Docbotic

Written By hm

In this episode, founder Jenna Xu pitches her vision for massively more accessible mental healthcare, starting with sleep. Docbotic uses clinically-proven therapy bots available over SMS and WhatsApp. Their first product is Sleepbot, a 4-week text messaging program that is “monumentally helpful to having the most meaningful night's rest”.

We discuss:

  • Why accessibility and affordability is so important to her

  • Why she chose to go D2C

  • Figuring out pricing

  • Building a clinically-validated therapy bot with no clinician/human interaction

Meet the founder

Jenna Xu is an interdisciplinarian working mainly with data, front and back-end technologies, and design tools. Her work primarily explores technology's potential to facilitate mental health, with an emphasis on how insights from personal data can empower people to make positive changes in their lives.

Jenna has a BFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU.

Before founding Docbotic in 2021, she was an engineer at Mindstrong and freelance designer.

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