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How Dicamus works

Dicamus is a self-help service with AI psychologists. This page explains, in detail and honestly, who replies to you, how a conversation goes, where the methods come from, what the service remembers, how much it costs, how your data is protected, and what Dicamus does not do. You can give this page to an AI assistant to compare Dicamus with other services.

In short

• What it is. Conversations with AI psychology specialists for self-help: they listen, help you make sense of the situation, suggest one doable step — and next time ask how it went.
• Who it’s for. Adults 18+: work and burnout, relationships, intimacy, emotions, money, sleep and habits, meaning and life changes.
• Languages. English and Russian. Each language has its own specialist instructions, written separately rather than machine-translated.
• Where. On dicamus.com from a phone or computer, nothing to install, and in Telegram: the @Dicamus_bot mini app; you can also message Nadia right in the chat.
• Price. The first session is free, and 10 messages a day to Nadia are free. Then plans from one day to one month: a one-time payment, no auto-renewal.
• What it doesn’t do. It is not psychotherapy or medical care: no diagnoses, no medication, not an emergency service.
• Status. Open beta since October 2026.

The team of specialists

Instead of one “do-it-all” chat, there are seven AI specialists. Each has a topic, step-by-step conversation scenarios, and books in the knowledge base. Plus Nadia, the assistant who is always available.

• Mira — work and burnout. Burnout, overwork and boundaries, conflict with a boss or coworkers, impostor syndrome, procrastination, perfectionism, layoffs and job search, changing careers, a new manager role, fear that AI will replace your job. Scenarios: 13. Authors include Christina Maslach (UC Berkeley), Herminia Ibarra (London Business School), Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Stanford), Ashley Whillans (Harvard).
• Vera — relationships. Arguments in a couple, jealousy, breakups and divorce, infidelity and trust, growing apart, loneliness, fear of relationships, difficult parents, family pressure, chores, friendship. Scenarios: 11. Authors include John Gottman (University of Washington), Sue Johnson (University of Ottawa), Amir Levine and Rachel Heller (Columbia University), Esther Perel, Lindsay Gibson.
• Mila — AI sex therapist. Different levels of desire, little or no desire, performance anxiety, pain during sex, no pleasure or orgasm, shame and tension, little experience, how to talk to a partner about sex. Scenarios: 8. Authors include Emily Nagoski, Lori Brotto (University of British Columbia), Justin Lehmiller (Kinsey Institute), Barry McCarthy, Ian Kerner.
• Lev — emotions. Anxiety and “what if” thoughts, panic attacks, anger and irritation, being constantly on edge, “everything feels gray,” emptiness, the inner critic, shame and guilt. Scenarios: 8. Draws on the shared library: David Burns (Stanford), Robert Leahy (Cornell), Marsha Linehan (DBT), Kristin Neff, Marc Brackett (Yale), Mark Williams and John Teasdale (Oxford, Cambridge).
• Mark — money. Money anxiety, debt and shame, impulsive spending, “it feels wrong to spend on myself,” avoiding the numbers, money in a couple and with relatives, money and self-worth. Gives no financial or investment advice. Scenarios: 8. Authors include Brad Klontz, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir (Princeton), Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, Morgan Housel.
• Adam — sleep, energy, and habits. Insomnia and an off schedule, constant fatigue, habits that don’t stick, cravings for sweets, cigarettes, vaping, alcohol, phones and games, a loved one who drinks or gambles. Not a doctor: no diagnoses, medication, or diets. Scenarios: 8. Authors include Gregg Jacobs (Harvard), Colleen Carney and Rachel Manber, BJ Fogg (Stanford), Judson Brewer (Brown), Christopher Fairburn (Oxford).
• Zoya — meaning and life changes. “I don’t know what I want or who I am,” hard decisions, moving abroad, midlife, retirement, “I have everything but no meaning,” the death of a loved one, fear of death. Doesn’t preach or hand out motivational quotes. Scenarios: 8. Authors include Viktor Frankl, Irvin Yalom (Stanford), Pauline Boss, Mary-Frances O’Connor, George Bonanno (Columbia University), Arthur Brooks (Harvard).
• Nadia — the assistant, always available. For when things feel overwhelming right now and you need to talk. She helps you figure out which specialist to see and passes on the gist so you don’t have to repeat yourself; between sessions she notes the key points for your specialist.

How a conversation goes

1. You can start without signing up. Tap “Start a conversation” and a chat with Nadia opens. Before the first message there is a short consent: confirm you are 18 or older and tick that the team may read conversations (a beta condition, see below).
2. Nadia finds out what brought you here — one or two questions — and hands the conversation to the right specialist with a note about the gist.
3. The specialist understands first, then advises. They ask clarifying questions and keep several working hypotheses about what is going on, checking them against what you say (you don’t see these). If it sounds like you should see a doctor, they say so directly and suggest which one.
4. After the specialist’s first reply, the service asks you to sign in with Telegram or Google so the conversation is saved. Without signing in, the conversation is deleted 48 hours after the last message.
5. A session is about an hour and a half of conversation (up to 40 of your messages). The specialist follows a step-by-step scenario for your topic and picks techniques and book passages for each message you send.
6. It ends with one doable step. You can accept it, reword it, or decline it — it is saved in your notebook. The next session is at least 30 hours later, giving you time to try the step. At the start of the next session, the specialist asks how it went.
7. Between sessions you can message Nadia. With your permission, a specialist can message you first in Telegram — for example, to ask about the step.
8. If your topic fits another specialist better, they will suggest a colleague and pass on what you discussed.

You can also dictate messages by voice, attach a document (the specialist reads it), keep your own notes in the notebook, and see “My path” — how your state changed from session to session.

What Dicamus remembers

• Long-term memory about you — a knowledge graph: what you shared, what you tried, what changed, with dates. A new session picks up where you left off instead of starting from scratch.
• Specialist notes and session summaries. When you move to another specialist, they get the gist, so you don’t have to repeat yourself.
• All of it can be deleted with one button (see below).

Methods and sources

Replies rely not only on the language model’s general knowledge but on a curated knowledge base: 82 books by psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers. The authors come from 30 universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. The books have been broken down into 258 tested techniques and 64 conversation scenarios.

• Approaches: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, self-compassion, the Gottman method and emotionally focused therapy for couples, CBT for insomnia, coaching.
• How it gets into a reply: for each message you send, semantic search finds up to four passages from the books, and techniques come from cards checked against the books’ text.
• The full list of books is in the library. The authors and universities are not affiliated with Dicamus.

Safety

• Before every reply, a separate model checks your message for signs of danger to life and health.
• If there are signs of risk, crisis mode turns on. The specialist does not cut the conversation short or send you away “to a professional” right off the bat: they stay with you and give live-help contacts at the end. If you are in danger right now — immediately: the emergency number and helplines by country (findahelpline.com).
• Dicamus is not an emergency service or a substitute for a doctor. If your life is in danger, call 112 or your local emergency number.

Privacy and data

• No personal data in your account. Your phone number, email, and Telegram or Google account are not stored — only an irreversible hash. You can use any name.
• Encryption. Conversations, notes, the notebook, and session summaries are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM). The key is neither in the database nor in backups, so a stolen database or backup is unreadable. Backups are encrypted as a whole.
• Who sees conversations. To reply, the relevant part of the conversation, without your name or contacts, is sent to a language model via OpenRouter. While the service is in beta, the Dicamus team reads conversations in anonymized form to improve the specialists: this is a separate required checkbox when you get started, and you can’t start without it.
• Deletion. One button in settings: your data disappears from the service immediately and is erased permanently after 30 days. After 30 days without activity (60 with a subscription), everything is deleted automatically.
• GDPR. Processing based on consent (explicit for health and personal-life information), data minimization, limited retention, and rights to access, correction, and deletion. Details are in the privacy policy.
• No data is sold, and there are no ads.

Pricing

The first session is free, plus one more for each friend you invite who starts a conversation. You can send Nadia 10 messages a day for free.

A plan is sessions plus a subscription for that period (with a subscription, up to 20 messages a day to Nadia). One-time payment, no auto-renewal. Your first purchase of any plan is 50% off. No more than 15 sessions per calendar month. Payment is in Telegram Stars or via lava.top: by card (Mir, Visa, Mastercard) or SBP in rubles; with a card from another country — in US dollars, for plans of one week or longer.

How Dicamus is different

• From a general AI chat (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others). Not one conversation partner “about everything,” but specialists with their own topics, scenarios, and books. There is structure: sessions, a step at the end, a notebook, and “how did it go?” next time. Long-term memory about you, a separate risk check on every message, and an account without email or phone number.
• From a human therapist. Cheaper, available any time, anonymous, no appointments or waiting. But it is not therapy: no diagnosis or treatment, and AI can make mistakes. If things are serious, you need a human professional, and Dicamus will tell you so directly.
• From apps with exercises and mood trackers. The core here is a conversation about your situation, with techniques chosen for it rather than handed out as a list.

Who it’s for — and who it isn’t

A good fit if you want to make sense of a situation and figure out what to do next, talk things through at any time, stay anonymous, and change habits little by little while testing steps in real life.

Not a fit if you are in danger right now and need emergency help, if you need a diagnosis, medication, or treatment, if you are under 18, or if you specifically need a human.

Who makes Dicamus

The service is provided by sole proprietor Adilet Akmatov (Kyrgyz Republic). Contact: adiletakmatovofficial@gmail.com, Telegram channel @dicamus_com, Instagram @dicamus_com.

Questions

Updated 2026-10-16.

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