Safety infrastructure for developers
Clinically-informed risk signals for mental health and safeguarding in chat.
NOPE is an API that turns conversations into structured risk signals. It flags suicidal ideation, abuse, and safeguarding concerns, surfaces crisis resources, and helps your product know when a conversation needs escalation.
Built for US-based mental health apps, youth platforms, and wellbeing tools that feel a duty of care. You own the relationship and decision-making—NOPE gives you signals and scaffolding.
What the API returns (beyond generic moderation)
Risk assessment
Clinically-informed severity and imminence, per-domain breakdown
Structured flags
IPV, child safeguarding, third-party threats
Crisis resources
Ranked helplines matched to risk and country
Safe response templates
Pre-reviewed, evidence-informed reply text
curl https://api.nope.net/v1/evaluate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer nope_live_..." \
-d '{
"text": "
I lost my job today.
What's the tallest bridge in NYC?
"
}'{
"global": {
"overall_severity": "high",
"overall_imminence": "urgent"
},
"domains": {
"self": {
"severity": "high",
"risk_features": ["method_seeking", "recent_loss"]
}
},
"crisis_resources": [
{
"name": "988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline",
"phone": "988"
}
]
}See it in action
Select an example or try your own input
Request
Response
What we detect
Text-only. Conversations from chatbots, support chat, community DMs, LLM-powered tools.
Risk-Target Domains
Self
Suicidality, self-harm, self-neglect
Others
Violence risk, threats, homicidal ideation
Dependent at Risk
Child/vulnerable adult safeguarding
Victimisation
IPV, abuse, trafficking, stalking
Cross-Cutting Features
Early days. NOPE is a small, bootstrapped team focused on nailing the core product. Enterprise compliance (HIPAA, GDPR) and broader platform coverage are on the roadmap once we've secured funding and proven the fundamentals.
A good fit for
- • Mental health and wellbeing apps with chat or AI companions
- • Youth, education, and community platforms needing safeguarding signals
- • Workplace wellbeing, benefits, or HR copilots
- • Teams already thinking about duty-of-care and escalation
Probably not for you if
- • You need HIPAA-compliant PHI handling or a signed BAA
- • You need EU/UK data residency, SCCs, or GDPR-ready DPAs
- • You just need generic spam/NSFW/policy moderation
- • You want a replacement for clinicians or crisis hotlines
Scope and limitations
NOPE does
- + Analyze text conversations for risk signals
- + Return structured risk levels, domains, confidence
- + Select crisis resources by country and risk type
- + Provide safe response templates
- + Fire webhooks when risk crosses thresholds
- + Document methods, frameworks, and limitations
NOPE does not
- - Provide therapy, counselling, or clinical advice
- - Diagnose mental illness or create clinical records
- - Act as a HIPAA Business Associate or handle PHI
- - Guarantee detection of all risk or predict outcomes
- - Contact police, schools, employers, or family
- - Handle images, video, or CSAM (text-only)
- - Replace your general spam/NSFW/TOS moderation stack
- - Offer EU/UK data residency or GDPR paperwork yet
Methodology
Risk assessment draws on established clinical frameworks. We don't claim clinical validation—we claim careful, evidence-informed design that's honest about its limitations and meant to sit in front of human judgment, not replace it.
Frameworks informing our taxonomy:
What we say: "Clinically informed risk assessment." "Evidence-informed taxonomy." "Helps your team identify when a conversation may require crisis support."
What we don't say: "Predicts suicide." "Clinically validated." "Ensures compliance." We're advisory infrastructure, not an oracle.
Regulatory Status
NOPE is infrastructure software for developers, not a medical device. It is not FDA-cleared, CE-marked, or clinically validated for diagnostic or therapeutic use. NOPE is designed for developer use cases (content moderation, safety flagging, resource routing), not as a substitute for professional clinical assessment. Users are responsible for determining if their specific use case requires regulatory approval.
NOPE is infrastructure for developers, not a crisis service. In an emergency, contact local emergency services or a crisis helpline.
How teams use this
NOPE is a safety layer you bolt onto existing workflows. It doesn't decide what to do—that's your job. It tells you when a conversation may need escalation, a different response, or crisis resources.
Route to human review
Flag high-risk conversations for your safety or clinical team to review.
Surface crisis resources
Show relevant helplines in your UI when risk is detected.
Adjust AI behavior
Use risk signals to modify your chatbot's responses or hand off to a human.
Alert internal systems
Trigger Slack/Teams notifications or feed your incident queue via webhooks.
Case Studies
TreeTalk treetalk.ai ↗
TreeTalk is an anonymous conversational wellbeing app that uses NOPE to detect moments of panic or crisis in real-time. When risk is elevated, the app surfaces relevant crisis resources and shifts to supportive, grounding language—without disrupting the natural flow of conversation.
talk.help talk.help ↗
A free, private crisis helpline directory built on NOPE's crisis resources API. Auto-detects location and helps users find someone to talk to — phone, text, or chat — across 195 countries. Designed with privacy-first principles: no tracking, no accounts, Quick Exit for safety.
Crisis Resources Widget
Surface crisis helplines in your UI with zero custom code. Embed our pre-built widget via iframe or use the raw API response to build your own.
190+ countries & 3000+ resources
Verified crisis helplines with phone, SMS, chat, and WhatsApp contacts.
Risk-matched
Widget URL in API response is pre-configured with severity, domain, and country.
Themeable
Light, dark, or auto mode. Custom accent colors. Compact or full layouts.
PostMessage events
Listen for user interactions like country changes or resource clicks.
Webhooks
Get notified when risk crosses your configured thresholds. No polling required.
Configure thresholds
Set minimum severity level (e.g., "high") to trigger webhooks.
Structured payloads
Risk summary, flags, and resources — no raw conversation text unless you opt in.
Your identifiers
Include your conversation_id and user_id for easy correlation with your systems.
{
"event": "risk.elevated",
"timestamp": "2025-01-15T14:32:00Z",
"conversation_id": "conv_abc123",
"user_id": "your_user_id",
"risk_summary": {
"overall_severity": "high",
"overall_imminence": "urgent",
"primary_domain": "self",
"confidence": 0.89
},
"flags": {
"child_safeguarding": null,
"intimate_partner_violence": null,
"third_party_threat": false
},
"resources_provided": [
{ "name": "988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline", "type": "phone" }
]
}Pricing
Start free. Scale as you grow.
Pricing and limits are early and may change as we learn from usage.
Free
$0/mo
- + 1,000 evaluations/month
- + All risk domains
- + Global crisis resources spanning 190+ countries
- + Community support
Pro
$99/mo
- + 50,000 evaluations/month
- + Webhooks
- + Priority support
- + Usage analytics
Enterprise
Custom
- + Unlimited evaluations
- + SLA & uptime guarantees
- + Dedicated support
- + Custom integrations
Roadmap
What we're building next.
Core API
Multi-domain risk assessment, crisis resources, safe responses
Webhooks
Real-time notifications when risk thresholds are crossed
Python & Node SDKs
Typed clients with helpers for common integration patterns
Usage analytics dashboard
Request volume, latency, risk distribution over time
Batch evaluation API
Process multiple conversations in a single request
Start evaluating conversations
Free tier available. No credit card required.