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Why we built Occlio

Occlio Team23 March 2026
Why we built Occlio

Is your workplace helping your people, or hurting them?

Most organisations cannot honestly answer that question. That is the problem Occlio was built to solve.

Over the past few years, workplace wellness has become a growing priority. Mental health apps, employee assistance programmes, and wellbeing initiatives have multiplied.

These tools are designed to help individuals cope. What they rarely do is turn the mirror back on the organisation itself. They don't try to get to the root of the problem, whether that's workload, communication, or management behaviour.

The myth of separation

We all live interconnected lives. Work bleeds into our personal lives and vice versa, and that's particularly true in the distributed workplace.

Whilst employees can try to make better wellbeing decisions outside of work - sleeping better, eating better, exercising more - they often have very little control over their own work environments.

If you want healthier people, you have to look at the environment you're asking them to work in.

What Occlio does differently

Occlio gives in-depth insights as to why your employees are feeling like they are.

At the heart of the platform is the Vitality Pulse: a continuous, real-time wellbeing score for your company, teams, and individual employees. In-depth onboarding, followed by regular quick check-ins, builds a continuous picture of how your people are feeling.

The check-ins take thirty seconds and adapt to specific roles and types of work. The underlying physical and mental measures stay consistent; only the surface-level prompts change.

For employees, their personal Vitality Pulse is entirely private. They see their own data. Leaders never see individual scores. They see the aggregate picture for their teams, early warning indicators when things start to decline, and trend data over time rather than a one-off snapshot.

That separation is important. It protects employees while giving organisations the insight they actually need.

Built on established science

Occlio is built on established workplace wellbeing frameworks - PERMA, the HSE Management Standards, the WHO Healthy Workplace model, Self-Determination Theory, and ISO 45003. The methodology and references are on the science page.

Aligned to the global standard

Occlio maps directly to ISO 45003, the international standard for managing psychosocial risks at work. The Vitality Pulse covers all eighteen psychosocial hazards defined under the standard, spanning work organisation, social factors, and working environment. Every check-in and assessment generates compliance evidence automatically, with no extra reporting burden.

You can't fix what you can't see. Book a demo and we'll show you what your organisation's Vitality Pulse looks like.