Neurovus, Early Warning Infrastructure for First Responders
First responder
Built for first responders. Trusted by departments.

We're building the early warning system first responder departments don't have yet.
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Most mental health systems activate at crisis.
Neurovus activates at drift, three weeks before the breakdown, before the call, before it's too late.

Not therapy. Not a hotline. Infrastructure.

84%
of first responders
report burnout symptoms
74%
of departments have
no early-warning system
~18×
higher suicide rate vs.
line-of-duty deaths

Pilot Program — Applications Open
5 departments currently in conversation
25 first responders signed up for early access
Pilot cohort launching Q3 2026, department spots limited
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For Department Leaders
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Join the pilot cohort launching Q3 2026. Your department helps shape a platform that will carry your name on it. Five departments currently in conversation.

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A VA Medical Director. A SAMHSA CIO. A $4B federal agency background. A named clinical framework. Pre-seed round open. Q3 2026 pilot launch. View the platform demo and request the deck.

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The Team Behind It
Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts
Founder & President
Firefighter and trauma recovery advocate
Pamela Roberts
Pamela Roberts
Co-Founder & VP Marketing
Former Marriott global lead, NFL/NBA/PGA partnerships
Krisn Ramcharitar
Krisn Ramcharitar
Chief Technology Officer
15+ years HIPAA-compliant cloud-native platform engineering
Marie Gumá
Marie Gumá
Clinical Lead
Creator of the Gumá Method™, doctoral researcher in first responder neurobiology
Dr. Richard Popwell
Dr. Richard Popwell
Medical Director
Board-certified neurologist, Associate Chief of Staff at the VA
Don Cox
Don Cox
Advisor
Former CIO of SAMHSA, directed technology for a $4B federal agency
Jonathan Christie
Jonathan Christie
Advisor
Led $30M+ cybersecurity programs for Canada's Dept. of National Defence

What Neurovus Is

Infrastructure for the gap
nobody closes.

Every major system built for first responder mental health waits for the same moment: the one where someone finally says they're not okay.

By that point, the drift has been building for weeks. The behavioral signals were there. The biometric data was moving. Nobody was watching.

Neurovus sits in that gap. It monitors sleep trends, HRV patterns, mood trajectories, and behavioral signals, quietly, continuously, without clinical labeling. When patterns shift, the platform surfaces early information to the humans who are authorized to act on it.

No diagnosis. No surveillance. No algorithm making decisions about people's careers. Infrastructure. The kind that shows up before the breakdown does.

  • 01
    Non-diagnostic awareness
    Pattern recognition without clinical labels, flags, or career risk. No one gets categorized. No one gets flagged.
  • 02
    14-day trajectory, not a snapshot
    Direction matters more than a single data point. Neurovus tracks where you've been heading, not just where you are today.
  • 03
    Human-authorized escalation. Always.
    AI surfaces the signal. Humans decide every next step. Peers, sponsors, wellness officers, not an algorithm.
  • 04
    Privacy by architecture
    Individual data belongs to the individual. Leadership sees only anonymous aggregates. HIPAA and GDPR compliant, not as a policy, as the structure.

How the platform works

Five capabilities.
One purpose.

Neurovus doesn't replace your peer support team. It gives them earlier information, and gives every first responder a clearer picture of where they're headed before they feel it themselves.

Pattern awareness visualization
Feature 01

Pattern Awareness,
Not Diagnosis

Neurovus monitors behavioral signals over a 14-day rolling window, sleep trends, mood check-ins, engagement patterns, and shows direction, not diagnosis. Not what's wrong. Where you've been heading.

14-day window · No clinical labels · No career risk
Wearable biometric data
Feature 02

Your Body Keeps Score
Before You Do

Connect your wearable, Apple Watch, Oura, Garmin, WHOOP, and Neurovus reads what your body records before your mind registers it. HRV dips. Resting heart rate climbs. Sleep fragments. Single-day noise becomes two-week signal.

Apple Watch · Oura · Garmin · WHOOP · HRV · Sleep
Recovery guidance
Feature 03

Recovery Built for
How You Actually Live

When patterns shift, Neurovus delivers targeted recovery guidance, breathwork, grounding, sleep protocols, timed to your data. Not a generic wellness plan. Practical tools sized for the gap between calls.

Breathwork · Grounding · Sleep protocols · Shift-aware timing
Department visibility dashboard
Feature 04

Department Visibility
Without Surveillance

Leadership gets what they've never had: aggregate stress trends across the department, with zero individual data exposure. Seasonal load patterns. Shift-related recovery deficits. Anonymous. Non-punitive. Actionable.

Anonymous aggregates · No individual exposure · Command dashboard
Human oversight
Feature 05

Three Layers of Human Oversight.
Not Optional. Architectural.

AI detects patterns. It does not escalate, notify, or act alone. Three explicit human authorizations stand between any signal and any action. Your data cannot be used against you. That is not a policy. It is the architecture.

HIPAA compliant · GDPR compliant · Zero punitive data use
Layer 1
AI detects drift
Layer 2
Peer or sponsor reviews
Layer 3
Wellness officer authorizes

Why Neurovus

Built different.
For a reason.

Every system built for first responder mental health was designed for the moment someone finally speaks up. Neurovus was built for the three weeks before that moment.

Clinical Foundation

The neurological research behind Neurovus is led by Marie Gumá, MS, NCIT, creator of the Gumá Method™ and author of the Clinical Recommendation Protocol for the NADF. Her framework, built on a decade of embedded practice with firefighters, EMTs, law enforcement, and dispatchers, is the scientific foundation that separates Neurovus from every general wellness platform on the market.

Point 01

It activates at drift, not crisis.

By the time someone says they're burned out, the pattern has been building for months. Neurovus sees it three weeks earlier. Not because it's smarter, because it's watching the right signals, continuously, before anyone has to say a word.

Point 02

It respects the culture.

No clinical labels. No mandatory disclosure. No individual data visible to command. Built for strength and autonomy, not despite first responder culture. Because of it.

Point 03

AI detects. Humans decide. Always.

Every meaningful action requires explicit human authorization. Your peers, your sponsor, your wellness officer, not an algorithm, determine what happens next. The platform cannot escalate, notify, or act on its own. Ever.

Point 04

It measures movement, not moments.

A low HRV on one day is noise. A 14-day downward trajectory is a signal. Neurovus is the only platform built to tell the difference, and to surface it before it becomes a crisis, a leave of absence, or a statistic.

How Neurovus compares

Most departments rely on Employee Assistance Programs that activate only when someone self-reports. Some use platforms like BetterHelp or Spring Health adapted for a general workforce. None were built to watch the signals before the conversation.

EAPs / General Wellness Platforms Neurovus
Activation pointCrisis, after someone self-reportsDrift, 2-3 weeks before crisis
Data visibilityIndividual data visible to HR or commandIndividual data stays private. Only anonymous aggregates shared
Clinical labelingDiagnosis-based, creates career riskPattern-based, no labels, no flags
EscalationAutomated alerts, algorithm decidesHuman-authorized only, three layers of oversight
Culture fitBuilt for general workforce, adapted for first respondersBuilt specifically for first responder culture from day one
MeasurementPoint-in-time assessments14-day rolling trajectory
Firehouse table
The firehouse table is still where it gets fixed.
Neurovus helps you find who needs to sit at it.

Mission & Vision

The gap is not a resource problem.
It's a timing problem.

First responders
84%
of first responders report active burnout symptoms
74%
of departments have no early-warning system in place
~18×
higher first responder suicide rate vs. line-of-duty deaths
Mission

Close the lag. Before it costs a life.

To reduce the lag between stress accumulation and meaningful human engagement, starting with the people who carry the heaviest load. First responders go to work so others don't have to face the worst alone. Neurovus exists so they don't have to face it alone either.

Vision

A world where no first responder reaches crisis alone.

A world where the pattern was seen, a human was notified, and the conversation happened three weeks earlier. Not because someone finally broke. Because the infrastructure was watching, and the right person sat down at the right table at the right time.

Every algorithm Neurovus runs operates within human-defined boundaries. Every escalation requires human authorization. Every piece of data belongs to the person it came from. This is not policy. It is the architecture. And it will never change, because the trust of the people who use this platform is the only thing that makes it work.


The Team

Built by people who've
been in the room.

Neurovus was not built in a boardroom. It was built by people who understand what it costs to carry a weight nobody talks about.

Gary Roberts
Gary Roberts
Founder & President
LinkedIn

A firefighter and trauma recovery advocate, Gary built Neurovus after witnessing firsthand the silent accumulation of stress that precedes breakdown in first responder communities. His work bridges the lived experience of emergency response with a systems-builder's understanding of where awareness tools fail. Neurovus is his answer to the question no one was asking early enough: what does drift look like before it becomes crisis?

Pamela Roberts
Pamela Roberts
Co-Founder & VP Marketing
LinkedIn

Pamela brings enterprise-scale marketing leadership to Neurovus. At Marriott Corporation she led global strategy across all programs with a $25M budget, including landmark partnerships with the NFL, NBA, and PGA. Her track record of building brand trust at institutional scale shapes how Neurovus shows up for every department, partner, and first responder it serves.

Krisn Ramcharitar
Krisn Ramcharitar
Chief Technology Officer

A cloud-native infrastructure architect with over 15 years building secure, scalable systems, Krisn has served as CTO across multiple healthcare technology ventures with deep expertise in zero-trust architecture, HIPAA-compliant platform engineering, and AI/ML infrastructure on Google Cloud. He understands that privacy-first architecture isn't a feature, it's the foundation.

Marie Gumá
Marie Gumá, MS, NCIT
Co-Investigator & Clinical Lead

Founder of Command Counseling Center and doctoral researcher in first responder neurobiology. Creator of the Guma Method™ and author of the Clinical Recommendation Protocol for the NADF. A decade of embedded practice with firefighters, EMTs, law enforcement, and dispatchers. "Not a mental health crisis, a neurological injury crisis."

Dr. Richard Popwell
Dr. Richard Popwell, MD
Medical Director
LinkedIn

Board-certified neurologist and physician leader with over two decades of clinical and executive experience. Associate Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Co-Founder and CMO of DocSide Inc. Provides neurological oversight of the NeuroAdaptive Drift Framework.

Advisory Board
Jonathan Christie
Jonathan Christie
Public Sector & Enterprise Risk

Technology strategist and cybersecurity leader with over 30 years guiding large-scale digital transformation across government and enterprise. Led cloud and cybersecurity programs valued at over $30M for Canada's Department of National Defence. Ensures the platform's governance architecture meets the standards required by institutional buyers.

Advisory Board
Don Cox
Don Cox
AI Governance, Healthcare Compliance & Federal Health Strategy

Transformational technology executive with 25 years of CIO and CISO leadership across federal government, national healthcare systems, and regulated enterprise environments. As CIO of SAMHSA, directed technology strategy for a $4B federal agency and served as primary technology liaison across FDA, CMS, NIH, CDC, and HRSA. As CISO at Mednax, led enterprise cybersecurity across 25,000 employees in all 50 states.

Advisory Board
Stephen Balaban
Stephen Balaban, CLEE
Grant Strategy & Funding

President of Pine Valley Consulting. Grants management specialist supporting Neurovus's non-dilutive funding strategy. Brings deep expertise in navigating public sector and foundation grant pathways for early-stage health technology companies, giving Neurovus a capital-efficient path to pilot deployment.