About Cognitai
We care about the hour in the room.And the week‑long life around it.
Cognitai exists because life doesn't happen in pieces. Care shouldn't either.
Built to meet PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 requirements, with HIPAA handled through executed Business Associate Agreements where applicable.
The science already knows.
A person is biological, psychological, social. All at once.
Sleep shapes mood. Mood shapes relationships. Relationships shape sleep.
Care that works reads all three, together.
But why couldn't practice work that way?
One hour a week, out of context.
Everything else, from memory. Theirs and yours.
Between them, a week you can't see. Full of fear, hope, and life.
Where it started
It began with explaining.
Fora, an honours student of psychology fascinated by where the mind meets biology, was already building Psyclick: the mental health science, explained, in the public's earbuds.
Through it, and through the people listening, she saw the gap. The science was there. Practice couldn't reach it.
Fora Fereydouni
Co-founder & CEO
Where it turned
Then it became: let's fix it.
Abex, an innovator who had spent his career turning hard problems into products, saw the other half: the science was there, the technology was there, and mental healthcare was still waiting.
He said the thing that started the company: this shouldn't only be explained. It should be solved.
Abex Beheshti
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer
And we made sure we listened to clinicians.
89 psychologists, therapists, and clinic leaders gave us their time and their honesty, one conversation at a time.
What they showed us, more than any gap: how much the people who deliver mental healthcare care.
The best thing on this road
Some of them joined the mission.
We had the chance to be joined by people who care this much, from every side of care. That is what carried us.
People who kept us honest
Kept us rooted in science and evidence.
Professor Simon Bacon advises us on scientific rigour, evidence, clinical relevance, and responsible innovation.
Every hour with him leaves us clearer about what is established, what is only possible, and where ambitious product work must keep its boundaries. It is a privilege to be held to that standard.
Professor Simon Bacon
Founding Scientific Advisor
People who gave us the confidence to go
Helped us build to last as a business.
Marina Massingham brings the vision of a company that lasts: business strategy, market development, positioning, partnerships, and growth.
Every hour with her turns a complex clinical and technological vision into something more focused and more sustainable, clearer about who we serve, which problems matter most, and how responsible adoption is achieved.
Marina Massingham
Business Advisor
People who brought the room with them
Kept us grounded in the realities of practice.
Dr. Bianca Lallitto brings the practising clinician's perspective and the realities of therapeutic work into how Cognitai is built.
What helps, what fits the work, and where the line is. We are lucky to have her eye on it.
Dr. Bianca Lallitto
Clinical Advisor
People who held us to the relationship
Held us accountable to the therapeutic relationship.
Dr. Valérie D'Amour-Horvat brings therapeutic context, professional responsibility, and human oversight to our decisions.
She asks whether a decision truly supports clinicians and respects each client. We are grateful she keeps asking.
Dr. Valérie D'Amour-Horvat
Clinical Advisor
People who helped us build it
Helped make it real.
Iktisad Rashid joined us to help build the platform, and contributed to it with care, skill, and generosity.
We are grateful for it.
Iktisad Rashid
Software Engineer
Built from every chair in the room.
Psychologists. Clients. Clinic owners. Behavioural scientists. Innovators. Entrepreneurs.
Not consulted at the end. Building, from the start.
So it works for all of them.
The psychologist gets presence. The client gets to be understood.
The clinic owner gets care that stays consistent. The scientist gets evidence, not hope.
That is the bridge we built.
Not another dashboard. A quiet system that carries what matters from life into the room and back, with the clinician deciding at every step.
Innovating responsibly isn't our tagline. It's the job.
- The clinician decides
- Every output is theirs to accept or reject. Nothing is filed without them.
- Every insight shows its source
- Reviewable, evidence-linked, and explicit about uncertainty.
- Privacy is the foundation
- Not a footnote. It is the reason clients trust it and clinicians adopt it.
- We reduce work
- We never add a dashboard to study.
- We respect how you already work
- Paper notes included.
From Montréal, for North America.
Built where science, clinical thinking, and many languages of care meet.
Find us
Cognitai1250 Rue Guy, Suite 600Montréal, QC H3H 2L3CanadaWe built this from every side of care.Now we need yours.
Clinician, clinic leader, researcher, partner.
Talk to us.