[About Dost] Dost is an inclusive communications assistant for Microsoft Teams.

Promote inclusive workplace messaging, collaboration and communications within your teams with the help of Dost. When you add Dost to your Teams, Dost will guide you to use inclusive language in your messaging through suggestions and education material.

Dost surfaces the learning moments in real-time when users post messages that contain unconscious bias, microaggressions or non-inclusive language with recommendations to modify and make it more inclusive.

[Dost Features] 1) Friendly Nudges: When your message can be rephrased with more inclusive language, Dost sends you a personal 1:1 message (nudge) with feedback on the non-inclusive language and education material to learn more about the issues.

2) Suggestions: Dost provides you with alternative suggestions you can use to make your messages more inclusive.

3) Celebrations: When you post messages that use inclusive language, for example: use the word Chairperson instead of Chairman, Dost celebrates this with an applause.

4) Feedback: You can give feedback to Dost when it doesn't do a great job in identifying non-inclusive messages.

5) Customise: Customise Dost as per your company's DEI / Brand guidelines. Upload your dictionary and configure response messages that works for your organisation context.

[Privacy & Security] Dost means a friend. Dost guides you to create inclusive communications, like a true friend in the room. Dost is *NOT* policing.

1) Dost does not not access or store any user information and user identification data. 2) Dost does not store any of your messages. 3) Dost responses are visible only to you, no one else, not even the admin. 4) No individual data is accessible to the admin.

[Frequently Asked Questions]

Q1) Is there a free trial?* Yes. For PH users, you can start with our full access 30 days free trial before you subscribe to our paid plans.

Q2) Does Dost store our messages?* No. Dost does not store any of your user information or your messages. Dost processes the message for inclusive language in real-time and discards the message once the analysis is completed.

Q3) Does Dost work only on text messages?* Dost works on text and images. We are also adding support for video messages in Q3 2022.

Q4) How do we know Dost is working for us?* Dost sends you a Digest which contains data and trends on how you are doing in using inclusive language in your communications. Aggregated metrics are also shared with the leaders in the organisation, so they can track how effective Dost is at an organisation level.

[About the makers] Dost is brought to you by ishield.ai - we help companies create bias free communications. The team is lead by @anand_pikle who has 10+ patents in the field of AI and Analytics, @anjor_kothare who heads our product and @sreedevi_polpakkara who has a PHD in computational linguistics who heads our data.