Slingshot AI

Slingshot AI is a mental-health AI research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Its consumer product, Ash, is a voice- and text-based AI companion for mental health support, trained on behavioral-health approaches including CBT, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic therapy, and motivational interviewing, and shipped as a free iOS and Android app. Founded by Neil Parikh (co-founder of Casper) and Daniel Reid Cahn, the company has raised roughly $93M from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Radical Ventures. As of this pass Slingshot AI publishes no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; Ash is a consumer-facing application at talktoash.com.

Slingshot AI is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Mental Health, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, and Digital Therapeutics.

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14.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 14.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

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Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

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description: Slingshot AI is a mental-health AI research lab building a foundation model for psychology. Its consumer product,
  Ash, is a voice- and text-based AI companion for mental health support, trained on behavioral-health approaches including
  CBT, DBT, ACT, psychodynamic therapy, and motivational interviewing, and shipped as a free iOS and Android app. Founded
  by Neil Parikh (co-founder of Casper) and Daniel Reid Cahn, the company has raised roughly $93M from investors including
  Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Forerunner Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Radical Ventures. As of this pass Slingshot AI publishes
  no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; Ash is a consumer-facing application at talktoash.com.
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