About Mentra
Most of what matters to a patient happens between appointments, and most of it is forgotten by the next one. Mentra exists to carry that week into the room, safely, in the patient's own words.
Why we're building it
Telehealth made care easier to reach. Not easier to keep.
Video sessions removed the commute, but they didn't change the shape of care: a short conversation, then a long silence. Patients struggle to remember what happened on Tuesday night. Providers spend the first part of a session reconstructing the week. And when a patient quietly stops showing up, the practice is often the last to know.
Mentra fills that gap with something small and human: a minute of talking, whenever it's needed. It turns those moments into a cited brief for the provider and a simple view of engagement for the practice, without ever pretending to be the clinician.
The team
Founders
Md Almasrafi
Co-founder
Operations Research & Information Engineering, Cornell University '28
Koushik Sarkar
Co-founder
Computer Science, Queens College '28 (previously RIT)
What we hold ourselves to
Six rules we build by.
- 01
The patient owns their words
Nothing is shared unless they choose to share it, and nothing deletes it but them.
- 02
Describe, never diagnose
Mentra reports what was said, with dates. Interpretation belongs to clinicians.
- 03
Facts are computed
Dates, counts and trends come from the data directly. Models only label themes.
- 04
A person, not a bot
No AI replies to patients. Anything worrying goes to a human on the care team.
- 05
No guilt
No streaks, badges or scores to keep up. The weekly Balance is a mirror, not a grade.
- 06
Honest status
If something is loading, offline or out of date, Mentra says so plainly.