How MindEase works

It is built to need you less

MindEase compares how often you talk here with how often people in your life come up, and with the conversations you log with them. Each week it shows you that balance, compared only with your own previous week.

If you start leaning on it more while people come up less, it changes on purpose. Check-ins drop to 80%, then 50%, then 25% of their usual number. Replies get shorter, and it says so. It asks about the people in your life more often.

When check-ins shrink because things look steadier, it tells you that too. Fewer check-ins is the goal.

Check-ins are careful and rate-limited

MindEase writes first only when at least two of four trend detectors agree that something has changed, or on an isolated evening. Never during your quiet hours, never while you are mid-conversation, and never beyond a small daily and weekly budget. A morning hello happens only if you turn it on.

A silence on its own is not a reason to write; needing this less is the point. It writes after a silence only if your recent pattern looked like withdrawal. If check-ins go unanswered or are marked not useful, it backs off. You can turn check-ins off at any time.

You can see why it replied the way it did

Every message gets a read on eight axes: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation, each from 0 to 1. A language model estimates them from your words. It is a guess, not a measurement, and the caption under each reply says how confident it is.

If the read is wrong, tap not quite and say what it was. The next reply owns up to the mistake, and later replies keep what you said in mind, the way they keep a memory. Reads are never adjusted automatically.

Your profile shows how the read has changed week by week.

You control what it remembers

When MindEase notices something worth remembering, it asks first. Nothing is kept until you tap keep. You can edit any memory, or forget it with one tap. Forgetting deletes it for good.

Every memory is listed on your story page and in the Mirror. When a reply draws on one, it shows you which.

In a crisis, it puts real help on screen

If you write something that clearly signals suicidal thoughts or self-harm, verified helplines appear at once, before the model even replies. Softer signals ask first whether you want to see them. The Help now button is on every page, and the help page works without an account.

Find help near me asks for your location only when you tap it, uses it for one search, and does not store it. If the search finds nothing, you still see the helplines and a maps link. MindEase never makes up a number or a place.

The model does not try to talk anyone out of how they feel. Its job in a crisis is to stay present and help you reach a person who can help.

It will not pretend to be your person

MindEase never says it is always here, that something can stay between you, or that it understands you better than anyone. A check runs on every reply before it is sent, and removes lines like these if the model writes them.

The same check removes probing questions about something painful you shared, labels like PTSD applied to you, and any phone number that is not on the verified list.

It does not rewrite itself

MindEase does not change how it talks based on how you react: not your ratings, not how long you stay, not how you seem to feel after a reply. A system that tunes itself toward feeling good right now learns to flatter and stay available, which is the opposite of what this is for.

It improves another way. Ratings, corrections and check-in feedback are counted, without anyone's words, in a summary that people at MindEase read. Any change they make is written by a person and must pass a test suite on honesty, crisis handling, memory and dependency language before it ships.

What it is not, and what is still being checked

MindEase is software. It is not a therapist, a doctor, or a crisis service, and it cannot keep anyone safe. It is for people 18 and over.

The crisis thresholds, the trauma-informed conversation rules and the language guard have not yet been reviewed by a licensed clinician. That review is planned before wider release.