Most AI systems weren't built for everyone
The thought, purpose, & people behind Uplevyl


The only company
- Engineering the enterprise orchestration layer for lived experience.
- With a purpose-built knowledge engine of verified, first-party, and permissioned data.
- Orchestrating high-stakes workflows across workplace rights and wealth & advisory intelligence, where generic AI falls short.
- Building AI as a craft, with the care and responsibility required to serve both women and men.
What guides us
Public Good First
We put societal good above our own interests, and we hold ourselves accountable to the people our platform serves.
Urgency with Excellence
We move quickly without cutting corners. We use AI in everything we do, to think better and move faster, and we hold ourselves to the bar we ask of the people we hire.
Partnering with Purpose
We work with organizations whose work we admire. We listen first, co-design solutions, and share the credit.
Technology for Broad Access
We build technology that expands access and agency, so more people can participate and benefit.

What Inspires Us
The moments that matter most in a person’s life-their safety, their job, their money, their rights-run on information that is scattered, outdated, and hard to trust. We are Inspired by what becomes possible when that knowledge, built through the gender lens, is verified, organized, and put directly into their hands.
What Drives Us
A simple conviction: in high-stakes domains like rights, law, and financial security, generic AI is not enough. The decisions, actions, and protections people stake their lives and livelihoods on require a purpose-built orchestration engine powered by verified, native data. That is what we build-and why our work is urgent.
Our journey
Concept & Foundation
We began with a simple but ambitious idea: build a secure, women-forward intelligence platform grounded in verified, trustworthy knowledge. This foundation set the stage for everything that followed.
Building the Knowledge Core
We invested deeply in creating authoritative, first-party content across professional, personal, and financial domains. This formed the early knowledge architecture that would later power UpGenie and all our enterprise solutions.
Product Buildout
We developed and launched our Android and web applications, establishing the initial user experience, technical spine, and operational workflows. This was the year UpGenie’s underlying ecosystem quietly took shape.
UpGenie Launch
We introduced UpGenie, our proprietary female-forward AI engine designed to turn fragmented information into secure, contextual intelligence. This marked a major shift from “platform” to “intelligence layer.”
Enterprise Validation
We ran multiple enterprise pilots across diverse organizations to pressure-test the suite, refine security, validate impact, and strengthen reliability. These real-world engagements shaped the enterprise-grade architecture we operate today.
2025-Present
Platform Expansion & Scale
We work with organizations that advance and support audiences including survivors, patients, caregivers, employees, entrepreneurs, merchants, suppliers, clients, lawyers, and advocates.
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Meet the leadership
We are a team of engineers, lawyers, strategists, designers, and domain specialists.
What brings us together is a shared instinct to see the whole picture. Whether we’re drafting policy rules, engineering data pipelines, or shaping enterprise workflows, we look at how the entire system fits together so we can tackle the complex, messy challenges across gender, economic, civic, and health equity.
For us, deep domain expertise and human purpose go hand in hand with getting things done. They shape our empathy, ground our craft, and drive how we build.
Shubhi Rao on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Shubhi Rao
Founder & CEO
Jacki Zehner on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Jacki Zehner
Content + Partnerships
Dr. Patricia Greene on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Dr. Patricia Greene
Innovation + Data
Pamela Johansen on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Pamela Johansen
Growth
Harsh Sinha on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Harsh Sinha
Product
Supriya Kalghatgi on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Supriya Kalghatgi
Engineering
Divya Dawra on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Divya Dawra
Engineering
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