Meet Cara.
Your team’s AI mental health companion, built with care and clinical integrity.

Cara (noun)
 /ˈkɑːrə/ — From the Irish word for “friend.”

A trusted companion; someone who listens, supports, and helps you find your balance.

Cara is our AI-powered companion, which provides emotional support for your daily wellbeing. It’s backed by clinical-grade safety, with 24/7 escalation to clinicians for immediate human support.

The Cara AI app home screen
The Cara chat interface featured in a mobile app.

Everyday support, evidence based.

Cara has guided chat for everyday wellbeing and emotional balance, while also connecting risk to real care from 24/7 Spectrum.Life clinicians.

Cara is built on clinically validated technology that demonstrated measurable improvements in anxiety and depression symptoms in a randomised controlled trial.

Everyday wellbeing
& reflection.

Cara provides emotionally intelligent conversation to manage your mood, build resilience, and find daily resets.

Cara supports members with:

  • Guided wellbeing and mood reflection
  • Coaching and personal growth prompts
  • Evidence-based emotional tools and exercises
  • Personalised experience that adapts over time
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An app screen showing a call starting with Cara

Continuity of care.

Cara connects to human support, with counsellors and clinicians one tap away.

Continuity of care is provided with:

  • Direct escalation to 24/7 counsellors and clinicians
  • Smart prompts guide users to live human support
  • Integration within members’ ongoing care plans for
consistent follow-up

Clinical governance & data ethics.

We monitor Cara to the highest levels of clinical and data ethics governance.

This oversight ensures that:

  • Personal data is used to deliver the best possible care
  • Data is secure and never shared with third parties
  • Cara is reviewed and validated by clinicians

Cara is aligned with the EU AI Act standards for safety and transparency, and has GDPR and ISO 27001-certified infrastructure.

An app screen showing part of the Cara onboarding process
An app screen showing how to get support in the chat

Risk detection & escalation.

Cara provides a clinical-grade safety net. It continuously monitors for risk indicators and safely escalates to Spectrum.Life’s 24/7 counsellors and clinicians when needed.

How Cara can benefit organisations.

Higher uptake

Drive awareness and adoption of your organisation’s existing mental-health programmes, intelligently connecting employees to the right resources at the right time.

Seamless
integration

Integrated with Spectrum.Life, Cara understands your available wellbeing supports and guides users toward the most relevant pathways.

Actionable
insights

Get anonymised analytics and insights that reveal emerging wellbeing trends. These insights help your organisation measure impact, identify needs, and refine wellbeing strategy, while maintaining complete privacy and compliance.

We believe in AI-powered care, but never AI-only care. Augmented care, not automated care. AI brings scale and consistency. Humans bring context and compassion.

Cara will be available on select Spectrum.Life plans from Q2 2026.  A medical version addressing anxiety and depression is currently in development for CE certification. Please speak to your Account Lead for more information.

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