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Catch the signals of distress — before a crisis.

Consent-first AI decision support for school and university counsellors. Powered by Mental-RoBERTa, reviewed by humans, built for trust.

GVSUGrand Valley State University
Grand Rapids DeepTechDeepTech accelerator
Hugging FaceModel hosting
HIPAA-alignedFERPA-compliantCOPPA-ready

The problem

The signals are there. The capacity to see them in time is not.

720k+
Lives lost every year

Around 720,000 people die by suicide annually worldwide. Most showed warning signs first.

1:400
Counsellor-to-student ratio

A single school counsellor can be responsible for hundreds of students. Meaningful check-ins with everyone is mathematically impossible.

90%
Reactive, not preventive

An estimated 90% of at-risk youth show warning signs — but a sign no one sees in time is not a sign.

The solution

Decision support that gives counsellors an earlier warning — without crossing into surveillance.

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Consent workflow that runs itself

Upload your roster, and MindGuard routes signed consent requests to the right person — parents for minors, students for adults — with reminders, expiry and a full audit trail.
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ML risk detection, human-reviewed

A purpose-trained model (Mental-RoBERTa, ROC-AUC 0.98) surfaces early signs of distress across platforms. Every output is a summary for a counsellor to review.
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A rolling risk view for follow-up

Counsellors get a prioritised, four-tier risk view of consented students, with crisis resources one click away — a structured starting point for real conversations.

Our commitment

Four ethical safeguards we will not compromise.

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Consent-first

No analysis without consent. One-click withdrawal, effective immediately.
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Human-in-the-loop

Supports counsellors — never replaces them, never automates a decision.
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FERPA / COPPA aware

Student records protected; minors routed through parental consent.
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Data minimisation

Only explicitly shared content is analysed; nothing stored between sessions.
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Diana Opiyo

Founder, Lead Developer & ML Engineer

Built from research to production — training the model, designing the consent-first product, and shipping the platform.

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Recognition

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DeepTech Runner-Up
Grand Rapids DeepTech
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Innovation Day Winner
GVSU Innovation Day

Ready to see MindGuard in action?

We'll walk you through the consent workflow, the tracking dashboard and the multi-platform monitoring — with your school's data in mind.

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