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Salus · your companion

Mind, reflection and resilience · by Arbor

In testing

A quieter place to understand what is going on.

Check in, write freely, follow a prompt or talk something through. Salus helps you notice what keeps returning—without judging it or rushing you towards an answer.

Salus home screen offering a check-in, journal or conversation and highlighting a new reflection insight
A little spaceNotice first. Decide later.

The problem

It is hard to understand a pattern while you are still inside it.

A thought can feel too small for a conversation and too tangled for a blank page. By the time it returns, the detail that made it useful may already be gone.

Salus gives the moment somewhere to land, then helps you return to your own words with more distance and context.

How Salus works

From a moment to something you can see more clearly.

  1. 01

    Name what is here

    A quick mood and energy check-in can be enough to begin.

  2. 02

    Choose your way in

    Write freely, start from a prompt, use a guided journal or talk.

  3. 03

    Look at the thread

    Salus can surface a possible pattern and keep its source visible.

  4. 04

    Return over time

    Review themes, emotions and what the evidence is beginning to suggest.

Begin where you are

No perfect journal entry required.

Some days call for two sliders. Others need a blank page, a question, a short daily practice or a deeper guided thread. Salus keeps those entry points together so reflection can fit the moment rather than become another obligation.

  • Check inName mood and energy quickly.
  • JournalChoose free, prompted or guided writing.
  • TalkUse an open conversation when words need room.
Salus check-in asking the user to place their mood and energy on simple scales
Salus Reflect screen offering free, prompted and guided journals, a check-in and a conversation
Salus guided journal library with daily practices, deeper adaptive reflection and themes including pressure, uncertainty and growth

Guidance without a script

A prompt for today—or a thread worth following.

Daily practices offer a steady starting point: an intention, a wind-down, highs and lows, or three good things. Adaptive journals can follow what you write, while themed reflections let you explore pressure, uncertainty, fatigue, growth or connection at your own pace.

You choose the depth.A short check-in and a deep reflection are both valid ways to use Salus.

From entry to insight

Your words stay connected to what Salus notices.

A reflection can suggest a thread, but it does not replace the original moment. Salus keeps the source, meaning, possible next step and companion note close together so you can decide what is useful.

A Salus journal entry with emotion labels, themes and a linked observation from Salus
Your entry remains the starting point.
A Salus insight about feeling steadier at the end of the day, with meaning, source, next step and guide note available
The insight stays open to inspection.
Salus Insights screen summarising recent themes and emotions from the last month
Salus personal model showing a reflection-based openness signal, its current score and plain-language description

Patterns, not labels

See what has been around—and how certain that picture is.

Monthly themes and recent emotions make change easier to notice. A wider personal model can bring together signals from check-ins, journals and optional questionnaires, with evidence and freshness kept visible.

These are mirrors for reflection, not clinical labels or a diagnosis.

Made for real moments

There is more than one useful way to reflect.

When the day feels fullCapture a mood or a few words before the detail disappears.
When a thought keeps returningFollow it through a prompt, guided thread or conversation.
When you want perspectiveLook back across themes without forcing every day into a score.
When you know your mind works differentlyUse optional reflections about focus, energy, sensory load and support needs.

Salus + Arbor

Your inner world helps Arbor understand the whole picture.

Salus turns patterns in mood, energy and mental load into useful context for the rest of Arbor. Thrive can shape a gentler day, while Aevo can adjust training to the capacity you actually have.

Depth without duplicationYour private writing stays in Salus while the useful understanding it creates can strengthen every guide.
See how the Arbor guides work together

Before you join

The practical details.

Access
Salus is in testing, with reflection and the guide experience being refined ahead of a wider release. The current beta is available through TestFlight.
Platform
Salus is currently being tested on iPhone. Wider platform availability has not been announced.
Account
You need an Arbor account and must be 18 or older.
Private writing
Your journals and reflections stay securely on your phone and can be managed in Salus.
AI and personalisation
AI reflections help Salus surface themes and useful questions. Optional questionnaires can deepen the personal model behind that guidance.
Important limit
Salus uses therapy-informed principles, but it is not a therapist, treatment, diagnosis or crisis service.

Salus · your companion

Give the moment somewhere to land.

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