Pasifika Rise
Access
Cost, devices and data get in the way of digital health. We design for everyday phones, light data use, and free where it matters.
We build technology that bridges the gap for the communities health too often leaves behind, starting with our own Pasifika aiga. Access to technology is the start. Digital literacy is what makes it real. We work on both.
For Pacific and other high-needs communities, the barrier is rarely just the clinic. It is whether the tools reach you at all, and whether they make sense when they do.
Cost, devices and data get in the way of digital health. We design for everyday phones, light data use, and free where it matters.
A tool only helps if you can use it. We write in plain language, keep steps few, and design so the first use is the easy one.
Built with a Pacific and Māori lens, grounded in NZ guidance, so the people most often left behind are the ones we build for first.
Patient and whānau apps across mental health, wellbeing, sleep, healthy habits, early childhood and medication support. Calm, plain-language, privacy-first, and free where it counts.
We are developing and shaping practice management software so clinics serving Pacific communities have systems that fit their workflow, their funding and their patients, not the other way around.
Rise Tech was founded and is led by a practising New Zealand GP who contributes to AI governance within Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand. The same standards we ask of the system, we hold ourselves to: clinician sign-off before anything reaches a patient, clear intended-use limits, and privacy built in from the start.
Each one starts with a real gap in care and ships as one focused, free tool. iOS first, with more on the way.
Pasifika wellbeing. Plain-language CBT tools for low mood, anxiety, stress and sleep, with a Pacific frame.
Everyday wellbeing. Simple, encouraging steps toward a healthier life for the whole family.
Daily habits. Forgiveness-first streaks for movement, sleep and kai, made to support a Green Prescription.
Sleep. Gentle wind-down and better rest. Mōmoe is the word for sleep.
Play and learn. Screen-light play ideas for 0 to 5 year olds using everyday household things, with te reo and Pacific kupu.
Weight and metabolic health. Support for people on a weight journey, including those on newer treatments.
ADHD screening. A validated self-screen with a GP summary you can share and a clear next step.
Medication reminders. Scan a prescription label and get gentle, on-device reminders so no dose is missed.
This is a focus area we are actively building. New tools land as the gaps tell us where to go next.
This is an area we are committed to and will keep developing. If you fund digital equity, run a PHO or primary care network, or want to build tools that reach Pacific communities, we want to talk.