Depression and anxiety cost the global economy about USD 1 trillion a year in lost productivity and about 12 billion working days. Every employer in the EU has to assess psychosocial risk and act on it, under the European framework directive on health and safety at work. Almost none of them have the data to do it.

In the Netherlands, 21% of employees report burnout complaints, up from 13% in 2015. One case runs about eight months of absence at EUR 315 a day, roughly EUR 90,000 once replacement and reintegration are counted, and the employer keeps paying wages for up to 104 weeks.

Today's solutions are reactive by design. An EAP and the company doctor wait to be asked, so they reach about 5% of employees, and the ones who ask are already in crisis. The other 95% stay invisible to the employer until one of them calls in sick.

Our solution: an app for employees, paid for by the employer. It has five parts

1. Engagement. High engagement through team and inter-department challenges that take 30 seconds a day.

2. Access to help. A session with a certified psychologist is bookable within 48 hours, in five languages. The booking flow is framed around the problem the employee wants to solve, not around booking a psychologist, which is the step most people stop at. The app also proposes a booking when someone's own signals warrant it, so the employee does not have to decide alone that it is bad enough.

3. Proportional response. The engine maps risk across the organisation by team and reporting line, and the response scales with what it finds: a nudge, then self-care material, then a booked session.

4. Team dynamics. A weekly team pulse adds three questions on perceived workload, recognition and team support. It runs as a team ritual, and the aggregated trends are discussed within the team to improve the environment.

5. Continuous insight. The employer sees team-level aggregates above a minimum group size, and only when employees allow sharing the data in the aggregate. It never shows the individual data.

Note: the product in its current form is a wellbeing and informational tool. It recognises patterns, flags them and connects people to care. It does not diagnose or treat and does not replace the company doctor.