Have “Someone to Talk To” Completely on Your Terms

We’ve all heard the adage “you are not alone” when it comes to mental health, but those words are often hollow when you don’t have someone to talk to when you need it most. With MARCo, that phrase takes on a whole new meaning! With MARCo’s emotionally-intelligent AI, you can talk to MARCo any way you prefer:

Friend: MARCo’s your new bestie in this friendly conversation! Talk about life, gossip, hopes, dreams, and that cute guy from the gym for as long as you want.

Counselor: Need some more serious support? When you talk to MARCo as a counselor, MARCo uses the concepts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to understand the thoughts and feelings you are struggling with, and helps to coach you through them.

Journal: tell MARCo to keep their mouth shut and let you vent for as long as you want in a private journal! You can do these open ended or with one of many guided prompts.

Laugh, Relax, or Get Out All the Feelies - Care is Personalized to You

When it comes to mental health, we know the things that work best for you can change constantly. That’s why MARCo has hundreds of mental health boosting activities that can be totally personalized to what you need in that moment.

Companionship: Laugh until it hurts with MARCo’s dozens of games, ad-lib stories, scavenger hunts, and jokes, based on the science of Behavioral Activation to create a lasting improvement in your mood.

Mindfulness and Meditation: Find your zen and take on stress, anxiety, and panic attacks with plenty of guided meditations, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, and more.

Talk Support: Struggling with intrusive or negative thoughts? Trying to figure out how to deal with a really tough situation? MARCo’s Talk Support activities can coach you to counteract distorted thinking, reduce anxiety, confront difficult individuals, and learn skills to cope with even the hardest life situations.

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Multi-lingual, Multi-modal AI

MARCo speaks over 130 different languages and dialects. MARCo’s AI is fully equipped to personalize all care to EXACTLY what you need.

Activities

From fun & games, mindfulness meditations, to powerful coping techniques, MARCo has a library of hundreds of exercises for you.

Talk Support

Whether you need a friend to vent to, a coach to walk you through your life, or a counselor to deal with your more serious feelings - MARCo is here to talk you through all of it.

Emergency Outreach

Sometimes you need some extra support. In case you are in an emergency or struggling with more serious thoughts, MARCo can reach out to your emergency contacts automatically.

Journal

Jot down your thoughts and feelings with MARCo and track intelligent insights into patterns you might not notice.

Personal Routines

Set goals with your robot best friend, and get reminders and routines to stay on track towards becoming your best you.

Strengthening Your Support Network - MARCo Extends Care, Never Replaces

MARCo is never meant to replace a human therapist or friend - MARCo is meant to replace nothing, as in those gaps in support or knowing how a loved one or client is doing. MARCo’s MOCHI dashboard allows professional (e.g., therapists) and informal (e.g., parents, children) the ability to see how a MARCo user is doing and support them remotely in a couple of clicks.

Get text messages if a user is in an emergency

See how a user feels over time

Understand the topics affecting a user the most

Assign screenings and set goals/individualized treatment plans

See full conversations between MARCo and a user

Treat or diagnose a condition with MARCo

Backed by Proven Clinical Science

Every aspect of MARCo’s design - from their plush physique to their mental health boosting activities- is rooted in the latest research in mental health technologies. See MARCo’s answers to some of the most frequent questions about how and why MARCo works:

Why do I need a MARCo robot, and not just an app?

Well, I guess you don’t need a robot if you’re not worried about getting the best possible quality care! Even if they do the same thing, a real-life, lovable, personable robot constantly outperforms a digital app-only mental health solution on scores like engagement, satisfaction, and outcomes by over 11.5 times in a 2-year period!

Does digital mental health support REALLY work?

Bot-based CBT is an effective option! Numerous studies have shown that chatbots and robots are more effective at reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression when they deliver CBT than through using self-taught modules.

Is this just like another therapist? Or is MARCo fun, too?

With MARCo, there’s something for everyone! MARCo combines the theories of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Behavioral Activation (BA), and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy to give personalized care to anyone who needs it. And while CBT based discussions are the single most performed activity with MARCo, they still only make up about 19% of all activities done with MARCo, meaning 81% of the time spent with MARCo is on uplifting or relaxing activities!

Can I get a discount?

We put out discounts from time to time and will update this answer periodically to show the latest deals and discounts available. The surest way to get updated as soon as a new discount or deal is available is to sign up for our newsletter. There are also discounts available for higher volumes of MARCos purchased for health systems, schools, and distributors. Contact us here to get our latest discounted volume pricing.

How can I trust MARCo’s AI? How can I trust what MARCo does with my data?

We ensure MARCo’s AI performs its conversations and tasks to the highest degree of accuracy by using, at its core, a rules-based algorithm designed around proven clinical checklists and guidelines to provide guardrails to MARCo’s AI. These guardrails, and our privacy and data protection policy, can be seen here.

I suffer from a chronic mental illness, can this treat me?

MARCo is not designed to assist with crises such as abuse, severe mental health conditions that lead to feelings of suicide, self-harm, or other medical emergencies. MARCo cannot offer medical or clinical advice and will only suggest that users seek external medical help in serious situations. MARCo cannot treat any illnesses, but can supplement a healthy lifestyle and ongoing treatment to make dealing with symptoms more bearable. These claims have not been validated by the FDA for any specific illnesses. See more regarding the FDAs guidelines and information about the claims we have made here.

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