I want to start with something true and uncomfortable: I have a good therapist. I'm lucky to have her. And it hasn't been enough.
ADHD doesn't book a 1pm Tuesday slot. The thing I need to talk about happens at 11:47pm, or in the parking lot before a meeting, or in the half-second between waking up and remembering what today is supposed to be. By Tuesday, I've forgotten the shape of it, or I'm somewhere else, or I'm trying — really trying — to build trust with someone I get one hour a week with. The signal lives in the 167 hours she isn't in the room.
I went looking for help with that. What I found was an industry of “mental wellness” AI apps that positioned themselves as the destination — meditation timers, streak counters, pastel onboarding. None of them treated my therapist as the center of care. None of them tried to be a resource between sessions, or a communication tool for the times I couldn't find the words to bring into the hour I had with her. They wanted to replace the work. I needed something that could carry it.
That's what Peacefull is. A clinician-supervised companion that lives in the gap, captures what real life actually looks like, and hands my clinician something honest to start with on Tuesday — the app is a resource and a communication channel, not a replacement for care.
My background is why we are building it this way. For over a decade I've architected solutions for federal and state agencies — combining hardware and software into unified systems, running procurement and deployment, working across every stakeholder a high-stakes program touches. In that world you do not ship without an audit trail, an accountability structure, and a process for shutting things down when they fail. That discipline is not a marketing layer here. It is why we publish a model card that updates when the product changes, pre-register research before enrollment, give a clinical board a mechanical veto on releases, and make every safety path deterministic instead of a model decision.
We are in BETA-1 — live with a small, supervised cohort. We are building this in the open, on purpose.
— Khoja Rahimi, Founder & CEO