# Circuit Breaker Labs

> Crash-test dummies for conversational AI.

Circuit Breaker Labs provides independent safety red-teaming for conversational AI systems in high-stakes mental health contexts. The company helps teams building therapy bots, AI companions, emotional support chatbots, and care navigators find mental health vulnerabilities before real users encounter them.

## Core Positioning

Circuit Breaker Labs is for teams that need external validation that their AI system can handle distress, suicidal ideation, self-harm risk, and other mental health safety edge cases. The product pressure-tests models before deployment and during ongoing monitoring.

This is crash-testing, not a runtime guardrail. Circuit Breaker Labs does not sit inside an application telling the model what to say. It tests the model at scale, surfaces safety failures, scores severity, and reports what developers should fix.

## What Circuit Breaker Labs Tests

- Therapy bots and mental health chatbots
- Digital companions and emotional support tools
- AI care navigators and patient support systems
- Conversational AI products that may encounter distress, crisis language, or safety-sensitive user behavior

## How It Works

- Generates realistic conversations that mimic real distress patterns
- Tests messy real-world language, including slang, typos, coded phrases, and indirect disclosures
- Pushes test conversations through the customer's model
- Scores responses for safety risk and severity
- Produces clear reports that identify what needs to be fixed
- Supports continuous monitoring and expanded edge-case coverage
- Integrates through CLI, API, or GitHub Actions

## Differentiators

- Mental-health-specific red-teaming rather than generic AI evaluation
- Independent validation for customers that cannot credibly grade their own safety work
- Clinically realistic adversarial testing for nuanced risk signals
- Severity scoring that helps teams prioritize remediation
- Works across model providers, including commercial APIs and fine-tuned models
- Customer data stays in the customer's environment

## Public Resources

- Website: https://circuitbreakerlabs.ai/
- Whitepaper: https://circuitbreakerlabs.ai/whitepaper/
- Tradewinds press release: https://circuitbreakerlabs.ai/tradewinds/
- Sitemap: https://circuitbreakerlabs.ai/sitemap.xml
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/circuit-breaker-labs-ai/

## Tradewinds

Circuit Breaker Labs achieved DoD Tradewinds Awardable Status. This is a supporting validation signal for the company's work safeguarding AI in high-stakes mental health environments.

## FAQ

Q: Who is Circuit Breaker Labs for?
A: Teams building AI-based emotional support chatbots, digital companions, care navigators, therapy bots, and other conversational AI products that may encounter mental health risk.

Q: Is Circuit Breaker Labs a runtime guardrail?
A: No. It is a red-teaming and pressure-testing platform that finds vulnerabilities before users encounter them.

Q: Does Circuit Breaker Labs only work with ChatGPT?
A: No. It can test systems built on many model providers, including Claude, Mistral, commercial APIs, and fine-tuned models.

## Contact

Email: team@circuitbreakerlabs.ai