Psychological Context
Designed around conversations that require empathy, memory, motivation, and careful interpretation.
Mental health research lab
Building AI that helps make mental health care more accessible.
Slingz is inspired by Slingshot AI’s mission: building a foundation model for psychology and applying AI to support people with more available, responsive mental health tools.
Mission
Care is too hard to reach. AI can help close that gap.
Many people struggle to find timely, affordable, and consistent mental health support. Slingz presents an AI-first approach focused on expanding access while keeping human dignity, choice, and safety at the center of the experience.
The goal is to support people earlier, between appointments, and during moments when they need a place to reflect. AI can help make guidance more available, but it must be designed with care, honesty, and clear limits.
Slingz is built around the belief that mental health technology should help people understand themselves better, feel less alone, and take practical next steps while preserving room for human relationships and professional care.
Research
A foundation model for psychology.
The core idea is to develop AI systems that understand psychological context, emotional nuance, motivation, and behavior change better than general-purpose assistants.
Research Feedback
Improved through structured feedback, evaluation, and a realistic view of model limitations.
Human Support
Built to increase access and continuity, not to replace crisis care or licensed clinical judgment.
Product
A companion-style experience for reflection and support.
Slingshot AI’s site presents Ash as a mental-health companion in beta. Slingz translates that product direction into a calm local website experience: supportive conversation, thoughtful reflection, and gentle progress tracking.
- Conversational support for everyday mental health reflection.
- Prompts that encourage self-understanding and agency.
- Progress notes that help users notice patterns over time.
- Clear safety language around emergencies and clinical care.
Calm
Seen
Grounded
Principles
Respect for self-determination.
The product philosophy emphasizes autonomy, competence, and relatedness: people should feel in control, capable of change, and meaningfully connected.
Autonomy
Users should make their own choices, set their own pace, and understand what the AI can and cannot do.
Competence
Support should help people build practical insight, emotional skills, and confidence in their next steps.
Relatedness
The experience should feel warm, respectful, and connected without pretending to replace human relationships.
Safety
AI support should be honest about its limits.
Slingz is designed to support reflection, emotional check-ins, and practical next steps, but it is not emergency care, a diagnosis tool, therapy, or a replacement for licensed clinicians.
The experience should encourage users to stay connected to trusted people and professional care when needed. It should also be clear when a concern is outside the scope of AI support, especially around crisis situations, medication decisions, trauma, self-harm, or harm to others.
Anyone in immediate danger or crisis should contact local emergency services, a trusted crisis hotline, or a nearby medical professional right away. AI can help people feel less alone, but urgent safety decisions require human support.
Updates
Follow the work toward more accessible mental health support.
Use this local website as a polished Slingz concept inspired by Slingshot AI’s public mission and product direction.