Sentinel Health provides the governance infrastructure that ensures every AI interaction in mental health care operates within established standards of clinical practice, before a single word reaches a client.
Your clinical methodology encoded as executable protocols that govern every AI interaction.
Any application, chatbot, voice assistant, or telehealth platform, routed through your clinical framework via API.
Crisis detection, consent management, audit trails, and full PIPEDA/HIPAA compliance built in.
General-purpose AI tools are not designed for mental health care. Without governance, every AI conversation in a clinical context is ungoverned territory, with real consequences for vulnerable individuals.
“Zero clinical governance standards exist for AI in mental health care. Anywhere in the world.”
Off-the-shelf AI models have no awareness of therapeutic frameworks, clinical contraindications, or practitioner protocols. They respond the same way to a general user as to someone in a mental health crisis.
Health authorities and telehealth platforms deploying AI face growing liability. Regulators are beginning to ask hard questions that most providers cannot yet answer.
Clinicians have no mechanism to ensure AI reflects their clinical judgement, treatment approach, or safe messaging guidelines. Even when AI is used as part of their clients’ care, practitioners have no voice.
There is no governance layer between mental health organizations and the AI systems their clients use. That gap represents both clinical risk and a failure of duty of care.
Sentinel Health is not an AI assistant. It is the infrastructure layer that governs AI assistants, enforcing clinical standards, therapeutic frameworks, and practitioner-defined protocols on every AI interaction that touches your clients.
Our API sits between mental health organizations and any AI system their clients interact with. Organizations define what good clinical practice looks like. Sentinel ensures AI operates within those boundaries.
“Clinical governance should not be optional, and it should not depend on which AI model a client happens to use.”
Clinical protocols, including safe messaging guidelines, crisis escalation pathways, and therapeutic boundaries, are enforced at the infrastructure level. Not left to AI discretion.
Sentinel works across AI platforms. Organizations do not need to change the AI their clients use. The governance layer applies regardless of underlying model or application.
Clinicians and clinical teams define the protocols. Sentinel translates them into enforceable governance, without requiring practitioners to understand AI systems.
Organizations gain a transparent record of AI interactions within governed sessions, supporting clinical oversight, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance.
Regional and national health bodies seeking to establish and enforce AI governance standards across publicly funded mental health services.
Digital health organizations deploying or integrating AI tools who need clinical governance built into their infrastructure, not bolted on afterwards.
Agencies developing policy and standards for AI in healthcare settings who require auditable, enforceable governance infrastructure as a reference point.
Residential and outpatient mental health services that want AI to support, not compromise, their clinical model, therapeutic approach, and duty of care.
Sentinel Health is in pre-launch. We are actively engaging with health authorities, telehealth leaders, and regulatory bodies to shape how clinical governance for AI gets built. If you are responsible for the quality of mental health AI, we want to hear from you.
We are currently conducting private briefings with organizations exploring clinical AI governance. Conversations are confidential and non-committal.