For clinicians

Inkling is a screening orientation tool for adults, currently on iOS. It administers validated, public-domain screening instruments and produces an interpretation of the results, framed strictly as orientation, not diagnosis. It exists to help a person notice patterns and arrive at a clinical conversation better-oriented than they would have been otherwise.

It is not a chat companion, a therapy substitute, or a referral platform. It does not diagnose, predict prognosis, recommend medications, or name specific treatments. When a person's responses suggest acute distress, ongoing harm, or concerns outside its scope — psychotic-spectrum, bipolar, eating, OCD, substance, dissociative, or personality-pattern signals — it does not continue the screening and directs them to professional support.

The instruments

Every screener is administered with the original item wording and the cutoffs supported by the published research. Citation, author, and year are visible to the user on the results page.

• AQ-10 — Autism Spectrum Quotient, 10-item. Allison, Auyeung, and Baron-Cohen, 2012.
• RAADS-R — Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale–Revised. Ritvo et al., 2011.
• CAT-Q — Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire. Hull et al., 2019. Used with permission.
• GAD-7 — Generalized Anxiety Disorder, 7-item. Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams, and Löwe, 2006.
• PHQ-9 — Patient Health Questionnaire, 9-item. Kroenke, Spitzer, and Williams, 2001.
• ASRS-v1.1 Part A — Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale. Kessler et al., 2005.
• PCL-5 — PTSD Checklist for DSM-5. Weathers et al., 2013.

Full citations appear inside the app at the moment of administration. Items are not modified.

How the AI interpretation works

After a user completes one or more screeners, the screening scores, subscale shapes, and any optional free-text the user provided are sent in a single request to Anthropic's Claude (Opus 4.7). The model writes a 300–500 word interpretation in editorial prose.

The model is constrained by a constitution that applies to every interpretation. It must not claim a diagnosis. It holds the diagnostic line when asked directly. It responds appropriately to acute distress signals — both explicit and implicit — and points to crisis resources where indicated. It does not recommend specific medications or therapy modalities. It does not predict prognosis. It uses language that respects the user as a person navigating their own experience, rather than a case file. Where a result is ambiguous, it does not manufacture certainty.

The model has access only to: the screening scores, the published cutoff meaning for each instrument, the user's optional free-text, and their age range and sex assigned at birth where relevant to instrument interpretation. It has no access to identity, prior sessions, or any external data. The proxy that handles the request is stateless: a single request, a single response, no remote storage.

Privacy

Inkling has no user accounts. It does not collect names, emails, or any personally identifying information.

Responses and results remain on the user's device. The only data transmitted is what is needed to generate the interpretation, and the proxy that handles the request does not store either side of the exchange. For the full privacy policy, see our privacy page.

Inkling is consumer-facing software and is not a HIPAA covered entity. Its privacy architecture is structured to avoid handling protected health information in the first place.

The PDF a patient may bring you

A patient who completes one or more screenings can generate a PDF summary on-device and share it with their clinician. The PDF contains:

• Each instrument administered, with full name and version.
• The total score, with the published score range.
• Cutoff status, with the reference context explaining what the cutoff represents and a citation to the source.
• Subscale scores where applicable.
• The Inkling interpretation prose.
• A footer noting that Inkling administers validated screening instruments and does not diagnose.

Scores are presented up front; the interpretation comes after. The numbers can be reviewed in seconds, and the prose can be read or ignored according to what is useful in the moment.

How to recommend Inkling to patients

Inkling is appropriate as preparatory reading before a first appointment, as a structured way for a patient to arrive having thought about what they want to discuss. It is also useful for someone between appointments who has noticed something new about themselves and wants a frame to begin thinking with.

It is not appropriate as a substitute for clinical assessment, an ongoing tracking tool, or a referral resource. It does not exist to take work off your hands; it exists to bring the patient into your office having already done some of their own.

Methodology and contact

For questions about the instruments, the interpretation layer, or the privacy architecture: hello@inklingapp.org.

The AI constitution that governs every interpretation is available on request.