Wellbeing is not only what happens in your head. Ivy, October’s AI dietitian, helps with nutrition and meal planning. Fitness tracking and coaching connect to the wearables you already own. Clinical assessments show you where you stand, and team challenges turn a step count into a company-wide habit.
Movement, sleep and food shape mood, focus and resilience more than almost anything else at work. Putting them in the same app as mental health makes the whole picture visible to the person who owns it.
Who it’s for
Sleep, food and movement change how people feel at work. These are the situations we hear about most, from HR teams and from the people they support.
A fitness perk on the books. The same twenty people use it.
“Our physical health benefit only reaches the people who were already fit.”
Movement starts with the phone people already carry. Steps and sleep sync from Apple Health or Health Connect, and a chat with Ivy or a step challenge sits in the app they open for their daily check-in.
Last year: a spreadsheet, screenshots and arguments about the totals.
“We want a company challenge that runs itself and feels fair.”
Set a monthly challenge by department or team, with start and end dates. Steps sync from people’s devices, the leaderboard updates on its own, and the top places earn Gems.
Long shifts, a tight week and a fridge of odds and ends.
“I want to eat better without counting everything or buying a new cookbook.”
Ivy builds meal plans around your goal, diet and allergies. Photograph the fridge for ideas, or photograph a meal and Ivy logs the calories and macros for you.
Happy to track. Not happy for work to see it.
“I don’t want my manager knowing how I slept or what I weigh.”
Health data is optional. You choose what to share, pause it in Profile and export it as a file. Your employer sees challenge participation, never your numbers.
Why it usually stalls
TodaySteps in one app, food in another, sleep in a third, and mental health support somewhere else again.
With OctoberMovement, nutrition and sleep sit in the same app as check-ins, Luna and live sessions, so a bad week of sleep shows up beside the mood it caused.
TodayCompany step challenges run on spreadsheets and screenshots, then fizzle after week one.
With OctoberSteps sync from Apple Health, Health Connect or Huawei Health Kit. The leaderboard updates itself and closes at the end of the month.
TodayNutrition help is a generic PDF that ignores budgets, diets and allergies.
With OctoberIvy works from your goal, activity level, diet preference and allergies, and plans around what is already in your fridge.
TodayPhysical health tracking feels like the employer watching.
With OctoberData stays with the person. The organisation sees how many people take part, by team, and nothing about any individual.
Inside health and fitness
Everything here is for the employee first. It is built to be useful on a Tuesday night, not only during wellness week.
Connect once
Connect Apple Health on iPhone, or Health Connect or Huawei Health Kit on Android, and October reads steps, exercise, sleep and heart rate. Anything that already writes to those apps, like a watch or Google Fit, comes with it.
Pause or export your health data any time in Profile.
Plan with Ivy
Tell Ivy what you want to achieve, from more energy to building muscle or managing blood pressure. Ivy plans meals and recipes around your goal, diet preference and allergies, and can work from a photo of your fridge.
Help me plan meals using what’s in my fridge.
I can see eggs, spinach, chickpeas, tomatoes and some chicken. You’re vegetarian on weekdays and aiming for more protein, so here’s a plan.
Track without counting
Snap a photo of each meal and Ivy logs the calories and macros against a daily target worked out from your profile. You can correct any entry, and every chat with Ivy also closes your Engage ring.
Your daily target is Ivy’s recommended calories for your goal.
Move together
Fitness challenges run for a set period, by department, team or individual. Teams can join with a code. Steps and workout minutes sync on their own, and the top places earn Gems to spend in the rewards shop.
Your steps are queued for the next leaderboard update.
A November challenge
An illustrative company step challenge at a 400-person firm, set up with its October customer success manager.
Agrees a November fitness challenge by department with their customer success manager. A note goes out through the company hub.
Opens the hub, taps the leaderboard and connects Apple Health. Their steps start to count from today.
Steps sync from people’s phones and watches. The leaderboard updates as each batch arrives, so there is nothing to check or chase.
Asks Ivy for quick high-protein dinners. The chat closes their Engage ring for the day.
Sees how many people took part in each department. The top three places earn Gems. No one’s step count is shared with the employer.
Move, eat and sleep better. Keep the numbers to yourself.
How it works
Add Health and fitness to October. It appears in the app people already use, with no new download.
Each person decides whether to connect Apple Health, Health Connect or Huawei Health Kit, and sets up Ivy with their own goals.
Your customer success manager helps you set the challenge, the teams and the dates. The leaderboard does the rest.
Private by design
Health data is only read if the person connects it. They can pause it in Profile at any time.
People can download the steps, workouts, sleep and heart rate synced from their device as a file.
Emails are hidden on leaderboards by default. People who opt in only see others who have opted in too.
Ivy is an AI, not a registered dietitian. For a medical condition, your doctor or dietitian has the final say.
The organisation sees how many people take part by team. Never a step count, a meal or a sleep score by name.
Works with
Ivy chats and challenges close your Engage ring and earn XP and Gems.
ExploreThe ThriveMeter scores your body alongside mind, work and life.
ExploreSleep data sits beside the tools that help you rest.
ExploreCompany fitness challenges and their leaderboards live in your hub.
ExploreSleep, movement, food and stress shape each other. October puts the wearable, the dietitian, the assessments and the rest tools in one place so the person can see the whole picture, and only ever shares participation, not data, with the organisation.
A sleep app, a step counter, a meditation app and an EAP that never speak to each other. October puts them in one place so a bad sleep week shows up next to the mood it caused.
Validated clinical assessments give a baseline and a way to see change, screening only. Monthly team challenges turn steps and sleep into a leaderboard with Gem rewards, showing participation, never personal data.
These features live in the same private app and contribute to wellbeing reports across groups, without identifying individuals.
Ivy gives nutritional information and meal planning that fits your goals, your budget and your week. Informational by design, so clinical dietary decisions stay with registered professionals.
Here is exactly what stays with the person inside Health & fitness, and what the organisation gets back: de-identified, above a minimum group size, and never a name.
How October keeps the promiseHealth & fitness stands on its own. Connect it with the modules below and the person gets more support, the organisation a clearer view of wellbeing trends, and neither one gives up any privacy.
It is an optional module on October Base. Many organisations add it once the core platform is adopted.
October connects through Apple Health and Google Fit, which cover most wearables, and adds direct integrations over time.
No. Ivy provides nutritional information and meal planning. Clinical dietary decisions remain with registered professionals, and Ivy will say so when a question needs one.
Tell us what your team needs. We’ll walk you through the relevant features, support options and how to get started.