Fornix Assess
What if mental health was truly accessible?
We know that professional psychological services are often entirely out of reach for the majority of people. We are changing that. Imagine a child taking an ADHD screening via a WhatsApp voice note in Sepedi. Imagine doing it in a fraction of the usual time, at a fraction of the cost, making it affordable for the majority of parents. By combining rigorous mathematics, cloud infrastructure, and deep psychological research, our mission is to make clinical assessment accessible, affordable, and distinctly African.
Methodology
The Science Behind
the Screenings.
Voice-First Ecological Validity
Standard paper forms lose the nuance of human emotion. We capture lived experiences natively through WhatsApp. Free-text and audio inputs are processed immediately through our clinical-grade speech-to-text pipeline, allowing respondents to answer complex assessments in their mother tongue without literacy barriers.
Item Response Theory (IRT)
We utilize advanced data science and Statistical Machine Learning to make tests shorter without losing clinical validity. By applying dimensionality reduction, our engine can condense exhausting 20-question screening tools down to 5 to 7 highly predictive, culturally calibrated items.
Cryptographic Field Security
Academic field data requires absolute security. All participant identities are instantly pseudonymized using automated SHA-256 cryptographic protocols at the point of ingestion, ensuring your cross-sectional datasets are clean, structured, and POPIA-compliant within 24 hours of study closure.
Academic & Research Partnerships
Join the
Frontier.
We are revolutionizing brain health in the Global South by bridging the gap between academic rigour and community reality. We offer data partnerships and API access to institutions and researchers wanting to test theoretical models in real-world, high-volume settings.
SML & Data Analysis Support
Access our deep learning infrastructure for analyzing complex, multi-site community data.
Research Access
A bi-directional link between data collection and real-world intervention.
Cultural Validation
Expertise in adapting psychometric tools to be 'culturally resonant,' not just statistically significant.
We welcome connections with academics who can assist on the AI/tech side, big data item reduction, or psychometric survey design. Because we are a small, self-funded team, we also welcome conversations with investors who want to help make this dream a reality. For research collaborations, data partnerships, or investment conversations, reach out directly: