Holistic AI · Emotional intelligence · World models

Commercial applications for frontier AI research

Brenkins builds usable software from research in holistic AI, emotional intelligence, and world models.

What we do

From the lab into working products

Brenkins develops commercial applications for frontier AI research. Founded by Jamie Brennan and Matthew Perkins, the company works across holistic AI, emotional intelligence, and world models, and turns that research into software organizations can deploy. Brennan's research addresses how AI systems understand emotion and model the world. Perkins's engineering makes the resulting systems reliable in production.

What we build

Our work covers three areas

Products

Cyrano

Speak Your Book to Life

Your book already exists in the hours you have already spoken. Cyrano turns recorded conversation (podcasts, interviews, hours of talk) into a finished, structured book, written in your voice and drawn from what you actually said.

16 yrs
of recordings as one body of work
1,000+
hours of speech turned into text
500k+
words of source-faithful prose
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Research foundation

Grounded in active research

Brenkins is grounded in active research across holistic AI, emotional intelligence, and world models. This work studies how AI systems can understand emotion, represent the world, and act with awareness of the impact of their own decisions. It shapes the products we build.

Holistic AI Emotional intelligence World models Reliable machine output

Founders

The people behind Brenkins

Jamie Brennan

Jamie Brennan

CEO & Co-founder

Jamie Brennan researches holistic AI, emotional intelligence, and world models. Her work examines how AI systems recognize and respond to human emotion and how they represent and reason about the world.

Matthew Perkins

Matthew Perkins

CTO & Co-founder

Matthew Perkins builds the engineering behind reliable AI applications. His work focuses on making AI output verifiable and on moving research systems into dependable production software, including methods that prevent model fabrication and ground results in source data.

Get in touch

Let's talk

Brenkins is launching now. To discuss applications, partnerships, or research, reach out and we will get back to you.

Email us
Emailjamie.brennan@brenkins.com Phone+1 919-505-1210
Address1235 East Blvd, Suite E PMB 5113
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203
United States