Inventors of the Emotional Intelligence Engine™

Advertising stopped working when we optimized the human out of it.

GlassView helps brands optimize media using live emotional response, validated against campaign performance.

Advertising became obsessed with optimizing behavior. Clicks. Views. Conversions. It was not always this way: persuasion built the great brands, and it still drives growth. GlassView returns media to that fundamental, with technology that can finally measure it. Advertising optimized behavior. GlassView optimizes persuasion.

Emotion without reach is a lab experiment. Reach without emotion is waste.

2.7BMonthly reach
910B+Video views measured
80+Fortune 100 brands
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Living Proof

The operating system behind brands that choose to be felt.

Technology, travel, entertainment, consumer, finance, automotive — brands across every category use GlassView to understand not just what people do, but why.

Technology · Intel × Dentsu
Intel

Intel was respected but not felt. GlassView read where the brand stayed rational, moved weight into premium editorial and Tech Leaders, and watched feeling build — a 90% surge in purchase intent among Tech Directors.

90%
Purchase-intent surge
Travel
Texas Tourism

An empathy signal redirected the audience strategy toward the people most ready to travel.

97%More travelers · $60M activity · Arrivalist-verified
Entertainment
Topgolf

We measured joy, then found the media environments that produced the same response.

193%Engagement lift · +13% favorability
Consumer
Scotts Miracle-Gro

The signal pointed to Martha Stewart environments. Budget moved. Sales lifted at the register.

14.52×Return on ad spend · Foursquare-validated
Financial Services
A major card brand

Emotional optimization sent spend toward the placements that earned response, not just impressions.

70%Lower cost-per-landing-page
Automotive
MINI

A premium brand, made more efficient by following the response instead of the demographic.

47%More efficient cost-per-click
Every result, with its method and source.Explore all campaign results →

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The Film

Before the proof, the point. Watch what persuasion looks like.

The Emotional Intelligence Engine · brand film.

01 · Why GlassView

Most platforms know whether your ad was seen. GlassView knows whether it landed.

For decades, the industry optimized what people did: impressions, clicks, conversions, completions. It stopped reading why people act in the first place. GlassView brings the human back into media. We read emotional response from a consented EEG panel, prove which signals hold up against a control group, then use that evidence to guide media, audience, context and frequency decisions.

Measure

Read real response

Genuine emotional response, read from a consented, clinical-grade EEG panel as people encounter brand messages. Aggregate and diagnostic — never individual, never personal data. Not modeled proxies. Not sentiment estimates.

Optimize

Move budget with evidence

The system scales the media conditions that strengthen persuasion and weakens the conditions that do not, in flight, while the campaign runs.

Validate

Separate lift from noise

Every signal is tested exposed-versus-control. Only responses that beat the holdout — not merely move alongside it — earn more budget. Incremental, not observed.

Learn more about the Emotional Intelligence Engine™ →
02 · Does It Actually Work

Find the signal. Follow it with budget. Verify the outcome in the real world.

Scott's Miracle-Gro × Martha Stewart
14.52×
Return on ad spend · Foursquare-validated

Measured exposed-versus-control: neuro-selected placements beat the holdout by +58% on click-through, driving $3.5M in behavioral sales uplift at retail — independently confirmed by Foursquare. Incremental, not modeled.

Intel · Dentsu90%Purchase-intent surge · Tech Directors
58%Scott's · neuro vs control CTR lift

Every figure here is drawn from a validated GlassView campaign; the Scott's sales result is measured against a control group and independently confirmed at retail by Foursquare. Earlier results — including Travel Texas, MINI and a major card brand — are detailed with their sources on the work page.

Case · Intel × Dentsu
Signal read

Frontier audiences recognized Intel but didn't feel it. Pathos read flat against benchmark while the brand stayed saturated in Logos.

Media decision

Concentrated weight on premium editorial context and Tech Leaders. Cut conquesting and open-exchange noise.

Outcome

Pathos rose 18% → 47%. Brand consideration +6.4 pts among ITDM, beating the +5-pt goal.

+124%CTR in premium context vs open exchangeRead the full case →
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03 · The Persuasion Curve

Every great brand follows the same persuasive evolution.

Pathos creates adoption. Ethos creates trust. Logos sustains scale. Where a brand sits on this sequence is the stage of its growth — and it determines how media should be deployed.

Pathos

Creates adoption

Feeling opens the door. Early audiences are moved before they are convinced.

Ethos

Creates trust

Credibility carries the brand into the majority, where belief becomes permission.

Logos

Sustains scale

Proof holds the brand at maturity, defending the position that feeling and trust won.

It is the strategic frame beneath every GlassView campaign — and the subject of its own deep dive. Explore the Persuasion Curve →

04 · The Emotional Intelligence Engine™

A closed-loop decisioning system.

Emotional response informs media decisions, media performance feeds back into the model, and only signals tied to real outcomes are amplified. The dataset compounds with every campaign.

CREATIVE EXPOSUREBRAIN-LEVEL RESPONSESIGNAL VALIDATIONMEDIA CONDITIONSPERFORMANCE OUTCOMESCONTINUOUS FEEDBACKOnly signals tied to real outcomes are amplified.
The loop Creative exposure to brain-level response to signal validation to media conditions to performance outcomes to continuous feedback, returning to creative exposure.

The loop runs inside Origin, the platform behind every GlassView campaign. Every flight strengthens the system; every validated signal improves the next decision. How the loop runs, signal by signal, lives on its emotion optimization page.

05 · The Product

Philosophy, running as software.

Origin puts it on one screen: the emotional signals, the media conditions that carry them, the performance they produce, and the optimization the system recommends next.

Origin · Live Campaign View
Origin dashboard: Adobe campaign re-routed from watched to converted — IT-Leader display CTR lift of +132%, Q1→Q2 media delta with emotional signals, media conditions and recommended action

The working surface Emotional Signal → Media Condition → Performance Lift, in one view.

06 · The Signal Source

The signal beneath persuasion.

The signal originates from an exclusive license to clinical-grade EEG technology from Cogwear, a UPenn Medicine spinout. It is read from a consented research panel, measured against benchmark, and generalized to populations on the published basis of Dmochowski et al. (2014) — then proven in market against a control group. The scientific program is led by Dr. Michael Platt, Chief Neuroscientist and a professor at the Wharton School.

Exclusive Cogwear EEG licenseUPenn Medicine spinoutChief Neuroscientist · WhartonConsented panel · named DPOPopulation basis · Dmochowski et al. 2014Exposed-vs-control validation
07 · Scale and Standing

The numbers underneath.

2.7B
Unique viewers reached monthly
80 of 100
Top global brands served
910B+
Video views measured
1871
Penn neurology · among the oldest in the nation

Industry standing: a seat on the IAB Measurement & Addressability Board, and an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist (2023) at the founder level.

Texas Tourism
Miracle-Gro
08 · Why Now

AI is making content abundant. Human attention is not.

The future advantage is not producing more advertising. It is understanding which advertising changes how people feel.

As generation gets cheaper, the scarce asset shifts from making the message to knowing whether it landed. Authentic human response becomes more valuable, not less, and the brands that can measure it will deploy media the rest of the market can only guess at.

If medicine can measure what's happening in the brain with precision, why is advertising still built on assumptions?

J. Brooks · Founder & CEO  ·  Read the founder's story →

Advertising optimized behavior. GlassView optimizes persuasion.

See how your audience actually feels — then act on it.