Odyssea: Building the ‘Google for the Subconscious Mind’ to Play Our Way to Happiness
The Pitch
“Think about Odyssea like Google for the subconscious mind”, says Tanya (Tetiana Kodliuk), Founder and CEO. While the tech world races to automate external processes, Odyssea turns artificial intelligence inward. The subconscious mind drives 95% of human behavior, thoughts, and emotions, yet it remains largely unmapped. Blending fifteen years of AI engineering with clinical hypnotherapy, Odyssea has built an AI-supported platform that bypasses the logical mind to uncover the root causes of mental struggles. By delivering highly personalized, holistic protocols, this Ukraine-born startup is helping global users cut through mental noise and unlock their highest authentic potential.
The Spark: Merging 15 Years of AI with the Psyche
Every deep-tech solution is born from a personal quest for answers. Eight years ago, Tanya had a flawless life on paper: a thriving career building complex AI systems long before “AI” became a mainstream buzzword, a beautiful family, and a daughter. Yet internally, she felt lost, stuck, and consumed by anxiety. Traditional self-help books, talk therapy, and meditation led her in circles.
The breakthrough came when she discovered the power of subconscious therapy. The experience was so transformative that, in parallel with her technology career, Tanya became a certified clinical hypnotherapist and regression therapist. It was here she found her Ikigai: combining advanced technology with deep psychology to build a tool that answers the ultimate human question – why do we feel the way we feel?
The Innovation: Moving Beyond the ‘Chatbot Stigma’
In a market saturated with generic wellness apps and basic generative AI tools, Odyssea sets a completely different paradigm:
Bypassing the Logical Mind: Standard LLMs like ChatGPT merely validate what your conscious mind already knows. Odyssea does not ask direct questions. Instead, it communicates via the language of the subconscious—using images, metaphors, and storytelling prompts (e.g., “choose this image” or “if you were this character, what would you do?”) to decode hidden psychological patterns.
The Four-Layer Protocol: Once the root cause is mapped, the platform generates personalized daily protocols addressing the four layers of the psyche: mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual.
The 30-Minute Boundary: In a radical move for a digital platform, Odyssea values real-world connection over screen time. If a user spends more than 30 minutes in the app, it prompts them to close it and go live life – to listen to the birds, walk by the river, and reconnect with humanity.
The Reality: Cutting Through the AI Noise
Building a B2C mental health startup in the current tech climate presents a unique paradox: marketing itself has become hyper-automated, creating an unprecedented amount of digital noise.
To overcome this distribution challenge, Odyssea balances its high-tech core with high-touch human connection. The team launches interactive community mastermind groups and 21-day challenges where users do the inner work together. Furthermore, privacy is woven into the architecture: the platform is entirely anonymous, requiring no real names, ages, or private data to deliver its therapeutic value.
Hard Facts & Traction
Global Scalability: Secured two major strategic partnerships with premier wellness centers in Bali and Singapore, capturing a pipeline of over 100,000 active customers per year to help them integrate their real-world retreat experiences back into daily life.
Product-Market Fit: Launched “daily micro-actions” – highly targeted 1-to-3-minute exercises designed for busy lifestyles, allowing users to effectively rewire subconscious patterns while commuting or drinking their morning coffee.
Founding Expertise: Led by an AI veteran with 15+ years of engineering expertise combined with professional clinical qualifications in regression and hypnotherapy.
The VivaTech 2026 Roadmap: Current Needs
As Odyssea steps onto the global stage in Paris, the company is focused on scaling its distribution and securing the right capital alignment.
The Round: Formally launching a pre-seed investment round, seeking venture partners who are passionate about mental well-being and utilizing technology as a force for human good.
Partnerships Sought: Looking for distribution channels, including wellness ecosystems and forward-thinking corporate enterprises looking to elevate employee mental health and resilience.
Where to Connect in Paris:
June 16: Meet Tanya in person during the premier official side event, Ukrainian Tech Night (The Village by Crédit Agricole Paris).
Main Forum: Experience the platform firsthand and meet the team at the official Ukrainian National Pavilion, J16.
The Horizon: Playing Your Way to Happiness
Odyssea’s long-term vision is to entirely gamify mental transformation. Within the next three to five years, the startup aims to launch a full-scale video game mode where users literally play their way to happiness. When a human plays, they enter a natural state of trance – the exact state where the subconscious mind is most active, neuroplasticity is at its highest, and deep emotional rewiring happens effortlessly.
Listen to the Full Story
Discover how Odyssea is changing the intersection of technology and mental health. Listen to the full interview with Founder and CEO Tetiana Kodliuk, hosted by Natalia Petrova.
