Everything you need to write about loneliness, friendship infrastructure, or the case against algorithmic feeds. We respond to every media note within 48 hours.
Interviews, expert commentary, op-eds, podcast bookings. Pete and Johan are available for in-person, video and phone.
Conferences, podcasts, corporate offsites and university lectures on loneliness, friendship, and the future of social platforms.
We’re not interested in being everyone’s AI commentator. We talk about what we’ve worked on and written about.
A billion people, 800K deaths a year, $300B in economic cost. What the data really says and what existing platforms can and can’t do.
The case for treating friendship the way we treat utilities and what changes when we do.
The line between AI that helps humans connect and AI that pretends to be a friend. Why one is the future and the other is a dead end.
Use these verbatim or edit to fit your format. Pronouns: he/him for both founders.
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Pete O’Dell is co-founder and CEO of Perdata.ai, a friendship ecosystem that uses AI to help people make and keep real friends. He is co-author of Dying for Friendship and Community (March 2026). Previously, Pete scaled and sold multiple enterprise B2B software businesses.
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Pete O’Dell is the co-founder and CEO of Perdata.ai, the company building the friendship ecosystem, four products under one philosophy that use AI to help people make and keep real friends, without algorithmic feeds, ads or bots. He is the co-author of Dying for Friendship and Community: Two Old Friends Attack Loneliness, published March 2026. Before Perdata, Pete spent decades scaling and selling enterprise B2B software businesses, with deep experience across government, nonprofit and commercial sectors. He speaks regularly on the loneliness epidemic, the structural failures of social media and what a friendship-first technology platform could look like. He is based in the Washington, DC area.
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Johan Wikman is co-founder and CTO of Perdata.ai. He designed the Conexus ecosystem and the encrypted backend that runs the Conexus stack. He is co-author of Dying for Friendship and Community. An engineer and architect, he is hands-on across the entire product line.
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Johan Wikman is the co-founder and CTO of Perdata.ai. He architected the Conexus ecosystem that gives users portable, encrypted control of their own information across the Conexus product family, and built the encrypted backend behind Conexus Social — the friends-only, ad-free, algorithm-free network at the heart of the ecosystem. He is co-author with Pete O’Dell of Dying for Friendship and Community, published March 2026. Johan’s engineering work spans the full stack, from data models to mobile apps, and he is the technical voice on questions of privacy, consent and how AI agents should behave inside relationship-driven software. He is based in the Seattle, WA area.
Published March 2026. Available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle on Amazon.
For book reviews, excerpts, or interviews with the authors, email pete@perdata.ai. We’re happy to send a digital or physical review copy.
Perdata introduces a version of Conexus that gives event organizers full control over AI features, including the option to run interest-based matching without any AI involvement.
A complete guide for organizers running a friendship-focused event with Conexus — setup instructions, facilitation tips, and post-event follow-up best practices.
Perdata.ai partners with the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk, bringing Conexus to help participants and volunteers connect before, during and after the event.
Operating as Perdata.ai. Product family: Conexus, Social Compass, Conexus Personal, Conexus Social.
Delaware C Corporation. Headquartered in the Washington, DC area.