Our projects
Projects connected by a shared ambition: to understand earlier what undermines health, connect knowledge, and build useful, rigorous, responsible responses.
Humanity Science Studio develops projects at the intersection of science, human experience, prevention, and responsible artificial intelligence.
01 First project
Reducing brain fog at work to support lasting mental health.
Reducing brain fog at work to support lasting mental health.
Mental health at work has become a major public health, organizational, and prevention challenge.
In France, 43% of workers who took sick leave in the past twelve months reported that this leave was linked, fully or partly, to a psychological reason. Several indicators also place France among the European countries most exposed to psychosocial risks: daily pressure, work-related anxiety, difficulty discussing mental health with one’s employer, and support systems perceived as insufficiently accessible. These situations carry a significant human cost: lasting fatigue, loss of confidence, isolation, disengagement, and difficulty seeing a way forward. They also carry an organizational and collective cost: absenteeism, disorganization, loss of skills, and reduced productivity.
The paradox is that burnout undermines precisely the capacities needed to recover from it: attention, working memory, perspective, prioritization, and trust in one’s own judgment. The more fatigue sets in, the harder it becomes to understand what is really weighing on a person and where to begin. kairos was designed to meet this need: an AI-guided clarification tool focused on the relationship with work. While existing solutions often remain fragmented — general prevention information, HR conversations, medical care, coaching, or general-purpose AI — kairos offers a structured space to connect psychological experience, professional context, organizational factors, and support needs.
kairos is built on a method, a taxonomy of work experience, clear guardrails, and a guidance logic designed to help people understand what they are experiencing without making a diagnosis. While many digital tools focus broadly on improving workplace well-being, kairos addresses a more specific need: helping people clarify their situation, identify the factors contributing to burnout or misalignment, and explore courses of action adapted to their context.
What we want to build
kairos is both a support tool and a research-informed learning project.
In the medium term, we want to make it an accessible space for people who need to understand what is happening in their relationship with work, whether before or after a period of burnout.
Early observations point toward a systemic reading: difficulties often emerge from an imbalance between demands, resources, recovery, clarity of framework, support, recognition, and the real possibility of taking action.
In the longer term, with users’ consent and within a strict ethical framework, the project could contribute to building an anonymized knowledge base on work-related narratives, trajectories, and support journeys. The ambition is to better detect weak signals, understand tipping factors, and design fairer ways to support people before their situation becomes critical.
Project status
kairos is currently in development, with an initial testing phase underway among a small group of users.
The project is evolving through user feedback, discussions with sophrologists and occupational psychologists, and ongoing work on the method, scientific guardrails, user experience, and programme personalization.
The next steps are to consolidate the product, document usage, strengthen partnerships with practitioners, and explore experimentation with actors in mental health, work, prevention, and professional support.
Collaborate
We are looking to connect with occupational psychologists, physicians, researchers, coaches, therapists, institutions, associations, companies, and public actors who want to better understand and prevent burnout, misalignment, or professional disengagement.
Collaborations can take several forms: expert feedback, field experimentation, applied research, ethical guidance, institutional partnerships, or the design of pathways adapted to specific contexts.
kairos is a first project. It opens up a way of working: starting from a real need, building with rigor, testing with care, and making technology a support for human discernment.