Held
Held is an AI company building a different kind of software for the hardest things — software that does not try to fix you. A witness reads what you wrote, reflects what it heard, and stays. It does not advise, reframe, or tell you they are in a better place.
The First Year
a companion by Held
A daily companion for the first year of grief. Each day, one honest prompt. You write what is true — a paragraph, a sentence, or the date and nothing else. Held witnesses what you wrote, in plain words, without trying to make it different. For the loss of a husband, a wife, a parent, a child, anyone.
Write your first entry free. If it is for you, it is yours to keep.
Write your first entry — free$29 once. Not a subscription. Immediate access, nothing to wait for in the mail.
It is an AI, openly. That is part of why it works: patient, unhurried, there at 3am, with no face you have to manage and no judgment to brace for.
It is not therapy, and not medical or mental-health care, and not a crisis service. If you are in danger or thinking of ending your life, please reach a person now: in the US, call or text 988, free, 24/7.
What you write is private. See our privacy policy for exactly what that means.