Most founders building conversation technology started with software and went looking for a problem. Adam Boaz Becker went the other way. Before he was the CEO of HeadOn, he spent years with a microphone on the streets of Israel and the West Bank, conducting interviews across one of the deepest political divides on earth, learning in person what makes a hard conversation collapse and what occasionally lets it continue. HeadOn, the company he now runs, is his attempt to encode those lessons into a platform: a structured space where people who disagree profoundly can actually talk, with AI doing the quiet work of keeping the exchange human.