Human-centred
Technology should support human agency, dignity and informed choice. Users should understand what the system is, what it does and where its limitations lie.
About BioTekk
Closing the gap between noticing and being supported
Many people experience long intervals between recognising that something is wrong and receiving appropriate support. Services may also have limited information about what has changed between contacts. BioTekk was established to explore how responsible artificial intelligence can help individuals understand their wellbeing earlier and help human support systems respond with greater continuity.
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Our purpose
Time is the
variable no one
is measuring.
The interval between recognising that something is wrong and receiving appropriate support is where much of the avoidable harm accumulates.
Many people experience long intervals between recognising that something is wrong and receiving appropriate support. During that period there may be no record of what changed, no structured way to describe it, and no route to proportionate help short of urgent care.
Services may also have limited information about what has changed between contacts. A consultation often begins with reconstruction — trying to establish, from memory, what the last few weeks were actually like.
BioTekk was established to explore how responsible artificial intelligence can help individuals understand their wellbeing earlier and help human support systems respond with greater continuity.
Our mission
Safe, evidence-led mental-health technology
Our mission is to develop safe, evidence-led mental-health technology that improves access to reflection and support while strengthening, rather than replacing, human care.
Our approach
Multidisciplinary by necessity, not by preference
BioTekk brings together conversational interaction, longitudinal analysis, potential biometric context and structured safety processes. We take a multidisciplinary approach that considers clinical evidence, lived experience, behavioural science, data protection, cybersecurity, human factors and responsible AI.
Clinical evidence
Lived experience
Behavioural science
Data protection
Cybersecurity
Human factors
Responsible AI
Multidisciplinary model · illustrative
Our principles
Five commitments
we can be held to
Principles are only useful if they constrain decisions. These five shape what we build, what we claim and what we decline to do.
Evidence-led
Claims should be proportionate to evidence. We aim to evaluate defined functions in the populations and settings for which they are intended.
Safety by design
Safety, privacy and governance are product requirements from the beginning of development — not retrospective compliance exercises.
Equitable
We aim to identify and reduce barriers, bias and differential performance. Inclusion requires active evaluation rather than general statements of intent.
Collaborative
Effective mental-health innovation requires partnership with users, clinicians, researchers, services and organisations.
What this rules out
Presenting the system as a human clinician. Claiming diagnostic capability. Publishing performance figures without their context. Asserting compatibility with a system we have not integrated. Making organisational reporting a route to individual conversation content.
Work with us
Clinicians,
engineers and
researchers.
BioTekk is a small, UK-based development team. We are interested in hearing from clinicians with experience of mental-health pathways, engineers who have built systems where failure matters, researchers in emotional-state modelling and digitally supported care, and people with lived experience who are willing to tell us what is wrong with our assumptions.
We do not maintain a standing list of vacancies. If your work is relevant, write to us with a short description of what you do and what you would want to change about digital mental-health support.
Clinical & research
info@biotekk.com — collaboration, advisory input and study design.
Engineering
info@biotekk.com — platform, safety systems, data engineering and evaluation tooling.
Media & press
Use the contact form and select “Press or research” so enquiries reach the right person.
Registered office
2, One Millennium Bridge, London, EC4V 3TT, United Kingdom. BioTekk Limited, registered in England & Wales.
Tell us where
we are wrong.
Scrutiny improves this work. If you are a clinician, researcher, DPO or someone who has used digital mental-health tools and found them lacking, we would like to hear from you.