About Our Mission
At the heart of SoulMender’s mission is an AI-powered application that offers continuous conversational coaching and emotional support for individuals navigating grief and mental health challenges. We support outpatient clients — whether in therapy, working with a coach, or healing on their own — throughout their journey with 24/7 access and compassionate guidance.
Our Core Values
Empathy
Every interaction is guided by deep understanding
Authenticity
Living your true self while aligning with masterful wisdom
Unconditional Positive Regard
Respecting the worth and value of every individual
Human-Centered Mental Health Support
Empathetic care tailored to meet the unique needs of each patient
Grief Resonance EngineTM
Gentle presence in your hardest moments
Soulmender senses grief patterns through text, tone, and timing—offering attuned responses that reflect your emotional state. Whether you’re silent, spiraling, or seeking, it stays with you—empathetic, steady, and non-judgmental.
Memory Weaving ProtocolTM
Your story matters - and evolves
Loss often shatters linear time and identity. This protocol reconstructs meaning by weaving together your digital expressions—journal entries, dreams, voice notes—into a coherent symbolic arc. Grounded in Jungian integration and narrative therapy, it supports the inner work of grief: remembrance without re-traumatization.
Healing Ally DashboardTM
Empowering therapists and coaches with insight, not overload
Built for outpatient support, this tool equips caregivers with contextual snapshots—surfacing shifts in mood, emotional stuck points, and moments of opening—so they can meet you with clarity and compassion.
Our Team
Combining decades of experience in mental health, data science and product development — with lived wisdom, healing-centered values, and fresh curiosity — our team is building technology that understands, supports, and helps heal people navigating grief.
Amit Jai Kadam
Co-Founder & CEO
Amit Jai Kadam
Co-Founder & CEO
Amit Jai Kadam is a seasoned Data and AI leader with over two decades of experience in data & AI technology, product management, customer research, and systems transformation. As Co-Founder and CEO of SoulMender AI, he brings together values-based leadership, engineering expertise, training in psychological frameworks including foundations in depth and transpersonal psychology to drive innovation in AI technology for emotional healing and personal transformation.
AJ’s personal journey navigating grief, loss, and healing fuels his mission to reimagine how generative and agentic AI technologies can support emotional healing, inner growth, and well-being. He is especially passionate about developing AI models infused with language that heals the human mind, expanding access to good therapy, and empowering therapists with tools that enhance their impact and presence. At SoulMender AI, AJ leads product vision, strategic partnerships, and fundraising efforts, while overseeing AI roadmap development, guiding responsible model deployment, and shaping market positioning to align with both user needs and therapeutic value. He also fosters a team culture rooted in trust, collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to building AI that truly serves human well-being.
April Ainsworth
Co-Founder & CTO
April Ainsworth
Co-Founder & CTO
April Ainsworth is an entrepreneur, data scientist, and applied researcher with a rare combination of technical depth, behavioral insight, and a storyteller's sensibility. As Co-Founder and CTO of SoulMender AI, she brings over 25 years of experience in e-commerce systems, data architecture, and customer intelligence—alongside a Master of Science in Applied Data Science from New College of Florida. With a foundation in both social sciences and machine learning, April designs emotionally intelligent, healing-centered AI systems that integrate human experience with advanced data modeling. She is especially passionate about innovations in generative AI and the design of intelligent, healing-centered technologies that foster growth and emotional well-being.
In her personal experience, April has benefited profoundly from therapy — as both an entrepreneur and a parent. Her time in therapy has taught her the deep and lasting value that quality support can offer during life's most challenging seasons. This lived insight informs her conviction that emotionally attuned technology can support resilience and connection. At SoulMender AI, she leads the development of behavioral algorithms, data pipelines, and AI evaluation frameworks — ensuring every model is grounded in ethical design, scientific rigor, and human empathy.
Dr. Brant Cortright, PhD
Clinical Psychologist & Advisor
Dr. Brant Cortright, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Brant Cortright is a leading voice in integrative mental health, bringing together neuroscience, psychology, and spiritual growth. He is the author of two #1 international Amazon bestsellers — Functional Psychology for Anxiety, Depression, and Cognitive Decline and The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life — which bridge brain health, emotional healing, and conscious living.
A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Cortright maintains a private practice in neuroscience-informed depth psychotherapy and offers coaching focused on brain optimization, anxiety, and depression. He is Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and the author of two earlier seminal works, Psychotherapy and Spirit and Integral Psychology: Yoga, Growth and Opening the Heart (both published by SUNY Press).
At SoulMender AI, Dr. Cortright serves as an advisor guiding the integration of emotional healing, neuroplasticity, and spiritual psychology into our AI models—helping us build tools that are not just intelligent, but deeply healing.
Ellen Radha Katz, MS, MFT
Licensed Therapist & Advisor
Ellen Radha Katz, MS, MFT
Licensed Therapist
Ellen Radha Katz is a licensed psychotherapist and certified hypnotherapist with over four decades of clinical experience, specializing in trauma, addiction, and process addictions. As a former music therapist and lifelong practitioner of integrative healing, Ellen brings a deep understanding of how emotional, spiritual, and somatic practices can support transformation and long-term recovery.
Her work bridges clinical psychology with creative expression, mindfulness, and transpersonal approaches—making her uniquely aligned with SoulMender AI’s mission to build emotionally intelligent, healing-centered AI experiences. Ellen maintains a bi-coastal private practice in Chicago and California and has taught extensively at universities and adult education centers. Her guidance ensures that SoulMender’s emotional frameworks are grounded in ethical, trauma-informed, and holistic mental health principles.
Bill Melton
Entrepreneur & Advisor
Bill Melton
Entrepreneur
Bill Melton is an entrepreneur, technologist, and global thought leader in ethical innovation. As the founder of VeriFone, he revolutionized digital payments and shaped how millions transact worldwide. He went on to found CyberCash, a pioneering venture in internet-based payments, and was an early investor and board member of Transaction Network Services (TNS), which transformed the speed and cost of telecommunications in financial transactions. Over the past four decades, he has advised global institutions, scaled international businesses, and mentored impact-driven startups across fintech, telecom, and policy.
At SoulMender AI, Bill brings deep expertise in responsible innovation, business model integrity, and systems design—guiding our mission to build emotionally intelligent, healing-centered AI that fosters trust, inclusion, and long-term societal impact.
Bill’s lifelong commitment to designing systems that empower human connection aligns with SoulMender’s core vision. His guidance helps ensure our platform is not only scalable and secure, but also grounded in ethics, emotional intelligence, and the deeper needs of a rapidly evolving digital society. He is also the founder of the Melton Foundation, a global network dedicated to nurturing young leaders committed to collaborative problem-solving and social impact across cultures.
Sohum Kadam
Summer Intern
Sohum Kadam
Summer Intern
Sohum is a rising high school student with a growing passion for technology, mental health, and meaningful impact. As a summer intern at SoulMender AI, he supports research, content organization, and early-stage testing—bringing fresh curiosity, thoughtful insights, and a collaborative spirit to the team. Outside of tech, Sohum enjoys playing the clarinet, competing in tennis, and finding creative expression through music.
Tramp
Chief Healing Officer
Tramp
Chief Healing Officer
Zen master on four paws.
Tramp is the heart of SoulMender AI. With a calming presence, gentle eyes, and an intuitive sense of when someone needs comfort, he reminds the team that healing often begins with connection. As Chief Healing Officer, Tramp brings unconditional support, joyful energy, and the occasional well-timed bark — offering the kind of presence no algorithm can replicate.
A true master of stillness, Tramp is trained in over 10,000 hours of silent meditation, yet he’s also wonderfully goofy — bringing levity and laughter to even the heaviest of days. Whether he’s striking a pose, chasing a breeze, or simply flopping down at your feet, Tramp embodies the balance of wisdom and play that lives at the heart of SoulMender’s mission.
