Project:IGYB is building a next-generation digital health solution that pairs a trained mental-health chatbot with the warmth of a real peer counselor. Always anonymous, always free, always one tap away.
High-fidelity wireframes of the core experience. Every screen is designed around two principles: speak human, never hold what you don't need.
No name. No record. Just someone who will actually listen.
An anonymous-by-default entry point. No sign up, no profile, no questions before you're ready.
There is no wrong answer.
A gentle 1 to 10 scale and tag chips, the same feelings meter from our intake form, redesigned for one-thumb use.
An always-on companion trained on evidence-based active-listening, validation, and crisis-recognition patterns. Never claims to be a clinician.
When the chatbot senses you want a person, it offers a live, trained peer who matches your concern and is open right now.
A trained crisis responder is ready to talk with you in this moment.
If the model detects acute risk, it surfaces 988, Crisis Text Line, and an option to stay in conversation. No solo handling, ever.
Optional on-device journaling and mood tracking. Encrypted, never uploaded, never used to train anything.
Research consistently shows that 60 to 70 percent of adolescents who need mental health support never receive it. Stigma, cost, scheduling, parental notification, and the simple fear of being labelled keep students from ever raising a hand.
A trusted, anonymous, peer-led app is not a replacement for clinical care. It is a doorway. It meets students in the place they already are: their phone, at night, in a moment of quiet.
A clinically-informed conversational model trained on active-listening protocols, validation language, and the same crisis-recognition patterns our peer counselors learn. Built on a guarded LLM with extensive red-teaming against harmful advice.
When the conversation calls for a human, the chatbot hands off to a live, trained Project:IGYB counselor. The student opts in. The counselor never sees prior chatbot transcripts unless the student chooses to share them.
End-to-end encryption on conversations. On-device storage for journals and mood tracking. Zero personally identifying fields. Anonymous routing for peer matching. Privacy-first auditing baked into every design decision.
A two-tier safety system. Tier one: the model surfaces 988 and Crisis Text Line whenever risk signals appear. Tier two: a trained crisis-responder on the IGYB team can be paged immediately if the student chooses.
Fully anonymized, opt-in pattern data feeds back into research on adolescent mental health, helping the broader field learn what kinds of support actually move the needle for young people.
Multilingual from day one (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Punjabi). Designed for low-bandwidth phones. Always free. No paywall, no premium tier, no ads.
Partnering with mental health clinicians, peer-counseling researchers, and student advisors to define the safety protocols, conversational principles, and crisis pathways before a single line of model code.
A small, supervised beta inside our existing peer-counseling network across Maryland and Virginia. Trained counselors validate the chatbot's outputs in real time. No public release yet.
Rollout in our seven counties, then expansion to international chapters in India and Canada. Free, anonymous, no app store gate beyond age-appropriate safeguards.
Publishing our safety evaluations, our crisis-protocol playbook, and an anonymized impact dataset so other youth-led organizations can build on what we learn.