Building therapy tools that respect boundaries.
Confidant is an AI-powered therapy notes app that runs entirely on your device. No cloud, no servers, no data collection. Your clients' stories stay exactly where they belong.
Why We Bootstrapped and Built Confidant
Therapists shouldn't have to choose between saving time and protecting their clients. For a long time, that was the only choice available. Use AI, get your notes done — but hand your session data to a server you don't control, run by a company whose incentives you can't see. Or don't, and keep writing everything yourself.
We couldn't accept that trade-off. So we built something that doesn't ask you to make it. All processing happens on your device. No internet required, no data leaving the room. The test we held ourselves to: buy it once, turn off your wifi, and it works exactly the same.
Our friends in the business world were candid: with no client data and no subscriptions, there will never be anything here worth acquiring. They were right. That was the point, and why a therapist and his co-founder funded and built it themselves.
For the therapist using it, that means less time on documentation and more time for everything else — a walk between sessions, an actual lunch, getting home before dinner. None of it is glamorous. All of it is better than writing notes.
The Team
Jesse handed his process recordings in late every week in grad school, so it's no wonder he eventually founded a company to fix that. He is a CBT and ACT therapist with 16+ years of practice, still seeing clients full time — and a founder second. He built Confidant because the existing tools asked him to make choices that didn't sit right: client data leaving the room, software optimized for scale instead of the session. He wanted something where the values were structural, not stated.
Jason is a software engineer with 28 years of experience building products people actually want to use. He's the one who makes Confidant's local-first architecture possible — designing a system that's fast, reliable, and never phones home.