Rebuilding Clinical Intelligence

We started PsyAIde because we saw how much diagnostic reasoning happens silently in clinicians’ minds. That reasoning is rarely structured, rarely tracked, and rarely supported over time.

Psychiatry is longitudinal by nature, yet its infrastructure remains static. We are merging lived clinical workflow insight with advanced AI systems to rebuild how the mind is understood.

"We are not building a feature. We are building foundational infrastructure."

Our Minds

The Leadership Driving Innovation

Athika Karolia

Founder & CEO
Clinical Psychology • Data Science
"Clinical operator turned data scientist building infrastructure for psychiatric reasoning."

Deep Clinical Training

Master's in Psychology (MSU), with clinical training encompassing neuropsychology, mood disorders, trauma, and TBI. Accumulated 3,000+ hours of clinical assessment & treatment exposure.

Operational Leadership in Behavioral Health

Served as Program Administrator & Clinical Program Manager, overseeing multidisciplinary teams, managing budgets, and directing high-acuity patient care.

Research & Data Background

Currently pursuing Data Science at Harvard University. Experience as a Lab Director, with published research presentations at APA and APS conferences.

Founder-Market Fit

Gained firsthand exposure to diagnostic complexity, challenges in longitudinal care, and the significant documentation burden prevalent in psychiatric settings.

Athika Karolia — Founder & CEO

Sarthak Baral

Co-Founder & CTO
AI Systems • Data Architecture
"Systems-focused ML engineer building scalable diagnostic intelligence infrastructure."

Strong Technical Foundation

BSc Computer Science (King's College London) | ALM Data Science (Harvard, GPA 3.9) | Coursework in Advanced ML, Deep Learning, Data Systems.

Systems & Infrastructure Builder

Designed main-memory columnar database engine in C with multi-core parallelism and custom execution layer | Built persistent storage, indexing, and optimized query pipelines from scratch.

AI & LLM Research Experience

Undergraduate research fellow in knowledge engineering for LLMs | Developed ontology validation pipelines and LLM-driven refinement frameworks | Experience with GPT-based systems and structured reasoning.

Full-Stack & Backend Engineering

Built database-backed web applications (Django, PostgreSQL, REST APIs) | Experience with Docker, AWS, scalable backend deployment.

Sarthak Baral — Co-Founder & CTO

Built at the intersection of clinical excellence and technical rigor.