# A Patient Portrait, Scattered Across Years of Notes

For a practicing psychologist or psychotherapist, notes on each patient pile up for years — post-session notes, observations, interim conclusions. Over time, it becomes hard to hold the full trajectory of a long-term patient in your head: what changed, which themes recur, what progress was made and when.

Digercules structures the accumulated notes on a specific patient into a coherent chronological picture — not replacing the practitioner's clinical judgment, but gathering what's already been recorded into a form that makes that judgment easier to make.

## Privacy Isn't a Caveat, It's the Foundation

Data about a person's psychological state is one of the most sensitive categories of data that exists at all:

- Processing can run **entirely locally, on the practitioner's own hardware**, with no delegation to external machines whatsoever — that's the default available mode for this segment.
- If delegation is still needed because of insufficient compute — Processing runs either entirely on the client's own hardware, or — if that hardware isn't powerful enough — is delegated to a specific external machine over a closed peer-to-peer channel (not a public cloud): the compute is physically located in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, the client is always told explicitly which machine and which jurisdiction is doing the processing, and only text/structured results come back — never the source files. — the jurisdiction and specific machine are named in advance.
- The result is a structured chronology for the practitioner themselves, not a report accessible to anyone else.

## Objections

**"This is mental health data, there shouldn't be any automation here at all"** — whether to work with automated structuring, and in what mode (strictly local or with delegation), is entirely up to the practitioner; the tool makes no decisions about content, it only helps gather already-existing notes into one place.

**"I already remember all my patients"** — that works for a small practice; it gets harder to hold in your head after many years of work and hundreds of patients, especially when a case resurfaces years later.

## First contact

A pilot on one patient's notes, processed strictly on the practitioner's own hardware — without a single byte of data leaving the office. The decision-maker here is the practicing specialist themselves: the decision is theirs alone, with no intermediate approvals.