Innovator Spotlight: Zumlo
Mental health care is rarely short on effort or intention. Clinicians work under immense pressure. Individuals want to feel better, grow, and stay well. And awareness around mental health has never been higher. Yet despite this, outcomes often fall short not because people don’t care, but because care itself is fragmented.
Most support still arrives in moments: a session, a check in, a plan discussed and then released into the realities of daily life. What follows the routines, emotional fluctuations, avoidance, progress, setbacks, and quiet decisions between appointments is where change actually happens. It is also where support most often disappears.
Zumlo was created to address that gap.
Rather than approaching mental health as a collection of isolated tools or interventions, Zumlo is built as a continuous care and well being platform. It is designed to support individuals in daily life while also strengthening the work of clinicians and care teams helping care remain present, connected, and responsive over time, not just during scheduled visits.
A System Designed for How Change Actually Happens
Zumlo starts from a whole person understanding of well being. Mental and emotional health are shaped not only by thoughts and feelings, but by physical state, habits, relationships, motivation, cultural context, and personal beliefs all of which evolve continuously.
Instead of separating these dimensions, Zumlo brings them into a single, living picture.
Through reflection, mood awareness, routines, goals, and engagement patterns, Zumlo develops an ongoing understanding of each person’s context. That understanding is used to guide next steps, reinforce plans, and support follow through in ways that adapt as life changes. Sometimes that means in the moment grounding. Sometimes it means structure. Sometimes it means a gentle nudge that helps prevent disengagement before it turns into dropout.
The aim is not to direct people, but to help them stay oriented and supported especially during the moments when motivation dips and momentum is hardest to sustain.
Supporting Both Sides of Care
For individuals, Zumlo brings clarity and continuity into everyday life. Guided activities, reflection tools, and a built in sense of progression help translate awareness into practice. Community is present as a stabilizing layer offering connection and reducing isolation but it is intentionally integrated into the broader system rather than positioned as a standalone solution.
For clinicians and care teams, Zumlo functions as a care extension and translation layer. Instead of raw data or additional documentation, it surfaces meaningful patterns from daily life areas of progress, drift, or emerging concern in a way that supports more focused conversations and living care plans over time. This helps clinicians stay connected to what happens between sessions without adding administrative burden.
All sharing is patient controlled by design. Zumlo is built with clear boundaries: it supports decision making and continuity, but does not replace clinical judgment, diagnosis, or emergency care. Its role is to strengthen the therapeutic relationship, not compete with it.
Built on Trust, Continuity, and Respect for Complexity
Zumlo reflects a different model of support, one grounded in the reality that healing is not linear, engagement fluctuates, and people need different kinds of support at different moments. By integrating guidance, reflection, reinforcement, insight, and connection into a single system, Zumlo helps reduce fragmentation and make care more sustainable for everyone involved.
As mental health needs continue to rise and care systems remain strained, Zumlo represents a shift away from episodic solutions toward something more durable: support that carries forward over time.
Zumlo is not defined by a single feature or function. It is defined by what it sustains, care that stays present in daily life, and care that clinicians can meaningfully build on.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.zumlo.co/
Surprise! The founder behind Zumlo is Harsh Sutaria
Zumlo was founded by Harsh Sutaria, a technologist and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience building products designed to operate under real world complexity.
While navigating his own mental health journey, Harsh began to notice patterns that extended well beyond personal experience. Awareness around mental health was increasing, yet many people still struggled to know what to do next, how to follow through, or how to sustain progress in daily life. At the same time, clinicians were expected to create lasting change through brief, episodic encounters, with limited visibility into what unfolded between sessions.
The breakdown wasn’t care or intent it was continuity.
Drawing on years of building human impact systems, Harsh set out to apply technology in a specific way: not to replace care, but to connect it. Zumlo grew from the belief that meaningful mental health support must work for both sides of the relationship helping individuals translate awareness into action, and helping clinicians stay aligned with real world context over time.
Today, Harsh leads Zumlo with a focus on building technology that respects complexity, reinforces trust, and supports care as it actually happens continuously, imperfectly, and in the flow of everyday life.
🔗 Connect with Harsh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshsutaria/
