Made by a clinician,
for clinicians and community.
The studio designs, writes, and ships behavioral-change tools that clinicians and community health services license, brand, and make their own. Clinical judgment on one side, working software on the other. Hosted, hand-built, accountable to one phone number.
01The room
The studio exists because the rooms I sit in are missing tools. Counselors recommend apps. Most of those apps are built for consumers, not clients. Most have no clinical voice in them. The recommendation gap is real, and it is filled, on average, with software that has zero published efficacy evidence in substance-use disorder care.
Studio Sof is one person's attempt to close that gap. The premise is small. Make the apps a clinician would want to hand a client. Skip the consumer market. Sell to practitioners. Stay licensed, hosted, and accountable.
02The work
The studio holds two pillars in equal weight.
Productized adaptations. A practitioner says "I want something like this for my niche," and the studio adapts an existing app shell for their specific clients, voice, and evidence base. Weeks, not months. The shell is the same engine that powers the off-the-shelf catalog. The adaptation is bespoke.
Hosted products. White-labelable behavioral-change apps a clinician or community health service can license, brand, and distribute. The un-X family ships first. Solo, practice, and clinic tiers. No client-facing app store. The clinician or the community network is the channel.
Across both pillars, the engine is the same. Nothing assembled. Every product is its own object, finished and considered.
“Let's see what is happening.”Studio Sof, voice anchor
03The voice
Observational, never motivational. The voice of a clinician in session. Calm, curious, never detached. Sentences end. The reader is not asked a question every paragraph.
No shame, no cheerleading, no "just quit." The work the practitioner is doing with their client is hard, and slow, and earned. The software does not patronize either party. It makes the automatic visible and gets out of the way.
04The practice
Sophie Solmini is an internationally certified alcohol and drug counselor (ICADC) and a Medication Assisted Treatment Specialist (MATS). The clinical work happens in counseling sessions and in liaison with practitioners and programs.
The other half is building. The interest in software is old and genuine, not a recent turn. The studio designs, writes, and ships its own apps rather than commissioning them out, which is why the products feel built rather than assembled. Sketches first, then prototypes, then small applications, then shipped products. The hobby became the second discipline, and the studio sits where the two meet.
What the two halves share is a standard for evidence. A clinician is trained to separate what works from what only looks like it works, and to ask what the research says before reaching for it. The studio builds to the same test. A feature earns its place by what it changes for a client, not by how it looks in a demo. Where the evidence is thin, the studio says so.
Toronto and Dubai are the two work locations. Sessions, builds, and writing happen across both.
05The architecture
Hosted on the studio's infrastructure. Hand-built in the studio's stack. No IP transferred to the buyer. No code resold. No client data routed to a third party, ever.
Encryption at rest. TLS in transit. Data export and delete rights for every end user. Consent on first open. No PostHog. No Google Analytics. No Mixpanel. No Hotjar. No Facebook Pixel. The privacy-by-default architecture is a brand commitment, not a checkbox.
06Working with the studio
If your practice or your network serves a clinical population the off-the-shelf market does not, the studio adapts. If you want to license a product as-is and put it under your own brand, the catalog is open. Either path starts the same way.
Write to sophie.solmini@gmail.com with one paragraph about the room you sit in and the clients or users you would put the tool in front of.