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Building the AI life partner for mothers
AlphaMa is a voice-first AI companion for mothers, built by a mother. This page is for journalists, analysts, and researchers covering maternal mental health, the invisible mental load, and AI for women.
Fact sheet
| Company | OpenSphere AI Inc. (DBA AlphaMa) |
|---|---|
| Founder and CEO | Shivi Agarwal |
| Founded | 2025 |
| Headquarters | Greater Toronto Area, Canada |
| Category | Voice-first AI for maternal mental health |
| iOS launch | Live on the App Store, free for founding members |
| Android | Waitlist open at alphamothers.com/waitlist |
| Research publication | The Alpha Mothers Framework: Four Layers of the Invisible Crisis (January 15, 2026) |
Key statistics
From The Alpha Mothers Framework: Four Layers of the Invisible Crisis (Agarwal, 2026). 60+ peer-reviewed sources.
| Figure | What it measures |
|---|---|
| $11 trillion | Annual global economic cost of women's mental health crisis |
| 75% | Women's mental health conditions that go undiagnosed |
| 73% | Share of household cognitive labor performed by mothers |
| 7 years | Average delay from perimenopause symptom onset to correct diagnosis |
| 1 in 4 | Mothers who exit the workforce in year 1 postpartum |
| $600,000 | 30-year lifetime earnings gap (working mother vs comparable man) |
Founder bio
Shivi Agarwal
Founder and CEO, AlphaMa
Shivi Agarwal is the founder of AlphaMa and author of the research paper The Invisible Crisis: Women's Mental Health Across Every Life Transition. A tech professional with 10+ years at Infosys, Deloitte, and Salesforce, she completed Stanford's Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning course while working at Salesforce.
She is building AlphaMa on her second maternity leave, from the lived experience of carrying the invisible mental load. Based in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.
Media contact
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