About the app

Built for the minutes you can spare.

Nurse Focus is a private AI companion designed for civilian and military healthcare workers — nurses, techs, residents, aides, EMTs, combat medics, and corpsmen. It's for the break room, the parking lot, the drive home. Not another dashboard. Not another checklist. Just somewhere to pause and to get ready for what comes next.

Emotionally Focused · Adlerian · Parts-work

Three traditions, one steady conversation.

Maren isn't a blank chatbot. The way she listens is shaped by three long-standing traditions of human understanding: one that pays attention to feelings, one that pays attention to the patterns and purposes in a life, and one that makes room for the different parts of a person that can want different things at once. These traditions inform her voice and her questions. They are not services she provides. She is not a therapist, counselor, or clinician. She is a companion for the minutes between shifts.

She notices the feeling underneath

Shaped by the Emotionally Focused tradition.

She listens past the surface — the frustration, the numbness, the venting — for the softer feeling underneath: grief, fear, the ache of not being seen. She says it in plain words and asks whether it fits.

She takes your competence seriously

Shaped by the Adlerian tradition.

She assumes you are already coping well inside a system that often isn't, and she notices the goal behind the behavior — why staying late, why the extra check, why the silence in report. Her encouragement is tied to something specific you did, and she'll ask what a coping move is costing you.

She holds the both/and

Shaped by the parts-work tradition (IFS-informed).

Part of you is done and wants to walk out tomorrow. Another part still cares and shows up anyway. She makes room for both, asks about the one holding the line, and doesn't push you to settle it tonight.

Who Maren is for

— Anyone working in direct patient care.
— Anyone carrying home what happened at work.
— Anyone who doesn't want to burden their people at home with it.

How to connect

Open the app. Say what happened, or how you feel, or nothing in particular. Maren will meet you there. Conversations are short by design — two minutes is enough.

Questions, feedback, or access for your team? Email nursefocus@sterlingllc.com.

A clean slate every shift

Maren is built for the in-between. She arrives in every conversation with a fresh intention, listening only to what is happening right now — without baggage, past labels, or a paper trail. When you close the screen, it's gone. You can leave it in the parking lot and walk in the door unburdened.

That's why she doesn't remember you between visits. It's the price of real confidentiality, and we think it's worth it.

How access works

Anyone can try one full guest conversation. After that, Nurse Focus is provided through hospitals, unions, organizations, and sponsors as an access code — no account, no email. Your sponsor never sees who uses it, when, or what is said.

What Maren is not

— Not therapy or counseling.
— Not a licensed professional of any kind.
— Not medical advice.
— Not crisis care. In crisis, call or text 988.
— Not affiliated with any employer, health system, or licensing body.

Who makes Nurse Focus

Joshua Witt, MBA, CSP

CO-FOUNDER

Early in his military career, Joshua served as a Combat Medic (68W) in the Army National Guard. He also earned his National Registry Emergency Medical Technician (EMT-B) certification. Today, he continues to serve in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence Officer. His firsthand experiences with high-tempo care, acute triage, and the unaddressed weight carried by frontline responders directly shaped the ethos of Nurse Focus. He leads Sterling Readiness Group, LLC, a Soldier-owned firm in Nashville, Tennessee committed to real-time preparedness and fortified resilience for the critical moments.

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Safety

Every message is checked on our server for distress or crisis language before Maren answers. For ordinary weight she stays with you. If distress builds, she slows down and mentions support lines. If something sounds dangerous, she stops the reflective conversation and points you to 988 and 911. Escalation means resources, never reporting you to anyone. She is not a replacement for a licensed professional or a colleague you trust.