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A clinician-supervised company.

We are building a supervised AI companion for adults in active therapy — and a quiet co-pilot for the clinicians caring for them. The product is in BETA-1: supervised live use with the Texas Founding Cohort. The model card is public. The research program is pre-registered. This page documents who is accountable.

Peacefull-Behavioral, LLC · Houston, Texas · founded 2026 · converting to Delaware C-Corporation (in process)

Why we built this

A founder letter, brief.

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

How we think about the work

Five principles. Every one points to a page that proves it.

  • 01

    Clinicians govern the model.

    The Clinical Governance Council holds binding veto authority on every model change. Not a rubber stamp — the model card version log records what shipped, what didn't, and why.

    Six-layer evaluation
  • 02

    Patients own the conversation.

    Sharing is off by default. Every piece of context a clinician sees is opt-in, per thread, reversible. Conversations are never used to train the model without explicit, revocable consent.

    Data & privacy
  • 03

    The one thing not left to model judgment.

    Crisis escalation runs on deterministic rules, audit-logged line by line. 988, 741741, and the supervising clinician surface as one-tap actions — not paragraph mentions.

    Escalation behavior
  • 04

    We publish the version log in public.

    Every model-card change is preserved. Every framework we work against is named. Every claim has a pointer to the page that proves it. When we're wrong, we log the correction — we don't quietly revise.

    Version log
  • 05

    Designed against dependency.

    The APA's November 2025 advisory named emotional dependency as a primary concern about AI mental-health companions. Peacefull responds with explicit design commitments: no human persona, active surfacing of human connections, dependency-signal monitoring to the clinician.

    Design commitments
Leadership

The people on the wall.

The operators and advisors accountable for Peacefull — across security, go-to-market, engineering, and law. Peacefull is in stealth until public launch; LinkedIn links go live the same day.

Eric Shaklee, MBA

CRO & Co-founderTexas · remote-first
  • Enterprise GTM · 25+ yrs
  • Physical security + cyber
  • MBA

Eric has 25+ years leading enterprise go-to-market for national firms across physical security and cybersecurity — sectors where buyers don't buy on a deck, they buy on proof. He knows the shape of the procurement reviews Peacefull's clinical and health-system customers will run, because he has sold into them before: the security questionnaires, the DPA redlines, the reference calls, the CISO who wants to know how the audit log works before the contract meeting even happens.

Owns at Peacefull

The revenue motion end-to-end — enterprise partnerships, the BAA and DPA discipline that turns clinical interest into signed contracts, and the channel work with practices and health systems that don't move on self-serve signups.

Alejandro Marquez

Chief Technology OfficerRemote-first
  • Digital-health engineering
  • HIPAA-aligned patient UX
  • Safety-critical delivery

Alejandro joins Peacefull from digital-health engineering — prior work building HIPAA-aligned patient-facing surfaces that have to hold up to two separate standards at once: clinical scrutiny (does it respect the workflow?) and patient expectations (is it calm, is it clear, does it feel like it cares?). Both standards matter for Peacefull because the product lives in both worlds.

Owns at Peacefull

Technical direction across the companion and clinician surfaces, with a particular focus on the patient-facing moments that carry the most weight — the first companion message, the safety-plan review flow, the invitation flow that brings a clinician in, and the mood check-in that has to feel like an offer rather than a demand.

Sohrob Ibrahimi

Chief Information Security Officer & Founding EngineerDC/Baltimore area · remote-first
  • Defense engineering
  • Safety-critical systems
  • Security + audit

Sohrob came to Peacefull from defense engineering in the DC/Baltimore area — a background where code quality, traceability, and adversarial review are daily practice rather than marketing bullets, and where the cost of silent failure is measured in human lives. That calibration is exactly the calibration Peacefull needs for the parts of the product that never leave model judgment.

Owns at Peacefull

Security and the deterministic safety paths — the rule-based classifiers, the audit-log append, the encryption and access posture, and the one-tap crisis routes that have to fire in under five seconds whether or not the model is having a good day.

Don Redmond, JD

General CounselVirginia, US
  • Corporate law and governance
  • Government relations
  • JD

Don has 36 years as a practicing attorney, licensed in Virginia. His experience spans corporate governance, M&A, government relations, and litigation management, across both closely held family-owned companies and a 15-year tenure at a NASDAQ-listed public corporation in a range of senior legal roles — work that carries the discipline of operating inside a heavily-regulated public company.

Owns at Peacefull

Don leads corporate legal at Peacefull.

Jahan Rahim

Technical AdvisorVirginia · remote-first
  • Engineering leadership · 15+ yrs
  • Defense + classified + ML
  • Safety-critical systems

Jahan has 15+ years of engineering leadership across defense contractors, classified systems, and machine learning — environments where you ship code knowing it will be reviewed by people whose job is to break it, and you design for that review from day one. He brings that discipline to Peacefull: the deterministic escalation path that never leaves model judgment, the six-layer model evaluation pipeline the Clinical Governance Council gates every release against, the immutable audit log that every BAA-covered customer can stream to their SIEM.

Owns at Peacefull

Advises on safety-critical architecture and the release-gate process that makes the Clinical Governance Council's veto mechanical rather than performative — they say no, the deployment stops.

Clinical Governance Council

The body that can say no.

Five voting seats with a binding veto on protocol activation, prompt-and-policy changes, safety-threshold changes, and go-live decisions. It meets weekly, and convenes within two hours when a safety question cannot wait. The veto is mechanical, not advisory: when the Council says no, the deployment stops.

Reference: model card — Layer 5 — Independent clinical review

Seated

Dr. Davoud Amiri, MD, PhD

Clinical Research AdvisorStockholmSeated May 23, 2026
  • Psychiatry · 32 yrs, three countries
  • Treatment-resistant depression
  • Psychosomatic care

Dr. Amiri joined Peacefull on May 23, 2026. He holds a PhD from the University of Perugia (2010) and Specialist Competence in Psychiatry in both Sweden (2001) and Switzerland (2003), built over a 32-year clinical practice across three countries. His clinical focus is treatment-resistant depression and psychosomatic care.

Owns at Peacefull

A seated member of the Clinical Governance Council. His clinical-research judgment informs the Council's binding veto over protocol activation, prompt-and-policy changes, safety-threshold changes, and go-live decisions.

Full seating · August 2026

The chair and the remaining voting seats — including the Chief Medical Officer seat, currently unfilled — are named at full seating, targeted for August 2026. We will not name a member before they have agreed publicly and their institutional affiliation is confirmed.

What we've already published

Receipts.

Claims without documentation are just claims. Here's what we've put on record before a single patient signs up.

The company

Peacefull-Behavioral, LLC, d/b/a Peacefull-ai.

Legal entity
Peacefull-Behavioral, LLC
Doing business as
Peacefull-ai
Headquarters
Houston, Texas
Workforce
Remote-first, US
Founded
2026
General contact
hello@peacefull-ai.io
Press
press@peacefull-ai.io
Safety reports
safety@peacefull-ai.io
Model card concerns
modelcard@peacefull-ai.io
Full contact routing See the public roadmap