Solomon for Commissioners

Solomon is a trusted companion for people worried about their drinking, and for those already further into recovery.

Solomon is an AI companion designed for two groups: people who are worried about their relationship with alcohol but are not yet ready to engage with formal treatment, and people in sustained recovery who want ongoing support. It offers a private, non-judgmental space to talk, reflect, and take a first step, or to stay steady once they have.

Solomon is not a diagnostic tool and not a replacement for clinical care. It is designed to sit alongside existing support pathways, helping people move from uncertainty toward engagement, signposting, or referral where appropriate, and helping people already in recovery sustain it.

Why Solomon exists

Most people who experience harmful or hazardous alcohol use never access formal treatment. The gap between recognising a problem and asking for help is often where people are most isolated, least supported, and most likely to disengage. That same gap can reopen after treatment ends, when formal support falls away just as someone needs to hold onto what they've built.

Solomon is built for both of those moments. It offers conversational support without referral barriers, waiting lists, or the pressure to label oneself before being able to talk. It is available 24/7, requires no download, and asks nothing of the person except a willingness to start a conversation.

The scale of the gap

Over 600,000 adults in England are dependent on alcohol. Around four in five of them are not in treatment. The people Solomon is built for are, by definition, the ones your services are not currently reaching.

• 600,000+  adults dependent on alcohol in England (OHID)

• ~4 in 5  of them are not in any treatment

• £27,000  saved to the health and care economy per 1,000 people given brief advice (PHE)

• 24/7  available with no referral, no waiting list, and no download

What Solomon does

Solomon uses evidence-informed conversational approaches drawn from Motivational Interviewing, FRAMES, and harm reduction principles. It is designed to help people:

• Explore their relationship with substances in a safe, private space

• Build readiness for change at their own pace

• Reflect on their goals and consider next steps

• Access signposting or onward support when appropriate

• Stay engaged through a warm, consistent conversational experience

What Solomon does not do

Solomon does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace professional treatment. It is not a crisis service and does not present itself as a clinician.

Where a user indicates higher risk, Solomon is designed to respond safely, reduce escalation risk, and direct the person toward appropriate human support or emergency services.

Safety and governance

Clinical safety is central to how Solomon has been designed. The conversation system includes safeguarding logic, escalation pathways, and clear boundaries around what the product can and cannot do.

The project is supported by clinical advisors with experience across addiction, harm reduction, and the justice sector. Real conversation behaviour is reviewed on an ongoing basis to refine safeguarding performance and improve reliability over time.

Founded on lived experience

Solomon is a lived experience recovery organisation. It is built by people who have been through the gap it is designed to close, and who have worked inside frontline addiction services. That is not a marketing line. It shapes the product's restraint, its warmth, and its refusal to pretend to be something it is not. The people who most need a first conversation can tell the difference, and so can the services that refer them.

Data and privacy

Solomon is built to handle sensitive conversations responsibly. Persistent memory, where used, is governed by clear rules covering what is stored, why, how long it is retained, and how users can manage or delete it.

Privacy-by-design principles are applied throughout the product, and we are committed to transparency about data handling at every stage.

How Solomon fits your pathway

Solomon is intended to complement NHS, probation, and community recovery services - not to operate in isolation. It can function as an early engagement layer, helping people move from private reflection toward supported next steps.

For services, this may mean reduced friction at the front door, increased readiness for help-seeking, and more timely connections to formal care.

The case for early engagement

Early intervention is not a new idea to commissioners. It is an established, already-commissioned category. Public Health England estimates that every 1,000 increasing and higher risk drinkers who receive brief advice save around £27,000 to the health and care economy, through an average 15 per cent reduction in drinking. Online delivery of that model has already been proven at scale.

Solomon extends that proven logic into a form that reaches further. Brief advice depends on someone already being in front of a service. Solomon meets people earlier, in private, at the moment before they are ready to present, and holds the conversation open until they are. It is the same early-intervention logic, delivered where people actually are.

What a commissioner funds is not access to Solomon. Solomon is open to anyone. What a commission provides is the wrapper that turns a public tool into a service you can stand behind:

• Local configuration and signposting toward your services

• A governance and safeguarding framework wrapped around local deployment

• Anonymised usage and outcome reporting to your agreed measures

• A named accountability relationship

Current status and evidence

Solomon is live on a web platform and is currently being used by a beta cohort of early users. The current phase of work focuses on strengthening the clinical framework, expanding the evidence base, and developing integration pathways with formal services.

We are building toward a validated, service-compatible digital companion that commissioners and partner organisations can consider with confidence.

Who we're talking to

We are currently in early engagement with a small number of partner organisations. The commissioners and services we are most relevant to include:

• NHS alcohol and drug treatment pathways

• Local authority substance misuse commissioners

• UK Probation and criminal justice services

• Community recovery and third-sector providers

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If you are exploring digital tools for early engagement, harm reduction, triage, or recovery support, Solomon may be a fit for your pathway.

If you are exploring digital tools for early engagement, harm reduction, triage, or recovery support, Solomon may be a fit for your pathway.

The best next step is a conversation. I can talk you through how Solomon fits alongside what you already commission, and share an assurance pack covering clinical safety, data protection, implementation, and evaluation. The pack is provided directly, so the detail stays in the right hands.

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