In early 2025 we took everything we had learned offline and moved it to the place most people actually live: a screen. Two initiatives, Helping Human and Soul Talk, asked a pointed question. Could strangers, meeting digitally, have conversations that were genuinely meaningful, and not just another video call?
Across seven guided sessions we paired people who had never met into one-to-one breakout conversations. Each round we adjusted something: the prompts, the timing, the framing, the small details that decide whether two strangers open up or stay politely on the surface. It was, in effect, a live laboratory for the art of the first real conversation.
The community grew to 86 people, many of whom kept coming back, which told us something on its own. And session by session a format took shape: an audio-first, one-to-one, prompt-guided conversation between two well-matched people. By the end it had a name, Soul Calls, and it would become the centre of Everconnected itself.
By the time these sessions wound down, the research had become a product. We knew what worked, we had seen it work repeatedly, and we knew exactly what we needed to build.