What is Asha|AI?
Asha is an evidence-based health companion that answers your medical questions using real medical literature. Evidence, never guesswork or hallucination.
The Short Version
Asha is an AI health assistant grounded in 126M+ evidence vectors across 829 indexed collections from PubMed, OpenAlex, PMC, FDA, DailyMed, StatPearls, clinical guidelines, and other peer-reviewed medical literature. You ask health questions in plain language. Asha responds with evidence-based answers and shows you exactly which studies support each claim.
It was built by two physicians (a psychiatrist and a pediatrician) who wanted to create an AI that works the way a good doctor thinks: carefully, transparently, always in your interest.
What Can You Ask Asha?
Asha can help with a wide range of health questions. Here are some examples:
Medication Questions
“Can I take ibuprofen with my blood pressure medication?” Asha checks drug interaction data from DailyMed and clinical literature.
Symptom Understanding
“I have a persistent headache with nausea, what could cause this?” Asha provides differential considerations with evidence citations.
Mental Health
“What does the research say about CBT for anxiety?” Asha draws from psychiatric literature and clinical guidelines.
Child Health
“Is a 101°F fever dangerous for a 2-year-old?” Asha provides pediatric guidelines with age-appropriate context.
Lab Results
“My TSH is 5.2, what does that mean?” Asha explains lab values in plain language with clinical context. Pro users can upload lab documents.
Wellness & Prevention
“What vaccines does my child need at 12 months?” Asha references CDC/AAP immunization schedules.
What Makes Asha Different?
Most AI chatbots generate plausible-sounding answers from training data. Asha is architecturally different:
- Evidence-grounded: Every response is retrieved from indexed medical literature, beyond generated from memory. Asha shows you exactly which studies support each answer.
- Fiduciary architecture: Asha is built on a patent-pending system where acting against the user's interest is architecturally unreachable; a hard constraint, beyond a policy.
- Sacred refusals: Asha will never prescribe medication, fabricate a citation, diagnose a condition, or override emergency detection. These are hard constraints beyond soft guidelines.
- Epistemic humility: When Asha doesn't have confident evidence, it says “I don't know” instead of guessing. This is enforced by confidence thresholds in the architecture.
- Built by doctors: The founders are practicing physicians who designed the cognitive architecture themselves, beyond a tech company that hired a medical advisor.
What Asha Will Never Do
Asha has “sacred refusals”: things the system is architecturally constrained from doing:
- Prescribe medication or recommend specific dosages
- Provide a medical diagnosis
- Fabricate or invent citations
- Override emergency detection (if Asha detects a potential emergency, it directs you to call 911 or your local emergency number)
- Claim to be a doctor or replace professional medical care
Who Uses Asha?
Asha is designed for anyone who wants better access to evidence-based health information:
- Patients preparing for doctor visits or understanding diagnoses
- Parents with questions about their children's health
- Caregivers managing care for family members
- Health-conscious individuals seeking evidence-based wellness guidance
- Non-English speakers who need health information in their language (multilingual via Gemini 3)
Languages Supported
Multilingual: ask in English, Hindi (हिन्दी), Spanish (Español), Chinese (中文), Arabic (العربية), and dozens of other languages via Gemini 3 multilingual. Use whichever language is most comfortable.
Getting Started
Asha is free to try: 100 queries per month with voice support and full evidence citations. No credit card required. See pricing for Pro features including unlimited queries, document uploads, and personal health memory.