KnowThySurvey
A platform for science-backed mental health surveys, built with a co-founder who holds a PhD in psychology. Results are free for the taker; the platform connects the individuals taking surveys, the providers helping interpret them, the researchers building them, and the enterprises commissioning them.
- Role
- Technical Co-Founder
- Years
- 2026–present
The problem
The internet is full of mental health “quizzes” that aren't science-backed. The actually validated instruments — the ones researchers and clinicians use — are expensive to develop and not generally accessible. So people Googling “am I depressed” end up with BuzzFeed-grade results, while the providers who could put real surveys to work either pay license fees or do without.
The approach
KnowThySurvey is a platform for developing and administering science-backed mental health surveys, built with a co-founder who holds a PhD in psychology. Results are free for the taker — which inverts the usual paywall model and lets the platform be the connecting tissue between four groups: individuals taking surveys, providers using the results to better serve clients, researchers building and validating new instruments, and enterprises commissioning surveys on their workforce (with aggregated anonymized results to the company and personal results back to each employee). Built tight and modern: Next.js end-to-end, Drizzle on Postgres, deployed on Vercel.
The outcome
Started in March 2026. An initial version is live with one validated survey implemented, and active development continues — usually weekly, usually at a dive bar.