About Ayra Health

Clinical insight. Technical depth. Research rigor.

Built by clinical, technical, operational, and research experience.

Team signal

Clinical, technical, operational.

Built for behavioral health infrastructure.

Clinical
82%

15+ years in mental health practice.

Baseline
42%
to
Ayra
82%
How this started

Katie saw the gap inside her own practice.

Katie Thornton is an LCSW with 15 years in mental health and a cross-state practice across eight states.

Her practice worked. The infrastructure around it did not.

Patients moved. Boards asked questions. Deletion and payer proof stayed hard.

Katie could navigate it. Many clinicians cannot.

The practice continues. Ayra is the infrastructure response.

She co-founded Ayra Health to build it.

The founders

Three founders. One clinical advisor. The team behind SmartConsent.

Katie Thornton

Katie Thornton, LCSW

Co-Founder · Clinical Lead

15+ clinical years. 1,000+ patients. 9-state practice.

Her practice continues. Ayra answers the infrastructure gap.

Alex Thornton

Alex Thornton

Co-Founder · CEO

15 years in insurance tech, AI, claims, and underwriting.

Technical principal with controlled codebase custody. CTO hire follows Seed.

Clinical Advisor & Pilot Faculty PI

Lily Brown, PhD

UPenn Department of Psychiatry

Faculty Principal Investigator for the planned cross-border behavioral health pilot. Months-deep collaborator with Ayra Health on the Clinical Safety Gate Protocol.

What we believe

Three convictions that drive the work.

Care should hold across the lines patients move through.

Cross-state behavioral health needs audit infrastructure.

The strongest trust signal is verification you don't control.

"Trust us" is the weakest claim an infrastructure company can make. "Verify it yourself" is the strongest. So we built the audit chain so it can be independently checked.

Clinical judgment is irreplaceable. Audit posture is not.

Clinical judgment stays human. The proof layer can be automated.

Where we are

Houston, Texas. Distributed team. Codebase access-controlled.

Ayra Health is headquartered in Houston. The team is distributed. The codebase is private and access-controlled. The UPenn pilot is in planning; no public start date is set.

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