Success Stories

Mental Health Support Chatbot

Providing meaningful mental health support at scale presents a problem most platforms can't solve: how do you give students always-available support while also catching the moments when someone needs more than a chatbot can offer? Our client needed a system that could handle routine wellbeing queries — but that also recognized a crisis in progress and got a human involved automatically.

Industry

Education & Mental Health

Client

Student wellbeing platform

AI Service

AI chatbot with crisis escalation

Timeline

Ongoing institutional rollout

Mental Health Support Chatbot

5,000

Students onboarded

25

Institutions supported

700

Active recurring users

24/7

Always-on support

The Challenge

Providing meaningful mental health support at scale presents a problem most platforms can't solve: how do you give students always-available support while also catching the moments when someone needs more than a chatbot can offer? Our client needed a system that could handle routine wellbeing queries — but that also recognized a crisis in progress and got a human involved automatically.

Our Solution

We built a mobile-integrated mental health chatbot that provides everyday support while continuously monitoring for signs of distress — and triggering automatic alerts to designated staff when a student may be in crisis.

Results

  • 5,000 students onboarded across 15 universities and 10 schools
  • 500–700 active users engaging regularly with the system
  • Automatic crisis escalation to designated staff — the system doesn't just answer questions, it watches for students who need real help

Process

Mental health Q&A and check-ins

The chatbot handles general wellbeing questions, coping resources, and regular check-ins — giving students a private, available resource at any hour.

Crisis detection and automatic escalation

The system analyzes conversation patterns for acute distress indicators. When a threshold is crossed, it automatically notifies the student's designated instructor or coach — no staff monitoring required.

Mobile app integration

Delivered as an embedded component of the institutions' existing mobile apps, available to all enrolled students without additional downloads or separate accounts.

The system gives students a private, always-available support resource while escalating the moments that need a human response.

Client team

Client team

Student wellbeing program

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