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The missing infrastructure
for human readiness
in the age of AI.

Wise Friend is building the behavioral health system that physical health has had for 40 years — and that the AI economy now demands urgently.

86%
of employers expect AI to transform their business by 2030
WEF Future of Jobs Report, 2025
34%
of workers feel unprepared for AI-driven changes
Bright Horizons / Harris Poll, 2025
80%
of employees say mental health training matters — only 11% are required to complete it
NAMI Workplace Poll, 2025
$10B
US corporate behavioral health training market — no structured peer layer exists
Peer support market, Jan 2024

The Gap

Physical health built its middle layer.
Behavioral health hasn't started.

Forty years ago, if your back hurt, you saw a doctor. Today you have a trainer, a physio, a run club, and a wearable. Behavioral health still runs the way physical health did in 1985. The preventative floor is missing. The peer layer — the trainer equivalent — has never been built.

Physical Health — The Full Stack
SpecialistsExists
Primary care physiciansExists
Physical therapy & rehabExists
Nutritionists & sub-specialistsExists
Personal trainers & coachesExists
Group classes & communitiesExists
Apps & wearablesExists
Self-guided practiceExists
Behavioral Health — Today
Psychiatrists & psychologistsExists
Therapists & counselorsExists
Recovery & step-down programsGap
Behavioral sub-specialistsGap
Peer support & near-peer mentorsWe build this
Structured group programsGap
Apps & wearablesExists
Self-guided self-careExists
"We don't have a mental health system. What we have is a non-system." Thomas Insel, Former Director — National Institute of Mental Health

The AI Imperative

Human readiness
is AI readiness.

The skills that determine whether AI is used wisely or carelessly are the same skills behavioral health builds.

LinkedIn's 2025 data shows the top in-demand skills are AI literacy, conflict mitigation, adaptability, and innovative thinking. These are not separate from behavioral health development. They are what it produces.

LinkedIn Workforce Report, 2025

42%
of employees expect their role to change significantly due to AI within the next year. Only 17% use AI frequently today.
Bright Horizons / Harris Poll, Dec 2025
77%
of employers are committed to reskilling employees to work alongside AI. The human foundation to build on doesn't yet exist.
WEF Future of Jobs Report, 2025
17pt
productivity improvement at workplaces that offer mental health training vs. those that don't.
NAMI Workplace Mental Health Poll, 2025

The Platform

A hub of wisdom.
Print. Digital. Virtual. In-person.

A complete ecosystem for structured behavioral health development — built around a proprietary curriculum refined over 25 years, AI-enhanced without being AI-dependent. The methodology, sequencing, and language are the moat.

01
The Life Plan™

A structured journey through 10 behavioral health pillars — starting within, expanding outward. Based on the Myelin Curriculum, infused with DBT, CBT, ACT, and mindfulness frameworks.

10 PillarsDiagnosticPrint + Digital
02
LMS + Cohort Platform

A purpose-built learning management system with native AI integration. Includes full cohort management for structured mentorship programs at scale. More adaptive than any off-the-shelf platform.

AI-NativeCohort MgmtLicensable
03
Peer Support Certification

Structured training and certification for behavioral health supporters. Skills-based, not clinical. Listening, holding space, early recognition, proper referral. 100+ tools and activations built in.

CertifiedNon-Clinical100+ Tools
04
AI Life Plan Facilitator

A voice AI agent guiding individuals through the Life Plan pathway, in alpha. Guardrailed by the curriculum. The AI makes depth accessible at scale without compromising the methodology.

Voice AIAlphaGuardrailed
05
Mentorship Programs

Full cohort infrastructure with retreats, trainings, mentor matching, and community tools. White-labeled for partner organizations. We bring the system; they bring the community.

White-LabelIn-PersonRetreats
06
Print Ecosystem

Life plans, workbooks, and journals that anchor digital learning in the physical world. Some of the most powerful development happens off-screen, in a person's own hand.

WorkbooksJournalsLife Plans

Live Product — Staging

Dashboard
Dashboard
User Home
User Home
Cohort View
Cohort View
Training Journey
Training Journey
Relationship Debt Flow
Life Plan Flow — Relationship Pillar
Conversation Assessment
Reflective Assessment
Daily Snapshot
Daily Snapshot

Curriculum Architecture

A progression that
grows with you.

Most programs meet you once. This curriculum is a lifelong ladder — from self-knowledge, to supporting others, to leading communities. Based on the 10-step Myelin Curriculum, proven over 25 years.

Phase 01
Inner Mastery
Know Yourself

The Life Plan. A comprehensive diagnostic through 10 pillars — mindset, sleep, physical fitness, nutrition, emotional fitness, communication, community, financial health, productivity, and purpose.

Phase 02
Outer Support
Support Others

Peer support certification. Listening non-judgmentally, holding space, recognizing early signs, and referring appropriately. Behavioral health first aid — structured, scalable, and accessible.

Phase 03
Community Influence
Lead and Mentor

Mentorship mastery and facilitation. Running cohorts, leading programs, building cultures of psychological safety. Where individual development becomes organizational transformation.

Traction

No marketing.
All inbound.

Every partnership to date has come to us. Organizations pre-licensed the curriculum before the product was complete. That is not a sales story. It is a signal.

3
Active pilot orgs
$0
Marketing spend to date
25+
Years of proven methodology
Pre
Licensed before product completion
Strategic Partner
Inspiring Children Foundation

25 years of transformational youth leadership programming. ICF co-develops curriculum with Wise Friend. Together: community reach + behavioral health rigor + AI infrastructure.

Pilot — Professional Sports
Intense Professional Tennis League

High-performance athletes are among the most under-resourced populations in structured mental and emotional development. A proven proving ground for the methodology.

Pilot — Foundation + Nonprofit
Family Foundation (CA) + Nonprofit Beta

Both white-labeled. Wise Friend is the infrastructure. A replicable model for any mission-aligned institution that wants to embed this system into their culture.

"The outcomes have been remarkable, and with the utmost confidence I can recommend their work and the integrity with which they conduct themselves."

Richard Baker, Chairman — Hudson's Bay Company

Market

A $10B entry point.
A much larger horizon.

We are entering the $10B US corporate behavioral health training market — the most immediate, highest-urgency opportunity. The full addressable market expands across hospitals, schools, treatment centers, sports, and individuals. We are capturing the first layer methodically.

TAM
$100B+
SAM
$10B
SOM
$25M

Scoped for peer support vertical, Jan 2024. Full ecosystem spans 12+ additional audience categories.

The Demand Signal

80% of employees say mental health training is important for a positive workplace culture. Only 11% of workplaces require it. The demand is clear. The structured supply does not yet exist.

NAMI Workplace Mental Health Poll, 2025
The AI Convergence

Roles requiring AI skills are nearly twice as likely to also demand resilience, ethics, and analytical thinking. The behavioral health training market and the AI workforce readiness market are converging.

Microsoft New Future of Work Report, 2025
The ROI Case

Workplaces offering mental health training show a 17-point productivity improvement. $1.47 return for every dollar spent on workplace wellness initiatives.

NAMI 2025 / SSR Workplace Wellness Report, 2026

The Team

A life's work.
Not a startup idea.

This team found behavioral health not as a market opportunity but as individuals — through athletics, peer support work, corporate leadership, and the direct experience of watching what happens when people have these tools.

NK
Nicole Kalhorn
Co-Founder
Princeton University. Former Wellness Director at Hudson's Bay Company, building behavioral health programming inside one of North America's largest retail organizations.
CA
Clayton Alenik
Co-Founder
UNLV Harrah College. Lived experience expert. High-level tennis athlete who discovered firsthand how behavioral health tools transform performance.
DS
Danielle Serie-Stockton
Senior Operator & Development Catalyst
Former Director of Growth, United Healthcare. Deep operational expertise and healthcare industry relationships accelerating institutional partnerships.
JH
Jeff Hollis
Lead Software Engineer
Senior Engineer at Epic. Built infrastructure for healthcare's most trusted records platform. Applies the same systems rigor to the Wise Friend technology stack.
AD
Andrew Diehl
AI Product Manager
Red Ventures. AI and data science with 30+ years combined scientific research across the advisory network. Guardrails-first philosophy — human judgment is the source of truth.
CO
Cherrial Odell
Content
Stanford University, Psychology. Develops the curriculum language that makes the Wise Friend methodology distinctive — accessible, principled, and evidence-based.
Advisory
Dr. Tasha Rasolkhani, Former IOP Director, Ft. Carson  ·  Dr. Andrew Freeman, Former DHHS Nevada  ·  Tim Blenkiron, Pro Tennis Coach  ·  Adam Kelly, Data Scientist, Data Edge  ·  Ryan Wolfington, Inspiring Children Foundation

How It Works

We bring the infrastructure.
Partners bring the vision.

Wise Friend operates as the behavioral health engine behind organizations that want to embed structured development into their culture. White-labeled. Customizable. Scalable without losing depth.

Inspiring Children Foundation
25 years of proven programming
Youth programming, real-world mission environments, and community infrastructure built over 25 years. ICF co-develops curriculum with Wise Friend and delivers mentorship cohorts that combine behavioral health rigor with lived community experience.
Wise Friend
The behavioral health infrastructure
Behavioral health frameworks, curriculum intelligence, AI-driven personalization, purpose-built LMS, cohort management, print tools, and AI voice facilitation. AI-enhanced, not AI-dependent. The methodology and sequencing are proprietary.
Together, this produces
Youth gain behavioral health foundations and AI readiness simultaneously
Organizations gain behavioral health capacity without building from scratch
Programs scale responsibly, tested in real cohorts before expanding
A replicable white-label model for any mission-aligned institution

The Work

"We're not just building a profitable business — we're crafting a healthier, more advanced society."

The infrastructure for human flourishing has never been built at scale. The tools exist. The methodology is proven. The urgency has never been higher.

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