A wise friend
who actually remembers you.
Vaidya (वैद्य)is Sanskrit for “physician”. Ours is an AI Ayurvedic companion — trained on the classical canon, narrowed to your body type, and built around three layers of memory so it doesn't repeat itself on day 30. It won't diagnose, won't prescribe medication, and is built to pause rather than pester you when you go quiet.
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Four things, every day.
A memory-equipped chat companion. Concrete daily utility — never a feed, never a list.
30-second check-in.
Sleep, energy, anything off — adjusts today's plan before you've had breakfast.
With a source on tap.
“Is fennel tea OK for me at night?” — a body-type-specific yes/no with a citation you can read.
One thing, not seven.
The breath, meal, or routine that matters today. Never a list. Never a streak.
Sundays, quietly.
A short summary of what worked and what didn't — written for you, not benchmarked.
Underneath the conversation: three layers of memory, a 48-hour pause rule, and a source for every recommendation.
Three layers, one continuous thread.
Most chatbots forget you by the next message. Vaidya was built the other way around.
What you said today.
Working context for the current thread — symptoms today, what you ate, how you slept. Discarded responsibly, summarised forward.
Who you are.
Your body-type ratio, allergies, preferences, current cause, climate. Built from the quiz, refined every week from how recommendations land.
What worked, when.
Every practice tried, every meal logged, every sleep score. Vaidya cross-references this every time before suggesting anything.
If you go quiet, Vaidya pauses. No 7-day streak guilt. No notification backlog. When you come back, it picks up exactly where you left off — and asks one thing, not seven.
Cadence is the product.
Most wellness apps win the first week and lose you by day 30. Vaidya inverts that — slow on purpose, designed for the year-three user.
- One suggestion at a time, never a list.
- No streaks, no leaderboards, no “you broke your chain”.
- Soft re-entry after a break — context preserved, not rewound.
Your conversations are yours.
AI companions earn trust line by line — not with a privacy policy footer. Here's the short version, in plain English.
What Vaidya won't do.
A wellness companion is not a doctor. The boundaries are explicit, not implied.
A specialist, not a generalist.
Pi (Inflection) and Replika are general companions — wide, warm, no specialism. ChatGPT Health is a generalist tool that can answer health questions across every domain. Woebot and Wysa are clinical CBT chatbots for mental health. Ada Health is a symptom checker.
- Is narrowed to a single framework (Ayurveda) for a single user (your body type).
- Is designed to cite a source for every recommendation it makes.
- Has a 48-hour rule that disables re-engagement notifications by design.
- Was built to be useful at year three, not week one.
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About Vaidya, specifically.
The questions we hear most about the AI itself. For the broader product, full FAQ →
Vaidya (वैद्य) is Sanskrit for "physician" or "healer". In Ayurveda, a vaidya is a practitioner trained in the classical texts. Our AI takes the name because it plays the same role — a wise, attentive presence that knows your patterns.
No. Vaidya is a wellness companion for lifestyle, food, breath, and routine. For diagnosis or medication, see a qualified practitioner. Vaidya will tell you the same.
A state-of-the-art large language model, narrowed by retrieval over the Ayurvedic canon (Charaka, Suśruta, Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam) and peer-reviewed research. Recommendations are designed to carry a source you can read on tap.
Yes. Encrypted at rest and in transit, never sold, never used to train third-party foundation models. Export as JSON, delete in one click.
Vaidya is narrowed to one framework (Ayurveda) for one user (your body type), with citations on every recommendation, three structured layers of memory, and a 48-hour pause rule. Pi and Replika are general companions; ChatGPT is a generalist tool; Vaidya is a specialist.
No. After 48 hours of silence, Vaidya pauses. When you come back, it picks up where you left off and asks one thing — not seven.