About Riturn's AI Coach.

Riturn includes an AI Coach you can talk to about your daily ritual, your check-in, and how Ayurveda's tradition approaches what you're noticing. It's designed to be helpful — and it has hard limits by design. Here's exactly how it works.

What the Coach is

The Coach is an educational AI companion grounded in Ayurveda's framework. It helps you understand your daily check-in state, contextualize the rituals in your plan, and learn how Ayurveda's tradition views the patterns you're experiencing. It can also share how Ayurveda traditionally approaches conditions you're managing — always as supportive context alongside your existing medical care, never as a replacement for it.

What the Coach is not

The Coach is not a doctor, not a therapist, and not a clinical tool. It cannot diagnose a condition, prescribe a treatment, recommend a medication change, or provide specific dosages for any substance. It is not a substitute for professional medical care.

How the Coach handles health topics

When you ask about a condition you're managing — digestion patterns, energy, sleep quality, stress, or other ongoing concerns — the Coach can share how Ayurveda's tradition views that pattern and offer broad lifestyle and dietary considerations. This is supportive framing, not curative. The Coach will never claim to cure or treat a medical condition, and it will always encourage you to continue working with your doctor.

If you're in crisis

If you express thoughts of self-harm or suicide, the Coach stops everything else and connects you with crisis support. It will not offer Ayurvedic guidance in that moment — crisis routing overrides all other behavior.

In the US, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline).

Outside the US, please reach out to a local crisis line or someone you trust. The Coach is not the right resource for a mental health emergency.

No dosing recommendations

The Coach will not provide specific dosages — milligrams, grams, teaspoons, drops, or any other unit — for herbs, supplements, or any substance. An automated filter on Coach output strips numeric dosing language from every response. If you need specific dosing guidance, please consult a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner, naturopath, or licensed clinician.

Where the Coach's knowledge comes from

The Coach draws on two sources, in order of priority:

Primary: classical Ayurveda. Summarized teachings from the foundational Ayurvedic texts — the Charaka, Sushruta, and Vagbhata traditions. This is cultural and philosophical context, not a modern medical reference.
Secondary: practitioner protocols.Reference material drawn from licensed practitioners who collaborate with Riturn. These protocols are one trusted application of classical principles — they're subordinate to, not separate from, the classical framework.

Both sources are traditional teachings, not modern medical evidence. The Coach does not search the internet and does not improvise condition-specific guidance from its general training data.

Memory and your privacy

The Coach maintains limited memory across your conversations to make them more useful over time. This includes topic tags (broad categories like “sleep” or “morning practice” — never clinical labels), a summary of which refusal categories have been triggered, and a 30-day summary of your ritual patterns. The Coach never stores verbatim quotes from your conversations and never builds a clinical profile.

You control this data completely. Two surfaces in the Riturn app let you manage it:

Settings → Coach Memory — view and delete your stored topic tags, refusal history, and plan-context summary. You can also turn off Coach memory entirely, which permanently deletes all stored memory data.
Chat history sidebar → per-chat delete — delete all messages from a specific conversation.

Deletion is permanent and immediate — no soft-delete period, no recovery window. This is your data; you decide what stays.

When the Coach can't help directly

When you ask something that exceeds the Coach's scope — a diagnosis, a specific dosage, a medication decision, a drug-herb interaction — the Coach follows a three-step pattern:

Declines the specific ask.
Shares context— when appropriate, it explains how Ayurveda's tradition views the underlying topic.
Points you to the right person — a qualified practitioner, your doctor, or another appropriate resource.

This isn't the Coach being unhelpful. It's the Coach respecting what AI should and shouldn't do for health-adjacent topics. The one exception is crisis situations (above), where educational context is not appropriate and the Coach routes you to support immediately.

Limitations

AI can be wrong. The Coach is built on a large language model. Despite the knowledge sources, filters, and classifiers described above, it may occasionally generate inaccurate or misleading responses.
Always consult your doctorfor any health decision — including diet, exercise, supplement, or lifestyle changes you're unsure about.
This is beta software. Coach behavior is under active development. You may notice changes between conversations as we refine how it works.

Powered by Claude.

Riturn's Coach is built on Anthropic's Claude language model, governed by a behavior contract that we maintain ourselves. Every behavior described above is enforced by our system, not by Claude alone.