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# What is Solomon?

## What is Solomon? <a href="#h_03703a3f7b" id="h_03703a3f7b"></a>

Solomon is a mobile-first app built around a single idea: that sobriety support should feel like talking to someone who genuinely understands, not like filling in a form or sitting in a waiting room.

At the centre of it is Sol - a warm, honest, knowledgeable companion who listens without judgment, supports without pressure, and helps without making you feel like a patient.

## Not your typical recovery app <a href="#h_96d9f5efb3" id="h_96d9f5efb3"></a>

Solomon is designed for people who want to change their relationship with alcohol but don't identify with traditional recovery culture. People who are high-functioning.

People who are privately struggling. People who aren't sure they have a "problem" but know something isn't right.

You don't need a label to use Solomon. You don't need to have decided anything.

You just need to want something to be different.

## What Solomon offers <a href="#h_2c2e4454b1" id="h_2c2e4454b1"></a>

#### A companion who listens <a href="#h_fb8481a26d" id="h_fb8481a26d"></a>

Sol opens with one question - What's brought you here today? - and the conversation goes from there. No forms. No mood ratings. No menu of topics.

#### Memory that grows with you <a href="#h_4bc40e79f3" id="h_4bc40e79f3"></a>

Sol can remember you between sessions, building a picture of you over time so each conversation starts from where the last one left off.

#### Structured support when you're ready <a href="#h_36a2d2893e" id="h_36a2d2893e"></a>

When you want more than conversation, Sol can guide you through the Phenomenal programme - a structured, ten-module approach to lasting change.

#### Written plans and documents <a href="#h_aa402adf00" id="h_aa402adf00"></a>

Sol can produce recovery plans, strategy documents, and structured outputs when that's what you need.

#### Built on the Phenomenal approach <a href="#h_0bbd9d3086" id="h_0bbd9d3086"></a>

Solomon is built on the Phenomenal programme - a sobriety framework created by David Henzell, who brings both professional experience in addiction therapy and personal lived experience of sobriety.

* Joy - sobriety isn't about what you're giving up. It's about what becomes possible.
* Identity - lasting change isn't about stopping something. It's about becoming someone.
* Meaning - people don't stay sober through willpower. They stay sober because they've found something worth staying sober for.

## What Solomon is not <a href="#h_17f42ad312" id="h_17f42ad312"></a>

{% hint style="warning" %}
Solomon is not a medical product, a clinical treatment, or a crisis service. It is not a substitute for professional support. If you are physically dependent on alcohol, please speak to your GP before making any changes.
{% endhint %}

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