Tetherhealth.io
Tether Health provides a clinician-built mental health platform for parents, combining clinically safeguarded AI, care coordination, and precision mood tracking across pregnancy, postpartum, and the first four years of early parenthood. The platform includes Tetherwell, a patient app featuring Peri (an AI companion), longitudinal validated screeners, and support-circle coordination, plus TetherCore, a B2B platform for care organizations. Its proprietary five-stage Tether Protocol spans preconception through 24 months postpartum.
- Healthcare Technology
- Digital Health
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are the most common complication of pregnancy and postpartum—more than gestational diabetes—yet they remain the most under-diagnosed and under-treated. Standard prenatal care doesn't adequately assess or follow birthing individuals' wellbeing or support availability, and most existing digital solutions are not specialist-informed or designed for the full perinatal arc.
Solution
Tether Health provides a clinician-built mental health platform for parents, from pregnancy and postpartum through the first four years of early parenthood. The platform combines clinically safeguarded AI, care coordination, and precision mood tracking into one connected system that fills gaps left by standard pre- and postnatal care. Tetherwell, the patient-facing app, includes Peri (an AI companion), private mood and screener check-ins, and support-circle coordination. TetherCore, the B2B platform, embeds these tools into partner care organizations such as OB/GYN and midwifery clinics, hospital systems, and payers, providing a longitudinal record that follows the patient through pregnancy and postpartum.
Target Audience
Primary customers are OB/GYN and midwifery groups, hospital systems, integrated delivery networks, and employers who need embedded perinatal behavioral health support, as well as birthing and non-birthing parents seeking direct mental health support.
Features
- Proprietary five-stage Tether Protocol framework spanning preconception through 24 months postpartum, including identify, stratify, embed, coordinate, and report stages
- Longitudinal validated screeners (EPDS, GAD-7, PHQ-9) administered repeatedly rather than once at six weeks postpartum
- Peri, a perinatal-trained embedded AI companion for between-visit support
- Risk-tiered routing that surfaces patients to appropriate levels of care before symptoms escalate
- Support-circle coordination enabling patients to designate family and friends who receive SMS alerts when help is needed
- Automated crisis-language scanning for self-harm, harm to baby, and postpartum psychosis, triggering in-app safety assessments
- Privacy program modeled on the HIPAA Security Rule with TLS encryption, row-level access controls, and append-only audit trails; no data selling and no use of private content to train third-party large language models
- Designed to serve birthing and non-birthing parents, single parents, and queer families