About GazeIQ

Built for the people
who find this stuff
genuinely hard.

GazeIQ creates science-backed tools, guides, and training for people who struggle with social connection. Not the slightly-shy. The people who have spent years feeling like everyone else got a manual they never received.

Our mission is simple.
Make social skills learnable for everyone.

Social anxiety, autism, ADHD, introversion. These are not character flaws. They are differences in how a brain processes the social world. The tools to navigate that world exist. Most people just never get access to them in a form they can actually use.

The Story

Where this came from

Eye contact is one of the first things people judge you on. Before you say a word, your gaze is already communicating something: whether you're present, whether you're confident, whether you're safe to engage with. For most people, calibrating that gaze happens automatically, absorbed over years of low-stakes social interaction.

For a significant portion of people it doesn't. Social anxiety makes direct eye contact feel like being scrutinized. Autism makes it neurologically overwhelming. ADHD makes it hard to stay present long enough to calibrate. And nobody explains this. Nobody gives you the actual mechanics.

GazeIQ started with one specific tool: The Triangle Method. A simple, science-backed framework for natural eye contact that gives people a concrete target instead of vague advice like "just look them in the eye." From there it grew into a full library of guides covering body language, conversation mechanics, CBT frameworks, and social skills training built specifically for neurodivergent and socially anxious people.

The goal was never to make quiet people loud. It was to give them the same options everyone else takes for granted.

Everything GazeIQ produces is grounded in real research: CBT literature, exposure therapy findings, neuroscience, and the lived experience of people who are actually dealing with this. No motivation-poster fluff. No "just be yourself." Practical, specific, and honest about what works and what doesn't.

The tools, not just the theory

Everything is free or close to it. The mission matters more than the margin.

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Free Guides

Three books covering eye contact, social skills, and body language. Written in plain language, grounded in real research, available to anyone with an email address.

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The Triangle Method

The core framework. A practical, learnable system for natural eye contact based on how relaxed, confident people actually use their gaze. The starting point for everything else.

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GazeIQ App

An iOS app using ARKit for real-time gaze tracking and structured eye contact training. Built on the Triangle Method. Coming later this year.

Who this is for

Not people who already have it figured out.

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Social anxiety

If eye contact triggers your threat response, if you replay conversations for hours, if walking into a room full of people takes real effort, this was built with you in mind.

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Autism and neurodivergence

The unwritten rules of neurotypical interaction, made explicit. Learnable as a system, not expected as an instinct. Written without clinical condescension.

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ADHD

Conversation timing, staying present, managing attention in social contexts. Practical, specific strategies for the ways ADHD shows up in real interactions.

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Introverts and late bloomers

You missed the social development curve for whatever reason. Doesn't matter what the reason was. The skills are learnable now, at any age, deliberately.

Follow along

Tips, research, and the occasional animated telenovela about eye contact. Short-form content that's actually useful.

@gazeiq on both

The app is coming.

GazeIQ for iOS uses ARKit to track your gaze in real time and give you structured, progressive eye contact training built around the Triangle Method. No more guessing. Actual feedback, actual practice. Launching later this year.

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Start with the free books.

Three guides covering eye contact, social skills, and body language. All free, no strings attached.

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