acquisition, and scaled CliftonStrengths to more than 30 million assessments.
Chief Operating Officer
Twenty years of scaling professional services and optimizing operational infrastructure for maximum efficiency, driving cross-functional growth across global organizations serving countless industries and thousands of users.
Head of AI
A quarter-century of revenue-focused data leadership through the Big Data era at Adobe, Overstock.com, Pluralsight, and Sykes, followed by an AI consulting practice specializing in meeting intelligence.
Lead Architect
A veteran technologist and pivotal team member in seven of Paul Allen's eight companies, Richard served as lead engineer at Ancestry.com and contributed to the development of several other successful ventures.
Explore the products already live across the SOAR portfolio, or get involved with what's next.