Schism Labs

Schism Labs is building the Context Protocol: a privacy-first, cross-platform infrastructure that makes miscommunication visible, preventable, and repairable. Like TCP/IP standardized data exchange, the Context Protocol standardizes how emotional, cognitive, and cultural signals travel with digital communication—so people can better understand and be understood across platforms, identities, and contexts. Our Approach: - Protocol, not product: Creating a new interoperability layer like HTTP for human meaning - Perspective-only AI: We illuminate multiple interpretations, never correct - Privacy-first architecture: Context lives locally; nothing is shared without consent - Difference-affirming by design: Built for neurodivergence, cross-cultural teams, and relational complexity Miscommunication costs U.S. businesses $1.2 trillion annually ($12,500 per employee) and causes unquantified emotional labor, burnout, and relational rupture. Schism resolves this systemic failure by embedding context awareness into communication workflows, enabling clarity without conformity and trust without surveillance. We're building for the future of work and human connection—a world where being misunderstood is no longer inevitable, but repairable. Founded with lived experience of communication challenges in high-performance, high-context environments, Schism is built from necessity, not theory.