Hi.
Two minutes here. Then back to your day.
☀️ Today's intention
Pick one. It is allowed to be small.
This week's mood
Visible only to you.
Your check-ins live on this device. They are not sent anywhere.
When you're ready to sleep, try a 4-minute reset.
Weekly reflection
A private, two-minute check-in once a week. Helps you notice patterns over time.
Day-to-day moods bounce around. A once-a-week pulse gives you (and your future self) a clearer picture of how a stretch of weeks actually felt. We use a well-established set of questions used by counselors, but we never share your answers with anyone.
Pick a date 30, 60, or 90 days from now. We'll surface it back to you when it's time. People who do this once usually do it again.
Relaxation Library
Eight ways in. Pick what fits today.
Voices to learn from
A short, careful list of trusted teachers and the strategies they teach — for the four things that get hardest in college.
Every voice here was picked for two reasons: their work is research-grounded or experience-grounded (no celebrity life-coaches), and their material is widely available — books, podcasts, free essays. We don't get paid to recommend any of them. If you find one that landed, tell us; if you have a voice you'd add, tell us that too.
Plan
Not everything on your list is equal. Find the one that moves the needle today.
Focus timer
25 minutes work, 5 minutes break. The cheapest productivity tool ever invented.
Do a brain dump above; we'll show whether your week is mathematically possible.
Playbook
Short scripts for the moments you don't know what to say. Pick one. Copy it. Send it. Done.
These are exact words for the conversations that get stuck in your throat. Tap any script to read it. Tap "Copy" to put it on your clipboard so you can paste it into a text, email, or DM.
Tell us — the playbook gets better when students like you tell us what was missing.
Send feedbackMentor
A warm AI companion. Not a counselor, not a friend pretending to be human.
Memory is on. Clear conversation · Toggle in Trust.
Care
Real humans, when the app is not enough.
If something feels urgent
You can reach a real person right now. None of this requires a paid plan.
📞 988 — Suicide & Crisis LifelineCall or text 988 (US). 24/7. 💬 Crisis Text LineText HOME to 741741. 24/7. 🏳️🌈 Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth)1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678. 🤝 SAMHSA National Helpline1-800-662-4357. Free, confidential.Your campus counseling center
Tell us your school once and we'll keep this here.
Talk to a counselor Coming soon
Companion Plus members will be able to book a tele-counselor visit through a vetted partner network. We're still selecting partners. The crisis pathway above will always be free.
Trusted contact
Optional. If you ever want a single person we can suggest you call, set them here. Nothing is shared automatically.
For Parents
A wellness gift, not a tracking app.
What this is
A calm, private daily companion for your college student. They get a relaxation library, time-management tools, an AI mentor, and a one-tap path to a real human if anything is ever bigger than the app.
What you'll see: that the subscription is active, and that your student logged in within the last week. That's it. Mood, journal, mentor conversations, and intentions are private to your student.
If you want them to share more (a weekly "I'm okay" pulse, or a milestone), they can choose to. Always opt-in, always reversible.
Free during pilot
The Companion is in pilot right now with students at Rutgers and a small group of early users. Every feature is free. No subscription, no payment, no credit card.
If you're a parent reading this, the best thing you can do is share it with your student and ask what they think. If you're a student, just keep using it.
Once we've heard from enough students and have a clinical advisory board in place, we'll introduce affordable subscription tiers — designed so a parent can gift a year for the price of a textbook. Until then: free.
Tell us what's working (or not)
We're actively shaping this with the people who use it. Two minutes of your honest feedback is the most valuable thing you can give us.
Opens your email app pre-filled. We read everything.
A note from Walter
"I teach at Rutgers. In my last classroom survey, 85% of students named stress, time, and isolation as their top concerns. The Dutch Mentor Companion is the tool I wished my own mentees had. It is private. It is calm. It is built to point at a real human the moment it is needed."
— Walter Dusseldor, founder, The Dutch Mentor Program
Trust Center
You own your data. Always.
Plain-English summary
- Everything you write — moods, journal, intentions, mentor chat — lives only on this device by default.
- We never sell data. There are no advertising networks in this app.
- Crisis resources are always free, on every plan.
- If you delete your account, your data is gone within 24 hours.
Controls
Your data
You can take it with you, or wipe everything in one tap.
What we'd ask before sending anything off this device
In production, the AI mentor would route through The Dutch Mentor's server to a model provider (e.g., Anthropic). Your messages would be encrypted in transit, would not be used for training, and would be deleted from the relay within 30 days. None of this is on yet in this preview — the mentor in this build is fully local.