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Notes from building a free AI therapist.

What AI therapy gets wrong, what memory changes, and what we are learning as members arrive.

16 September 2026 · 6 min

What an AI Cannot Do For You

An honest list of the limits, from the people building one. Some are temporary engineering problems. Most are not, and it matters which is which.

16 September 2026 · 7 min

The Question Chatbots Are Worst At

Research shows AI models answer prompts about suicide inconsistently. It is the most important failure in this category, and one to design around.

16 September 2026 · 8 min

Several US States Restricted AI Therapy. Here Is What Each One Actually Says.

Illinois, Nevada, Utah, California and New York took four different approaches to regulating AI mental health tools. What changed, in plain language.

16 September 2026 · 9 min

77% of Therapists Say Their Patients Are Already Using AI. Here Is What Worries Them.

The APA surveyed psychologists in 2026 about patients bringing AI into therapy. The concerns are specific, and most are fair. We take them one at a time.

10 April 2026 · 7 min

Why Every AI Therapy App Forgets You, and What That Actually Costs

Most AI therapy products have no memory, so every session starts from zero. Why that architecture exists, and what repeating yourself actually costs.

4 April 2026 · 6 min

The Reason Men Don't Go to Therapy, and Why AI Might Change That

Men access mental health support at far lower rates than women. The gap is not apathy, it is interface. Why that is, and what a tone system can do.

28 March 2026 · 7 min

Who Owns Your Mental Health Data? What Every AI Therapy App Does With Your Pain

Most AI therapy products treat your conversations as training data. The privacy landscape, and our own commitments, in plain language.