App Prototypes

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The turning point for the founder came when she began using AI to tidy her vast, inaccessible morning or late night braindumps. This alone was a transformative moment, and opened the door to start exploring the incredible opportunities to design systems and tools that truly support all styles of cognition, exactly as they come - rather than demanding the person conform to the system.

Mindsweeper is now a core functionality within Epoch. It is also is a deceptively simple but potentially life-changing standalone introduction to what AI can do to help brains that don’t work in straight lines.

BodyScan AI is a prototype for a rapid self-report tool built for today’s overstretched healthcare landscape, helping patients identify and communicate symptoms they might forget or overlook in rushed appointments. It is part of the Hyperthick(TM) Framework arou

It uses OpenAI’s API to guide a full-body scan through conversational prompts, capturing anything unusual—pain, changes, or sensations—and making sense of what matters.

In under a minute, it generates a clear, GP-ready summary with possible differential diagnoses, suggested next steps, and helpful language to support more accurate, efficient care.

Tired of squinting at appliance manuals written by engineers for other engineers while you simmer with confusion & rage? So were we.

That’s why we built HowDoAi — your AI-powered manual saviour. Whether you’ve lost the booklet, can’t read the tiny print, or just don’t speak thermostat, HowDoAi lets you find and chat with the manual for almost anything in your life, from home appliances to car radios.

Just type your real question — like “I’m going on holiday, what should I do with my boiler?” or “Can I make my freezer a bit warmer without spoiling the food?” — and our AI will guide you through it step by step, in plain language.

This isn’t flashy AI — it’s practical, everyday magic born from frustration. Like all things in the Mangrove ecosystem, it’s rooted in lived experience: the small, overlooked pain points that add up. Manuals shouldn’t make you feel stupid — they should help you feel capable. That’s not your fault. That’s bad UX.

So we fixed it:

Search manuals and online discussion forums.

Talk to them like a human, step by step, in conversation, just like you would with a helpful, handy friend at your side

Get help in any language, at your pace and level of technical know-how.

No more abandoned tasks or tech rage.

PersonaFy first in a series of service design-inspired tools that support designers, entrepreneurs, businesses to understand their target audiences, refine their design choices and take a more structured approach to how they do what they do.

HyperThick Framework

HyperThick is our flagship data architecture for qualitative, cognitive, and somatic research — designed to handle messy, non-linear, human data at scale.

While the broader framework supports a wide range of use cases, from coaching to clinical research, our current demo showcases a specific dataset: over 7 million words of unstructured text drawn from six months of the founder’s personal logs, spanning braindumps, research notes, client work, and theory development. This is paired with biometric data (including heart rate, HRV, and breath metrics), allowing researchers to explore correlations between language, cognition, and physiology in real time.