Pocket Sponsor
Custom Sponsor in Your Pocket.
Immediate accountability, 24/7. Choose your sponsor's personality—from gentle guidance to the brutal truth—grounded strictly in recovery literature.
Technical Case Study
The Challenge
Cravings don't wait for business hours, and human sponsors have to sleep. The user needs immediate, personalized feedback when they are in crisis, but standard AI chatbots lack the specific vernacular and tough-love approach of genuine 12-Step sponsorship.
The Architecture
Pocket Sponsor utilizes specialized System Prompts wrapping a Large Language Model to enforce strict personality boundaries, all housed within a secure iOS environment.
- Dynamic Prompting: The "Old Timer" mode actively rewrites system instructions on the fly to deliver blunt, no-nonsense feedback rooted in the literature.
- Local Context Retention: To protect anonymity, all conversation history is stored locally on the user's device via SQLite, ensuring sensitive confessions never sit on a cloud database.
- iOS Native Build: Developed specifically for the Apple ecosystem to leverage secure enclave technologies and deliver a fluid, native chat experience.
Always in Your Corner
Engineered for immediate intervention and continuous growth.
The Old Timer
Unlock the hardass mode. Get the brutal, unvarnished truth when you're caught in a lie or romanticizing a relapse.
Literature Grounded
Every response is strictly fenced within the principles of accepted 12-Step source texts.
Emergency Protocols
One-tap "I want to use" feature instantly routes the conversation into high-priority de-escalation logic.
Zero-Knowledge Storage
Your secrets stay on your phone. Chat history is encrypted locally and never analyzed by third parties.
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