The mental health crisis
is also a systems crisis.

One billion people are living with a mental health condition right now. Thirteen mental health workers exist for every hundred thousand people on the planet. Governments have held mental health spending at 2% of health budgets for nearly a decade.

Source: World Health Organization, 2025 (World Mental Health Today; Mental Health Atlas 2024).

The formal system was never on track to close this gap, and years spent waiting on it have already been lost.

The real progress is happening outside that system: in workplaces, in communities, in the hands of founders and clinicians who stopped waiting for policy to catch up. They understand the problem well enough to know that waiting is its own kind of failure.

We started nest after watching too many of these people work in isolation: founders who could not find their peers, researchers whose work never reached the builders who needed it, clinicians who wanted a seat at the table and were not given one.

Meaningful innovation does not happen in isolation. The tools matter, and the science behind them matters more, but neither travels far without the right people around them.

nest exists to sit with the people who are honest about how hard this work actually is, and who are building anyway, not to amplify headlines or celebrate product launches.

We want the right people to find each other before the work that could change things gets lost in the noise.

Participation is free during our founding period, because access to this kind of community should not be a privilege. We are keeping it small, curated and high quality as it grows.

If this is the space you work in, we would like you to join.