Voice-first crisis access.
Lock-screen activation in under three seconds. No menus, no decisions, no friction in the moment that matters most.
There for the moment it matters
There when it's hardest.
Pax is a voice-first companion for the moments that decide everything. You say the word from your lock screen, and Pax shows up — steady, right there, in under three seconds. No menus. No delay. Just real support, until it passes.
Most apps tell you what your recovery should look like. Pax learns you — and guides you through what works for you.
Currently in iPhone Beta
What Pax means
pax
from Latin
: peace
There's a moment, right before the action, when the mind is racing and the pull is strong. You can feel yourself heading toward a choice you'll regret. That's the crossroads. Pax is the off-ramp — a steady voice already in your pocket, like a friend who sees where you're going and gently helps you turn. It doesn't make the choice for you. It makes the right one easier to reach.
The urge doesn't pick a time. 2 PM, 2 AM, anywhere in between — Pax is built for whichever moment finds you. Voice-activated from your lock screen, in under three seconds, with an exercise tuned to what's happening right now. Most apps are designed for the morning check-in. Pax is designed for the moment itself.
Every off-ramp you take shapes the next one. The brain rewires through repetition; recovery is the slow practice of choosing differently, until the new pattern holds. Pax is named for peace. The app isn't peace — it's the tool that helps you show up, moment after moment, until you find your way there.
The moment between
Most tools show up after.
Recovery apps are built for the calm hours. The morning check-in. The evening reflection. The daily streak. Useful — but not when the urge hits.
The moments that decide what happens next are the ones spent fumbling for an app, scrolling for the right exercise, talking yourself out of asking for help. That gap — between feeling it and finding what works — is where most slips happen.
Pax was built for that gap.
How Pax shows up
Say the word.
Speak.
From your lock screen, ask for Pax (or open the app any time). In under three seconds, Pax is there — listening. No menus. No decisions to make in a moment that already has too many.
Intervene.
Pax listens for a few seconds — about the moment, the feeling, what's pulling. Then Pax selects an exercise built for what's happening: a breath, a reframe, a grounding step. Voice-led. Hands-free if you need it. If the first try doesn't quite land, Pax tries another. The session stays open until the urge passes.
Learn what works for you.
Every session teaches Pax what's effective for you specifically — your patterns, your triggers, your responses. The more you use it, the better it knows you. No two recoveries look the same. Pax was built for that.
What makes Pax work
A specific tool built for a specific moment.
Learns you. Picks what works.
Pax uses AI to do one thing: choose the right exercise for what's happening right now, based on what's worked for you before. Every session teaches the system more — your patterns, your triggers, the time of day urges peak. Most apps deliver the same content to everyone. Pax's path is yours.
A real library, written by people.
More than 60 evidence-informed exercises, grounded in clinical research and trauma-informed care. AI selects, humans wrote — no generated content, no improvised crisis advice. Faith-based interventions available if you opt in. All delivered in plain language — no jargon, no clinical performance.
Private by architecture.
Your data is encrypted on your device. Nothing syncs unless you choose. No third-party analytics. No shared transcripts.
Between sessions
Where your work continues.
Most of recovery happens between sessions. Pax fills that gap with real-time, voice-first support — keeping clients steady in the moments they're most likely to slip.
Pax includes a clinician dashboard:
- A pre-session briefing for every client — five views of patterns, triggers, and intervention effectiveness.
- AI-generated session prep summaries, opt-in. Off by default — your judgment, your call.
- Real-time data sync. CSV export for your records.
Pax is not a treatment platform. It doesn't diagnose, prescribe, or replace the therapeutic relationship. It's a tool your clients use between the deeper work — voice-first, in the moments you can't be there.
Clear scope. Clear boundaries.
Why this got built
I built Pax because I needed it.
I built Pax because I needed it.
In the moments that mattered most, the tools I had fell short. Everything was after the fact. The right app was buried two taps deep. The right exercise required choosing it — and I was in no shape to choose anything.
So I built the thing I wished existed. A tool that didn't ask me to decide when I was least equipped to decide. A voice in the pocket, ready before I had to ask twice. Something that took the friction away and met me where the struggle actually happens.
Pax isn't all of recovery. The therapy, the community, the work between visits — that's where the real change lives. Pax is the tool you reach for when none of those are within reach. There when it's hardest. Learning you over time.
If that's a tool that would help, I'd love to have you in the early access group.
— Dan Rogers, founder
Project Pax · Provisional patent filed October 2025 (USPTO #63/907,139)
Project Pax · Provisional patent filed October 2025 (USPTO #63/907,139)
Early access
Join the early access list.
Pax is in private beta. We're growing it carefully — clinician-referred users, individuals already working with a therapist, and a small consumer cohort. Drop your email and we'll let you know when there's a spot.