Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys

Guests

Priya Nakra, Founder and Product Lead, Override Labs
Olivia Rowley, AI Advisor and Board Member, Override Labs

In this episode

Why Priya left a 10-year tech career to found a nonprofit focused on gender-based violence prevention
How scraping 2,000 Reddit posts per subreddit validated demand for a consent reflection tool
Why Override Labs defined a "South star" — the worst-case outcome — and designed the product to avoid it
How a licensed therapist and positive masculinity coaches shaped the product's tone and eval rubric
Why the product never gives a "green flag" response — and what it offers instead
How risk classification runs deterministically before Claude is ever called, then tailors the response by tier
The three-part response structure grounded in motivational interviewing: validate, reflect, invite reflection
Why "privacy by design" meant no accounts, no cookies, no cross-session tracking — and how that became a feature
The challenge of measuring prevention when success means something didn't happen
How Override Labs is building a product ecosystem: a women's tool, a web game as a top-of-funnel, and a future institutional API layer

Resources & Links

Override Labs — Building technology to prevent harm from gender-based violence
The Fund to Prevent Sexual Assault — The philanthropic incubator that funded Override Labs' first cohort

You can find Override Lab's products here:

Chapters

00:00 Meet Priya and Olivia
00:50 Why Override Labs Exists
02:11 From Tech to Mission
04:51 Is Technology Good
07:49 Narrowing to Teen Consent
11:07 Researching Teen Scenarios
14:33 Clinical Guidance and Tone
16:48 Designing for Reflection
20:51 Prototype to Product Flow
24:46 Risk Tiers and Evals
28:10 Defining the Conversation Goal
29:35 Motivational Interviewing Framework
31:37 Measuring Real World Impact
35:39 Privacy First Data Practices
40:29 Reaching Teens With Ads
41:56 Web Game Funnel Strategy
44:30 Funding and Institutional Pathways
46:50 UX for Sensitive Moments
49:34 Matching the Older Brother Tone
52:09 Building Safe AI for Prevention
54:35 Closing Thoughts and Thanks

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