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🌿 Meet Kindworks.AI: Enhancing workplace culture with AI-powered nudge

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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The presenters describe a growing problem of workplace burnout, stress, and its negative impact on productivity and wellbeing. They introduce Kind Worx (also called Kindworks.AI), a platform that uses a friendly AI agent named Benny to deliver personalized kindness exercises through common workplace messaging tools such as WhatsApp, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. The exercises can be shuffled, responded to, and are gamified with streaks, badges, and community recognition boards. The platform also supports team‑level initiatives, including a countdown to a company‑wide Kindness Day in November, with designated "kind captains" who lead teams and foster friendly competition. The speakers claim that when employees engage in these kindness activities, they experience greater connectedness, which translates into higher sales, increased productivity, and reduced absenteeism.

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We help people bring their very best starting at the workplace. The way we're working and living is completely broken. People are burned out and stressed out, and this has massive costs in productivity and wellbeing. Our data shows that when people do these acts of kindness, there's connectedness, there's impact, and when that happens, sales go up. Boom. Productivity goes up. Also, absenteeism comes down.
So Kind Worx is a platform to encourage and enable this kindness at scale. Benny is a friendly AI agent who shares personal So you can send personalized kindness exercises through WhatsApp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and you can shuffle the exercises and respond. And it's all gamified to incentivize your kindness journey. And then Benny also connects in a community channel and shares recognition boards. You get streaks, you get badges. Right now we're in a countdown to Kindness Day in November where it's teams. And so we have kind captains who are advocates who lead the teams, and there's a friendly competition.