The listeners
Stories are evidence.
The truth lives underneath the answer, inside the pause,
in the story no one's ever asked you to tell.
We listen deeply enough to hear it.
Because lived experience is intelligence.
One voice can make you feel seen.
Many voices reveal what has been overlooked.
A pattern, understood, can change what happens next.
Technology can help us see the pattern, but it’s not the intelligence.
People are.
We're here to make the unseen visible.
To challenge assumptions.
To reveal what systems have missed.
To turn listening into learning, and learning into action that changes
how people are understood, supported, and served.
Not insight from the outside.
Understanding from the inside.
Under the hood of you.
Under the hood of me.
Under the Hood of Us.
Four years ago
Under the Sisterhood
Women were carrying so much, and too few people were really listening. So we created a place where their experiences could be heard, shared and understood.
Then
Otherhood
We widened the lens to include more overlooked voices, and began to see what listening across different lives could reveal.
Then
Under the Hood of
Women’s Health
We went deeper, listening across the health and lifespan to girls and women experiencing the conditions and transitions that shape each life stage, alongside the clinicians and experts who care for them.
As we listened
patterns emerged
Across hundreds and then thousands of stories, recurring needs, barriers, and possibilities became visible.
Most recently
Under the Hood of
Breast Health
We went deeper into a single disease state, listening to survivors diagnosed under 50, clinicians, and experts to understand the breast cancer experience through treatment, survivorship, and beyond.
Today
Under the Hood of Us
Building on four years of listening, our Under the Hood Intelligence Engine™ identifies patterns across lived experiences, transforming what we learn into LivedIQ™.
What comes next
Better questions. Better decisions. Better outcomes and better experiences for the people living them.
What we do
We turn lived experience into intelligence.
Under the Hood of Us creates trusted spaces for people to share what they have experienced, learned, and want others to know.
Through human-led listening, structured metadata, behavioral science, technology, and AI-assisted analysis, our proprietary Under the Hood Intelligence Engine™ helps identify patterns, gaps, needs, and signals across lived experience that might otherwise remain unseen.
The intelligence that emerges is LivedIQ™, lived experience intelligence, helping organizations better understand the people they serve and turn what they learn into action.
Who we are. What we live through.
Human experience is vast.
We go under the hood in two places: who we are and what we live through.
People & Identity
Who we are shapes how we experience the world. We explore identity, belonging, relationships, work, culture, and community to understand the experiences that shape us and how we move through the world.
Health & Human Experiences
What we live through shapes what we know. We explore health and other life-changing human experiences to understand what people are experiencing, what may be missed, and what we can learn when we listen across many lives.
Different experiences. Different hoods. One belief: what we live holds intelligence.
