Valence

Valence builds Nadia, an AI coach designed to support managers and teams inside large organisations, built around the idea of coaching available whenever someone needs it rather than only during scheduled sessions.

Nadia is positioned to work in each employee's own language and gives managers a private space to talk through day-to-day people challenges, from difficult conversations to team dynamics, with the aim of improving how frontline managers interact with their teams.

The company's technology and direction are shaped by advisers from the AI and people space, including academics and former technology executives named on its own site.

Valence's customers are described as being predominantly large, global organisations with tens of thousands of employees and thousands of managers, where consistent, always-available coaching for every manager would be difficult to deliver through human coaches alone.

It suits HR and talent leaders at enterprise scale who want to extend coaching beyond a small pool of senior leaders to frontline and middle management, and who are comfortable introducing an AI-based tool into that part of the people function.