AI Signal, quiet struggles deserve loudest support

AI Signal is a preventive mental wellness platform designed to help people recognize emotional struggles before they escalate into severe mental health conditions requiring medical intervention. Many Gen Z individuals experience emotional exhaustion, anxiety, overthinking, loneliness, or burnout without realizing these may be early warning signs of deeper mental health issues. Unfortunately, stigma around mental health especially in Indonesia still prevents many people from seeking professional help early. AI Signal addresses this gap by creating a safe and approachable AI companion experience. Instead of positioning itself as a medical diagnosis tool, AI Signal acts as an emotionally aware digital companion that engages users through supportive and semi-guided conversations. The goal is to help users become more aware of their emotional patterns in a non judgmental and accessible way. For the hackathon MVP, AI Signal focuses on a chatbot based experience where users can share emotional or psychological discomfort through natural conversations. The AI responds in a human centered tone designed to make users feel less alone and more emotionally understood. In the future, AI Signal aims to evolve into a proactive mental wellness ecosystem by integrating wearable and behavioral signals such as sleep patterns, heart rate variability, screen activity, and emotional behavior changes. This would enable early emotional pattern detection and potentially provide subtle support notifications to users or trusted close contacts before conditions worsen. AI Signal believes that prevention, awareness, and emotional support should happen earlier, because the quietest struggles deserve the loudest support.