Distribution
Communities, newsletter, content, podcast, YouTube, partners and the HopeStage Research platform.
Why HopeStage
Mental health expertise built from lived experience, community and execution.
HopeStage was created to make mental health information, support and research more understandable, trustworthy and useful. The commercial research practice turns that experience into practical support for serious research teams.
Founder
I’m Clément Baissat, founder of HopeStage, and I live with bipolarity.
Clément built HopeStage from direct experience of how difficult it can be to understand a condition, trust information, accept support and navigate options. The research practice combines that lived-experience perspective with an entrepreneurial and commercial lens.
“Lived experience is expertise.”
Three practical assets
What the wider HopeStage ecosystem brings to research.
Trust
Lived experience, long-term community relationships, careful communication and mental health specialization.
Insight
Direct understanding of why people hesitate, disengage, avoid, accept, join, stay or recommend.
HopeStage impact
Patient-facing work and B2B research reinforce each other.
Patient-facing work creates trust and direct understanding. B2B work funds and strengthens the broader mission. HopeStage never exploits its community or sells private health data.
people informed or supported
Across HopeStage education, community and public initiatives.
Verified 26 August 2026community members
People connected through HopeStage community pathways.
Verified 26 August 2026group participants
Participants in psychoeducation and talking groups.
Verified 26 August 2026mental health studies indexed
Rounded platform count; shown with a verification date.
Verified 26 August 2026studies marked recruiting
Rounded platform count; registry status can change.
Verified 26 August 2026Sydney · Paris · Global