Ika in BeHealthy San Francisco: a second Somia Within integration for IKI Health
Ika is now active in BeHealthy San Francisco, IKI Health’s program for women in perimenopause. The integration adds a conversational voice interface that provides continuity between content, habits, sessions and professional support.
It is the second Ika deployment in an IKI Health product following BeHealthy Calvià. The new integration brings an experience previously built and used in real conditions into a new context.
In brief
- BeHealthy is IKI Health’s digital product and the program’s main environment.
- Ika is the voice interface that talks with users inside that experience.
- Somia Within is yeshcube’s framework for integrating Somia’s conversational technology into third-party products.
- San Francisco is the second active integration between IKI Health and yeshcube.
- Purpose: provide continuous support and make it easier to use the program between professional interventions.
A voice layer inside BeHealthy
BeHealthy brings together content and activities related to nutrition, movement, sleep, emotional wellbeing and habit change, alongside professional support. Ika becomes a voice-accessible point of interaction within that journey.
The conversation allows users to express how they feel, identify a need and close with a summary or manageable action. Ika can also provide guidance on habits, reinforce the purpose of activities, collect feedback, identify obstacles and answer frequent questions about using the product.
When a situation requires professional attention, the conversation follows the boundaries defined for the integration and supports continuity with the team responsible for the program.
What Ika adds to the product
Ika extends BeHealthy across four dimensions:
- Continuity: it maintains a point of contact between sessions, content and program actions.
- Reflection: it helps users organize emotional state, priorities and everyday difficulties.
- Habit change: it turns a brief conversation into a summary or manageable next step.
- Product insight: it captures feedback and surfaces questions, needs and friction arising during real use.
Voice narrows the distance between the intention to care for oneself and concrete action. Users do not need to complete long forms or navigate different screens to express a need.
A second integration built on real use
The first Ika integration took place in BeHealthy Calvià, a six-month program for 150 women over the age of 35. It generated 186 analyzed conversations and 122 valid experience evaluations.
Ika achieved a 92.8% overall rating, with 92.2% perceived usefulness and 93.4% perceived wellbeing. A total of 86.4% of valid evaluative responses reached the highest positive value on the scale.
Ika use was also associated with the most active BeHealthy segment. Users who talked with Ika completed more sessions, used more tracking tools and maintained more observed activity within the application. This relationship describes usage behavior and does not establish causality.
Full results are set out in the BeHealthy Calvià results. The integration architecture and operation are described in the Ika product case.
Somia Within: bringing conversation into third-party products
Somia Within brings Somia’s conversational technology into an existing application, platform or service. The integration is designed around the third party’s product rather than operating as a separate experience.
The framework covers:
- Definition of the conversational function and user journey.
- Personality, voice and identity adapted to the product.
- Operating boundaries and responses to sensitive situations.
- Privacy, consent, minimisation and traceability.
- Measurement of use, feedback and operation in real context.
Ika retains BeHealthy’s identity and works within its objectives, content and professional relationship. yeshcube provides the conversational architecture; IKI Health retains direction of the product and program.
From Calvià to San Francisco
BeHealthy San Francisco demonstrates how a Somia Within integration can evolve alongside the product that incorporates it. Previous experience means this second deployment starts with an established conversational structure, operational knowledge and clear criteria for responsible integration.
The new deployment adapts Ika to the context, content and needs of BeHealthy San Francisco while maintaining its central function: supporting through voice and connecting the user’s everyday experience with the journey designed by IKI Health.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Ika?
Ika is the conversational voice interface integrated into BeHealthy. It supports users between program activities, encourages reflection, helps with habit change and captures needs or questions about using the product.
How are Ika, Somia Within and BeHealthy related?
BeHealthy is IKI Health's product. Ika is the voice experience using Somia's conversational technology. Somia Within is yeshcube's framework for designing and integrating that experience into third-party products.
Is this the first Ika integration in BeHealthy?
No. Ika was previously used in BeHealthy Calvià. San Francisco is the second active integration between IKI Health and yeshcube.
What results did Ika achieve in BeHealthy Calvià?
The first integration recorded a 92.8% overall rating, 92.2% perceived usefulness and 93.4% perceived wellbeing among valid evaluative responses.
Can Somia Within be integrated into other products?
Yes. Somia Within brings conversational voice experiences into external products and services, adapting function, identity, boundaries, privacy and measurement to each organization's context.
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