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Common Signals helps AI communicators know which messages and messengers actually work.

We provide research, tools, training and workshops to help people talking about AI know what actually gets through to their audiences.

We turn public attitudes into tested, practical guidance.

Research

In‑depth qualitative and quantitative research

  • Quantitative and qualitative methods that turn public attitudes into clear, usable insight
  • Audience segments and a messenger map, so any organisation can see how to reach the people it needs to
Guidance & training

Practical strategy

  • Communication strategies built from tested evidence
  • Clear, jargon‑free guides any comms team can pick up and use
  • Independent review of messaging, research methods and materials, on request, under our open-methodology rule: what we find can be published
Tools

A free, open toolkit

Workshops

Working sessions

  • Reviewing your own materials against the tested findings
  • Working through message choices for the audience you're trying to reach

We focus on these questions

What do different publics actually understand and misunderstand about AI? How is that shifting?

What makes AI communication backfire or fail to land? How do communicators learn from this?

Which messages and messengers are proven to work? How do we get them into wider use?

How do we build lasting public understanding of AI?

Why Common Signals

Global AI investment reached around $581.7bn in 2025 [1]. A sliver of that goes to safety. A sliver of the sliver goes to helping the public understand any of it.

$581.7bnglobal AI investment, 2025
<0.1%share going to safety

Grounded in evidence

The people trying to explain AI mostly work from instinct. Early evidence, including the Seismic Foundation's 2025 study [2], suggests the field's dominant framings underperform. We test before we scale.

Neutral by design

No policy position, no campaigns, no proprietary advice. Findings go to every side of the AI conversation, which is what lets one body credibly serve both.

A proven model, applied early

Built on proven methods and applied to AI while the gap is still wide open.

If you can help, we'd like to hear from you.

  • 1

    Funding for the pilot

    A small, fast, failure‑tolerant round to prove the method.

  • 2

    Introductions

    To foundations that seed independent institutes: the pivotal step toward a neutral, permanent version of this.

  • 3

    Honest criticism

    Especially from people who've run something adjacent and watched it work or fail.

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