Cambridge Mind Technologies

What Cambridge Mind Technologies does

Cambridge Mind Technologies is a UK-based private company that has built Cami, a conversational AI companion delivering psychological first aid for early-stage adolescent mental health support. The product is designed for B2B deployment in schools, universities, and mental health clinics, providing always-on, text-based empathetic support, automated three-tier risk classification (Low/Medium/High) with real-time safeguarding alerts to designated staff, and an aggregated Safeguarding Insights Dashboard for cohort-level wellbeing analytics without compromising individual privacy. Cami is explicitly positioned as a bridge between distress and professional care rather than a replacement for therapy.

The technology stack centres on a large language model fine-tuned on Llama, with custom psychological frameworks drawn from Professor Robert Batt's 30,000+ hours of adolescent therapy and University of Cambridge research, and trained on a proprietary corpus of 133,000+ messages from real therapy and mentoring sessions. NLP enables detection of emotional cues including tone, sentiment, and language change; vector storage (Pinecone) supports contextual conversation retrieval. The company is a BACP Organisational Member, is GDPR compliant, aligns with NHS Digital guidelines, holds the UK National Cyber Security Safety Certificate, and is progressing toward medical certification as a regulated digital mental health device.

The business model is B2B SaaS with institution-based licensing for schools, universities, and mental health clinics, distributed via direct enterprise sales and targeted at safeguarding leads, counselling service directors, and clinical leads. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is quote-based per institution. The company has raised capital through an early-stage investment from Cambridge Future Tech and an ongoing equity crowdfunding campaign on Republic Europe (£20 minimum), with stated use of funds for UK deployment scale-up and global expansion including the Middle East. The team stands at approximately seven staff and is led by Professor Batt as Founder/CEO alongside co-founders Jem Davies (former ARM VP) and Professor Sabine Bahn (Director, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research), with Owen Thompson (Cambridge Future Tech) as Director and Henry Sands as Independent Non-Executive Director.

Name

Cambridge Mind Technologies

Legal name

Cambridge Mind Technologies Ltd

Website

https://cambridgemindtechnologies.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cambridge Mind Technologies builds Cami, a B2B conversational AI companion delivering psychological first aid for adolescents aged 12-24, deployed in UK schools, universities, and mental health clinics. The product provides 24/7 empathetic text-based support, automated risk classification with safeguarding alerts, and a cohort-level wellbeing dashboard for institutional staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Mental Health Software

NAICS

Other Computer Related Services (541519)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

General Mental Health Therapy Platforms (Talk Therapy) (HLALAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Student Support Hotlines & Digital Wellbeing Tools (EDAJAIAL), Integrated Behavioral Health (Collaborative Care) Platforms (HLALAEAC)

Keywords

• AI mental health support
• Psychological first aid
• Adolescent mental health
• School safeguarding software
• Conversational AI platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. B2B SaaS Licensing: Institution-based licensing model targeting schools, universities, and mental health clinics. Each deployment is institution-specific with secure access for approved users. Revenue derived from per-institution or per-seat licensing fees aligned with safeguarding and pastoral care procurement cycles.
2. Crowdfunding Investment: Republic Europe crowdfunding campaign inviting individual investments from £20 minimum, generating equity capital to fund expansion in UK schools and clinics and support global market entry.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cambridge Mind Technologies develops and licenses Cami, an AI-powered conversational companion that delivers psychological first aid for early-stage adolescent mental health support. The platform uses a fine-tuned large language model (built on Llama) and natural language processing to detect emotional distress, provide real-time empathetic text-based support, and escalate risk through automated safeguarding alerts to designated institutional staff. It is sold on a B2B basis to schools, universities, and mental health clinics as a supplementary safeguarding and pastoral care tool, with an accompanying anonymised wellbeing insights dashboard.

Product overview

Cambridge Mind Technologies offers Cami, a single unified AI companion product designed for early mental health intervention. Cami is built on psychological first aid principles and provides real-time empathetic support through text-based conversations, complemented by a safeguarding dashboard for institutional staff. The offering includes onboarding and training resources provided through Notion. No additional modules, sub-products, or standalone add-ons are offered.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cami: AI companion chatbot providing psychological first aid for early-stage adolescent mental health support. Cami delivers real-time, empathetic emotional support designed by psychologists, helping young people understand, regulate, and reframe their emotions before they escalate into crisis.

Products and services

• Cami Cami is an AI-powered conversational companion delivering psychological first aid for early-stage adolescent mental health support. Built on a fine-tuned Llama large language model with NLP-based emotional state detection and a three-tier automated risk classification system, Cami provides real-time text-based empathetic support to adolescents aged 12-24 and triggers safeguarding alerts to designated institutional staff. It is licensed to secondary schools, further education colleges, universities, and mental health clinics as a supplementary safeguarding, pastoral care, and between-session continuity tool.

Quantifiable outcome

• Improved emotional regulation in adolescent users during trials
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Daybreak Health: Mental health provider focused on teens in K-12 schools with hybrid human + digital support. Comparable adolescent-school focus and B2B procurement model to schools and districts.
• Woebot Health: AI-driven mental health chatbot delivering CBT-style conversations, with B2B distribution through health plans and providers. Comparable as a regulated digital mental health product combining conversational AI with clinical frameworks.
• Limbic: UK-based mental health AI company working with NHS Talking Therapies for self-referral and patient triage. Comparable UK footprint, NHS alignment, and use of AI to extend the reach of stretched clinical services.
• Eleos Health: AI platform for mental health clinicians that analyses session audio/text to support documentation and outcomes. Comparable clinical-grade mental health AI sold B2B to therapy providers.
• Hazel Health: School-based mental and physical health provider partnering with K-12 districts. Comparable B2B distribution into the same K-12 safeguarding and pastoral buyer that Cami targets.
• Wysa: AI conversational mental-health chatbot deployed to employers, health plans, and healthcare systems. Closely comparable to Cami as a text-based, AI-driven mental wellness companion sold B2B to institutions rather than replicating licensed therapy.

Broad incumbents

• Spring Health: Global mental health benefits platform combining AI-driven triage with human care. Comparable B2B SaaS mental health offering but at much broader employer-benefits scale.
• BetterHelp: Large online counselling platform owned by Teladoc. Adjacent rather than directly competitive: human-therapist-led delivery model contrasts with Cami's AI-first psychological first aid positioning.
• Headspace Health: Consumer and enterprise mental health platform combining content, coaching, and therapy, with integrated AI features. Overlaps with Cami on digital mental wellbeing, but at consumer-plus-enterprise scale rather than adolescent-safeguarding niche.

Emerging players

• Tess (X2AI): Earlier-generation mental health chatbot offering B2B deployments to health systems and employers. Comparable text-based AI mental health delivery, though Cami's safeguarding-led architecture differentiates it for adolescent institutional use.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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