Judith's Journey: From Silence to Voice
Every platform begins with a story. Ours starts with a young immigrant student who needed a voice but found only silence.
The Beginning
Judith arrived in Australia as a 14-year-old, carrying dreams and facing challenges she couldn't have imagined. The bullying started small—whispered comments, excluded conversations, deliberate isolation.
Isolation
Language barriers and cultural differences made her an easy target for exclusion and harassment.
Silence
Traditional reporting felt unsafe—too formal, too exposed, too likely to make things worse.
Impact
Academic performance declined, social anxiety increased, and her sense of belonging disappeared.
"I needed someone to talk to, but not someone who would immediately take action. I needed to feel heard before I could feel safe."
The Turning Point
Years later, Judith realised that technology could bridge the gap between needing to speak and feeling safe to do so. What if there was a space designed for students like her?
A place where privacy came first, where being heard didn't require immediate exposure, where patterns could be detected without judgement.
The Vision
A conversational space that protects agency while enabling support
The Promise
Privacy by design, with students controlling their narrative
The Partnership
Technology serving empathy, not replacing human connection
The Founders
Alia and Semama brought Judith's vision to life through technical rigor and unwavering commitment to ethical responsibility.
Alia Rahman
Co-Founder & CEO
Former child psychologist turned technologist, Alia bridges the gap between understanding student needs and building ethical AI systems.
"Technology should amplify human empathy, never replace it."
Semama Hassan
Co-Founder & CTO
Privacy-first engineer with expertise in secure systems and natural language processing, ensuring student data protection at every level.
"Privacy isn't a feature—it's the foundation everything else is built on."
Our Commitment
Every decision we make is guided by Judith's experience and our founders' expertise in creating technology that serves humanity.
Student Agency
Students control their narrative and decide what gets shared
Privacy First
Built from the ground up with privacy as the core principle
Ethical AI
Technology that detects patterns without making judgements
Human Connection
Amplifying empathy and supporting genuine relationships
Technology Serving Empathy
Talk To Abbie exists because Judith needed a voice but found only silence. Today, we ensure no student faces that same isolation. Our platform protects words before it protects data, prioritises agency before analytics, and serves empathy before efficiency.