This may be just a hunch, but I think they are selling the data packages themselves to companies for targeted marketing. Basically what facebook does, just in the health industry.
What could be more intimate than a 'wire-tapped' therapy session - so there is lots of valuable, personalized data to be gained. The AI angle would be a further purpose for the data. The algorithm could target everything for you. This may be a long shot, but the Chinese use such metrics for a social/citizen score. Could you be a future offender? Maybe increase surveillance on you. For example.
I think you're going a little deep & looking too far.
They're owned by Teledoc. Teledoc (which at least with my insurance is fucking retarded as a call costs as much an office visit; I'll spend the extra $10 and visit urgent care if its that urgent) is all about reducing costs. And I'm not even talking about outsourcing, I'm saying you could have a bank of Skype Doctors in Boise taking calls from people in Mahattan. You can pay Boise wages while charging Manhattan prices.
They likely want to datamine depressed people's therapy sessions, find out what works, what doesn't, what things depressed people say, how they respond. The likely plan is to try to give
ELIZA a
medical degree counselor's certification.
Think about it this way: you sell insurance companies - and I say companies because that's where the money is, not direct to consumers - a "Mental Health" package. It includes a 'therapy app' with a voice assistant therapist. Sadbrains SIRI listens to you cry about your feelings, gives the right sort of responses and, here's the important part, can identify when its in over its head and need to tag out to a real human.
Now, Sadbrains SIRI can't replace doctor visits, but what if it can reduce weekly sessions to biweekly or monthly? Sadbrains SIRI knows how to participate in your therapy, giving your reminders, collecting information for your therapist, etc.
That's the most likely game plan, automated therapy (possibly with some "monetizing sad NEETs" thrown in on the side).
edit:
Supicious? Yes but it could really be just the old one quit/left before or durning this, old one was fired like you suggested, or they were planning on getting an additional seo person and timing was "at the worse time" also as far as timing if betterhealth follows the goverment for fiscal years the new year just started Oct 1st.
Completely agree. It only seems tone deaf from out little #woke corner of the web. Likely they are expanding and probably are getting another SEO person in - or maybe they were contracting SEO out before and are bringing it in house.
