SAI CHEESE
An early-stage initiative

Building healthier smiles, together.

SAI Cheese is a community-minded AI initiative exploring gentle new ways to improve access to oral health screening in Indigenous and remote communities.

SAI Cheese
Your Smile. Your Data.
Your Care.
Why it matters

Care that reaches further

For many people in Indigenous and remote communities, barriers to oral healthcare — long distances, limited providers, and high costs — mean small problems often become serious before care is within reach. We believe early identification and education can help close that gap.

The idea

How SAI Cheese will work

STEP 01

Share your story

Answer a few gentle questions about your oral health, at your own pace.

STEP 02

Say cheese!

Take a photo of the area you'd like looked at, using your smartphone.

STEP 03

Find your path

Receive personalized guidance and clear, suggested next steps for care.

Where we are

Our journey so far

2026

Indigenous partnerships

Building relationships grounded in trust and shared goals.

2026

Prototypes

Building and testing the first working version of the app.

Winter 2026

Pilot completion

Running and learning from our first community pilot.

Ongoing

Continuing development

Refining the experience around what communities tell us.