The mental health gap for law enforcement and military is not about resources. There are hotlines, programs, and counselors available. The gap is about the paper trail. In professions where your mental fitness is tied to your clearance, your job, or your carry permit, seeking help is a calculated risk.
COMMS LINK was designed for that gap. Not to replace therapy — to give someone a private place to process a bad shift before they go home. The conversation disappears when you close the app. There is no account. There is no server. There is nothing to subpoena.
Every architecture decision was made around one constraint: zero retention. Session content lives in memory only. The app blanks the screen when it goes to the background so the OS cannot screenshot it. Keyboard suggestions are disabled so the keyboard cache does not log what was typed.
The AI runs on-device — Gemma 2B-IT. No internet connection required. No API call. Nothing transmitted. The model downloads once on first launch and runs locally after that. A conversation with COMMS LINK is as private as talking to yourself.
The one exception is crisis. If keyword detection picks up a crisis signal, the app bypasses the AI immediately and routes to 988. No delay, no nuance. That was a non-negotiable design decision — the AI should never be in the critical path when someone is in danger.
Privacy by architecture means there is no policy that can be violated, no server that can be breached, and no data that can be handed over. The most trustworthy system is the one that never had the data in the first place.