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Clinical-Grade AI Solutions

AI Built for the Problems Others Won't Touch

Specialising in addiction and recovery — built for councils, charities, and organisations with a genuine duty of care.

The Scale of the Challenge

£10.7bnAnnual cost of substance misuse to the UK
310,000+People in drug & alcohol treatment in England
50%Reduction in offending after treatment (DTORS)
£20mDHSC Addiction Healthcare Goals Fund 2026

The System is Broken. AI Can Help Fix It.

Three critical failures are leaving people without the support they need.

Workforce Crisis

A decade of funding cuts has decimated the specialist addiction workforce. Counsellors, psychiatrists, and nurses are in critically short supply.

Funding Gap

Despite £310m in new government investment, services remain severely underfunded relative to demand. Commissioners need to demonstrate ROI.

Access Barriers

Long waiting lists, geographic gaps, stigma, and language barriers prevent hundreds of thousands from accessing treatment.

The Story Behind the Mission

I Built This Because I Lived It

Before addiction took over, I ran a successful AR/VR technology business. I had a background in project management and business development — I understood systems, strategy, and scale.

Recovery gave me something unexpected: clarity. I went back to education, trained in counselling, and completed a Level 3 AI in Business qualification — finishing top of the class.

Howie-AI exists because I understand both sides of the crisis — the human cost and the technical solution. Every product I've built is grounded in that lived experience.

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Credentials

L3 AI in Business — Top of Class
Counselling Training
Project Management
Business Development
Former Tech Company Founder
What We Build

AI Solutions for Addiction & Beyond

Four proven products built for organisations with a duty of care — and a capability that extends to any complex challenge.

AI Counsellor

Multilingual RAG-powered counsellor integrating CBT, DBT, MI, EMDR, and ACT. Clinical-grade compliance. Deployable for councils, charities, and treatment providers.

Multilingual • RAG • CBT/DBT/MI
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CRM + SROI Tracker

End-to-end client journey management through the addiction and change cycle. Relapse prediction, NDTMS-compatible reporting, and mobile app integration.

NDTMS • Relapse Prediction • SROI
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Knowledge Sharing Apps

Internal knowledge bases for treatment providers. Staff training tools with multilingual capability, built for frontline healthcare workers.

Multilingual • Staff Training
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Custom AI Solutions

The methodology doesn't change — only the domain does. We bring the same rigour to any complex, data-rich problem across any sector.

Any Sector • Complex Problems
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One Integrated Platform

The Closed Loop That Changes Everything

Most addiction services run on fragmented systems — a spreadsheet here, a paper form there, a phone call to check in. Howie-AI closes the loop. Every client signal flows in real time from their phone into the CRM, triggering instant alerts and building the richest SROI evidence base in the sector.

Input

Client Mobile App

The client carries a full support system in their pocket. Every interaction generates structured data — not just conversation logs but real biometric and behavioural signals.

  • Mood tracking — daily self-report
  • Body vitals — sleep, heart rate, activity
  • AI Counsellor sessions — 24/7 access

Processing

AI Counsellor

Every session yields structured clinical insight — not just a transcript, but detected sentiment, trigger patterns, and engagement trajectory — all fed directly into the CRM.

  • Session transcripts & sentiment
  • Engagement patterns & frequency
  • Cravings, triggers & risk signals

Processing

CRM + Intervention Hub

The CRM is the intelligence layer — aggregating every data stream, running the relapse prediction model, and firing real-time alerts the moment a client enters a danger zone.

  • Instant intervention alarms to keyworkers
  • Unified risk score from all data sources
  • Automated NDTMS-compatible reporting

Output

SROI Engine

Because SROI is calculated from real multi-source data — biometrics, session frequency, mood trajectories, employment and housing outcomes — it is defensible evidence, not estimation.

  • Automated social value calculation
  • Commissioner-ready outcome reports
  • Multi-source data — not self-reporting

Real-Time

Instant Intervention Alarms

When a client's mood score drops below threshold, their vitals indicate disrupted sleep for three nights running, or they miss sessions after a period of strong engagement — the CRM doesn't wait for a keyworker to notice. It fires an instant alert. The right person is notified within minutes, not weeks. That speed of intervention is the difference between a supported recovery and a relapse that costs the system tens of thousands of pounds.

Why It Matters

SROI That Commissioners Actually Believe

Most SROI calculations are built on self-reported outcomes and assumed proxies. Ours is built from real data — biometric signals, AI session frequency and sentiment, mood trajectories, employment milestones, housing stability. When you present a commissioner with an SROI ratio, it is not an estimate. It is evidence. According to DTORS (Home Office), every £1 invested in treatment returns £2.50 to society — our data infrastructure proves that return, case by case, in real time.

Data Sovereignty

The entire platform — AI model and data — can be deployed on your own secure servers. No cloud dependency, no external API calls, no third-party data exposure. Truly air-gapped and immune to outside influence. Available for NHS trusts, ICBs, and any organisation where data leaving the network boundary is not an option.

Technical Depth

Built on Proven Frameworks

Every solution is grounded in clinical evidence, regulatory standards, and production-grade architecture.

Clinical & GOV Frameworks

NDTMSNICE QS23NICE CG52NICE TA114OHID StrategyDSPTCAFDame Carol Black Review

Therapy Models

CBTDBTMotivational InterviewingEMDRACTTrauma-Informed Care

Technology Approach

LLM / Foundation ModelsRAG & Knowledge SystemsPredictive & Analytical MLEdge, Cloud & On-PremiseMultilingual NLPReal-Time APIs & IntegrationCompliance-Grade ArchitectureVector & Relational Databases
Consultancy Approach

The technology stack is never fixed — it is selected to match the problem. As a consultant, the role is to identify the most efficient and appropriate architecture for your specific context, constraints, and scale. That might be a frontier foundation model or a fine-tuned open-source one. A managed cloud deployment or fully air-gapped on your own servers. The right answer depends entirely on your need.

Beyond Addiction

If We Can Solve Addiction With AI, What Can We Solve for You?

The skills, architecture, and methodology that power our addiction solutions are fully transferable. We've built clinical-grade RAG systems, predictive analytics, multilingual interfaces, and SROI reporting frameworks. The domain changes. The rigour doesn't.

Social CareMental HealthCriminal JusticeEducationHousingPublic Sector
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