12 questions about what your organization allows. None of them asks how your people are doing.
Allow 4 minutes. Kalisme is a psychological wellbeing app, not a medical one, that an organization gives to its teams. By the end you will know whether Kalisme makes sense for your organization, even if the answer is no, 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?
Just one
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
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 spoken at headquarters speaks to only part of your organization, and the rest notices.
Four or more
Four languages or more means an organization where people understand each other at work and rarely beyond it. Rest, worry, tiredness: 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?
Almost nobody
A fixed desk is a place where catching your breath is already possible. It remains to be seen whether anyone allows themselves to.
A minority
That minority is almost always the one no program ever reaches: time slots, meeting rooms and video calls are designed for the others.
Half or more
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?
Nothing yet
That is more honest than a lot of window dressing, and you start with no trust deficit to make up.
Occasional gestures: fruit, sports, talks
Sincere gestures, and they count. But a pleasant backdrop changes nothing about what plays out on a Tuesday evening, when someone goes home drained without knowing why.
A real initiative: an app or a program
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?
I know, and it held
That is rare, and worth saying. Look at what made it stick: almost never the richness of the content, almost always the fact that it fit into a real workday.
I know, and it faded out
The usual story in this sector. It is not a lack of commitment from your teams: a content library runs dry, a short practice can be picked up again every day.
I have no idea
A common answer, and the most honest one. We may as well say it now: with us, you will not know person by person either. You will know which seats are open, never who opens the app, or when.
There was nothing before
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?
Yes, that would be useful
The impulse is human: it comes from concern, not from control. And that is exactly what makes it a trap. Nobody opens up with their manager watching, so what the tool would show you would not be the state of your teams, only the part they are willing to show.
No
You have already settled the question that most platforms in this sector sidestep.
I am not sure
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?
Yes
Then you hold rare capital. Do not spend it on a tool that produces, somewhere, a named record you never asked for.
No
That is the answer in most organizations, and it is not an accusation: it simply says that your word alone is no longer enough. A promise only counts if it can be checked without anyone having to believe you.
Only if it is in writing
The right instinct, and precisely why the charter exists: what your managers commit never to do with Kalisme is in writing, public, and we can hold you to it.
Question 7 of 12
THE INTERNAL PATH
Before signing, who will you have to convince?
Nobody but myself
Rare and precious: most wellbeing programs do not die of a refusal, they die between the decision and the rollout.
The board or finance
Your job will not be to defend a tool, but to fit a decision onto one page they will read in two minutes. That page is what you leave here with.
Employee representatives
The best news in this questionnaire. A wellbeing program that gets through that door is one that will last, and that is exactly the conversation where “we will see nothing” has to be put in writing rather than promised.
IT
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 a smartphone, iPhone or Android, work or personal?
Most of them
Then nothing stands in the way of starting now: below 200 people you order online, and from 200 people the pilot program is open to you. Kalisme is on iPhone, iPad and Android: everyone installs it on the phone they already have.
Only some
Then the rollout takes shape around the group that has one, with the honesty to tell the others that this is not for them yet. From 200 people, that is exactly how the pilot program works: 20 to 50 seats for the trial, among the people with a smartphone. Below that, you order online, from 10 seats.
Almost nobody
Then now is not the right time, and it is better to learn that at question eight than on the first day of a rollout: Kalisme lives on each person’s own phone, and most of your people do not have a personal phone with them, on a workshop floor for example. Keep this page: the question will come up again the day your teams have one.
I have no idea
That is the first thing to check, before the budget and before anyone’s convictions: Kalisme is on iPhone, iPad and Android, and a rollout takes shape around the teams that have a smartphone.
Question 9 of 12
YOUR SIZE
How many people does your organization employ?
Fewer than 50
At that size, the way in is to order online: your seats open as soon as you pay, from 10 seats, and you have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed. Adoption will depend less on the tool than on who opens it first.
50 to 199
The size at which a program stops running on word of mouth: what is not written down no longer gets around. At that size, the way in is to order online: your seats open as soon as you pay, and you have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed.
200 to 999
At that size the rollout becomes a question of reassignment: people arrive, leave, change departments. A seat is reassigned, it is not lost. And the pilot program is open to you, on request: 4 months free, with a group of 20 to 50 volunteers.
1,000 and above
At that size your IT department and your employee representatives will enter the conversation before you do. You may as well give them what they are going to ask for right from the start. The pilot program is open to you, on request: 4 months free, with a group of 20 to 50 volunteers.
Question 10 of 12
REAL TIME
How many minutes a day can you honestly ask of someone?
None, the days are full
Then ask for nothing. What fits into a full day is not something you ask for: it is something you allow, and it slips into a commute, a break, an evening.
A few minutes
A few minutes is the format we settled on, for exactly that reason.
A quarter of an hour
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 burden.
Question 11 of 12
WHAT YOU HOPE FOR
If all went well, what would have changed a year from now?
Fewer people would leave
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.
Sick leave would be rarer
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 more modest, and verifiable: how many seats are activated, and whether use survives the third month.
The atmosphere would be easier to breathe
The only one of these four goals you can see without a dashboard, and the one that lasts.
Above all I want to miss no one
The truest intention, and the most dangerous: it is the one that pushes you toward 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?
This quarter
Then two ways in are open to you right now: below 200 people, ordering online, which opens your seats as soon as you pay; from 200 people, the pilot program, on request.
This year
A year is the right pace for a decision like this one: time enough to circulate the internal note you will take away at the end.
Just looking, nothing more
Then sign nothing. Read the charter, keep this page, come back when the question genuinely arises. A program adopted half-heartedly fades out by the third month, and it is your credibility that pays the price, not ours.
WHAT YOUR ANSWERS SAY
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In your organization, the devices decide, and they say: not yet
Almost nobody in your teams has a smartphone, on a workshop floor for example, and Kalisme lives on each person’s own phone, iPhone or Android. Two honest ways forward remain: starting with the people who have one, if you have such a team (a pilot group of 20 to 50 seats from 200 people, an online order below that), or waiting. Keep the charter and keep this page: the rest of your answers say the question deserves to be asked again the day your teams have one.
Now is not the right time, and that is perfectly fine
Your answers do not point to any urgency, and nothing here is trying to manufacture one for you. A wellbeing program adopted half-heartedly fades out by the third month: you would have spent a budget and, more costly still, 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 no argument will untie it: only an architecture can. The named record does not exist here, so nobody can produce it, not you and not us. Beyond that, what your managers commit never to do is written down in the charter.
Your organization does not speak just one language, and rarely works from a desk
Several mother tongues, jobs 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 spoken at headquarters. The 13 books are available in 15 languages, and the device can also read them aloud; the practice fits into a few minutes, on a phone, a tablet, a watch, or in a car.
You have tried before, and it faded out
You 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 short practice can be picked up again every day. Kalisme is not an off-the-shelf catalog: it is 13 original books, a few minutes of 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 leadership team 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 you for, 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 overcome, no complicated internal path. That is rarer than you imagine, and this situation carries a risk of its own: when nothing is in the way, nothing is urgent, and the decision slides from one quarter to the next without anyone objecting. From 200 people, the pilot program exists for exactly that reason: it puts a date on a decision that has none. Below that, ordering online opens your seats as soon as you pay, with 14 days to withdraw, no reason needed.
The 3 reasons that apply to you
Chosen by your answers, not by our sales pitch. Each one links to its proof.
Everyone reads in their own language, not the one spoken at headquarters
The 13 books are available in 15 languages, and the device can also read them aloud. This is not machine translation laid over an English-language catalog: it is the same text, adapted into each language, not subtitled.
Breathing, a personal notebook, a decision compass, today’s feed. Short enough for a shift, a route or a job site, and available on iPhone, iPad and Android, plus Apple Watch and CarPlay on iPhone, with no room and no slot to book.
Original books, not a library of purchased content
13 original books, not a collection of licensed videos. That is what makes the difference in the third month: a catalog ends, a short practice can be picked up again every day.
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, in writing, and one we can hold you to
The technical guarantee says what the tool does not produce. The charter says what your managers commit never to do with it once it is in place: 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; only today’s entry is also kept unencrypted on the device, for the widget. The site is hosted in France, the administration platform in Germany. Our security self-assessment is published in the public CSA STAR Registry, and the data processing agreement and the record of processing activities are yours on first request. Conversations with Kal are processed by default in the European Union by Amazon Web Services, and not retained; an organization that opts out sees them go to the United States, kept for 30 days. 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 can be reassigned when someone leaves. Billing covers the seats ordered, assigned or not, never usage, and there is nothing for IT to install.
The pilot program: success defined together before you start
The pilot program is reserved for organizations of 200 people or more, on request. In exchange for your feedback, the first 4 months are free, for 20 to 50 seats. Before you start, we set three to five measurable success criteria together, in writing. Three anonymous surveys are planned: at launch, at 30 and at 90 days; only the third counts for the criteria. Its report, produced once 10 responses are in, reaches you around day 111, before the trial ends: we check each criterion with you and give you the result in writing. If you stop the trial after that survey has been launched, the criteria are still checked. If all are met, the paid contract begins, with no further signature, for at least the trial’s number of seats and never fewer than 20, with 50% off your list price for the whole of your 12- or 24-month commitment, the price never below €7 per seat per month, and no cap on the number of seats. If not, the seats close and you pay nothing, unless you ask in writing to continue.
Ordering online: your seats open as soon as you pay
From 10 to 199 seats, in Switzerland, the European Union and the United Kingdom, you order online: your seats open as soon as you pay, with no sales call and no quote to wait for, and you have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed. Above that, or from another country, by written quote.
One page in your name, ready to circulate, worded as your organization would speak of itself (“we” stands for your organization): what this is, who backs it besides Kalisme, one sentence for each role, your 3 reasons, what the employer sees and what it never sees, the 5 questions you will be asked, the cost, and what Kalisme does not promise.
The full offer
What your people receive, the no-surveillance guarantee, the charter, how seats work, the pricing, and the documentation for your DPO.
The pilot program is reserved for organizations of 200 people or more, on request. The first 4 months are free. Before you start, we set three to five measurable criteria together, in writing. If all of them are met at the end of the trial, the paid contract begins, with no further signature: 50% off for the whole of your 12- or 24-month commitment, with the price never below €7 per seat per month, and no cap on the number of seats. If any one of them is not met, you pay nothing, unless you ask in writing to continue. A request takes just a few lines.
The pilot is reserved for organizations of 200 people or more. For yours, the way in is to order online, from 10 to 199 seats, in Switzerland, the European Union and the United Kingdom: your seats open as soon as you pay, and you have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed.
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What this is
Kalisme is a psychological wellbeing app, not a medical one: 13 short books in 15 languages, which the device can also read aloud, a daily practice of a few minutes, and a measured artificial intelligence companion. The organization edition gives staff full access through seats, without a single individual usage record reaching the employer.
Who says so, besides the publisher
None of these frameworks assesses an app: each one assesses the employer’s approach. Kalisme therefore never meets a criterion on its own; it documents a voluntary mental health promotion offer, alongside our prevention work. It is neither certified by nor affiliated with any of these bodies.
The World Health Organization. Its guidelines on mental health at work (2022) recommend considering individual interventions as a complement to organisational measures, with a low level of certainty, and never as a complete response. That is where Kalisme sits for us.
Swiss employment law. Ordinance 3 to the Employment Act (OLT 3) prohibits systems designed to monitor workers’ behaviour at their workstation (art. 26) and requires that workers be consulted on health protection (art. 6). No individual usage data ever reaches us, and the evidence pack provides a template for consulting our teams.
GRI 403-6-b. The sustainability reporting standard asks for a description of the voluntary health promotion programmes offered to workers, and requires that neither participation nor health data be used for any employment decision. The evidence pack provides the paragraph, ready to complete.
Friendly Work Space (Health Promotion Switzerland). In our workplace health management, a mental health promotion offer, alongside our measures and never as one of them.
In one sentence, for each role
For leadership
“We are not buying a promise: in the pilot program, open from 200 people, the first 4 months are free, and criteria set in writing before we start decide what happens next; if a single one is missed, we owe nothing.”
“We are not buying a promise: our seats open as soon as we pay, and we have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed and a full refund.”
For the data protection officer
“No individual usage data ever reaches us, the personal notebook is encrypted on each person’s device with a key the publisher does not hold, and the security self-assessment is public in the Cloud Security Alliance STAR Registry.”
For staff representatives
“We sign a charter, attached to the contract: the tool will never be used for discipline, pay, appraisal or selection, and no one will see what anyone does with it.”
Why this fits our situation
What the employer sees, and what it never sees
Visible
which seats are open: for an email invitation, the address, the activation date and the number of devices
aggregated adoption across all your seats
the results of a voluntary, anonymous, periodic survey
the themes of free-text answers, with no quotations
Never visible
what anyone does with their access, and when
what is written in a personal notebook
conversations 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; only today’s entry is also kept unencrypted on the device, for the widget. The site is hosted in France, the administration platform in Germany, and conversations with Kal are processed by default in the European Union and not retained: the Claude model is served there by Amazon Web Services, from data centers in the Union. An organization that opts out sees its conversations go to the United States, kept for 30 days. 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. Their security self-assessment, the Cloud Security Alliance CAIQ questionnaire, is published in the public STAR Registry at Level 1, including the answers where they name their own gaps.
On which devices, and in which languages?
The app is available on iPhone, iPad and Android, with its widgets; on iPhone, it also works with Apple Watch and CarPlay. The content is available in 15 languages, the administration portal in 6: French, English, German, Italian, Turkish, Spanish.
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 decides whether 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: it can switch Kal back on afterwards, and no individual employee can work around that choice. 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 is not available. At our size, the order is placed online: our seats open as soon as we pay, and we have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed.
One seat for each person would place us at €15 per seat per month, the tier for 50 to 199 seats, excluding tax. If we opened only 10 to 49, the rate would rise to €17. At our size, the order is placed online: our seats open as soon as we pay, and we have 14 days to withdraw, with no reason needed.
One seat for each person would place us at €13 per seat per month, the tier for 200 to 999 seats, excluding tax. If we opened fewer than 200 seats, the rate would rise to €15, and to €17 below 50 seats. Above 199 seats, the order is placed by written quote, and at our size the pilot program is open to us, on request.
One seat for each person would place us at €11 per seat per month from 1,000 to 4,999 seats, at €9 from 5,000 to 19,999 seats, and at €7 beyond that, excluding tax. If we opened fewer than 1,000 seats, the rate would rise to €13, and to €15 below 200 seats. Above 199 seats, the order is placed by written quote, and at our size the pilot program is open to us, on request.
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. The same amounts apply in Swiss francs and pounds sterling. Dedicated rates exist for NGOs, nonprofits and education (€7) and for healthcare (€8). From 10 to 199 seats, in Switzerland, the European Union and the United Kingdom, the order is placed online and the seats open on payment; above that, or from another country, by written quote. Reserved for organizations of 200 people or more, a pilot program, on request, offers the first 4 months free, with success criteria set together in writing before the start; if all are met, the paid contract begins, with no further signature, for at least the trial’s number of seats and never fewer than 20, with a 50% discount off list price for the whole 12- or 24-month commitment, the price never below €7 per seat per month. 2026 price list, subject to change: the rate on an order is fixed for the whole commitment period. The commitment runs for 12 months up to 999 seats, and for at least 24 months from 1,000 seats, with the option to withdraw without giving a reason within 14 days of the order and receive a full refund.
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 absenteeism, and the figures displayed by competing platforms do not survive scrutiny. What is measurable, and what will be reported back to us: the number of activated seats (and their rate from 20 activated seats), and what our teams say in a voluntary, anonymous survey, reported once 10 responses are in.
Who publishes it
Kalisme is designed by Hakan Kaynar, a transformation consultant since 2008 and the architect of the app, in Lausanne.
To check for yourself
The offer: www.kalisme.com/en The charter against managerial misuse: www.kalisme.com/pro/charte/en The evidence pack, with the cross-reference table of frameworks: www.kalisme.com/pro/dossier/en The security self-assessment: cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/registry/kalisme
This note was drawn up from the mirror “Your organization, at work,” at www.kalisme.com/pro/miroir/en. The answers that produced it were not sent to anyone.
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