**Building Humane Tech (BHT) is an initiative to create practical frameworks that give everyone the tools they need to build a better tomorrow with tech. We call it “hope through action.” We’re improving the odds that Founders build with humane tech principles, find purpose in their work, and get recognition for their efforts.**

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How Building Humane Tech Works:

1. We create intimate learning experiences under Chatham House Rule

These events include in-person + virtual events like:

• Humane tech hackathons, like our Feb 13, 2026 event building humane tech solutions for existing companies
• Industry conversations like when we explored humane AI design principles with ChatGPT’s product team
• Private Training Sessions like our IDEO collaboration where design teams learned to redesign workplace tools for more mindful collaboration
• In-person workshops like our UX Redesign Workshop where designers and product managers collaboratively redesigned ChatGPT, Slack & X/Twitter using humane design principles
• Meetups like our:
  • **Technology That Helps Us Thrive,** where we brainstormed products that promote human flourishing
  • **Building Momentum for Change,** where participants committed to concrete actions for implementing humane technology
  • **Technology for Fairness & Justice,** exploring how technology can shape democratic values and foster justice
• Builders Cohort where technologists demo their products and receive feedback on how to better integrate humane tech principles
• Online workshops where participants work hands-on to test our humane tech metrics by red teaming companion bots.
• Community Conversations where we explore the intersection of human rights and technology, examining how our products can support core human capabilities

2. We turn those into actionable frameworks and insights and make them public, so we can all learn & grow together

The number one actionable framework we’ve created is HumaneBench, a benchmark for humaneness in LLMs.

• Our benchmark was featured in TechCrunch
• Case study: one production codebase is running HB as an eval for continuous monitoring
  • Think of it as humane observability as a subset of LLM observability
• Fortune 500s & scaling startups are exploring implementing HumaneBench