The mission of the company
The AngelQ team brings experience in AI innovation, child-focused tech, internet safety, and active policy work.
Founder & CEO
Tim founded Digital Reasoning and built it into a leader in unstructured data analytics. Its technology became the standard for AI on communications data in financial services, and it supported work in defence, healthcare, and law enforcement. Digital Reasoning merged with Smarsh in 2020, after which he spent several years angel investing and advising. At AngelQ he leads the work on what AI should do when the user is a child.
Co-founder & COO
Josh served as a Navy SEAL officer, leading counterterrorism and hostage rescue missions across eleven deployments, and earned more than a dozen combat awards. He moved into technology in 2023 and co-founded AngelQ, where he runs product and operations.
Co-founder & CMO
Randi has led marketing for Fortune 100 companies and for high-growth technology companies, and has held CMO roles at fintech and AI companies. Her work is in multichannel programmes, and in the positioning that has to be right before any of them will pay.
Co-founder & technical advisor
Brian completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Vanderbilt in 2020 and a residency at Microsoft Research. His research covered model-integrated computing, AI and machine learning, and computer science education. He advises AngelQ on the technology.
Former CEO of Sesame Workshop, and a board member and venture partner. He has run digital, brand and content businesses across media, education, consumer products and live experiences.
Head of Parent Advocacy at Roblox. A California lawyer and Paris-based law professor who advises international organisations on digital safety policy, with trustee and advisory roles at child-safety organisations in the UK and the US.
President and cofounder of Healthy Gamer, and a Harvard-trained psychiatrist working on mental health for the digital generation. Healthy Gamer gives young people content, coaching, and a community to talk in.
Tired Dad. A leading voice for busy parents, and one of the people families actually listen to about what their children are using.
A pediatric trauma surgeon and a board member of the Sandy Hook Promise, working on injury and harm prevention for children.
Founder of Protect Young Eyes and executive director of the PYE Foundation. He has testified before the US Senate, co-authored the Child Device Protection Bill, and spoken at the World Economic Forum.
Tim Estes was lead author of the declaration the industry is now measured against, and the AngelQ team is still pushing that policy forward. The National Declaration on AI and Kids' Safety was published on 12 May 2025, written with the Heat Initiative and the Social Media Victims Law Center. More than seventy organisations signed it, from the Heritage Foundation through Design It For Us.
Selected signatories
"Our children cannot be guinea pigs in the AI arms race."
"We cannot afford to look back ten years from now and realize we've made the same mistake with AI."
"If we are going to give children AI, it needs to have safeguards to protect them."
Seventy-plus organisations signed, across the political and ideological spectrum. Read the declaration
Four years of work, each entry dated and each one public.
AngelQ founded.
Supported and advocated for Kids Online Safety and other key regulations to protect kids. Tim's Newsweek op-ed that April argued AI would be to this generation what social media already was, and the coverage on Resources followed it.
The platform opens to kids' brands: age-appropriate AI experiences built on the same safety layer the app runs on.
It is our full-time job to be your partner and to deliver an experience that is both amazing and healthy for everyone.
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