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Heyrafiki
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Redefining Accessible & Inclusive Mental Healthcare for the Next Billion.

So Finding and Funding the Right Support stops being Confusing, Costly or Lonely, for People, Practitioners, Insurers and Organizations.

Heyrafiki is being built for People Finding Care., Practitioners Delivering Care., Insurers Funding Care., Organizations Supporting People.

We are building the Infrastructure for Care.

Mental Healthcare is something everyone needs at some point. For most People it is still hard to find, hard to afford and hard to navigate.

Behind every Session sits a messy system of referrals, invoices, insurance forms and scattered tools trying to hold it all together. When that system strains, People wait, Practitioners burn out, and money stalls.

We are building a better system, one that carries all of it underneath, out of everyone's way.

A note from our Team

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Why we exist.

Therapy Sessions are one piece of Mental Healthcare. Just as important is how:

  • People find support they can trust and afford
  • Practitioners run sustainable Practices
  • Insurers fund Care they can verify
  • Employers and Universities support their People without exposing them
  • Communities carry each other through hard seasons

Every Session depends on coordination across different tools, teams and systems. Most of those tools were built for one side of the Conversation. They break down when Care becomes a system involving Payments, Coverage and many hands.

And when it breaks, People do not get the help they need. That is what we are fixing.

What we are building.

Care should not depend on tools tacked on beside the work. It should be part of how the whole system runs.

Heyrafiki sits underneath Matching, Sessions, Notes, Claims and Payments, keeping Care and funding connected.

Identity
Clinical

Private by design

Identity and clinical data live apart. Consent decides what moves.

Heyrafiki

Interoperable

Built on open healthcare standards, so systems can work together.

Reliable at scale

From one Session to a national Benefits program, the rails hold.

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Iris drafts
You decide

Human first

Iris drafts, matches and organizes. Every decision about Care belongs to a Person.

What makes us different.

Infrastructure-first

A shared layer for Care, Benefits and Payments across every part of the system.

AI-Native, Human-First

Iris, our intelligence layer, drafts, matches and organizes. People always hold the decisions.

Open by design

Built Open Source, so the whole Sector can inspect it, extend it and hold it accountable.

Money that moves

Practitioners are paid instantly, not eventually, and every price is visible before anyone books.

Science-backed

Every Check comes from a published, validated Instrument, with the source listed beside it.

Made for Africa, built for the World

Starting in Kenya means designing for mobile money, multilingual Care and fragmented coverage from the first release.

What We Believe.

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Care is a Human Right, not a Luxury.

Cost, Distance and Confusion are engineering problems, and engineering problems can be solved.

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The Person in front of you comes First.

Technology carries the weight so Humans can carry each other.

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Trust is earned in the Open.

Science-Backed, Open Source and honest about what we do not know yet.

The People Building It.

Built by Industry Veterans across Healthcare, Insurance, Banking and Technology.

AstraZenecaCitibankDTBEquityAmref Health Africa KenyaAga Khan University HospitalZamaraSanlamDamanMicrosoft
Where it started

Two words: “Hey Rafiki.”

A text from a friend reached our founder, Daniel N. Moenga, on one of his hardest days, and became a company.

Read Our Story
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Join us in building the Infrastructure underneath Mental Healthcare.