A Platform for Human Skills

Your Voice.
Undeniable.

In a world drowning in credentials, the one thing that cannot be faked — cannot be automated, cannot be outsourced — is the power of a human being who has truly mastered the room.

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Ney  —  نی
The Ancient Reed Flute of Rumi's Poetry

Rumi opened his greatest work — the Masnavi — with the cry of the Ney. An instrument cut from its reed bed, longing to return. Its music does not come despite the wound. It comes because of it.

The Ney became the eternal metaphor for the human soul: separated, longing, aching to be heard. And when it finally finds its breath — it makes the most beautiful sound in the world.

Notorious
To Be Known. To Leave a Mark.

Not infamous. Not feared. Known.

The person in the room whose words land differently. Whose presence shifts the energy. Who is asked back, promoted, trusted, followed — not because of what is written on a résumé, but because of how they make people feel when they speak.

To be notorious is to be impossible to ignore.

NeyTorious is the cry of the reed — finally given a stage.

The Window Is Now

The degree is losing its grip.
Human skills are the new Gold.

75%+
of Fortune 500 companies have dropped degree requirements
63%
rise in skills-based hiring since 2021 (LinkedIn)
0
platforms that verify communication and soft skills at scale

Google. Apple. IBM. They stopped asking for degrees. But they haven't stopped asking for presence, persuasion, and the ability to hold a room. Employers are desperate for a new signal. Nobody has built one for human skills — until now.

Real rooms
are back.

Dating apps. Home fitness. Virtual networking. Each promised to replace the room. Each hit the same ceiling: screens can inform, but only rooms can transform.

A digital-detox boom is accelerating it — people are deleting apps, buying dumbphones, and paying to unplug. They aren't choosing NeyTorious over screens; they're already going back to rooms. We're the infrastructure waiting for them when they arrive.

NeyTorious doesn't scale the room. It scales the operating system for the 300,000+ clubs that already exist.

−91%
Bumble stock since IPO. Match Group (Tinder) down 70% in five years. Virtual dating can't deliver real connection.
Wall Street / SEC filings, 2024
+42%
Growth in in-person dating event attendance, 2023–2024. Speed dating is the fastest-growing social trend.
Dating industry research, 2024
60M
Meetup users, +20% new registrations YoY. Event count up 52% in 2024. Gen Z's top request: more in-person.
Meetup 2025 Progress Report
+59%
Growth in group activities on Strava in 2024. Run clubs are the fastest-growing way young people meet in person.
Strava Year in Sport, 2024
$20B
Projected digital-detox market by 2032, growing ~9% a year. People are now paying to unplug — dumbphone sales and phone-free events are surging.
Digital wellbeing market research, 2024

Intelligence for Learners

A personal growth engine
for every member.

Every rating a member earns — across speaking, debate, negotiation, and leadership — feeds a personal intelligence layer that analyses their gaps, predicts their trajectory, and recommends their next move. This is the engagement engine that turns one-time visitors into committed, long-term members.

NeyTorious
Skills Passport
YOUR VOICE VERIFIED
Marcus Chen
Member since Jan 2024
Tier III
Distinguished
82.5 / 100
Top 8%
verified rank
✓
audited
Storytelling
92%
Clarity
88%
Delivery
86%
✓  Verified by NeyTorious Scored by real audiences
01 / 03 · Skills Passport

Intelligence for Clubs

Operating intelligence for
the people who run the room.

Officers and umbrella organisations get a live dashboard of club health, member trajectories, attendance forecasts, and at-risk alerts. This is the B2B layer that drives club-wide adoption — and the contract that scales across hundreds of chapters.

NeyTorious · Club Intelligence
TechTalks LA
Officer View
Tech Driven
Health Score
92 / 100 Healthy
48
Members
87%
Attendance
+14%
Q Growth
3
At Risk
At-Risk Members Predictive
Carlos Rivera
Carlos Rivera
Missed 3 of last 5 sessions · No role in 6 weeks
High
Maya Patel
Maya Patel
Engagement down 40% · Skill scores plateau
Medium
Tom Whitfield
Tom Whitfield
No leadership role in 8 weeks · Renewal due
Medium
Attendance Forecast 87% next 30d
NOW
Past 12 weeks · Next 6 weeks Confidence: High
Topic Demand Member-requested
Storytelling
28 req
Negotiation
19 req
Leadership
14 req
Persuasion
10 req
01 / 03 · Club Intelligence

The Marketplace

Where verified skill
becomes revenue.

Companies pay to search a marketplace of verified human talent — hiring speakers, coaches, and candidates by proven skill. The data members generate inside clubs becomes a high-margin, recurring revenue stream that no résumé database can match.

Speakers Coaches Talent
Active Filters · 9   Live Matches · 14
AI keynote for global product summit · October '26 · audience 1,200
24 dimensions · validated by 50k+ reviews
The NeyTorious Difference
Soft skills, scored.
Set the minimum score for the human qualities your moment needs. We won't show anyone who hasn't earned it — on stage, in the room, or across the table.
Storytelling≥ 95
Exec Presence≥ 92
Clarity≥ 90
Active Listening≥ 88
Persuasion≥ 90
Empathy≥ 85
Humor≥ 80
Confidence≥ 90
Negotiationany
Facilitationany
Conflict Res.any
+ 16 moreany
Topics · 3 selected
AI × Leadership × Innovation × Technology Storytelling Wellness + 30 more
Performance Type · 2 selected
Keynote × Fireside Chat × Panel Workshop TED-style Talk + 6 more
Industry Experience · 2 selected
Financial Services × Technology × Healthcare Private Equity + 24 more
14 humans match your shortlist · refreshed live · 0 sponsored placements, ever
3 of 14 humans who actually clear your bar
Priya Ramachandran
Priya R.
Los Angeles · AI & the future of work
97%
SOFT FIT
Storytelling98
Exec Presence95
Clarity96
★ 4.9 · 138 reviews96 keynotes
Amara Okonkwo
Amara O.
Los Angeles · inclusive leadership
95%
SOFT FIT
Storytelling96
Exec Presence97
Clarity94
★ 4.9 · 184 reviews142 keynotes
Mateo Alvarez
Mateo A.
San Francisco · AI for product leaders
93%
SOFT FIT
Storytelling95
Exec Presence92
Clarity93
★ 4.9 · 142 reviews86 keynotes
01 / 02 · Manual Search

The Network

The distribution engine for the world's
personal-development communities.

NeyTorious launches inside the world's largest personal-development communities — with the endorsement of their most senior global leaders. This is not a cold start. This is a warm introduction to hundreds of thousands of clubs and members who already show up every week to practise.

300K+
human-skills clubs worldwide across 140 countries
200+
clubs in Southern California under active rollout commitment
100%
of our first pilot club members recommended NeyTorious

Advisory Board

We enter the market with direct access
to the heart of the world's largest learning and development communities.

John Murray
John Murray
Head of Club Growth
  • District 52 Director · Southern California speaking community.
  • Oversees 200+ speaking clubs across Southern California. Confirmed NeyTorious is the infrastructure every club needs — and committed to leading its rollout across his entire district.
  • As Head of Club Growth, he leads NeyTorious's strategy for expanding into the 300,000+ clubs worldwide.
Sonia Endler
Sonia Endler
Finance Advisor
  • SVP Finance, Paramount.
  • Founding Partner, Galactic Road VC.
  • Board Member at Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles.
  • Board Member & Scholarship Committee Chair, University of Southern California (USC).
  • Guides NeyTorious's financial strategy, fundraising approach, and investor relations as the company scales from launch to Series A.
  • Brings financial expertise and investor network access to help NeyTorious close its Pre-Seed round.

The Founder

Sahar Cain

Sahar Cain

Founder, CEO & CTO

I didn't know how much was in me — until I had a stage, an audience, and people willing to tell me the truth.

Sahar Cain is an AI and technology leader with 12+ years of experience building intelligent systems, data platforms, and talent marketplaces across retail, hospitality, mobility, and biotech.

As part of Mogul Hotels, she helped design the core technology behind one of the first autonomous hospitality platforms and built MogulRecruiter — an AI-driven talent marketplace that grew to 1.7 million users and 8 Fortune 500 clients. She contributed to Talent Disruption, exploring the future of work and technology in hospitality, and her AI research in drug discovery received NIH funding through publications in IEEE and MDPI. She holds a Master's in Computer Science from California State University, Los Angeles.

A triple immigrant across Iran, Malaysia, and the United States, Sahar's journey shaped her conviction that communication is not a soft skill — it is the skill that determines whether talent and ideas are ever truly recognized.

She founded NeyTorious because she believes that in a world increasingly shaped by AI and robotics, true human skills — the ability to communicate, persuade, and lead — are becoming the rarest and most valuable asset of all.

And as a growing digital-detox movement pulls people off their screens and back into real rooms, she's building the platform to meet them there — reconnecting the world, one voice at a time.

Our Purpose

Reconnecting the world,
one voice at a time.

Get Involved

If you believe human skills
are the next great asset class

Actively raising Pre-Seed Open to Partnerships

We are raising our Pre-Seed round and building our first partnerships. If you are an investor, an organisation, or a community that wants to be part of what comes next — we want to hear from you.

Thank you. We'll be in touch soon.
— The NeyTorious Team

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