The context a session needs, in seconds.

Mental Math Technologies builds AI software for psychiatrists and their patients. Our first two tools put cultural and personal context inside the appointment, grounded in validated frameworks rather than assumptions.

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Understandablecontext a clinician can act on Accessiblebuilt for the patients most often misread Efficientseconds, not sessions

Psychiatry has validated instruments it cannot afford to use.

The gap is not knowledge. It is time inside a thirty-minute appointment.

2.4×

Black patients are diagnosed with schizophrenia about 2.4 times as often as white patients with comparable symptom profiles. Misread cultural context becomes a diagnosis, and a diagnosis becomes a life. Olbert, Nagendra & Buck (2018), meta-analysis of racial disparities in psychotic disorder diagnosis.

13%

The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview exists to catch exactly that. In one large implementation, a provider that trained its staff still used it in 13% of intakes, because working through the manual takes longer than the appointment allows. Silvius, Antezana & Ghane (2024), “Symptom vs context: lessons learned from a large-scale implementation of the Cultural Formulation Interview.”

1/5

Psychiatrists lose roughly a fifth of the workday to administrative tasks and session prep, among the highest of any specialty. The minutes that could carry context are spent reconstructing it. Specialty administrative-time data.

Two tools that hand the clinician context, not homework.

Both are patent pending, both are in development, and both are the first of a suite built for psychiatrists and patients alike.

Culture Translator

CFI-grounded guidance, in seconds.

The Cultural Formulation Interview is the field’s validated method for reading a patient’s cultural context, and it lives in a manual. The Culture Translator delivers that assessment before, during, or after a session: a clinician gets culturally informed guidance in seconds, traced back to the framework it came from rather than to an assumption about where someone is from.

In development Patent pending

Time to a CFI-grounded read on a patient’s context

Manual CFI

tens of minutes

Translator

seconds

Which is why the manual version reaches only 13% of intakes today.

Journal software

Sessions start with context instead of catch-up.

Patients write in their own words between visits. The journal tool synthesizes those entries and routes a short transcript to their psychiatrist ahead of the appointment, so the first ten minutes are not spent reconstructing the last three weeks. The research happens before the door opens.

In development Patent pending

Between one visit and the next

Patient journals on their own terms, in their own words
Entries are synthesized into themes, changes, and flags
A short transcript reaches the psychiatrist before the session
The visit opens on what actually changed

Where this lands in the appointment.

Before

The journal summary arrives. The clinician walks in already knowing what the weeks between visits held.

During

The Culture Translator returns CFI-grounded interpretation and prompts in seconds, while the conversation is still happening.

After

That context carries into the plan and the note, and the next journal cycle begins where this session ended.

How we sell it.

A per-clinician subscription, sold to the organizations that carry the caseload and the programs that train the next set of psychiatrists.

Behavioral health organizations — where intake volume makes the time cost of the CFI decisive.
Psychiatry residency programs — where the CFI is taught, and where habits about using it are formed.
Priced per clinician — so a department can start with one team and widen from there.

Leaders and engineers who have seen the failure up close.

Dylan Burkett

CEO, Chief Engineer

USAF veteran
Former psychiatry ward technician
Prior business analyst at Apios Health, Nowy, and AVAC
Georgetown: BS Physics, Economics

Ruben Garcia

CFO

Former EMT and crisis responder
GPS Strategy at Deloitte
Georgetown: BS Finance

George Tefora

Software engineering

Leads the journal platform
Prior software developer at Mylti and ByteStrike
Georgetown: BS Computer Science

Alyssa McGowan

Software engineering

Leads the Culture Translator
Prior software developer at Amazon and MITRE
Georgetown: BS Computer Science

What are you willing to do to be truly understood?

If you run a behavioral health organization or a residency program and want to see either tool early, write to us. We will show you what exists today and what it takes to pilot it.

Email the team [email protected]