Kayeh AI adds conflict transformation strategist Dana Eyre as advisor

Kayeh AI has named Dana Eyre, PhD, a former UN policy advisor and Hoover Institution visiting scholar, as an advisor to help civic and international groups use its consensus platform in polarized settings. The move comes as the company seeks pilot deployments with governments, multilateral institutions and NGOs working on contested issues.

Why it matters: - Kayeh AI is targeting organizations that need to move beyond measuring agreement and toward understanding where people diverge in real time. - Eyre brings decades of conflict transformation experience, which could help the company win trust in sensitive civic and international settings. - The appointment also signals that Kayeh AI wants its platform used in live dialogue, mediation and peacebuilding work, not just in retrospective analysis.

What happened: - Kayeh AI named Dana Eyre, PhD, as an advisor on Sept. 24, 2026. - Eyre will help identify civic and international partners and advise on deployments with civic organizations, governments and multilateral institutions. - He will also support pilots involving divisive local and international issues. - Kayeh said Eyre has already begun introducing the company to civic organizations in Southern California and elsewhere.

The details: - Kayeh AI says its patented platform measures both convergence and divergence in conversation, using U.S. Patent No. 11,995,408. - The platform maps discussion onto a coordinate system called the Thought Space. - It produces a consensus score that shows whether dialogue is moving toward or away from agreement while the conversation is still underway. - The company says most sentiment and social-listening tools measure only convergence, not divergence. - Eyre spent four decades on conflict transformation, including civic dialogue programs in Iraq and UN peacebuilding work in Kosovo. - From 2003 to 2005, Eyre served as a senior advisor with USAID in Baghdad and led the team that developed the Coalition Provisional Authority’s Civic Education Plan. - The associated Civic Dialogue Program held more than 25,000 Iraqi-led small-group sessions with more than 750,000 participants. - Eyre previously worked as principal social scientist at System of Systems Analytics from 2012 to 2021. - At that firm, he led the social science and design work on a $40 million software program focused on complex human problems. - At Oxford University’s Centre for International Studies, Eyre developed a framework he calls social change leadership communications, focused on countering polarization and radicalization. - Eyre is a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and leads the socio-cognitive analysis and strategy effort for the Human Security Project. - Since 2006, he has run Eyre & Associates, advising clients in the U.S., the U.K. and the UN system on social change, conflict transformation, peacebuilding and strategic communications. - His advisory work includes campaigns with combined budgets exceeding $575 million. - Eyre also served three years as a senior policy advisor with the UN Mission in Kosovo, including as deputy head of its economic policy office. - He was a senior mentor on DARPA’s COMPOEX social and political modeling project. - His background includes 26 years of active and reserve service as a U.S. Army infantry and civil affairs officer, including as chief of plans for the Joint Civil-Military Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. - He held a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace. - He also spent 16 years as faculty and political advisor at Canada’s Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, where he mentored NATO and European general officers on peacebuilding. - Eyre has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School and the United States Military Academy at West Point. - He holds a PhD in sociology from Stanford University, an MSc in organizational behavior, development and change from Chapman University and a BA from San Jose State University. - Kayeh AI says the platform is in beta access for civic institutions, UN and multilateral bodies, NGOs, trust and safety teams and enterprises working through contested issues. - Kayeh AI is a DBA of Pangea Social, Inc. - The company’s website is Learn more. - Kayeh also lists a LinkedIn page at the company’s LinkedIn page.

Between the lines: - Eyre’s background bridges field-level peacebuilding and computational modeling, which matches Kayeh’s pitch that it can translate conversation data into practical guidance for facilitators. - The company is leaning on a credibility signal common in enterprise and public-sector sales: a senior advisor with deep government, nonprofit and academic connections. - Kayeh’s emphasis on divergence suggests the company is trying to differentiate itself from standard sentiment tools by focusing on tension, not just alignment.

What's next: - Kayeh plans to use Eyre’s network to open conversations with civic institutions, UN and multilateral bodies, NGOs and other groups working on polarized issues. - The company is expected to keep pushing pilots and beta deployments in sensitive dialogue settings. - Success will likely depend on whether the platform can show measurable value in live, high-stakes conversations.