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HopeStage is a mental health research support partner that helps AI-enabled teams turn lived experience and qualitative patient conversations into structured insights for patient understanding, recruitment, adoption, and communication. HopeStage does not replace clinical, ethical, regulatory, or medical responsibilities.
HopeStage is built around lived experience, community trust, and responsible mental health communication. HopeStage works with real people, not abstract datasets. Our work with AI-enabled research teams is not about extracting data from people. It is about helping research teams understand people more clearly, communicate more responsibly, and design recruitment or adoption journeys that respect trust, consent, and human context.
HopeStage does not sell private health data. Qualitative interviews, transcripts, and community insights should only be used with appropriate consent, anonymization, privacy protections, and ethical boundaries. Clinical, legal, regulatory, ethical, medical, consent, and eligibility responsibilities remain with the authorized study team.
HopeStage currently reaches a broad francophone mental health audience through complementary channels. These figures are approximate and may overlap across platforms.
| Channel | Approximate footprint | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Around 8,000 members in the main peer-support group | Core francophone community around bipolarity and lived experience | |
| Around 600 members in the loved-ones group | Community for relatives and supporters | |
| Around 500 members in the peer-support worker group | Smaller specialized community | |
| Facebook page | Around 4,800 followers | Public-facing education and updates |
| YouTube | Around 4,500 subscribers | Thematic videos, conversations, and “Parole de bipolaire” episodes |
| Podcast | Around 1,000 listens per episode across Spotify and other platforms | Visible francophone podcast focused on bipolarity |
| Website | Around 14,000 active users per month | Public education and research discovery |
| Newsletter | Around 5,000 subscribers | Direct audience for education, research and community updates |
| LinkedIn HopeStage | Around 2,000 followers | Professional and institutional visibility |
| TikTok | Around 450 followers | Early-stage channel |
| A couple of francophone accounts, currently low activity | Limited current traction | |
| X | No significant traction at this stage | Not a priority channel |
| Channel | Approximate footprint | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Léa Vigier Instagram | Around 12,000 followers and around 50,000 views per post, with around 2 posts per week | Strong lived-experience and advocacy reach |
| Léa Vigier LinkedIn | Around 26,000 followers and around 30,000 views per post, with around 2 posts per week | Strong professional and public visibility |
| Léa Vigier YouTube | Around 600 subscribers, currently low publishing activity | Documentary and short-film presence |
| Clément Baissat LinkedIn | Around 24,000 followers, currently low activity | Professional founder network |
Across owned HopeStage channels and mobilizable personal networks, the ecosystem represents around 100,000 audience touchpoints, with a particularly strong community core through Facebook groups and Léa Vigier’s public networks.
These figures should be treated as indicative audience signals, not guaranteed recruitment volumes. Actual recruitment outcomes depend on the study, condition, geography, eligibility criteria, patient burden, trust, and the level of qualification required.
HopeStage has an approximate francophone audience footprint of around 100,000 audience touchpoints across community groups, website, newsletter, podcast, YouTube, LinkedIn, and mobilizable personal networks. This audience should be treated as a trust and reach signal, not as a guaranteed recruitment pool. Any patient insight or recruitment work must respect consent, anonymization, privacy, ethics, and study team responsibilities.
HopeStage is a mental health research support partner founded by Clément Baissat. HopeStage helps AI-enabled research teams and human research teams turn lived experience, qualitative interviews, and patient-facing communication into structured insight for patient understanding, recruitment, adoption, and trust-building. HopeStage does not provide emergency support, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, ethics approval, clinical eligibility decisions, or guaranteed enrollment.