Early research · Barcelona

What if deep neural rewiring was accessible to anyone, anywhere on Earth?

Eterna is building an operating system for the human mind: a digital brain that helps us uncover the hidden patterns running our lives and rewire them into healthier behavioural patterns.

Where AI · neuroscience · psychology meet

The scale of the problem
970 million

people live with a mental health condition. That's 1 in 8 of us.

Most live with anxiety or depression, the conditions research ties most closely to childhood.
And only 1 in 3 people with depression ever receives formal care.

World Health Organization, World Mental Health Report 2022
01 · The life we inherit

We leave childhood. But its patterns come with us.

Psychologists call them lifetraps, or early maladaptive schemas: deep beliefs we form as children, like "I'm not enough", "people will leave" or "I have to be perfect".

They follow us into adulthood, running below awareness. They quietly shape who we trust, how we work and who we love, and keep pulling us back into the same fears, failures and broken relationships.

Preventing adverse childhood experiences could prevent up to 21 million cases of depression in the United States alone.CDC Vital Signs, 2019

Failure
The talented employee who never applies for the role."People like me don't get that far."
Abandonment
The partner who leaves before they can be left.Ending the relationship to avoid a goodbye they're sure is coming.
Perfectionism
The student who won't hand in anything less than perfect.So they hand in nothing, and call it laziness.

Left unseen, they don't fade with time. They repeat. And the human help that can change them reaches only a few.

02 · The idea

Every year, governments spend over $100 billion exploring outer space.

We've barely begun to explore the inner one.

Most countries spend around 2% of their health budget on mental health. Yet the brain can change throughout life, and patterns learned early can be updated, not just managed. Eterna wants to build the vehicle for that journey: alongside human guidance, never instead of it, and within reach of billions.

Euroconsult, government space budgets 2023 · WHO Mental Health Atlas 2020

03 · How we imagine it

A digital brain, in four moves.

Hypotheses we're testing, not a finished product
01

See the pattern

A living model of each person, built from what they do, not only what they say. The gap between the two is where the pattern hides.

02

Find the root

Look for the one pattern holding the others in place, so change can travel instead of scattering.

03

Practise the new one

Short daily moments, as light as a game: noticing, calming the body, trying a different response.

04

Measure the change

Track wellbeing and behaviour over time, so progress is shown with evidence, never just claimed.

04 · What it stands on

Where AI, neuroscience and psychology finally meet.

We don't invent the science. We build on decades of public research and test whether it can be turned into something anyone can use.

NeuroplasticityThe brain keeps rewiring itself across life.
Predictive processingWhy old expectations keep shaping new moments.
Memory reconsolidationHow learned responses can be updated.
Behavioural scienceWhat we do says more than what we report.
AIModels that can adapt to each person, in their own language.
Before crisisBuilt for everyday life, early, before patterns harden.
Alongside humansBuilt to work with counsellors, coaches and therapists, never to replace them, with a clear path to them when someone needs more.
For everyoneDesigned to be tested across cultures, languages, ages and life stories.
MeasuredWe'll report what works and what doesn't, openly.
05 · Launch sequence

Honest about the stage. Serious about the destination.

T-3 · Pre-launchResearch and prototypesBuilding and testing early versions of the model with a small team in Barcelona.
T-2 · IgnitionCareerOracleCareer guidance for teens, designed to reduce self-bias so who they really are can emerge. careeroracle.app
T-1 · LiftoffPilots with partnersStudies with research institutions, schools and organisations that share the question.
Our mission
3 billion
of us with a practical way to break the patterns that hold us back

Inner change shouldn't be a luxury. It should be as everyday as playing a game.

Human potential is the most precious resource on Earth, and as a society we barely invest in it. Unlocking it, one rewired pattern at a time, is how we reach citizen success at scale.

Who's behind it
Rodri Ghattas
Rodri Ghattas
Founder & CEO

From artist to EdTech entrepreneur, after a decade searching for his own purpose. Now building the tools he wished he'd had.

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Help us explore the inner frontier.

We're looking for partners who want to shape this from the start.

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Norrsken House Barcelona