Built to coach.
Built with guardrails.
HeatherAI handles sensitive health data, personal goals, and emotional moments. We take that seriously. Here's how we build responsibly.
Domain-Scoped AI
HeatherAI only coaches nutrition and behavior change. It doesn't diagnose medical conditions, prescribe medications, or provide therapy. The AI has explicit boundaries — when a conversation moves outside its domain, it says so and defers to qualified professionals.
Expert-in-the-Loop
Every response is grounded in Heather Bauer's methodology — not generated from generic internet content. The AI operates within coaching frameworks developed by a credentialed registered dietitian over a full career of practice. It doesn't freelance.
Medical Safety Boundaries
When users mention medical conditions, medications, or clinical symptoms, HeatherAI recognizes the boundary and defers. "Talk to your doctor" isn't a disclaimer — it's built into the coaching logic. The AI + Human Coach plan adds a real registered dietitian for situations that require clinical judgment.
Data Privacy & De-identification
HeatherAI was developed using Heather's coaching methodology — the frameworks and approaches she's refined over a 25-year practice. Any historical coaching material used in building the AI has been fully de-identified — all names, phone numbers, and other personal information removed before any analysis. Your conversations and health data with HeatherAI are encrypted in transit and at rest, are never sold, and are never used to train third-party AI models.
Transparent AI Identity
HeatherAI is always identified as AI. It never pretends to be a human. The coaching voice is modeled on Heather Bauer's methodology, but every interaction is clearly an AI-generated response — not a direct communication from Heather herself.
What's Ahead
HeatherAI is actively pursuing formal compliance certifications — including HIPAA compliance and FDA Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) designation — to expand access to payer-covered and clinical care pathways. We're building toward those standards today, and we'll update this page as we achieve them.
De-identified. Encrypted. Never sold.
- ✓ Any historical coaching material used in building HeatherAI has been fully de-identified — no names, phone numbers, or personal information.
- ✓ Your conversations with HeatherAI are encrypted in transit and at rest.
- ✓ We never sell user data. We never train third-party AI models on your data.
- ✓ Pursuing HIPAA compliance and FDA Software as a Medical Device designation.