Our Story

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.

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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."
— Judith's reflection

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

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Student Agency
Safe Technology

The Founders

Alia and Semama brought Judith's vision to life through technical rigor and unwavering commitment to ethical responsibility.

Alia

Alia Rahman

Co-Founder & CEO

Former child psychologist turned technologist, Alia bridges the gap between understanding student needs and building ethical AI systems.

PhD Psychology, University of Melbourne
AI Ethics Research, Stanford
10+ years in child welfare
"Technology should amplify human empathy, never replace it."
Semama

Semama Hassan

Co-Founder & CTO

Privacy-first engineer with expertise in secure systems and natural language processing, ensuring student data protection at every level.

Computer Science, UNSW
Cybersecurity Specialist
NLP & Privacy Engineering
"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.