12 questions about what your house allows. None of them asks how your people are doing: this is probably the only questionnaire in the sector that asks you nothing about them.
Allow 4 minutes. By the end you will know whether Kalisme is worth anything where you are, including when it is not, and you will leave with a one-page note to pass around internally.
Your answers stay on your screen. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, not even if you close this page.
Question 1 of 12
LANGUAGE
How many mother tongues are spoken across your teams?
Then only one thing is left to check: that it is genuinely theirs, and not merely the language of your internal documents.
Two or three languages already mean two or three ways of saying “I’m fine” without meaning it. A tool that exists only in the language of head office speaks to part of your house, and the rest notices.
Four languages or more means a house where people understand each other at work and rarely beyond it. Rest, worry, exhaustion: nobody says those things in a language they had to learn.
Question 2 of 12
THE FIELD
How many of your people work without a fixed desk: field, workshop, care, road, service?
A fixed desk is a place where catching your breath is already possible. What remains is whether anyone allows themselves to.
That minority is almost always the one no program ever reaches: time slots, meeting rooms and video calls are designed for the others.
Then the real question is not what to offer them, but when. Nothing that requires a room, a slot or a computer will reach them.
Question 3 of 12
WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY TRIED
What have you already offered your teams around wellbeing?
That is more honest than a good deal of stage decoration, and you start with no debt of trust to repay.
Sincere gestures, and they count. But scenery changes nothing about what happens on a tired Tuesday evening, when someone goes home empty without knowing why.
Then you already know the only question that matters in this sector, the one about the third month.
Question 4 of 12
THE THIRD MONTH
What you offered back then: how many people were still using it in the third month?
That is rare, and it deserves saying. Look at what made it hold: almost never the richness of the content, almost always the fact that it fitted inside a real working day.
The ordinary story of this sector. It is not a lack of commitment from your teams: a content library runs dry, a body of work is walked through.
The most common answer, and the most honest. We may as well say it now: with us you will not know person by person either. You will know how many seats are activated, never who opens the app.
Then you are spared the hardest part: making people forget a program that disappointed them.
Question 5 of 12
WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE
If a tool could tell you who, in your teams, is not doing well, would you switch it on?
The impulse is human: it comes from concern, not from control. And that is exactly what makes it treacherous. Nobody confides under the gaze of their own manager, so what the tool would show you would not be the state of your teams, only the part they agree to show.
You have already settled the question that most platforms in this sector walk around.
The most clear-eyed of the three answers. That information would be useful to you, and it would be false: a monitored space stops being a place where people tell the truth.
Question 6 of 12
TRUST
Would your people believe you if you told them you will see nothing of their use?
Then you hold rare capital. Do not spend it on a tool that produces, somewhere, a named record you never asked for.
That is the answer of most houses, and it is not an accusation: it only says that a word is no longer enough. A promise counts only when it can be checked without having to believe you.
The right instinct, and precisely why the charter exists: what your managers forbid themselves to do with Kalisme is written down, public, and we can enforce it against you.
Question 7 of 12
THE INTERNAL PATH
Before signing, who will you have to convince?
Rare and precious: most programs do not die of a refusal, they die between the decision and the start.
Your job will not be to defend a tool, but to make a decision hold up on one page they will read in two minutes. That page is what you leave here with.
The best news in this questionnaire. A wellbeing program that gets through that door is one that lasts, and that is exactly the conversation where “we will see nothing” has to be written rather than promised.
They will ask three questions: where is the data, who holds the keys, what happens if we leave. All three have a written answer, including the one that works against us.
Question 8 of 12
THE DEVICES
How many of your people have an iPhone, work or personal?
Then nothing stands in the way of a pilot right now. Kalisme exists on iPhone, Apple Watch and CarPlay, and nowhere else to date: where you are, that limit does not show.
Then the pilot takes shape around them: a pilot group of 10 to 50 seats that has the phones, and the honesty to tell the others that this is not for them yet. We do not exist on Android, and we would rather tell you here than let you find out later.
Then this is not the moment, and it is better to learn that at the eighth question than on the first day of a rollout: Kalisme exists on iPhone only. Keep this page, this may change one day, and we will not give you a date.
That is the first thing to check, before the budget and before the convictions: Kalisme exists on iPhone only, and a pilot takes shape around the teams that have one.
Question 9 of 12
YOUR SIZE
How many people does your organization employ?
At that size the first tier starts at 10 seats, and adoption depends less on the tool than on who opens it first.
The size at which a program stops being a corridor matter: what is not written down no longer travels.
At that size the rollout becomes a question of reassignment: people arrive, leave, change departments. A seat is reassigned, it is not lost.
At that size your IT department and your employee representatives will enter the conversation before you do. You may as well hand them straight away what they are going to ask for.
Question 10 of 12
REAL TIME
How many minutes a day can you honestly ask of someone?
Then ask for nothing. What holds inside a full day is not asked for: it is allowed, and it finds its place in a commute, a break, an evening.
Three minutes is the format we settled on, for exactly that reason.
You have more room than most. Be wary of that quarter of an hour all the same: it quickly turns into one more appointment, and therefore one more load.
Question 11 of 12
WHAT YOU HOPE FOR
If all went well, what would have changed a year from now?
We will not promise to measure that. Nobody in this sector can isolate the effect of an app on one person’s resignation, and those who publish such a figure are selling a number, not a result.
We do not promise to bring your absence rate down, and we would urge you to be wary of anyone who does. What we measure is smaller and verifiable: how many seats are activated, and whether use survives the third month.
The only one of these four goals you can see without a dashboard, and the one that lasts.
The truest intention, and the most dangerous: it is the one that pushes you towards wanting to see. What you can do is leave each person a place of their own, and make the existence of that place public. The rest does not belong to you.
Question 12 of 12
THE HORIZON
By when would you want this in place?
Then the pilot circle concerns you directly: it is open now, and it will not stay open.
A year is the right pace for a decision like this one. It is also the point beyond which the pioneer places will no longer exist.
Then sign nothing. Read the charter, keep this page, come back when the question genuinely arises. A program adopted without intent fades out by the third month, and it is your credibility that pays for it, not ours.
WHAT YOUR ANSWERS SAY
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Where you are, the devices decide, and they say: not yet
Almost nobody in your teams has an iPhone, and that is the only place Kalisme exists, with Apple Watch and CarPlay. We do not hide that limit and we will not give you a date. Two honest ways forward remain: a pilot group of 10 to 50 seats that has the phones, if such a team exists where you are, or waiting. Keep the charter and keep this page: the rest of your answers says the question deserves to be asked again the day the devices allow it.
This is not the moment, and that is perfectly fine
Your answers do not describe any urgency, and nothing here is trying to manufacture one for you. A wellbeing program adopted without intent fades out by the third month: you would have spent a budget and, more expensively, the credibility of the next attempt. Keep the charter, keep this page. The day the question genuinely arises, you will know where to find us.
For you, everything turns on what you will see
You would like to know who is struggling, or you are still hesitating, and your teams would not take your word for it. That is the knot, and it does not come undone with an argument: it comes undone with an architecture. The named record does not exist here, so nobody can produce it, neither you nor us. What your managers forbid themselves on top of that is what the charter writes down.
Your house does not speak one single language, and rarely works from a desk
Several mother tongues, work without a fixed desk, or both. That is the configuration the workplace wellbeing market serves worst: its tools assume a computer, a time slot, and the language of head office. The 13 books exist in 15 languages, to read or to listen to, and the practice fits in 3 minutes, on a phone, a watch, or in a car.
You have already given, and it faded out
You had offered something, and by the third month almost nobody was left, or you never found out. It is not a lack of commitment from your teams: a content library runs dry as soon as you have been through it, whereas a body of work is walked through. Kalisme is not a bought-in catalog, it is 13 written books, a 3-minute practice, and a companion with nothing to sell you.
Your obstacle is not the budget, it is the internal path
What will decide this is not the price, it is the path: a board to convince, employee representatives to reassure, an IT department to satisfy, sometimes a budget line to redirect. That is exactly what the note below prepares, with written answers rather than promised ones.
Nothing is blocking you, and that is rarer than you think
Your answers show no program that disappointed, no mistrust to clear, no complicated internal path. That is rarer than you imagine, and this situation carries a risk of its own: when nothing blocks, nothing presses, and the decision slides from one quarter to the next without anyone objecting. The pilot circle exists for exactly that: it puts a date on a decision that has none.
The 3 reasons that apply to you
Chosen by your answers, not by our sales deck. Each one carries the proof of what it claims.
Everyone reads in their own language, not in the language of head office
The 13 books exist in 15 native languages, to read or to listen to. This is not machine translation laid over an English-language catalog: it is the same work, written to be read in each language.
Breathing, a personal notebook, a decision compass, today’s feed. Short enough for a shift, a round or a site, and available on iPhone, Apple Watch and CarPlay, with no room and no slot to book.
You will never see who is struggling, and that is what makes the tool useful
Not who opens the app, nor when, nor what is written in a personal notebook, nor any named score. The limit sits in the code before it sits in the contract: the data does not exist, so nobody can produce it.
The charter against managerial misuse, written and enforceable by us
The technical guarantee says what the tool does not produce. The charter says what your managers forbid themselves to do with it once it is there: it is public, dated, and you can quote it internally.
Enough to answer your IT department without having to take our word for it
The notebook, the intentions and the decision compass are encrypted on the device, with a key we do not hold. The site is hosted in France, the administration platform in Germany, and the record of processing activities is available on request. Conversations with Kal are processed in the European Union by Amazon Web Services, and not retained. One caveat, which we prefer to put in writing: Amazon Web Services is an American company, subject to the laws of its home country, and an organization that objects can choose Kalisme Pro without Kal, at the same price.
You buy a number of seats and assign them freely. A seat is reassigned when someone leaves, billing covers the seats ordered, assigned or not, and never usage, and there is nothing for IT to install.
The pilot circle: 5 places, up to 50 % for 24 months
We are opening 5 places to organizations willing to shape Kalisme at work. In exchange for your feedback, a discount of up to 50 % off your list price for 24 months. Once the circle is full, the page returns to list price.
One page in your name, ready to circulate: what this is, your 3 reasons, what the employer sees and what it never sees, the four questions you will be asked, the cost, and what we do not promise.
The full offer
What your people receive, the no-surveillance guarantee, the charter, how seats work, and the pricing.
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What this is
Kalisme is an editorial work and a practical philosophy app: 13 books in 15 languages to read or listen to, a daily 3-minute practice, and a restrained artificial intelligence companion. The organization edition opens full access to staff through seats, without a single individual usage record reaching the employer.
Why this fits our situation
What the employer sees, and what it never sees
Visible
how many seats are assigned and activated
aggregated adoption, in groups broad enough that nobody stands out
the results of a voluntary, anonymous, periodic survey
anonymized qualitative feedback, with everyone’s explicit consent
Never visible
who uses the app, and when
what is written in a personal notebook
the exchanges with Kal
any named wellbeing score
any individual risk signal, in any form whatsoever
The five questions we will be asked
Where is the data?
The personal notebook, the intentions and the decision compass are encrypted on the staff member’s device, with a key the publisher does not hold. The site is hosted in France, the administration platform in Germany, and conversations with Kal are processed in the European Union and not retained: the Claude model is served there by Amazon Web Services, from data centers in the Union. One caveat, stated plainly: Amazon Web Services is an American company, subject to the laws of its home country, and an organization that objects can choose Kalisme Pro without Kal, at the same price. The record of processing activities describes every flow in full, available on request.
Are they SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified?
No, and they say so openly. They apply the GDPR and the revised Swiss data protection act, they host in the European Union, and they open their architecture to an audit by our IT department under a confidentiality agreement. A certification process is announced as the company grows.
On which devices, and in which languages?
The app exists on iPhone, with Apple Watch, widgets and CarPlay. No version for other platforms to date, and no date announced: a pilot runs where most people already carry an iPhone, or with a group that has the phones. The content exists in 15 languages, the administration portal in 5: French, English, German, Italian, Turkish.
What happens when someone leaves?
The seat is reassigned. Billing covers the seats ordered, assigned or not, never usage, and there is nothing for IT to install.
Can it be used without the artificial intelligence?
Kal is never forced on anyone: each staff member chooses to turn it on, after a screen that says where their messages go, and can change that choice in their settings. And the organization can choose Kalisme Pro without Kal for all of its seats, when it subscribes or later from its portal, at the same price; the organization can restore it later, an individual employee cannot work around it. Without Kal, everything else stays: the 13 books, breathing, the notebook, the decision compass, today’s feed.
What it costs
The rate runs from €17 down to €7 per seat per month depending on the number of seats opened, starting at 10 seats, excluding tax.
One seat for each person would place us on the first tier, 10 to 49 seats: €17 per seat per month, excluding tax. Below 10 seats the offer does not open.
One seat for each person would place us at €15 per seat per month from 50 to 199 seats, and at €13 from 200 seats onwards, excluding tax. If we opened only 10 to 49, the tier would rise back to €17.
One seat for each person would place us at €13 per seat per month, the 200 to 999 seat tier, excluding tax. If we opened fewer than 200 seats, the tier would rise to €15, and to €17 below 50 seats.
One seat for each person would place us at €11 per seat per month, the 1,000 to 4,999 seat tier, excluding tax. If we opened fewer than 1,000 seats, the tier would rise to €13, and to €15 below 200 seats.
The tier follows the number of seats opened, not the total headcount: opening only some of the seats does not bring the unit price down. Dedicated rates exist for non-profits and education (€7) and for healthcare (€8). A pilot circle of 5 places offers a discount of up to 50 % off list price for 24 months. 2026 price list, subject to change: the rate of an order is fixed for the whole commitment period. The commitment runs for 12 months up to 4,999 seats, and for at least 24 months beyond that.
What Kalisme does not promise
No measurable return on investment at six months. Nobody in this sector can isolate the effect of an app on absence rates, and the figures displayed by competing platforms do not survive scrutiny. What is measurable, and what will be reported back to us: the seat activation rate, aggregated use above an anonymity threshold, a voluntary, anonymous survey, and the feedback of our own teams.
Who publishes it
Kalisme is carried by Hakan Kaynar, philosopher and independent developer in Lausanne. No fundraising, no investors, no change of course to fear during a contract.
To check for yourself
The offer: www.kalisme.com/pro The charter against managerial misuse: www.kalisme.com/pro/charte
This note was drawn up from the mirror “Your organization, at work”, at www.kalisme.com/pro/miroir. The answers that produced it were not transmitted to anyone.