The Mentallys platform is completed and enters the pilot phase

We’re very excited to announce that software development for the Mentallys platform is now complete. Version 1 of Mentallys is ready!

Please note – Mentallys is currently only available as a private, invitation-only version.

It’s an emotional moment, as it concludes five years of research and development. Initiated in 2020 by the Chaire Diament UQAM, in collaboration with the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, the Mentallys platform was co-constructed following an intensive and unprecedented codesign process.

Software development lasted the whole of 2024, and was an extraordinarily intense moment, as well as an exceptional learning experience, thanks to demanding weekly meetings led by Sidekick Interactive.

During development, we continued to codesign on an ad hoc and targeted basis, which helped us to fine-tune functionality again and again.

Since the beginning, no less than 12 professionals from Sidekick Interactive, 12 students and 2 professors from UQAM have been involved in software development alone. We’d like to thank them all for their remarkable and incredible work! What an adventure!

Special thanks to Matei Cheong, for his major role in the platform’s UI/UX design for three years, under Stéphane Vial‘s direction; to Sylvie Trudel, for her generous involvement and unfailing commitment to software engineering students; and to the Sidekick Interactive team, for their talent, kindness and patience!

Today, we’re ready to launch the platform’s implementation study, starting this winter with a pilot test in two major partner organizations: the CIUSSS de l’Est-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal.

2025 is shaping up to be a great year! Our mental health deserves the very best!


February 13, 2025
at 12 noon (East. time)

Stéphane Vial will be presenting (in French only) the first public demo of the Mentallys platform on Zoom. It will take place at next Centre Axel‘s lunchtime conference, and is open to everyone.



AUTRES NOUVELLES

The Mentallys platform is completed and enters the pilot phase
Mentallys has developed a solid and promising business model