Tech

Technology that serves people, in businesses built to last.

Highbeam Tech builds products that advance human and social good and pay their own way. Each one is designed around a clear objective: the good of the people who use it.

Our goal

Every app is built to maximize something. We build ones that maximize what their users are trying to do.

Many of the products people use every day maximize attention, because attention is what they sell. Ours earn their keep by serving the people who use them, so the business grows only when its users are better off.

  1. Harnessing the power of technology for the user’s benefit

    Every product works toward what its users are actually trying to do, and says plainly what it optimizes for.

  2. Creating freer, more competitive exchanges of information

    People see why they’re shown what they’re shown, control their own data and can take it elsewhere, so services compete to serve them.

  3. Economically viable, with most of the gains going to people

    Non-exploitative by design. Each product earns enough to sustain itself, and most of the value it creates stays with the people it serves.

Where we’re starting

Six places where a better objective makes a difference.

In each, what the usual product optimizes for and what people need have drifted apart.

Legislative technology

A shared map of technology legislation. It sorts federal and state bills by the problem each tackles, lines similar bills up side by side, and shows where people agree.

Optimizes for
Shared understanding and common ground
Instead of
Scattered news and insider advantage

Jobs

A job search that works for the job seeker, matching people to roles on the work itself, not titles and keywords, and explaining every pick.

Optimizes for
The right job, matched on the real work
Instead of
Clicks and application volume

Social connection

A social app where you and your communities choose what the feed optimizes for, and can see why each post appears.

Optimizes for
The connection you choose
Instead of
Time spent scrolling

Commerce

A shopping agent that learns your style, sizes and interests, then keeps looking on your behalf and brings you only what fits.

Optimizes for
What fits you, at a price you’d choose
Instead of
Sponsored placement and impulse buys

Housing

Save the homes you love on your favorite streets and hear the moment one is listed. AI reads every listing and photo to find what filters miss.

Optimizes for
The home you actually want
Instead of
Leads sold to agents

Information

AI tutors that help you get real work done while building your own skill, stepping back as you improve.

Optimizes for
Skills you keep
Instead of
Answers you keep coming back for