# Spirit X Solutions

> Spirit X Solutions AG is a Zurich-based digital mental health company that builds Spirit X — a CE-marked EU MDR Class IIa software as a medical device (PWA) for mental health screening, triage and longitudinal monitoring. Spirit X provides the digital platform the Swiss SPIRIT network (Scaling-up Psychological Interventions in Refugees in Switzerland, led by University Hospital Zurich) uses with its partners for screening, triage and research data collection.

Spirit X Solutions AG (CHE-291.425.334) is a healthcare services company focused on research, development and consulting in medicine and life sciences. Founded in 2023, the company originated at University Hospital Zurich (USZ). Spirit X combines clinical research, evidence-based interventions and digital technology to make mental health care accessible across cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds.

Tagline: **Leading Mental Health Care into the Future**.

- Website: https://spirit-x.ch
- Languages: English, German, French, Italian — every public page exists under `/en/`, `/de/`, `/fr/` and `/it/` (English is `x-default`).
- Contact: info@spirit-x.ch
- Address: Culmannstrasse 1, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
- Business hours: Monday–Friday 9:00–17:00 CET; weekends by appointment.
- Sitemap (with hreflang alternates and lastmod dates): https://spirit-x.ch/sitemap.xml
- Last updated: 2026-11-05

## Company

- [About Spirit X](https://spirit-x.ch/en/about/): Mission, founding story, values, executive team and institutional partners.
- [Contact](https://spirit-x.ch/en/contact/): Demo requests, partnerships, product documentation inquiries and general questions.
- [Impressum](https://spirit-x.ch/en/impressum/): Company registration, address and statutory identification for Spirit X Solutions AG.

**Mission:** Make quality mental health care accessible to everyone, regardless of cultural, linguistic or socio-economic background, using digital technologies that address systemic barriers and deliver scalable, high-impact solutions.

**Core values:**
- **Compassionate care** — solutions designed with empathy at their core.
- **Evidence-based** — interventions grounded in rigorous scientific research and clinical evidence.
- **Inclusive access** — breaking barriers so mental health care reaches everyone who needs it.

## Platform & Solution

- [Our Solution](https://spirit-x.ch/en/solution/): How the Spirit X platform supports screening, triage, awareness and coordinated care at scale for organisations and programmes.

Spirit X provides a digital foundation for organisations to run screening, triage, awareness and coordinated care, so teams can reach more people with timely, appropriate psychosocial support.

**Four platform pillars (aligned with SPIRIT):**
1. **PM+ (Problem Management Plus)** — the WHO's brief, transdiagnostic intervention, delivered in Switzerland by trained helpers with a refugee background as peer support.
2. **Screenings** — systematic screening for early detection of psychological distress and needs-based referral.
3. **Awareness campaigns** — raising awareness of mental health among refugees and professionals.
4. **Networking** — regional, interprofessional networks connecting the health, migration and social sectors.

## Product — Spirit X Software

- [Spirit X Product](https://spirit-x.ch/en/product/): Class IIa mental health screening and triage software (PWA) — capabilities, regulatory status and safety information.
- [Instructions for Use (IFU)](https://spirit-x.ch/en/ifu/): Official CE medical device documentation in English, German, French and Italian (password-protected download).

**Regulatory status:**
- EU MDR Class IIa software as a medical device (SaMD), CE marked under Regulation (EU) 2017/745
- Current software version: **2.21**
- Delivered as a **Progressive Web App (PWA)** in the browser on desktop or mobile

**Capabilities:**
- **Validated questionnaires, digitised** — automated scoring and analysis replacing paper workflows
- **Screening, assessment & monitoring** — longitudinal symptom tracking (e.g. before/after an intervention)
- **Triage & clinical workflow support** — automated triage by severity, urgency and syndromal pattern; alerts for signs requiring timely clinical attention, including suicidal tendencies
- **Care navigation** — pointers to regional therapy resources where configured
- **Multi-role workflows** — clients, assessors, helpers, field coordinators, tenant admins and super admins
- **Research data** — consistent, comparable assessment data across organisations, cantons and languages
- **Privacy & compliance** — aligned with the Swiss FADP, GDPR and MDR

**Intended use limitations / contraindications — Spirit X must NOT be used:**
- In emergencies, life-threatening conditions or intensive care settings
- By users who cannot understand the software or questionnaires (a helper or caregiver may assist)
- As the sole basis for diagnostic or therapeutic decisions — always follow local protocols and qualified clinical judgement
- Transient use: continuous use for less than 60 minutes per session

## Programmes — SPIRIT Switzerland

SPIRIT (Scaling-up Psychological Interventions in Refugees in Switzerland) was initiated and is led nationally by University Hospital Zurich (USZ), together with the University of Zurich (UZH). Phase 1 ran 2020–2025 with implementation partners in nine cantons (Bern, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Lucerne, Thurgau, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Vaud, Zurich). It is funded by Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz (PGV) and USZ, with cantonal delivery co-funded by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), cantons and foundations. Programme website: https://www.spirit-network.ch

**How Spirit X maps to SPIRIT:**

| SPIRIT pillar | Spirit X function |
|---------------|-------------------|
| Screenings | Digital validated questionnaires, automated scoring, triage outputs |
| PM+ & pathways | Client, helper and assessor workflows; pre/post monitoring; onward referral |
| Networking | Regional care visibility and institutional coordination roles |
| Research & evaluation | Consistent assessment data across partners, cantons and languages |

## Articles

Evidence-based articles, each with cited third-party sources (DOIs, partner pages). Available in EN, DE, FR and IT.

- [Articles hub](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/): All articles on refugee mental health and the SPIRIT programme.
- [Refugee mental health in Switzerland: understanding the care gap](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/refugee-mental-health-switzerland/): Prevalence (PTSD 31.46%, depression 31.5% — Blackmore et al., 2020), interpreter funding and socio-cultural barriers to care in Switzerland.
- [Problem Management Plus (PM+): the WHO intervention behind SPIRIT](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/problem-management-plus-pm-plus/): What PM+ is, how five ~90-minute sessions work, who delivers them, and trial evidence (meta-analysis SMD −0.45; Swiss pilot RCT; Dutch RCT with 12-month follow-up).
- [SPIRIT: how Switzerland is scaling psychological support for refugees](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/spirit-program-switzerland/): Aims, pillars, nine cantons, funding and 2020–2025 key figures (120+ helpers, 1,200+ completed PM+ interventions, 350+ triage referrals).
- [The partners behind SPIRIT](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/spirit-network-partners/): Project lead (USZ/UZH), funders, cantonal implementation partners, national sounding board, scientific advisory board and evaluators.
- [Digital screening and triage in SPIRIT](https://spirit-x.ch/en/articles/digital-screening-triage-spirit-x/): How the Spirit X platform supports screening, triage, referrals and research data across the SPIRIT network (first-party article with disclosure).

## Partners

- [University Hospital Zurich (USZ)](https://www.usz.ch/): Spirit X originated at USZ, which initiated and leads the SPIRIT programme.
- [Swiss Red Cross (SRK)](https://www.redcross.ch/): Cantonal Red Cross branches implement SPIRIT in most participating cantons.

## Team

- **Nikita Yampolski** — CPO & CTO. Product leader and engineer with an MSc in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence); launched and scaled B2B, SaaS and consumer products through PLG and organic growth. Roles include Swisscom; Spitch AG, a Swiss voice-recognition pioneer since 2014, long before AI and LLMs went mainstream; Open Mineral; and Product Rocket. Scaled more than 10 ML/AI-powered products across BioTech, FinTech, InsurTech and MarTech. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitay/

**Social profiles:**
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spirit-x-solutions/
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/SpiritXAG
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SpiritXSolutions

## FAQ

- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://spirit-x.ch/en/faq/): Product purpose, user groups, contraindications, technical requirements, data security, clinical claims and support.

**Quick answers:**
- **What is Spirit X?** Class IIa medical device software providing digitised validated questionnaires with automated analysis for screening, diagnosis support and monitoring of mental health conditions.
- **Reported side effects?** None reported in current documentation.
- **Data security?** High standards aligned with the Swiss FADP, GDPR and MDR.
- **Serious incident?** Suspend use immediately; contact https://spirit-x.ch/en/contact/ or info@spirit-x.ch.

## Optional

Legal and secondary pages — useful for compliance context, lower priority for product understanding.

- [Privacy Notice](https://spirit-x.ch/en/privacy/): Website data handling, Plausible analytics and rights under Swiss and EU law.
- [Cookies & Storage](https://spirit-x.ch/en/cookies/): Browser storage, theme preference and privacy banner — no advertising trackers.
- [Sitemap](https://spirit-x.ch/sitemap.xml): Full XML sitemap with hreflang alternates and lastmod dates.