Introducing Medito AI 🧘🪄
On personalized AI meditations and finding love in SF
I saw this very popular tweet the other day:
“San Francisco is the best place to find a cofounder and the worst place to find a wife.”
While I generally agree… I ended up meeting my remote co-founders online and I met my wife 4.5 years ago at a bar in the SF Castro neighborhood. We just got married 2 weeks ago!
As a good “mindful nerd”, I was even able to sneak in a short meditation during our wedding ceremony. A friend and mentor was kind enough to lead a beautiful arrival practice for us before the vows.
I’ve learned quite a few things about starting a company, preparing a wedding, and the complexities of doing both simultaneously. Stay tuned for a post with more reflections on that soon.
Introducing Medito AI 🧘🪄
In the (little) free time I’ve had over the last couple of months, I started experimenting with how the new generative AI tech may help build new and better tools for emotional resiliency and personal growth.
The result is my latest side project, Medito.ai.
Leveraging the power of AI, Medito is the meditation coach that evolves with you, reflecting your emotional state and intentions to create, within a minute, an exceptionally personal mindfulness experience.
Here’s why I think applications like Medito will evolve to be better, more effective, and more helpful than today’s most popular meditation apps:
One meditation, crafted just for you
Today’s popular meditation apps offer two options to get started: either search through a long list of pre-recorded meditations or settle for one-size-fits-all daily practices. Searching is fine, but it puts on the user the burden of identifying what they want or need to listen to. Even when you do find the perfect practice, it’s still not tailored to your specific situation: this is why most people who want to deepen their practice sooner or later start looking for personal teachers.
Medito instead generates custom meditation scripts based on the user’s inputs: their mood, thoughts, emotions, intentions, and other preferences.
The vision for it is to actively listen and adapt, learning from your inputs and progress to deliver meditations that truly resonate with you. It will know the history of your interactions, your background, your level of experience, and your current situation in order to deliver the most useful experience.
Journaling meets meditation
Journaling is another great tool with a wide range of benefits, from cultivating gratitude to consolidating ideas to setting goals and accountability.
Journaling and meditation go hand in hand, often practiced together.Apps like Medito bring this synergy to the next level by blending the two into the same experience: the journaling exercise translates into a very personal and relevant meditation practice. The practice results in new insights that can flow back into the tool creating increasingly more meaningful and useful practices. Note that I used the term “practices” because this feedback loop and virtuous cycle could involve in the future many different generated or recommended experiences.
Continuous, personalized learning
In today’s apps, progress happens via “learning paths”, a series of sessions developing around a topic, style, or theme.
Apps like Medito are able to remember individual progress, crafting the “next best session” for each user and breaking away from the linear, one-size-fits-all approach, similar to how a personal meditation teacher would follow some structure while also customizing the learning experience for each individual.
For this initial pilot, I’m giving out 3 free credits to everyone who joins.
I'd love it if you gave it a try and let me know what you think!
Now turning it to you. What feature would you want to see in Medito.ai next?
If you have additional thoughts or suggestions, please let me know in the comments or via DM 🙏
Be well and be kind,
Matteo
👏 All the best! I gave the meditation a try today :) grateful
so cool! I'm excited to see people use this.