Head of PeopleLaura Bennett
- Sees adoption, wellbeing and voice in one place
- Spots the teams that need support
- Builds coaching for the gaps she finds
Product journey · October InsightsUnderstand your people.
Understand your people.
Know where to act.
October Insights is where HR and leaders see what the October Health app is doing for their organisation. Follow Laura through a quarter: adoption, ThriveMeter, the heatmap, employee voice and burnout, then the custom coaching course and board report she creates in response.
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The whole picture, on one page.
Laura leads People at Northstar, which has 950 employees. Her October Insights home brings together adoption, wellbeing and what people are saying, with plain-language highlights so she knows where to look first.
- 1Northstar at a glance: participation, wellbeing and voice
- 2Who is signed up and active, against October and EAP benchmarks
- 3This quarter’s ThriveMeter: strengths and priority gaps
- 4AI highlights that say what changed and what to do
A little more room to grow
A thriving team starts with understanding.
Northstar · Participation, wellbeing and the voices behind the numbers.
Welcome back, LauraView engagement detail
High Activity Employees64%
Adoption vs benchmarksPercentage of signed up employees who have engaged with October Health in the last 90 days.
Employees signed up 712/95075% adoption
Northstar75%
October Average41%
EAP Average3%
Q4 2026 · wellbeing snapshotView executive summary
Cultural Overall71%
Participation486/95051% of employees
Supervisor Support84%
Role Clarity81%
Inclusivity79%
Workload Balance52%Low
Recognition61%Watch
Career Advancement63%Watch
Adoption Highlights
4Adoption is 25× higher than the EAP average.Signups are up 32% versus the previous 30 days.Engineering signups lag. A manager nudge could re-engage them.
The killer featuresFrom a dashboard
From a dashboard
to a decision.
Every screen you just clicked through answers a question People teams get asked about wellbeing. Here’s each one, and the pain it takes away.
Adoption you can prove
Signups, monthly active users and EE2 evidence-based engagement, benchmarked against October and typical EAP usage.
The pain it removesPaying for a wellbeing benefit with no idea who uses it.ThriveMeter every quarter
One wellbeing score, area by area, with strengths, priority gaps, eNPS and participation. Trust in Leadership and Psychological Safety come from the same answers.
The pain it removesAn annual survey that’s out of date before the results arrive.A heatmap that finds the hotspots
Every team compared with the organisation and the benchmark, colour-coded so differences stand out.
The pain it removesAverages that hide the one team that’s struggling.Employee voice, summarised
AI themes, sentiment and a word cloud from what people share, plus stop, keep and start actions.
The pain it removesHundreds of comments nobody has time to read.Burnout and flight risk
Aggregate risk scores from clinical screens, sentiment, keywords and behaviour, with drivers and momentum.
The pain it removesFinding out about burnout from resignation letters.Custom coaching courses
Build courses for your own people, assign them by group and track enrolment, completion and drop-off by team.
The pain it removesTraining content that nobody finishes and nobody measures.An AI assistant over your data
Ask questions in plain English and get briefs with sources and next steps, based on aggregated data only.
The pain it removesDays spent turning dashboards into a board slide.Board-ready reports
The Wellbeing & Engagement Overview, generated for any date range and emailed as a PDF.
The pain it removesManual exports and spreadsheets every quarter.Private by design
Minimum group sizes, segments of at least 10 people and no individual results, ever. Insights users get Owner, Admin or Read access.
The pain it removesEmployees holding back because they think HR can see their answers.
Everyone in the loopClear for leaders.
Clear for leaders.
Private for everyone else.
Leaders see patterns across the organisation. Employees use October knowing their own conversations and results stay theirs.
CEOMichael Chen
- Reads one executive summary each quarter
- Gets a board-ready PDF
- Sees eNPS and trust in leadership over time
EmployeeNatalie Brooks
- Uses the October Health app privately
- Takes ThriveMeter each quarter
- Is never identifiable in Insights
The full pictureThere’s more
There’s more
inside.
The detail behind the journey.
Analytics+
- Employee Voice with themes, sentiment and recent opinions
- Trends across assessments
- Burnout and flight risk, with drivers and momentum
- Clinical outcomes: PHQ-9 and GAD-7, from first screen to latest
- Demographics, completions and segments
ThriveMeter+
- Executive Summary with a PDF download
- Participation by quarter and by segment
- eNPS overview
- Engagement heatmap
- Cultural and personal insights
- Trust in Leadership and Psychological Safety
Usage & learning+
- Adoption, monthly active users and EE2
- Usage for Luna, live sessions, coaching, journeys and content
- AI Coaching with custom company courses
- Content Hub, custom surveys and company content
- Fitness challenges and step tracking
- Launch kits to promote October to your teams
Tools & settings+
- AI assistant, content generation, HR and policy assistants
- Reports, campaigns and calendar
- Users with Owner, Admin, Read and uploader roles
- HRIS connection or user import
- Luna customisation
- Connect AI assistants over MCP
Go deeperOctober InsightsExecutive summaries, heatmaps, employee voice and trends.The employee’s viewYour wellbeing, end to endFollow one employee through live sessions, Luna, coaching, leaderboards and ThriveMeter.Keep listeningListening, end to endEngagement surveys, pulses and the actions they drive.
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