Dr. Alison Darcy

Sure.

Well, first of all, I suppose it's important to say that we built Wobot to meet an unmet need.

In 2017, depression was already the leading cause of disability worldwide.

And

I'm team human, too, and I also really believe in what human therapists do.

But, you know, it doesn't matter how good a therapist is.

You could be the best therapist in the world, but unless you're with your patient at 2 a.m.

when they are having a panic attack, you can't help them in that moment.

And, you know, therapy doesn't happen in a vacuum.

We all have real lives.

And so I was a clinical research psychologist making some of the world's most sophisticated psychotherapeutic treatments.

But I was always haunted by this idea that it doesn't really matter how sophisticated the treatments are that we make if people can't access them.

Yeah.

And so access has to be part of the design.

And approachability has to be part of the design, because ...

what do you do at that 2 a.m.

moment?

And you can't think straight, you know, and you can't remember the thing that your therapist told you you should do in this moment.

And so that, for me, is why we built Wobot, to meet people where they're at in those moments when it's actually hardest to reach out to another person.

And how long do they stay on with you?