Attention is Health

Inspiration

I am product manger who got diagnosed with ADHD late into adulthood, and realised it was the root cause my problems at work and personal life. Habit formation was a chore - be it exercise, healthy eating or stress management. I discovered a large driver for this was long term planning, which ADHD patients struggle with due to executive motor dysfunction. Initially, I turned to UK health service (NHS) for help, but this left a lot wanting:

• i had to wait 18 months to get a formal diagnosis
• I am yet to receive formal support, despite having been diagnosed 3 months ago

Waitlists are long as this area is chronically underserved. I am also not alone with this experience. - 10% of adults globally have ADHD, and the experience told me there is significant room to help them. A lot of coping strategies to support ADHD have been discovered in last 10 years, driven largely by academic study (than healthcare). I felt AI coach could help in in digesting the analysis to help patients get access to on demand support, especially where healthcare systems have failed.

What it does

AI therapist which diagnoses problems ADHD patients face with habit formation, and prepare an automated schedule which helps them develop a lasting habit in as little as 30 days.

How we built it

This is entirely built via prompts trained a Mistral Large model on Chipp (an AI agent development platform.

Challenges we ran into

• Mistral model struggles to run chain of thought analysis, so a lot of added steps had to be explicitly disclosed in prompt.
• The output is a calendar file which requires dates, and Mistral models don't have actual visibility over this - integration with external API needed to support this.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building a live MVP that can be used by ADHD adults globally in under 24 hours.

What we learned

The reasoning capabilities with the Mistral and other LLM models are tremendous and only grow in sophistication over time

What's next for Attention is Health

Current MVP creates the scheduled plan, but habits only stick if people go through with the plan. This requires added features around calendar integration, reminder and habit tracking, all of which will be incorporated into an app. The aim is to get this out into the hands of as many ADHD users so we can learn and improve the prompt.

Built With

• chipp