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AI for ADHD
What it can do for your week, where it falls over, and three things to try today for free. Written in Christchurch by a support worker with ADHD.
AI can help with the jobs ADHD often makes hard. It can break a big task into small steps, sort a messy head into a list, and keep track of the thing you meant to do. It doesn't get tired of being asked twice.
The catch is that a chat app waits for you. You have to remember to open it, and remembering is the part that's hard. So the setup matters more than the app.
What it's good at
Four jobs it can help with.
- Starting. Tell it the task you keep putting off. Ask for the first step, small enough to do in two minutes.
- Sorting. Say everything that's in your head, in any order. It hands back a list with its best guess at what's urgent on top. You can tell it where it's wrong.
- Remembering. Appointments, bills, the form that's due. Once it's connected to your calendar, it can bring them to you ahead of time.
- Choosing. When everything feels equally loud, it can suggest one clear next step. You decide.
Try it today
Three things that cost nothing.
These work in the free version of ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Use your phone's microphone and talk. Typing is optional.
- The brain dump. Say: "I'm going to tell you everything on my mind. Sort it into today, this week and later. Then tell me the one thing to do first." Then talk until you run out.
- The first step. Say: "I've been avoiding this." Name the task. "Give me the first step only, and make it tiny. Wait until I say done before the next one."
- The letter. Take a photo of a letter or bill you don't want to read, or paste the words in. Ask: "What is this, what do I have to do, and by when?"
Where it falls over
The honest part.
- It waits for you. Most AI apps only help when you open them. On a bad day you won't.
- It forgets. Unless it's set up to remember, each chat starts from nothing and you explain your life again.
- It can be wrong. Check anything that matters: dates, money, anything medical.
- Setting it up is its own project. Connecting a calendar, writing instructions and keeping it going is a job in itself.
It also can't diagnose ADHD and it doesn't replace medication or your clinician. It's help with the week.
In New Zealand
Someone to set it up with you.
Neuro Support is a support service in Christchurch for adults with ADHD, autism, or both. Jamie Robinson started it. He has ADHD and fifteen years as a frontline support worker.
The service is called a Support Seat. On a seat you get your Agent: an AI helper, running on Claude, that Neuro Support sets up around your week and keeps running. With your say-so it's connected to your calendar, so it can keep track of appointments and the bills you tell it about. And it speaks first: a short note each morning with what matters today.
A seat is $199 a month. You can join yourself with a Google account, and there's no joining fee. If you'd rather have a support worker set it up with you, that's an extra $499, paid once. It's optional.
When you want a person, you book a support worker. Online it's $20 for 15 minutes. In person in Christchurch it's NZ$120 an hour. Those are only charged when you book.
What your Agent holds is yours. You can see all of it, take a copy with you, or delete it.
How a seat works and how to join · How Neuro Support uses AI
Questions people ask
Short answers.
Does AI help with ADHD?
It can help with the jobs ADHD makes hard: starting, breaking a big thing into steps, remembering, and working out what comes first. It doesn't treat ADHD and it can't diagnose it. It's a tool for the week, and it works best when it's set up around you.
Which AI is best for ADHD?
The one you'll open. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can all break a task down or sort a brain dump, and each has a free version. Neuro Support builds on Claude because, with your say-so, it can read your calendar, remember what matters, and speak first.
Is there a free way to try it?
Yes. The three things on this page work in the free version of any of the main AI apps. Try them before you pay anyone anything.
Can AI diagnose ADHD?
No. A diagnosis in New Zealand comes from a clinician. Your GP is the place to start.
Is it safe to tell an AI about my life?
Check who can read it and whether you can delete it. Don't paste in passwords or card numbers. On a Support Seat, nobody at Neuro Support reads your chats, and you can take everything with you when you leave.
Rather talk it through?
Fifteen minutes, free.
A free Discovery Call: 15 minutes, online. Three things that work without an Agent, what Neuro Support is, and whether a seat suits you.