SBIR funded as Beacon Tech, Marigold Health - also formerly known as Sunrise Health - engages behavioral health & substance use patients with chat-based peer support groups, while at the same time using AI to scale the efforts of existing clinicians. The underpinning effort is to improve mental healthcare overall by combining the constant support of group chat, the openness afforded by anonymity, the guidance of professional therapists and the safeguard of artificial intelligence watching for abuse and emergencies. Usefully understood as a form of mobile therapy software-as-a-service platform the system grows through natural language processing. System gives Users the opportunity to connect with others experiencing issues such as PTSD and depression without fear of stigma with the overall effort being to fill current gaps in mental health care by providing users with anonymous, persistent communities of like-minded individuals.
