DEStrava-APP
AI guide for stuck emotional and relationship situations
The founders
The company
DEStrava-APP is a Portuguese-language AI guide, running in any phone browser with no install, that walks people through a stuck emotional or relationship situation one question at a time — beginning, middle and end — towards a concrete next step they choose themselves. It's built for that single job rather than as a general chatbot, and is explicitly tested against sycophancy.
As consumer AI tools drift towards telling users what they want to hear, there's a clear case for a focused tool that does the opposite — and does it in Portuguese, a language mainstream assistants often treat as an afterthought.
The company says its method draws on more than 35 years of clinical practice by psychologist Sandra Jessula, translating that experience into a structured conversation rather than open-ended chat.
Founded by Dario da Costa and built on a named clinician's method, the team has paired product discipline with privacy-by-design choices: conversations aren't stored or used to train models, data is hosted in the EU, and a safety layer tested on 70+ difficult scenarios surfaces emergency contacts when risk is detected.
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