Overview of benefits to users

• Wysa enables people to take ownership in improving their own mental health and prevent symptoms escalating in severity
• Wysa for population prevention removes the need for people with mild to moderate symptoms to ask for help from professionals
• The AI provides personalised experiences for all users by understanding their needs
• Clinically effective self-help support is 24/7 on-demand smartphone or website access
• Engaging experience that encourages users through daily reminders and check-ins

AI Preventative Population Self-Help

• Conversational AI creates an anonymous, safe space to work through worries and stressors, preventing them from escalating in severity
• Wysa's AI is clinically proven to create a therapeutic alliance equivalent to a human therapist within the first week.
• Most people feel better after their first conversation and lean on Wysa on-demand for support, any time of day or night
• Wysa's AI continuously looks for crisis indicators and redirects the user towards helplines
• Real world large scale UK trial showed clinically significant improvements in moderate symptoms of depression and anxiety from AI self-help app alone

• Wysa’s AI Talking Therapy Programme is delivered through conversational AI with built-in clinical safety guardrails
• 6-8 autonomous sessions for common mental health problems such as anxiety, low mood, panic and chronic pain
• Programmes include psychoeducational content, together with daily practice of Cognitive Behavioual Therapy techniques with Wysa
• Wysa is proven to create a therapeutic bond equivalent to that of a human therapist to give people confidence to open up
• Clinical outcome measures are tracked weekly to monitor progress

Current NHS Impact

• Scalability: Rapid mobilisation for large population groups with no limit to the number of users
• Clinical risk management and containment: Users are provided with local and national crisis numbers, can create a safety plan, and access grounding exercises.
• Risk can be flagged to clinicians in real time where NHS services have electronic patient record integration with Wysa
• Anonymous option: Improved access to mental health care for hard-to-reach populations where stigma and risk of social judgement can otherwise prevent people from reaching out for support
• Non-anonymous option: NHS Services are able to save time and resources by allowing patients to refer directly to local services releasing clinician time to care

• Enhance equal access to services by engaging people who otherwise would not come forward for support
• Reduce burden on mental health services through the rollout of Autonomous AI Talking Therapies Programme for common mental health concerns such as anxiety, low mood, panic, and phobia
• Reduce the prevalence of mild mental health problems through the provision of preventative self-management tools that become part of the user's lifestyle
• Reduce strain on physical health primary care and avoid rejected subclinical referrals by providing immediate access to clinically effective mental health support
• Reduce re-referrals with personalised relapse prevention plan following discharge
• Direction to social and economic services and organisations which target social and economic issues that may otherwise hinder recovery, such as housing, debt management and social welfare