Brightn Walkthrough: How to guide & live demos

Step 1

Getting started and your Brightn Zone

When you first open Brightn, you will go through a short onboarding designed to personalize your experience. Nothing here is a test. The more honest your answers, the more useful your plan will be.

Watch: setting up your account and building your first wellness plan.

Tell Brightn a little about you

You will start with the basics: your name, gender, birthday, and location. From there, Brightn asks about the goals you want to work toward, the challenges getting in your way, and what gives you a sense of purpose and meaning.

Complete your Brightn Zone assessment

Next you will answer a quick set of questions across three areas:

• Health: how you are doing physically and mentally
• Wealth: your relationship with money, work, and stability
• Purpose: what gives your days meaning and direction

Together, these three make up your Brightn Zone. Your answers help Brightn build a personalized wellness plan with real actions you can start on. Pick the recommendations that feel most relevant to you right now and add them to your plan as weekly or monthly goals.

Create your account

Once your first wellness plan is set, you will create your Brightn account and verify it with a security code. Then you will choose your membership plan.

If your Brightn access is provided through a school, employer, health plan, or another organization, enter your organization code at this step to unlock your membership.

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Step 2

Your home screen

Your home screen is your starting point for everyday wellness. Think of it as home base for what you are working on today.

Here you will find:

• Daily Essentials: your mood check-in and journaling prompt for the day
• Your weekly wellness plan: the goals and activities you added during onboarding
• Book Session: near the bottom, if you ever want to connect with a therapist

If you only have a few minutes, the home screen is the place to be. Do one Daily Essential and you have kept the habit alive.

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Step 3

Mood check-ins, journaling, and insights

This is the core loop of Brightn: check in, reflect, and look back at the pattern. It is also where the app gets more useful the longer you use it.

Watch: mood check-ins, journaling, reflections, and your weekly insights.

Do a mood check-in

A check-in is the fastest way to name how you are feeling and start noticing patterns over time. It takes under a minute.

1. Tap Journal, then select Check In.
2. Choose up to three emotions.
3. Rate how strongly you are feeling each one.
4. Pick up to three factors that may be contributing.
5. Save your check-in, or keep going into a journal entry to explore it further.

Journal and get a reflection

Your Journal holds your past entries and check-ins, and it is where you start something new.

If you journal right after a check-in, Brightn can offer questions to help you reflect on what you are experiencing, so you are never staring at a blank page. When you finish and save your entry, you will get a personalized reflection back. Brightn may also suggest activities or opportunities related to what you wrote, which you can add straight to your wellness plan.

You can revisit any past entry whenever you want to see what you were working through and what you said back to yourself.

Understand your insights

Tap Insights to see trends pulled from your activity inside Brightn.

Your weekly and monthly reports bring together your mood check-ins and journal entries so you can see how things are shifting over time. The more consistently you check in and journal, the more you will have to look back on.

Track the pattern, not the perfection. Missing a day does not reset anything.

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Step 4

Explore programs and opportunities

Explore is Brightn's library of programs and lessons across Health, Wealth, and Purpose. It is where you go when you want to work on something specific.

Watch: browsing programs, filtering by Brightn Zone, and adding to your plan.

Tap Explore at the bottom of the app. From there you can:

• Browse all available programs
• Filter by Health, Wealth, or Purpose
• Search for a specific topic
• Watch individual lessons
• Add new opportunities to your wellness plan

For example, search burnout and you will see programs and lessons built around it. Completing lessons also earns you points inside Brightn.

You can revisit your Brightn Zone from this area too, and pull in additional recommendations whenever your plan starts to feel too easy or no longer fits what you need.

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Step 5

Add the Brightn widget

The widget is the single easiest way to stay consistent. It puts a mood check-in one tap away, right on your phone's home screen.

Watch: adding the Brightn widget to your home screen.

1. Press and hold an empty area of your phone's home screen.
2. Choose the option to add a widget.
3. Search for Brightn.
4. Add the Brightn widget to your home screen.

Tapping the widget takes you straight into a mood check-in. No app opening, no menu hunting.

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Step 6

Book a therapy session

Brightn is daily support, and sometimes you want more than that. If you do, you can connect with a therapist who is licensed in your state, directly through the app.

Watch: both ways to book a session, plus what to expect before your appointment.

There are two ways to start.

What the booking flow looks like

1. Brightn shows therapists licensed in your state.
2. Select a therapist to view their availability.
3. Choose an appointment date and time, then confirm.
4. Pick a single private session or a package of six sessions at a discounted rate.
5. Enter your payment information.
6. Complete a short intake form so your therapist can prepare.
7. Your session is confirmed.

Getting ready for your appointment

You can use Brightn to journal and prepare beforehand, which helps if you tend to forget what you wanted to say once you are in the session. You may also have the option to share a journal entry with your therapist ahead of time for extra context.

You will get a text reminder before your appointment with a link to join the virtual session. Afterward, come back to Brightn to reflect on how it went or schedule your next one.

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Step 7

Your profile and settings

Your profile and settings give you more control over how Brightn works for you, from how your AI sounds to how often it reminds you to check in.

Watch: personalizing your profile, notifications, membership, and more.

Access your profile

From the home screen, tap your profile icon in the upper right corner. Your profile gives you a quick view of your activity, including recent check-ins and completed opportunities.

From here you can also open your Brightn Zone, explore programs, add items to your weekly plan, or start booking a therapy session.

Open your settings

From your profile, tap the Settings icon in the upper right corner. Everything below lives in this menu.

Customize your Brightn AI

You can rename your Brightn AI and adjust personality preferences that shape how its responses feel. If the tone is not landing for you, change it. It should feel like a voice you actually want to hear from.

Update your personal information

Edit any of the following at any time:

• Name
• Email
• Gender
• Birthday
• About Me
• Occupation

You can also revisit what you shared during onboarding, including the goals you are working toward and the challenges you identified. Life changes, so it is worth updating these every so often.

Manage notifications

Brightn offers several notification types you can turn on or off. Set them based on how often and when you actually want a nudge. A reminder you ignore is worse than no reminder at all.

Face ID and security

If your device supports it, you can turn Face ID login on or off from your account settings at any time.

Manage your membership

Open the membership section inside Settings to review the options associated with your account.

Explore the Brightn Wall

The Brightn Wall is where you can see other thrivers who are part of the Brightn community. Access it directly from your settings.

Invite friends

Want someone else to have this too? Use the Invite option inside Settings to share Brightn.

Get help

Select Get Help from the settings menu to reach Brightn support with any question about your account. You will also find widget setup instructions here.

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Anytime

Need more help?

Brightn is built to be explored at your own pace. Come back to these videos whenever you want a refresher, or tap Get Help inside the app if you need support with your account.

You do not need to have it all figured out. Start with one honest check-in.