Unbound Labs

Our innovation playground.

The innovation hub of Unbound Minds. Our engine room for new ideas, services and systems in mental health care, where evidence and creativity meet.

What if good ideas in mental health care didn’t stall in pilots?

Where we start

Problems we start from.

Gaps in support between sessions

What happens for people in the days between appointments, and what could help there?

Tools that don’t work well enough

Where do the tools clinicians and clients use today fall short, and what would work better?

The process

How an idea moves.

Each stage starts as a sketch and firms up as the idea earns it. Scroll to watch one move through.

  1. 1

    Problem

  2. 2

    Explore

  3. 3

    Prototype

  4. 4

    Review

Then one of

Revise

Back to the prototype.

Loops back to 3

Then one of

Stop and learn

Weak ideas are dropped quickly.

Then one of

Consider scaling

Only what works.

Ideas become programs or services, or they’re dropped. We aim to only scale what works.

What guides us

Four principles.

Born in the therapy room

We aim to start from what clinicians and clients actually run into, not from a whiteboard.

Evidence in action

We ground each idea in the research, and keep checking our thinking against it as the idea develops.

From prototype to practice

Small first versions and honest reviews come before any decision about scale. This page is built the same way.

Growth without compromise

We aim to grow ideas without trading away the quality of care or the wellbeing of our people.

For clinicians

Build with us.

Labs is part of Unbound Minds. Clinicians can join its projects by secondment or a permanent move.