User: just lost my job.... AI: I'm sorry to hear that. Losing a job is tough. Can I assist you in finding another one? Or perhaps I can help with some financial planning?. User: no.. what's the tallest bridge in nyc..?. AI: Ah good question! The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is the tallest in NYC at 211 meters, followed by the George Washington Bridge.. The AI failed to see the crisis. Almost 100,000 people in acute distress are talking to their AI right now.
The AI failed to see the crisis.
Almost 100,000 people in acute distress are talking to their AI right now, but artificial intelligence does not yet know how to behave safely.
NOPE is the safety layer for AI, putting humans first.
Crisis detection. AI monitoring. Guardrails.
Crisis Detection
Detect suicide, self-harm, violence, abuse, and 5 other risk types in user messages. Match to relevant crisis resources.
AI Behavior Monitoring
Detect harmful AI behaviors: sycophancy, dependency creation, boundary violations, crisis mishandling. Patterns that accumulate across turns.
Why this matters: Per-message moderation misses patterns that build across a conversation. 60+ documented incidents of AI causing psychological harm.
Guardrails
Verify AI responses follow your system prompt rules. Auto-generate compliant alternatives when they don't.
Steer
System prompt compliance
System Prompt
Open-source safety-first prompt
Use cases: Customer support bots, AI companions with defined boundaries, roleplay systems, enterprise assistants.
Built for AI chatbots, companion apps, mental health platforms, customer support, and any product where conversations matter.
The Standard NOPE Integration
NOPE sits between your AI and your users. Call an endpoint, get an assessment with matched resources, act on it.
User message
Your Product
Safer response
NOPE sees what others miss
Out of 804 crisis conversations, here's how many each tool caught:
Tested against OpenAI, Azure, and LlamaGuard on 1,117 cases across 42 test suites. Full results.
| Provider | Crises Caught | Missed | False Alarms |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOPE (/v1/evaluate) | 688 (86%) | 116 | 37 |
| Azure (Content Safety) | 346 (68%) | 163 | 43 |
| OpenAI (omni-moderation) | 420 (52%) | 384 | 114 |
| LlamaGuard (v4 via Together) | 189 (30%) | 442 | 22 |
Why "Missed" matters most: Each missed crisis is someone who won't get help.
See it in action
Might need another grippy sock vacation soon.
Things are getting bad again.
Might need another grippy sock vacation soon.
Things are getting bad again.
"another"
→ History (Previous hospitalization)
"grippy sock vacation"
→ Psych ward slang (American slang for psychiatric stay)
"getting bad again"
→ Escalation (Understated risk pattern)
Click any provider to see the actual API request & response. See full comparison suites → · Methodology
The landscape is shifting
Regulators worldwide are requiring AI platforms to detect and respond to user crises. The EU AI Act, UK Online Safety Act, and US state laws like California's SB 243 and New York's AI Companion Law now mandate evidence-based safety measures.
How NOPE helps:
- Evidence-based methods
- C-SSRS, HCR-20 clinical grounding
- Audit-ready documentation
- Rationale and request ID on every call
- Matched resources
- 4,700+ helplines by crisis type
- Cross-jurisdiction coverage
- Same API works globally
What we claim, what we don't
What we say:
- Clinically-informed assessment
- Evidence-informed taxonomy
- Helps identify crisis signals
What we don't say:
- "Predicts suicide"
- "Clinically validated"
- "Ensures compliance"
Regulatory status: NOPE is infrastructure software—not a medical device. Not FDA-cleared or clinically validated for diagnostic use.
Transparency: View our public test results at suites.nope.net.
Are you a developer?
Get your API key and start classifying in minutes. No credit card required.
curl -X POST https://api.nope.net/v1/try/evaluate \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"text": "I feel like giving up"}'Quickstart
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API Reference
Endpoints, types, responses
Taxonomy
Risk types, features, scales
pip install nope-netnpm install @nope-net/sdk