Web app · AI · Wellbeing
Ava
Built by Parneeth × Team Archangels · Smart India Hackathon 2026
A web companion that notices when someone's mood is drifting down, tells them so honestly, and deliberately works to become less necessary over time.
The problem
Most chat companions are designed to keep you talking. Ava is built the other way round: it measures how much someone relies on it and pulls back as that reliance grows, pointing them towards the people in their life instead.
What we built
- Mood reading that combines what people write, how they sound and how they type, tracked across eight emotional axes.
- A trend engine in which four statistical detectors vote on whether someone is really declining. Two must agree before it acts.
- Check-ins with strict limits: consent, quiet hours, daily caps, and a hard stop after three unanswered messages.
- Long-term memory of the people, events and goals someone mentions, which they can review and delete item by item.
- Crisis triage that runs before the AI on every message, with helpline numbers hard-coded rather than generated.
- Emotion axes
- 8
- Trend detectors
- 4
- Unanswered check-ins before it stops
- 3
- Encryption at rest
- AES-256