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Taras Pohrebniak

Founder & CEO, Elomia Health

Taras Pohrebniak is the founder and CEO of Elomia Health, an AI mental-health companion he started building in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2019 — years before ChatGPT. He describes Elomia as "Claude Code, but built for mental health": an agentic architecture that spends roughly 70% of its tokens on safety, deployed in US correctional facilities, healthcare clinics, and front-line Ukraine. He argues hyper-realistic, dependence-inducing voice is a deliberate non-goal in a high-stakes domain.