SonderMind shows how eval-driven development can harden a mental health AI coach
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-07-26
How SonderMind built a safety-first AI mental health coach
Akele Reed and Dave Revere explain how SonderMind designed its mental health AI coach around eval-driven development rather than vibes.
- Human therapist feedback is converted into machine-readable evaluations across thousands of conversations.
- An Ethics Engine provides modular guardrails that can evolve with clinical guidelines.
- The system moved from a single-prompt agent to a closed-loop Supervisor / Executor / Evaluator architecture.
- Human oversight remains part of the loop to improve both safety and quality.
The talk frames high-stakes mental health AI as an engineering problem where continuous evaluation is the core product discipline.
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