Spill alternatives.
In short
Spill gives employees access to therapists and mental health support through Slack. Sloane offers non-clinical, day-to-day coaching from wearable and work signals. Sloane does not replace clinical support.
What Spill is for
Spill is a mental health support platform, connecting people to therapists and check-ins. Sloane is a non-clinical performance coach for everyday capacity, workload and recovery.
Choose Spill if your priority is giving staff a clear route to therapy and clinical mental health support.
Where Sloane Labs is the better fit
Choose Sloane for ongoing coaching around everyday capacity and workload. Use clinical services whenever clinical care is needed.
| Capability | Spill | Sloane Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Access to therapists | Core | Out of scope |
| Clinical mental health support | Core | Out of scope |
| Wearable data ingestion | No | Yes |
| Calendar and team-tool signal | Limited, Slack check-ins | Yes, metadata only |
| Personal baseline | No | 14 to 30 day rolling baseline |
| Proactive daily coaching | No | Yes |
| Leader-level reporting | Aggregate usage | Anonymised group patterns |
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Frequently asked questions
- What are the main alternatives to Spill?
- Spill sits in the mental health support category. The realistic alternatives fall into three groups: another product in the same category, a broader people platform that absorbs the same job, or a performance coach such as Sloane that works continuously between the formal moments those tools create.
- Is Sloane Labs a direct replacement for Spill?
- Not in every case. Choose Spill if your priority is giving staff a clear route to therapy and clinical mental health support. Where that is your priority, keep it. Sloane addresses a different job and the two can run alongside each other.
- How would we evaluate the two together?
- Pick one team and one question you want answered, then run both for a defined period. Sloane is offered to a small design cohort at present, so the introduction is deliberately scoped and we agree in advance what would count as a useful result.