Ask Julie

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Ask Julie, founded in 2022, is a HIPAA-compliant AI chatbot focused on women's health and emergency contraception questions, built on Ema's clinical conversational AI platform. It is free to use, targeting users who need private, judgment-free answers to time-sensitive reproductive health questions.

About Ask Julie

Ask Julie is an AI-powered women's health chatbot launched in April 2026 by Julie Products Inc., the emergency contraception brand distributed in 13,000 US retail stores including CVS, Walmart, and Target. The chatbot addresses a documented gap in credible sexual and reproductive health information online, providing medically reviewed answers to questions that women are already asking on TikTok and Reddit with inconsistent accuracy. The chatbot runs on Ema, a HIPAA-compliant conversational AI platform founded in 2018 and trained on a large corpus of real conversations between women and physicians. Ema's proprietary dataset and clinical guardrails allow Ask Julie to respond with speed and accuracy on sensitive topics including emergency contraception timing, dosing concerns, side effects, future fertility, and general sexual health education. Every AI-generated response is reviewed by board-certified medical professionals before being surfaced to users. Ask Julie targets Gen Z women and college students, a demographic that increasingly turns to AI tools for health questions but faces significant misinformation risk on general-purpose platforms. Julie's website was already receiving 50,000 monthly visitors with health questions before the chatbot launched. All conversations are private and anonymous, and the tool is strictly informational, not a substitute for clinical care. The chatbot is available for free on the web at juliecare.co, with no account required. Julie Products plans to promote Ask Julie through college campus outreach and social media campaigns. The underlying Ema platform also powers integrations for other women's health brands, including Willow Innovations for breastfeeding support. Julie Products was co-founded by Julie Schott (also co-founder of the pimple-patch brand Starface), Amanda E.J. Morrison, and Brian Bordainick, and has raised approximately $8.5 million from investors including Connect Ventures, Amplifyher Ventures, Align Ventures, and BBG Ventures. The company is led by CEO Katie Beck Sutler as of 2026 and operates a popular Sex Happens Substack newsletter alongside its retail contraception business.

Pricing

Completely free to use. No account or subscription required. Available at juliecare.co with no usage limits publicly disclosed.

Key Features

• Emergency Contraception Q&A: Answers the specific reproductive health questions women search most often, covering topics like how Plan B and levonorgestrel work, safe reuse, timing windows, and side effects, with responses reviewed by board-certified OBGYNs.
• HIPAA-Compliant Conversations: Built on Ema's HIPAA-secure infrastructure, every chat session is private and anonymous, with no personal health data retained or shared with third parties.
• Medically Reviewed Responses: All AI-generated answers are sourced from and reviewed by board-certified medical professionals before delivery, reducing the misinformation risk present on general AI chatbots.
• Ema-Powered Clinical Intelligence: Runs on Ema's conversational AI platform trained on 10 million real health conversations between women and physicians, giving it clinical depth beyond general-purpose LLMs.
• Broad Sexual Health Education: Covers topics beyond emergency contraception including general sex education, fertility concerns, and reproductive health, extending the scope Julie's existing Sex and Love Library blog already addresses.
• Zero-Barrier Access: No account, prescription, ID, or age verification required to use the chatbot, matching the brand's OTC retail philosophy of removing barriers to reproductive health information.

Pros

• HIPAA-compliant architecture via Ema, unlike general AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini) that have no clinical compliance layer for health conversations.
• Every response is reviewed by board-certified physicians, a quality bar that consumer-facing chatbots rarely match.
• Completely free with no account required, removing friction for the youngest and most price-sensitive users who need it most.
• Built on Ema, trained on real women-physician health conversations rather than generic web text, giving it topic depth generic LLMs lack.
• Already backed by a brand with 13,000 retail distribution points and 1M+ product donations, providing credibility and trust with target users.

Cons

• Strictly informational with no clinical diagnosis or treatment capability, meaning users with urgent or complex symptoms still need to see a provider.
• Web-only at launch with no iOS or Android app, limiting access for users who prefer in-app health tools or offline functionality.
• Scope is narrow: focused primarily on emergency contraception and basic sexual health, not a full women's health platform covering menstrual tracking, fertility, prenatal, or menopause.
• No disclosed API or third-party integration pathway, making it a closed consumer product rather than an embeddable health resource.
• Company has raised only $8.5M total, which is modest compared to better-funded competitors like Maven Clinic, potentially limiting feature development speed.

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