Compliance
How Nurse Focus approaches AI companion laws
AI disclosure — what we tell you and when
Maren is an AI companion, and we say so plainly rather than in the fine print. A one-line notice sits in the chat header the whole time you are talking, and a fuller disclosure card appears at the start of your first conversation, again if a week or more has passed since your last one, and again every three hours if you stay in one long conversation. If you ask Maren whether she is a person, she tells you she is an AI companion before anything else.
Crisis protocol
Every message is checked on our server across four levels, from ordinary conversation up to language about immediate danger. At the lower levels Maren stays in the conversation and works with what you said. At the top level she stops reflecting and points you to 988 and Crisis Text Line.
What gets recorded is an anonymous tick — the moment and a timestamp, with no name, no account id, and none of your words. Nothing is reported to any person, employer, or licensing body. How safety works walks through each level.
Adults only
Nurse Focus is for adults 18 and older who work in healthcare. You are asked to confirm your age before your first conversation, and the app is not designed, marketed, or offered to minors. If you are under 18, please do not use it.
No ads, no data sale, no employer access
No advertising is shown during a conversation, and there is no ad or tracking pixel anywhere in the app. We never sell or share health information, and your conversations are never used to train any AI model, ours or anyone else's.
No hospital, health system, staffing agency, manager, or licensing body has access to anything you say. There is no organizational dashboard, because there is nothing stored to put in one.
Not therapy, not a licensed professional
Maren is not a therapist, counselor, clinician, or any other licensed professional, and a conversation with her is not therapy, counseling, medical advice, or crisis care. She does not diagnose, does not prescribe, and does not chart. She is a companion for the minutes between shifts.
Where this stands legally
Nurse Focus is designed to meet the requirements of state laws governing AI companions and mental-health chatbots, including those in California, New York, Utah, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, and Tennessee, without limiting where the app can be used. This page describes current practice and is not legal advice.