Tyler Sheaffer
CTO & Co-Founder
Tyler is the technical architect behind The Path's proprietary AI engine. As CTO, he built the AI infrastructure, memory, and personalization infrastructure that makes The Path the world's safest and most effective AI Therapist.
Specialized in
- Engineering Leadership
- AI Engineering
- Personalization
- Memory & Context
Biography
Tyler spent the past decade building technology to improve the world's mental health — first as Founding Engineer at Calm, the #1 mental health app in the world, where he built the flagship product and the engineering team behind it.
He built The Path on a simple conviction: in technology, what you optimize for is what you ship. Most apps optimize for engagement, which is why they're designed to keep you talking forever. The Path is designed to help you make progress and then get out of your way. It remembers you across sessions, draws from a range of therapeutic modalities, escalates safely in a crisis, and caps session length so the app works for you, not the other way around.
Mental health is the problem Tyler keeps coming back to because he believes nothing else matters without it — and that technology, built with the right incentives, can move the needle further here than anywhere else.
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