SafeLine AI
No psychiatric crisis call unanswered: AI triage that saves lives, supports clinicians, and builds trust in Switzerland’s mental health system
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What we offer
SafeLine AI offers Switzerland’s first AI-powered triage assistant for psychiatric crises — ensuring every call is answered, assessed, and safely escalated.
24/7 AI Crisis Triage
Always-on voice and chat assistant that ensures no psychiatric crisis call goes unanswered.
Risk Assessment & Escalation
Structured questions + AI sentiment analysis to detect urgency and safely escalate to 144, a clinician, or hotline staff.
Support for Clinics & Hotlines
Reduce missed calls, staff overload, and costly emergency hospitalizations by bridging the gap until a human responder is available.
Target group
Primary Target Audience (the decision-makers who will pay)
1. Swiss Psychiatric Hospitals & Clinics:
a. Example: PUK Zürich, Universitätsspital Zürich.
b. Pain: too many missed crisis calls, staff overload, expensive hospitalizations.
c. Value: guaranteed triage, cost savings, reduced clinician burnout.
2. Hotlines & NGOs
a.Example: Dargebotene Hand (143), cantonal crisis hotlines.
b. Pain: can’t answer every call, reputation risk when people don’t get help.
c. Value: AI ensures no call unanswered, escalates only when needed.
3. Health Insurers (Krankenkassen)
a. Example: Helsana, CSS.
b. Pain: psychiatric hospitalizations are very costly.
c. Value: prevention saves money → AI triage reduces unnecessary admissions.
Secondary Target Audience (influencers & partners)
1. Cantonal Health Departments → public mandate to ensure crisis services.
2. Clinicians & Psychiatrists → key validators; need to trust your solution.
3. Impact Investors & Healthtech VCs → funders who care about health + AI + social impact.
Challenges
1. Regulation & Trust: AI in psychiatric care faces strict laws and clinician skepticism; adoption requires medical advisors and careful positioning.
2. Safety & Liability: False negatives in crisis detection carry high reputational and legal risk.
3. Funding & Focus: Long hospital sales cycles mean early reliance on grants, pilots, and a clear niche.
Our Story
That moment revealed a critical gap — even in a country with world-class healthcare, crisis lines and clinics are overwhelmed, and people in acute distress can be left alone.
I asked myself: What if no call ever had to go unanswered?
With advances in AI, it became clear that technology could act as a bridge, not a replacement — ensuring immediate response, structured triage, and safe escalation to human professionals.
SafeLine AI’s mission is simple: make sure every psychiatric crisis call in Switzerland is answered, 24/7.
