Life dims.
You rise with ZanRise.
Zanrise is your quiet companion—human-first help to lift, reconnect, and guide you home.
Your Daily Companion for Meaning and Emotional Well-Being
Zanrise gently guides you toward clarity, purpose, and emotional balance using evidence-based psychology and compassionate AI. Embrace small, meaningful steps each day, empowered by your personal Ikigai—your reason for being.
What are ZanRise's features?
Our Mission
We turn the screens that isolate us into pathways back to people.
Zanrise pairs human wisdom with responsible AI, placing a pocket lantern of calm, guidance, and hope in every hand—free, private, on-call the moment life dims.
As a non-profit we exist to close the mental-health gap and show that tech can re-humanise rather than replace connection.
When someone feels lost, we rise together — until sunrise belongs to all.
Why ZanRise?
Our Reason
“Why” ZanRise
When life dims, a lantern should be within reach.
Like most people, we’ve ridden our share of highs and lows—often scrolling for answers we never quite found and feeling awkward about asking for help out loud.
Zanrise was born to change that. We use the same technology that sometimes isolates us to create a pocket-lantern of calm, clarity, and hope—so anyone feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed can find judgment-free guidance the moment they need it.
Every day, Zanrise gently guides you back to meaning, connection, and your quiet reason for being—your personal Ikigai.
Human Soul, Science Core — Built with Clinicians, Not Clicks
Our launch tools lean on gold-standard psychological therapies:
CBT for thought loops, ACT for values-based action, and CFT for gentle self-kindness.
We co-design every response with licensed psychologists to stay evidence-tight and ethics-locked—avoiding shame, confusion, or false claims.
Everything is end-to-end encrypted, with no data sales. Future upgrades are at-cost only, because mental health support should be free to begin with.
Zanrise isn’t therapy. But it’s built to bridge the gap with care and integrity.
Tools That Lift You — Then Reconnect You
Harsh self-talk fuels depression. Kinder self-talk heals.
Zanrise’s pocket tools coach the second kind—quietly, privately, on your terms:
Ikigai MicroCompass – Daily nudges toward meaningful, life-giving moments
Lantern Chat – 24/7 emotional guidance grounded in CBT, ACT, and Gabor Maté’s compassionate lens
⚡️ Focus Sparks – 90-second resets for burnout, ADHD overwhelm, and emotional spikes
🌱 Rise Circles (coming soon) – Opt-in micro-groups that swap likes for real listening
All free from day one. Upgrades are designed only to cover server lights—because judgment-free help should never hide behind a paywall. Your data stays on-device, always.
Why the self‑kindness route?
Harsh inner talk keeps us stuck.
Kindness helps us move.
Zanrise isn’t about sugar-coating.
It’s about learning to speak to yourself the way you’d speak to someone you love.
Here’s why that works:
Negative self-talk feeds low mood
Beck’s Cognitive Model of Depression shows that harsh inner dialogue and rigid self-identity patterns keep anxiety and depression loops alive (Beck & Haigh 2014).
Kind inner talk really helps
A 79-study meta-analysis found strong links between self-compassion and reduced anxiety and depression (MacBeth & Gumley 2012). The kinder you are to yourself, the lower your distress.
Tiny CBT “thought-switches” move the dial fast
In just one week, CBT-based exercises using Socratic-style prompts helped people trim intrusive thoughts and solve problems more effectively than journaling alone (Watson et al. 2018).
By gently shifting rigid thinking, CBT opens space to choose your next step with intention. That’s how even a small reframe can reconnect you with your why—and make it easier to act in line with it.
Training self-compassion actually works
Just 2–3 weeks of self-kindness practice can reduce rumination and even lower suicidal thoughts in randomized trials (Errazuriz et al. 2021).
90-second resets help ADHD overwhelm
Behavioral ADHD programs that use short cue-based prompts (like Safren’s CBT–ADHD protocol) improve task follow-through and reduce emotional flooding (Knouse & Safren 2014; Ramsey 2020).
When your brain is overwhelmed, it’s hard to focus—let alone remember what matters. These tiny resets give your mind a breath, helping you return to calm, clarity, and the direction your Ikigai pulls you toward.
Self-kindness literally rewires the stress centre
MRI studies show that kinder inner dialogue reduces amygdala reactivity and strengthens emotion-regulation circuits (Taren et al. 2013; Kim & Zarate 2021).
Translation: Kinder self-talk = calmer brain, better bounce-back when life hits hard.
But it’s not just about soothing the nervous system.Self-kindness helps clear space to reconnect with your Ikigai—your quiet reason for being.When your mind feels safe, your purpose becomes easier to hear.
Self-kindness isn’t fluff—it’s neuroscience.And it’s how Zanrise helps you reset, reframe, and rise—back toward what truly matters.
Powered by purpose‑built models, not a generic chatbot.
We fine‑tune on peer‑reviewed CBT, ACT, CFT & ADHD protocols, then run every update past licensed psychologists.
A second “logic layer” keeps responses clear, supportive and non‑shaming—guidance that helps, not confuses.
No engagement tricks, no doom‑scroll loops. Zanrise lifts you, then reconnects you to real life.
Important boundaries
— what Zanrise is NOT
If you ever feel unsafe or in crisis:
Call your local emergency number (999 | 112 UK & EU • 911 US).
Or use your country’s 24‑hour crisis line (UK Samaritans 116 123 • US 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).
End‑to‑end encrypted: chats stay on your device unless you share them.
No data sales—our only paid tier just covers servers & future features.
Every six months we publish a plain‑English safety & ethics report.
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