Sirona

Product Description: Sirona

Sirona aims to evolve mental health support by combining advanced AI with robust data privacy. Our platform provides accessible, affordable, and secure mental health care, helping individuals manage their mental well-being effectively.

Problems:

1. Rising Mental Health Challenges: The growing prevalence of mental health challenges requires more accessible and effective support systems.
2. High Costs and Limited Availability of Therapists: Many individuals cannot afford or access timely mental health care due to financial and geographical constraints.
3. Lack of Data Privacy in Existing Solutions: Current mental health platforms often fail to provide robust data privacy and security by design.
4. Few LLM-Based Mental Health Tools: There are limited AI-driven mental health support tools available that offer cost-effective and scalable solutions.

Solutions:

1. Secure and Transparent Data Protection: using open source technology to ensure data privacy and security, providing users with confidence that their personal information is protected.
2. Cost-Effective Basic Mental Health Tasks Using LLM: Leverages large language models (LLMs) to offer affordable and accessible mental health support for basic tasks, helping to extend the service of human therapists.
3. NFT Rewards as Incentives: Implements NFT rewards to incentivize user engagement and adherence to mental health programs. Users earn NFTs by tracking their time and reaching specific milestones, encouraging continuous use and progress.

Implementation:

1. Users sign up via an email address only. We don't store passwords for extra security, so the users have to confirm their signing up and logging in via an email.
2. In the email, we provide a token to the user. For signing up the first time, we also generate a Polkadot wallet address for the users, where they can receive their NFTs for milestones achieved in their therapy sessions. For the sake of simplicity, we store the private keys of the users in our SQL database, but we plan to add a feature in the future, where the user can take over their private keys and therefore have full control over their wallets.
3. The chat session integrates the GPT-4 API for natural language processing and interaction, providing personalized and empathetic responses to users. In the future, we also plan to migrate to an open source model, like llama3, which we will host ourselves, to have further control over the chat data.
4. We use NFT rewards to motivate users, which are smart contracts written in ink!.
5. Chat logs are securely stored in an SQL database to ensure the possibility to delete upon request.

Tech stack:

• Frontend: Next.js
• Backend: Flask, Python
• Mail sending platform: Mailgun
• Smart Contract: ink!
• LLM: GPT-4o
• Images used: Dall-E 3

Future Enhancements and Collaborations

To better support mental health professionals and enhance user engagement, a comprehensive plan is set to unfold, integrating technology with therapeutic practice. Key initiatives include:

• Cooperation with Mental Health Experts: By conducting interviews with mental health professionals, the platform will be tailored to meet their specific needs, ensuring it supports their work effectively.
• Scheduling and Calendar Integration: A new scheduling bridge will seamlessly connect with popular calendar apps, making appointment management smoother for both therapists and clients.
• Multimodal Voice Interaction: This feature aims to create a more natural user experience by enabling voice communication with the AI, making interactions feel more intuitive and human-like.
• Virtual Therapist Persona: Inspired by the "Sora-style" virtual therapist, this persona will simulate real therapist interactions. It will also allow actual therapists to project their personal therapeutic style onto the platform, maintaining a human touch in digital sessions.
• Professional Services Platform: Mental health professionals will be able to offer their services digitally, supported by augmented AI tools. This will not only expand their reach but also enhance the quality of care provided to clients.
• Enhanced Security and LLM Fine-Tuning: Ongoing improvements will focus on security and the fine-tuning of language models to incorporate white-box reasoning, boosting transparency and trust in AI responses.
• Blockchain Technology for Metrics Verification: The integration of blockchain technology will anchor and verify usage metrics and key events, increasing data security and transparency.
• Community Support Groups: The establishment of community groups will encourage users to share experiences and support each other, creating a sense of community and belonging.
• Advanced Reward System: A sophisticated reward system will be developed to promote positive behaviours and increase engagement, utilizing gamification techniques and potentially integrating NFT-based incentives.

These improvements and partnerships aim to blend digital and traditional therapy methods to create a better and safer platform for both users and professionals. By working with mental health experts, we make sure our solutions are creative and truly meet the community's needs. We are committed to advancing this project to the next step of our roadmap.