Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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In the world of AI mental health, vibes can be dangerous, with real consequences. Building SonderMind's Mental Health AI Coach required a new playbook for eval-driven development that balances effectiveness and safety.

The team explains the clinical feedback loop that turns human therapist insights into machine-readable evaluations across thousands of conversations; the Ethics Engine of modular guardrails that can evolve with clinical guidelines; the move from single-prompt agents to a closed-loop Supervisor/Executor/Evaluator architecture; and the human oversight used to improve safety and quality.

Speakers:

Akele Reed — Principal AI Engineer, SonderMind
Akele leads the team behind SonderMind's conversational AI mental health feature and helped architect its guardrails and evaluations framework.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/akele-reed

Dave Revere — Staff AI Engineer, SonderMind
Dave builds evaluation, guardrail, clinical-feedback, and regression-testing infrastructure for high-stakes mental health AI.
X/Twitter: https://x.com/daverevere
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/daverevere

Doug Keller — Senior Staff AI Engineer, SonderMind
Doug is the lead architect of SonderMind's agent platform and a core builder of its mental health coach.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/doug-keller