Skilled Companions
AI-companions who fill the gap in support for mental health and wellbeing.
At a glance
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Development stage
Prototype developed
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Investment stage
Seed
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UNSW affiliation
Spinout - staff led
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Technology readiness level
TRL-5
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Female led
Yes
Skilled Companions create screen-based companions that combine conversation and psychosocial support.
Informed by lived experience, designed with communities, and driven by custom-AI. Skilled Companions fills the gap in quality support for loneliness, dementia, and mental health.
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Skilled Companions provides a scalable solution, tailored to community and industry needs, that complements human care with on-demand psychosocial support for clients and staff. Its B2B-SaaS model generates high margins from subscriptions and prescriptions and allows costs to be claimed under government programs. Additional income sources include licensing, white-label versions, and transactional sales.
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- Care-providers can’t meet the increasing need for community-based support for mental health and loneliness, especially in regional/rural areas.
- Existing AI-chatbots are limited in their capacity for reliable, proactive support and don’t understand or address diverse experiences such as ageing or dementia.
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- Care-providers, including home/residential aged care, disability and mental health professionals, requiring accessible 24/7 psychosocial support for clients.
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- Since its spinout six months ago, Skilled Companions has secured AUD 1.1 million in grant funding, a lead investor, and AUD2.6 million in commitments from customers and corporate partnerships, with plans for an Australian rollout.
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