The platform behind Vivian and Daniel

The sensing layer for workplace mental health.

Sentio detects workplace mental-health signal early, handles it under clinical governance, and powers the products people actually talk to: Vivian and Daniel. The intelligence stays out of sight. The care doesn't.

What Sentio is

Sentio senses. Vivian and Daniel speak.

Sentio is the company and platform underneath workplace mental-health products that carry their own names. Employees talk to Vivian or Daniel: warm, confidential, human.

Underneath, Sentio does the sensing: detecting signal early, governing sensitive data, and keeping people safe. The conversation belongs to the brand the person trusts. The intelligence, the governance, and the safety are Sentio's.

Platform
Sentio
Product surfaces
Vivian
Women's mental health & menopause
Daniel
Men's mental health
Why it matters

Detection happens too late, and at the wrong layer.

By the time HR sees a grievance, the person has been struggling alone for months, the manager has been improvising, and the clinical system has often missed it at least once. Sentio moves detection earlier, to the moment someone first reaches out, and routes the right support to the employee, the manager, and HR, each seeing only what they should.

The platform

Built for sensitivity.

One platform, three stakeholders. The same conversation supports the employee, equips the manager, and gives HR a defensible aggregate, without any of them seeing what they shouldn't.

Early signal

Sense distress early, in the person's own words, long before it becomes a grievance or a quiet exit.

Manager copilot

Real-time guidance for difficult conversations, grounded in UK employment law and ACAS guidance.

Clinical governance

A registered Clinical Director signs off every clinical surface. Safety patterns are conservative by design.

Aggregate signal

Employers see cohort-level signal and an audit trail, never an identifiable individual.

Signal, not surveillance

Trusted with the things people don't say out loud.

A mental-health platform earns its place on trust. Sentio is built so that the people who need help are protected, and the people who pay for it never see more than they should.

Aggregate by default

No individual conversation surfaces to the employer. A minimum cohort size is enforced at the database layer, not as a setting.

UK data residency

Special-category health data is handled under UK GDPR, with a full audit trail, retention controls, and consent management.

No training on conversations

No foundation model retains or trains on what people share with Vivian or Daniel.

Clinically gated

Nothing clinical-facing reaches production without the Clinical Director's sign-off, and red-flag signals page a human in real time.

The surfaces

How people meet Sentio.

Sentio doesn't speak to employees directly. It powers human-named, confidential, employer-sponsored products. Each is tuned to who it serves, all on the same governed platform.

Vivian
Women's health & menopause

Confidential support for women navigating mental health and menopause at work, with manager guidance and an aggregate view for HR.

talktovivian.co.uk →
Daniel
Men's mental health · launching 2026

The men's mental-health counterpart to Vivian, on the same platform and the same governance, built for how men actually reach out.

talktodaniel.co.uk →
Who's building it

Sentio Health.

Sentio is built by Sentio Health, the workplace mental-health company spun out of Podium Venture Studio, an AI-native venture studio building companies in UK regulated verticals.

It is led by founder Sanjay Wadhwani, with senior co-founders and advisers drawn from healthcare, HR, and the legal profession, holding the clinical governance, workplace expertise, and employment-law grounding the platform depends on.

For employers

HR and People leaders preparing a response that is actually good, not a procurement-document veneer.

For investors

A platform play in UK regulated health, with multiple brand surfaces on shared infrastructure.

For clinical partners

Conservative, governed, and built with clinicians accountable for what ships.

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