✦ Incubated at IIIT Allahabad · StartinUP

Emotional
Climate
Intelligence

CogniEase builds AI-powered systems that help institutions understand and respond to the emotional well-being of their people — anonymously, ethically, and in real time.

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Zero PII Stored
NEP 2020 Aligned
DPIIT Registered
taru
तरु · Sanskrit for Tree · Growth · Life
Institutional Mood Climate — Live
Hopeful
68%
Stressed
42%
Neutral
55%
Distressed
18%
200M+
Indians affected by mental health disorders
The Problem — In Numbers & Stories

The silence costs
more than we admit.

Mental health distress in India's institutions is not invisible because it doesn't exist. It is invisible because no system exists to see it — until it becomes a crisis. These numbers represent real people.

56%
of students in India report moderate to severe psychological distress
AIIMS–NCMH, 2023
200M+
Indians affected by mental health disorders — the world's largest absolute number
NIMHANS National Survey
41%
of young adults report anxiety symptoms but never seek help due to stigma
Vandrevala Foundation, 2023
3.1Cr
students across schools and colleges in Uttar Pradesh alone — with minimal institutional mental health infrastructure
UP Education Dept., 2024
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The student who never said anything.
She sat in every class. Submitted every assignment. Smiled in every group photo. Nobody knew she had been struggling for eight months. There was no system that could see what she was carrying. Institutions measure attendance, grades, placements. Nobody measures emotional climate — until someone breaks.
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The institution that wanted to help but couldn't.
Most administrators genuinely want to create safer environments. But they have no data. They respond to crises — not patterns. TARU gives institutions the ability to see the pattern before it becomes a crisis, without ever compromising the privacy of a single person.
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Why anonymity is not optional.
In India's institutional culture, the fear of being identified as struggling carries real consequences. Any mental health tool that requires identity will be abandoned or lied to. TARU was designed from the ground up with anonymity as its foundation. Zero personal data. Ever.
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The moment NEP 2020 changed everything.
For the first time, national education policy explicitly mandates institutional responsibility for student mental well-being. The 2025 Labour Reforms extend this to workplaces. India's policy framework has arrived. The tools haven't — until now. TARU is built precisely for this moment.
TARU
तरु · Tree · Growth · Shelter · Life
Our Product

TARU is an anonymous AI-powered emotional mood climate platform. Students and employees check in daily — no login, no identity, no fear. The system processes sentiment, generates an Emotional Climate Index, and delivers actionable insights to institutional administrators in real time.

It is not a therapy app. It is not a crisis hotline. It is the early warning system that should have existed all along.

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Anonymous Check-In
1–5 mood scale plus optional text. No login. No personal data. Access via QR code or link. Under 30 seconds. Designed so that anyone, anywhere, will actually use it.
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NLP Sentiment Engine
DistilBERT-based model trained on mental health language. Generates a unified Emotional Climate Index (ECI) by combining text sentiment with numeric mood input.
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Institutional Dashboard
Mood heatmaps, department-level breakdowns, trend analysis, and distress hotspot detection — all aggregate, all anonymous. Patterns, never individuals.
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Zero PII Architecture
Anonymisation is built into the system's core, not added as a feature. No personal identifiable information is ever stored, transmitted, or processed. DPDP Act compliant.
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Intelligent Alerts
When institutional ECI falls below threshold for 3+ consecutive days, administrators are notified automatically — enabling proactive intervention before crisis.
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Compliance Reports
Monthly PDF reports aligned with NEP 2020 mental well-being mandates and 2025 Labour Reform requirements. Evidence-based documentation for institutional governance.
About CogniEase

Built from
understanding,
not assumption.

CogniEase Techno Labs was founded in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh — and will remain here. Not because there was no other choice, but because we believe the ecosystem needs to be built here, not just extracted from here.

Our founder brings MSc Botany, UGC NET in Social Medicine and Community Health, and years of research at the intersection of public health and human systems. TARU was not designed by people who read about mental health. It was built by someone who has lived close to it and studied it deeply.

We are incubated at IIIT Allahabad's innovation ecosystem — with access to technical talent, institutional networks, and research infrastructure. MIND.TECH.EASE — that's not just our tagline. It's our operating principle.

Community before capital
Every design decision in TARU is made by asking what serves the user's dignity first.
India-specific, not imported
Our models, language, and cultural understanding of stigma are built for Indian institutional realities.
Rooted in Prayagraj
We are building proof that world-class products can emerge from anywhere in India — and stay there.
Incubated At
IIIT Allahabad Innovation Ecosystem
Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad — providing incubation support, infrastructure access, and mentorship for early-stage deep-tech startups.
Registered Under
StartInUP — Government of Uttar Pradesh
Officially registered startup under the UP Startup Policy 2020, Department of IT & Electronics, Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Registration Number
StartInUP · DPIIT
R/STARTUP/UP/LKO/2025/000041227
Get In Touch

Let's build
safer institutions
together.

Whether you're an institution interested in piloting TARU, a researcher who wants to collaborate, or someone who believes in what we're building — we want to hear from you.

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cogniease.co.in
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support@cogniease.co.in
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Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Incubated at IIIT Allahabad