News, updates, and insights from Hamo AI.
A practicing therapist put it sharply: an Avatar bears no responsibility, because it has nothing to lose. The industry treats that as AI's nature. We treated it as a design problem — and gave every Avatar a finite, token-metered life: real metabolism, a ledger both sides can read, dormancy instead of death, and five red lines that keep the mechanism from ever becoming emotional blackmail.
Read more→An LLM asked to do therapy will improvise a technique based on vibes, and prompts don't hold — a sufficiently emotional message talks the model past its instructions. So we moved the decision out of the model. Pure Python adjudicates every turn; the LLM only scores state and writes words. Here's the architecture, the measured latencies, and what the rigidity cost us.
Read more→Most AI companions have no answer for the moment a user says they want to die. Hamo AI's protocol is documented, measured, and fail-closed: a three-stage detection cascade under 5ms for keywords, a fixed safety message that admits the AI's limits, a banner that can't be dismissed, and escalation to a named human therapist within seconds.
Read more→A private practice is capped by hours. An AI Avatar built and supervised by a therapist isn't — it extends their care into the 167 hours a week they're not in the room. Every client subscription splits into rough thirds: one to the therapist, one back to the client as tokens that keep their Avatar alive, one to the platform. Here's how it works, and what it isn't.
Read more→No — standard ChatGPT is not HIPAA compliant, because OpenAI does not sign a Business Associate Agreement for consumer plans. But 'not compliant' is the easy answer. The harder question is what a compliant AI system actually has to implement. Here are the seven technical controls, and an honest account of where Hamo AI stands.
Read more→Search for PHIPA-compliant AI in mental health and you'll find note-takers — tools that transcribe sessions for the therapist. Almost nothing addresses the harder category: AI that talks directly to clients between sessions. That's a different risk surface, and it needs different engineering. Here's the distinction.
Read more→Hamo doesn't practice one style of therapy — it practices nine evidence-based methods, from CBT to a newly released psychodynamically-informed exploration. But which method, how deep it goes, and whether it's safe to go there is never left to the model. Every method runs on one shared clinical spine. Here's the full range, and how Hamo chooses.
Read more→Most AI companions are optimized to keep you longer. Hamo's Therapist Mode is built to bring you closer to yourself. A deterministic, pure-Python clinical spine decides every turn — where you are right now, and what is allowed right now — before the model ever chooses its words. Here's how that differs from a chatbot, and an honest account of what's built versus what's roadmap.
Read more→Hamo AI is bringing the client experience into WhatsApp. Choose your Avatar therapist, connect your WhatsApp once, and start talking — no daily logins, no verification codes, no extra app to open. The same clinical depth and privacy protections, now in the chat you already use every day.
Read more→Hamo AI today unveils two foundational upgrades to its therapeutic AI engine: a 7-level Persistent Self model that builds long-term, cross-Avatar memory of who a person truly is, and AI Mind 2.0 — a 14-category narrative store that turns every conversation into structured understanding. Together they advance the Psychological Semantic Vector Space (PSVS) into a system that can truly Know U, Care U, and Enable U.
Read more→Hamo AI has completed a comprehensive PHIPA 6.1 technical compliance audit, implementing seven layers of privacy and security controls to protect patient health information — setting a new standard for trustworthy AI in mental health care.
Read more→On April 8, 2026, Hamo AI founder and CEO Chris Cheng pitched at the AI & Tech Networking event in Toronto, presenting the newly launched AI-Powered Therapist Avatar System to an audience of entrepreneurs, professionals, and investors.
Read more→A key milestone in protecting our brand in our home market.
Read more→On March 14, 2026, Hamo AI hosted its second product preview webinar for mental health professionals and officially released the first version of the HAMO AVATAR Psychological Semantic Vector Space Five-Way Benchmark Evaluation Report.
Read more→On February 27, 2026, Hamo AI hosted its inaugural free preview webinar, introducing the AI Avatar system to mental health professionals and demonstrating how therapists can create, own, and supervise their own AI-powered digital extension.
Read more→Hamo AI Technology Ltd., a Canada-based artificial intelligence company focused on human-centered psychology and relationship intelligence, today announced that it has officially joined the UBC Science Co-op Program as an approved employer partner.
Read more→Empowering Families with Emotional Intelligence Technology.
Read more→Strengthening Global Brand Presence.
Read more→On Oct 3, 2025, Hamo AI Secures Pre-Angel Investment to Accelerate Development of Family Relationship AI and Consumer App.
Read more→Hamo CMO Mona Xiao Meets with Empowered Startups VP Kyle Kirkegaard to Discuss Entrepreneurship in Canada.
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