Frequently asked questions

In radio engineering, syntony is the condition of two circuits being tuned to the same frequency — in resonance. In psychology, it describes being in tune with your environment and yourself. We use it to mean both: a mind operating from clear signal rather than noise, in genuine resonance with reality rather than a distorted version of it.

No. Syntonic is not a medical device, not a licensed therapeutic service, and not a substitute for professional mental health care. It's a thinking tool — it helps you examine patterns, understand dynamics, and develop more accurate models of your situation. If you're in crisis or need clinical support, please reach out to a qualified professional.

General AI assistants are trained to be helpful across everything. Syntonic is trained on a specific knowledge base — 90 days of original human-AI alignment research and over 900 classified artifacts across 12 disciplines — built around one question: how do minds and systems lose the capacity to learn accurately from their own experience, and what restores it? That specificity changes the quality of the response for these particular kinds of questions. It's the difference between a general practitioner and a specialist.

The same structural dynamics show up across very different domains — relationships, institutions, media ecosystems, recovery, learning. The focus lenses let you choose which vocabulary Syntonic uses to render those dynamics. "Inner patterns" uses therapeutic framing. "Systems & power" uses political and institutional framing. The underlying model is the same; the translation layer changes to match where you're coming from. You can select up to three at once.

Conversations are de-identified and may be used to improve Syntonic. We don't build a profile of you, don't log your name or identity, and don't sell your data. Each conversation is treated as independent. See the full Privacy Policy for details.

Syntonic is in active development. The knowledge base, reasoning layer, and interface are all evolving. We're keeping the early cohort small so we can actually learn from what's happening in conversations — not just ship to scale. The people who get access now are helping shape what this becomes.

Email hello@syntonic.io. Tell us what brought you here and what you'd want to use it for. We read everything.