A public kindness engine for New York City, an early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action.
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These are people, not bots. The engine will never try to talk you through a crisis itself.
Need to write to an office?
Eviction notice, denied benefit, medical bill, a landlord who will not answer: paste what happened and get back a calm draft to the right office with a checklist. Nothing is sent; you send it.
What do you need?
Tap one, or type a few words. The helper is a rule-based guide: it only ever points to real city and nonprofit services, and it never guesses.
Ask the engine
It answers from a fixed list first; anything else goes to a chatbot that reads only the engine's public record and can neither act nor send. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.