The Patterns Behind the Data Points: Announcing Our New AI for Good Partnership with GaiaVerse

It’s 11:45pm on a Tuesday. Most of the world is asleep, but a mother sits at her kitchen table looking at a laptop screen. She works two jobs and raises three children, and this month, the math simply doesn’t add up. She needs help putting food on the table, paying for utilities, and finding after-school care. In the quiet hours at night, she turns to Findhelp to search for local resources. Every click and search is a vital signal of survival, a direct request for help navigating a complex, often overwhelming system.

Behind every data point on our platform is a real person facing a real moment of need. Behind every data set is a pattern, waiting to be explored.

Over the past fifteen years, Findhelp has built a profound record of human need and resilience in America. By analyzing these patterns with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), we are transforming this data into a proactive early-warning system that uncovers hidden vulnerabilities and maps the systemic pathways of household distress. Understanding these cause-and-effect dynamics empowers communities to deploy resources and intervene—before a challenge escalates into a crisis.

Today, we’re announcing a new partnership with GaiaVerse to identify, analyze, and share these patterns, using AI for good.


What a decade of data looks like

At Findhelp, as part of our social care technology, we operate the nation’s largest and most engaged social care network, and we’ve built an infrastructure designed to support frontline communities. Our platform connects millions of individuals to essential resources like food, housing, utility assistance, and government programs.

The scale of this data gives us an unparalleled look at the American social safety net.

Beyond raw numbers, our data captures complex behavioral signals. It shows time-of-day search patterns, how often people return, and how one challenge can lead to another. 

“When I started Findhelp in 2010, I set out to solve a simple information problem for people falling on hard luck. Fifteen years later, we’ve collectively built an infrastructure of compassion. Opening this historical dataset with GaiaVerse will give us concrete insights to reshape how organizations and policymakers create programs, direct funding, and deliver targeted support to the right person at the exact right time.”

Erine Gray

Founder & CEO, Findhelp


AI for good: How GaiaVerse reads between the searches

We want to understand these patterns at a deeper level. That’s why we’re proud to announce a new strategic partnership with GaiaVerse, a knowledge intelligence company that specializes in advanced data tools and graph technology. This is an intentional, values-driven collaboration to use AI for good. By using their platform with Findhelp’s anonymized records, we can read between the searches to uncover hidden relationships.

Applying this level of deep analysis to our historical dataset, at this scale, is unprecedented. Crucially, we are able to study these complex patterns without compromising user trust; our anonymous search model and consent-driven framework protect individual dignity and privacy.

GaiaVerse’s models integrate publicly-available local, state, and federal data as a contextual layer that helps us see how regulatory shifts connect with real-time shifts in user needs. Ultimately, this partnership will help improve care outcomes, strengthen community partnerships, and inform resource allocation.

“GaiaVerse was built on the belief that AI should serve the regeneration of the planet and the wellbeing of humanity. Our partnership with Findhelp is an opportunity to connect fragmented social care systems to reveal patterns that were previously invisible, and turn data into actionable insight that improves real human outcomes at scale.”

Daniele Love

CEO, GaiaVerse


What the data reveals

As we launch this initiative, our teams are digging into four distinct data signals:

1

Search Behavior: We’re analyzing the programs people seek, when they search, and how often they return. Sometimes people type in terms that don’t fit standard categories, revealing hidden, unfunded needs. We’re also mapping the gap between official economic numbers and actual search volumes. If a high-poverty area has low search volume, it shows a bottleneck in local awareness or trust, creating a hidden need index for outreach.

2

Geographic Patterns: We’re mapping where specific social needs concentrate and how they cluster—like food and transportation vs. food and childcare—to highlight regional infrastructure gaps. We’re tracking distance to physical services to find the exact service desert threshold where rural access collapses. We can even find twin communities across the country that share identical need signatures, opening the door for them to share proven solutions.

3

Need Signals: We’re tracking sudden search spikes to build an early-warning system. By measuring the lag time between an economic shock (like policy cuts or factory closures) and a search spike, we help leaders position resources weeks before a crisis peaks. We also track how weather volatility creates predictable demand surges for utility and disaster help, moving from emergency responses to planned readiness.

4

Human Journeys: We’re mapping how needs compound over time to catch leading indicators of crisis. If utility searches always precede housing searches, providers can step in earlier in the chain. Looking at more than a dozen years of data also lets us see a community’s long-term health trajectory. Moving from emergency shelter searches to job training shows a neighborhood is recovering in ways census data can’t track.

The initiative framework

To bring these discoveries to light, we’re introducing a year-long storytelling framework. Over the next twelve months, Findhelp will publish one story per month, rotating across three distinct lenses of human need and systemic access:

The Individual

Stories centered on individuals navigating moments of need. These anonymized narratives are drawn from real behavioral patterns and written with deep compassion while protecting privacy.

The Team Member

A spotlight on the dedicated Findhelp staff who build and maintain our platform. Their work directly shapes the digital experience and reduces friction for everyone looking for help.

The Community Partner

Highlighting the incredible organizations whose programs and services make connections possible. We’ll break down impact across hospitals, health plans, and local governments.

It all culminates in month 12 with a reflection on what a full year of storytelling reveals about our collective safety net.

“At GaiaVerse, we believe in the interconnectedness amongst all things, and our agentic-AI decision intelligence framework allows us to see each person behind each data point. We exist to allow the voices of the unseen and unheard to become legible and audible, and to maximize the possibility of providing them with the help they need, with dignity and ease.”

Moriba Jah

President and Chief Scientist, GaiaVerse


Why this? Why now?

Why are we choosing this specific moment to bring these insights to the public? The answer lies at the intersection of four critical developments:

  • Technology Readiness: GaiaVerse’s tools and their Theory of Epistemic Abductive Geometry (TEAG) make it possible to surface deep, latent patterns responsibly and securely at scale.
  • Mission Maturity: 13 years of continuous data collection yields durable, deeply meaningful behavioral trends rather than temporary noise.
  • Stakeholder Need: Our ecosystem requires these insights. Stakeholders, partners, customers, and policymakers seek clear proof of impact, and leadership requires evidence-based narratives to guide strategic decisions.
  • The Moment in Social Care: Social drivers of health (SDoH) data is more and more central to healthcare delivery and government policy. Findhelp’s historical record is uniquely positioned to inform and shape these vital local, state, and national conversations.

“At the core of this initiative is a question: What if we could look beyond care teams juggling manual spreadsheets or post-it notes, and use our technology to reveal the real human patterns underneath? Partnering with GaiaVerse allows us to connect our data legacy to a completely new kind of public storytelling. We are truly honored to bring these invisible patterns to light, turning anonymous data points into narratives of resilience.” 

Amy Gordona

Vice President of Marketing, Findhelp


Join us

Ultimately, this partnership brings us back to the guiding principle that has led Findhelp from day one: connecting people to the help they need with dignity and ease. We’re looking forward to sharing these inspiring, data-backed stories and patterns, using AI for good. We invite you to join us on this journey of exploration and empathy. 

Behind every search query, behind every trend line, and behind every single data point is a person.

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