Daylogue Publishes Its Crisis Detection Architecture. No Other Consumer Wellness App Has.
When an entry signals acute distress, three things happen in a specific order. Daylogue is the first consumer wellness app to publish exactly what those things are.
LOS ANGELES, CA, May 6, 2027 / PRNewswire / — Consumer mental wellness apps process millions of check-ins each year from people in real distress. Almost none of them publish what happens when that distress is detected. Daylogue today published its complete three-tier crisis detection architecture — the thresholds, the resources, the escalation logic, and the privacy commitments that govern the moment the app recognizes someone may need more than a pattern journal.
The architecture is public because the architecture is a commitment. Publishing it means Daylogue is accountable to what it said it built. Any researcher, regulator, clinician, or user can read the document and ask whether the product matches the description. That accountability is the point. An unpublished crisis response is a system no one can verify, a promise no one can hold.
The three-tier system works as follows. Tier one is informational: entries that mention stress, sadness, or emotional difficulty in ordinary registers surface relevant wellness resources passively, without interrupting the check-in. Tier two is active: entries that match language patterns associated with more significant distress surface a prominent, contextualized list of crisis resources with a direct prompt to reach out. Tier three is acute: entries that include explicit signals of imminent self-harm or suicidal ideation trigger an immediate full-screen resource prompt with crisis hotline information. No tier results in data being shared with third parties without user consent.
"If we're not willing to publish exactly what happens when someone is in crisis, we shouldn't be the app they turn to in a crisis," said Brandon Bibbins, Founder and CEO of Daylogue.
The publication includes the list of crisis resources surfaced at each tier, the criteria for escalation, the privacy architecture that applies at each level, and the Clinical Advisory Board review schedule for the system. It is not a marketing document. It is a functional specification, written to be understood by a clinician reviewing whether a consumer app is acting responsibly at its highest-stakes moment.
The full architecture is published at daylogue.io/crisis-detection.
"If we're not willing to publish exactly what happens when someone is in crisis, we shouldn't be the app they turn to in a crisis." — Brandon Bibbins, Founder and CEO, Daylogue
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What triggers Daylogue's crisis detection?
The system looks for language patterns in entries that suggest acute distress, significant emotional difficulty, or explicit signals of self-harm or suicidal ideation. The full criteria for each tier are published at daylogue.io/crisis-detection.
Q: Does Daylogue share a user's entries with anyone when crisis signals are detected?
No. No entry content is shared with third parties, emergency services, or any other party without explicit user consent, regardless of tier. The system surfaces resources and prompts; it does not report. The privacy architecture at each tier is documented in the published specification.
Q: Is crisis detection equivalent to clinical intervention?
No. Daylogue's crisis detection system surfaces resources and prompts. It is not a clinical tool, does not involve a clinician in real time, and is not a replacement for emergency services or professional mental health care. If someone is in immediate danger, they should call emergency services or a crisis line directly.
Q: Why is Daylogue publishing this when no other app has?
Because the industry hasn't required it, and we think it should be required. Publishing it voluntarily sets a standard and creates accountability. It also makes the system better — a published architecture is a reviewed architecture.
Q: Who reviews the crisis detection architecture?
Daylogue's Clinical Advisory Board reviews the crisis detection architecture quarterly. The review schedule and board scope are published at daylogue.io/clinical-advisory.
About Daylogue
Daylogue is a pattern journal that reads your past entries and detects the emotional patterns running through them. Instead of a stack of separate journal entries, you get a short, plain-language summary that updates over time: what topics keep coming back, when a pattern is repeating, what's shifted in the last few weeks. Daylogue is not therapy and is not a replacement for professional care. It is a private space on your phone for honest reflection, a companion to therapy, to hard conversations, and to the days when you want to know yourself a little better. Entries written inside the Daylogue app are end-to-end encrypted on your device before upload, so Daylogue cannot read them. (SMS and email check-ins, and AI-generated summaries, are handled on the server and are not end-to-end encrypted. See Daylogue's privacy page for the full map.) Founded by Brandon Bibbins, Daylogue is independent and available on iOS and web at daylogue.io.
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