This article is based on Augusta Klingsten Peytz's appearance on the Corti Builder Series. Watch the full episode below.
How does Aisel Health leverage AI before the first visit?
Psychiatry has a brutal math problem: more patients, no matching increase in psychiatrists, and years-long waits. In this episode of the Corti Builder Series, Augusta Klingsten Peytz, Co-Founder & CEO of Aisel Health, explains what they are building to free psychiatrists to focus on clinical decision-making.
Aisel collects structured patient information ahead of the first session - based on psychiatry protocols - so clinicians start informed and patients don't spend 25 minutes retelling their story under pressure.
The difference between somatic care and psychiatry
In somatic medicine, structured data collection has been standard for decades. Blood tests, imaging, and lab results give clinicians a clear picture before the patient walks in. Psychiatry has never had that luxury.
Most psychiatric intake still relies on unstructured conversation, which puts enormous pressure on both clinician and patient. Aisel is changing this by using AI to conduct structured, protocol-based conversations with patients before the first consultation.
What Aisel does differently
Aisel's approach is built around three key principles:
- Pre-visit data collection: Patients engage in an AI-guided conversation at home before their appointment. The conversation follows validated clinical protocols to gather relevant history, symptoms, and context.
- Clinician-first design: The output is structured for the psychiatrist - not a transcript dump, but actionable clinical information organised the way clinicians think.
- Patient safety: The AI does not diagnose or treat. It prepares. The clinical relationship and decision-making remain entirely with the psychiatrist.
Why this matters now
The mental health crisis is not a staffing problem alone. It is a workflow problem. Psychiatrists spend significant portions of their consultation time on information gathering that could be done beforehand. By moving this step upstream, Aisel enables:
- More time for clinical decision-making during sessions
- Better prepared patients who feel heard before they arrive
- Shorter time-to-treatment for people who have often waited months or years
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Originally published as part of the Corti Builder Series.