Paul Dörflinger
CO-FOUNDER
Paul brings lived experience with checking behaviour and leads the technical development of OCdragon.
Built for a problem hiding in plain sight.
Millions of people know the feeling of leaving home and wondering whether something was switched off. For some, that doubt becomes a daily routine of checking, photographing and looking again.
Why OCdragon exists.
Many digital mental-health products are built for people who are already in, or actively looking for, clinical treatment.
But a lot of people never get that far. They just have a camera roll full of stove knobs and a routine that takes a little longer every morning. OCdragon began with the idea that there could be a more accessible starting point.
A simple tool that meets people where they already are.
The founders.
Béla Wendling
CO-FOUNDER
Béla leads business strategy and product development, and is responsible for bringing OCdragon to market.
Our mission.
Making support for burdensome everyday checking more accessible, more understandable and less intimidating. One careful step at a time.
Build a useful everyday tool
A private vault for checking photos. This is where we are now.
Understand the behaviour responsibly
Learn about photo-checking with consent and proper safeguards.
Research what could help
Test whether carefully designed features can reduce reliance on reassurance.
Clinically informed solutions
Only where evidence and regulation support it.
A careful path forward.
For investors and clinical partners: Stage 1 solves a practical problem first. Research happens with explicit consent, proper safeguards and evidence before claims. We have no clinical partnerships or validation yet, and say so.
Request the deck~1.1M estimated adults in Germany currently live with subclinical OCD. Estimate: 1.6% 12-month prevalence (Grabe et al., 2000) applied to the German adult population. Not a count.
Next: iOS MVP, clinical advisor, academic partnership, qualitative user research and a regulatory scoping memo.
