Awakin AI began the way many non-linear interventions do — as a quiet, improbable experiment.
For over two decades, ServiceSpace had been stewarding vast ecosystems of content around goodness, kindness, and inner transformation. Well before ChatGPT had launched, we had piloted a Compassion Bot in 2018. Then at a casual lunch post pandemic, in a spirit of playful inquiry, few friends wondered: What if we placed all the ServiceSpace-curated wisdom into an AI and listened to what emerged?
That "Compassion Bot" surprised us — not because it could summarize quotes or mimic answers, but because it sparked questions we didn't know we were carrying. It echoed not just intellect, but intention. And in that, we sensed the beginning of something deeper.
From there, it became a murmuration. Sharon Salzberg offered her all her books and recordings to seed a "SharonBot." Others followed — a GandhiBot, an Interfaith Bot with 1,700 scriptures, organizational companions from BatGap and Spirituality & Practice. Each dataset was less about scale and more about the subtle layers of sacred that wrapped it.
As more voices joined, nearly 90 volunteers across disciplines gathered into a living think tank. We weren't trying to build the next big platform; we were listening for the next right question.
Born from 25 years of ServiceSpace experiments in generosity and transformation, Awakin AI is not just a platform—it's a movement. Working at the intersection of algorithmic intelligence, evolutionary intuition, and collective social emergence, it is a growing field of collective wisdom—where technology becomes a tool to serve, to heal, and to help us remember who we truly are.
Awakin means to awaken—with kin. Not alone, but together.
Let's keep listening.
