Behavioral Health AI
N

Nudge AI

Nudge AI is a behavioral health documentation platform for psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and psychiatric nurse practitioners, producing psychiatric evaluations, therapy progress notes and treatment plans, and reaching into level of care documentation that most competitors ignore, including partial hospitalisation daily progress notes for substance use disorder programmes written to Medicare requirements. Its transfer mechanism is more capable than the paste workflows common at this end of the market: a Chrome extension it calls EHR Copilot fills fields in the record with one click, including checklists, radio buttons and structured fields rather than dropping a block of text. It carries three named controls rare at this size, AES-256 encryption, audit logging and CONSENT TRACKING, the last being a feature almost nothing else in this index ships. The reason to read its coding behaviour closely is that it does not only suggest codes: it identifies billing opportunities such as psychotherapy add ons and AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES THE JUSTIFICATIONS for them, which is producing the evidence that supports a claim rather than recording what happened.

Last VerifiedJuly 23, 2026
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Founded
Headquarters
Website
getnudgeai.com/
Categories
behavioral-health, ambient-scribes
Assessment

Capability Axes

AI Capability
AI Centrality
A
Vendor Published

Capture, note generation, template conversion, coding and the session and patient level analytics are all model output, with no services layer underneath.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
C
Vendor Published

A review step is described, with the clinician reviewing and refining the draft through instruction based editing and able to regenerate against a different template. What pushes this to C is what happens without review: diagnostic codes are ASSIGNED AUTOMATICALLY, and the billing assistant AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES ADD ON JUSTIFICATIONS. Writing the justification for a billing code is a materially different act from suggesting the code, because it produces the documentary evidence a payer would examine rather than a recommendation a clinician evaluates. Combined with one click population of structured fields, checklists and radio buttons, a clinician can move from recording to a fully coded and justified chart entry with very little friction, and no confidence threshold, accuracy figure or abstention behaviour is published for any of it.

Model and Technology Transparency
C
Vendor Published

No accuracy figure, model card, named models or evaluation methodology located. Positioning rests on superlatives, describing itself as the most advanced documentation platform built for healthcare professionals, and the EHR count is stated inconsistently across sources at more than 50 in some places and more than 140 in others.

Clinical and Operational Evidence
C
Vendor Published

No study, controlled evaluation, accuracy benchmark, third party rating, named customer or deployment count located. The single performance claim, saving more than eight hours weekly, carries no denominator, cohort or method.

AI Safety and PHI Stewardship
B
Vendor Published

Three named controls, one of which is close to unique in this index. AES-256 encryption and audit logging are stated, and so is CONSENT TRACKING, which makes patient consent a recorded, auditable object rather than a policy or a suggested script. Across this whole wave only four other vendors address consent at all and none ships it as a tracked feature. Held at B because no retention schedule, de identification practice or statement on whether customer content trains models was located, and PHI stewardship is the weighted axis in this segment where the input is recorded psychotherapy.

Regulatory and Compliance
HIPAA and BAA Posture
B
Vendor Published

HIPAA compliance is stated and business associate agreements are supported, but with a qualification worth noticing: BAA support is described as being FOR ENTERPRISE USE. A solo therapist on an individual subscription should confirm directly whether they receive one, because on this reading they may not, and a behavioral health clinician recording sessions without a BAA in place is exposed regardless of how the software behaves.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
Not rated

Not assessed. Encryption and audit logging are controls rather than attestations, and no named or dated certification and no trust centre was located.

FDA and Regulatory Status
Not rated

Not a regulated medical device and none claimed or required for documentation. The regulatory exposure that matters here is payment integrity rather than device oversight, given automatic diagnostic code assignment and generated billing justifications.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
C
Vendor Published

At the aggressive end of C, and the language is the vendor's own. It describes identifying BILLING OPPORTUNITIES such as psychotherapy add ons, naming CPT 90833 specifically, assessing session complexity to recommend medical decision making codes, helping clinicians MAXIMISE REIMBURSEMENT, and facilitating increases in reimbursement PER SESSION. Generating the justification for an add on code is the sharpest form of this found anywhere in the wave, because the system is producing the very documentation that would be examined if the claim were questioned. Real counterweights exist and belong in the same paragraph: the notes are framed as audit proof and as demonstrating medical necessity, consent is tracked, and actions are audit logged, all of which point at defensibility rather than only at revenue. What is absent is any fairness statement, subgroup analysis or performance disclosure, and no language coverage beyond English.

Integration and Deployment
EHR and Interoperability Depth
B
Vendor Published

A meaningfully better transfer mechanism than the paste workflows typical at this price point. The Chrome extension operates from the record screen and populates fields with one click including checklists, radio buttons and structured fields, not just a block of narrative, which is the difference between filling a form and pasting into one. Breadth is claimed across 50 or more EHRs in most materials and 140 or more in another, an inconsistency worth resolving. Held at B because this is still browser level field population rather than a sanctioned data channel, so it inherits the brittleness and audit trail questions this index notes for robotic process automation.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
Not rated

Not assessed. Delivered as a web platform with a Chrome extension, but no hosting region, residency option or sub processor detail was located.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
C
Third Party Estimated

A genuine free trial is published at no cost with five notes and no credit card required, which lets a clinician evaluate the output before committing. Beyond that, subscription pricing of roughly 85 to 99 US dollars a month appears on a third party directory rather than on the vendor's own materials, and enterprise pricing is not described at all despite the platform offering member management and analytics for organisations.

Setting and Specialty Coverage
B
Vendor Published

Behavioral health across the clinician types that actually practise it, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, counsellors and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners, producing psychiatric evaluations, therapy progress notes and treatment plans. Its distinguishing depth is by LEVEL OF CARE rather than by note format: it ships templates for partial hospitalisation daily progress notes in substance use disorder programmes written to Medicare and insurance documentation requirements, and for day treatment settings. Those are documentation regimes with their own regulatory expectations and almost nothing else in this index addresses them. Templates are created by pasting an existing note for the system to replicate. English only.

Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis BAA Tier Implementation Source
Free trial with 5 notes, no credit card. Subscription reported at roughly $85 to $99 per month by a third party directory.
$85 baseline
Per clinician subscription with a free trial, plus unpriced enterprise tier offering member management, permissions and analytics. HIPAA compliance stated. BAA support described as being for ENTERPRISE use — solo clinicians should confirm they receive one. None published. Chrome extension installs against the existing EHR with no integration project. Third Party Estimated

A real free trial is published at five notes with no credit card, and subscription pricing of roughly 85 to 99 US dollars a month appears on a third party directory rather than the vendor's own site, so confirm it. Two questions matter more than the rate for a solo behavioral health clinician. Whether a business associate agreement is available on an individual plan, since BAA support is described as enterprise, and recording psychotherapy without one is exposure no product feature offsets. And what review the vendor expects before a generated add on justification is submitted, because the system writes the documentation supporting the code rather than only proposing the code, and the clinician signing the note owns the claim.

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July 23, 2026
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