Human-Calibrated Performance Standards
KouLi's Forensic Engine is calibrated against the professional rubrics used by elite executive coaches to prepare leaders for the world's highest-stakes conversations.
Leadership & calibration
Executive coaches and our founder who define KouLi's rubrics, metrics, and how the product teaches real-world performance under pressure.
Nahdia Khan
Specializes in Investor Defense & Board Presence
Nahdia's 20 years of experience in high-stakes investor conversations is the foundation for KouLi's Conviction and Presence metrics. Through her work leading insight and impact at global leadership organisations, she's seen first-hand why most communication training fails to stick—and what actually builds confidence under pressure. KouLi reflects that insight: confidence isn't built by consuming content or chasing scores, but through practice, coaching, and reinforcement over time.
Emma Blackery
Specializes in Visibility & Corporate Navigation
Emma's expertise in professional visibility and complex organizational communication drives our Competency and Role-Readiness scoring models. She understands where confidence most often falters as careers progress, particularly around visibility, expectation, and high-stakes communication in complex organisations. At KouLi, Emma helps ensure the product supports real growth rather than adding pressure, keeping the use of AI practical, thoughtful, and genuinely helpful in real working lives.
Adam Chalmers
Founder & Lead Architect
Adam has distilled 10,000+ hours of forensic speech observation into the KCI (KouLi Confidence Index) and our proprietary state machine logic. He has spent over a decade teaching, coaching, and closely observing how people speak under pressure. Across thousands of hours of listening and feedback, Adam kept seeing the same patterns: people don't struggle because they lack ideas, but because pressure changes how they speak—clarity drops, confidence wavers, and structure falls away. KouLi was built to make high-quality speaking practice and coaching available at scale.
Strategic advisors
Leaders who help shape KouLi's direction on governance, scaling, and navigating regulated and deep-tech markets.
Ian Stevenson MBE
Strategic Advisor
Deep tech CEO & Chair (Online Safety / GovTech)
Ian Stevenson MBE is a deep tech CEO and chair with a focus on online safety and GovTech. He has built and scaled venture-backed companies, with strong expertise in startup governance and commercial strategy.
Interns
Researchers and builders contributing across data science, NLP, and product — often alongside advanced study.
Alfin Pradana
Intern
Data Science · NLP & Information Retrieval
Alfin Pradana is a Data Scientist with industry experience in e-commerce and telecom, specializing in NLP, ranking systems, and information retrieval. He is currently pursuing an MSc in AI at the University of Edinburgh.
Chunxi Luo
Intern
Computational Linguistics · NLU, Pragmatics & Discourse
Chunxi Luo is a computational linguist specializing in NLU, pragmatics and discourse analysis. He is currently pursuing an MSc in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh.