Designing an emergency app built for solo athletes

Bevalix, a French healthtech startup, aimed to solve a growing problem: how to keep solo athletes safe during outdoor activity, whether they’re injured, fainting, or feeling threatened. Their vision was ambitious—a three-part product ecosystem starting with a mobile app that could detect distress and instantly alert trained nearby responders.

Agilno partnered with their team to shape the foundation of that vision. In just 60 days, we led a full discovery and UX sprint to clarify the MVP, map real-world emergency scenarios, and design an intuitive mobile experience built for high-stress situations. From panic button activation to responder tracking and in-app first aid training, every screen was designed to work under pressure.

The result? A high-fidelity, field-ready prototype that brought Bevalix’s concept to life, helped them secure support for future phases, and set the stage for a scalable, tech-enabled safety platform.

Client

Bevalix

Industry

Health & Fitness/Emergency Tech

New Platform

Andorid & iOS

Duration

4 months

Goal

Create a mobile-first safety tool that can detect distress in solo athletes and instantly connect them with trained nearby responders

What we built

A high-fidelity mobile prototype with GPS-enabled alerts, responder tracking, and built-in first aid training designed to perform in real emergency situations

Impact

Validation

Validate product vision through UX

Alignment

Align development efforts

Momentum

Build momentum for smart garment integration (Phase 2) and CE medical certification (Phase 3)

Our work helped transform a powerful idea into a real, fundable product—built for when time matters most.

Team

1 Product Manager
1 Solution Architect
1 Senior UI/UX Designer

Services

Product Strategy
UX/UI Design
DevOps

Tech

Authentication
Dashboard
Fall Detection
Activity Tracker
eLearning

Designing a safety net for solo athletes

Every year, thousands of solo athletes face medical emergencies with no one nearby to help.

In France, EMS response times average 15 minutes—a delay that can be life-threatening in cases like sudden cardiac arrest, injury, or fainting.

Bevalix recognized that technology could fill the gap. Their long-term vision involved a three-phase solution:

A mobile app to alert trained responders nearby
A smart garment to monitor real-time biometrics
Certification as a medical-grade device

Agilno was brought in to help translate Phase 1 from vision into a usable, stress-tested mobile experience that could serve as the foundation for everything that followed.

The Problem

Solo athletes face real risks that often go unnoticed.

Cardiac events, injury, disorientation, to name a few. Even when someone is nearby, most people don’t know what to do.

6 in 10 emergencies have a witness
Only half of witnesses take action
70% of victims rely solely on EMS

Bevalix wanted to shift those odds by activating responders and training users with in-app content. But the experience needed to be fast, intuitive, and help keep responders calm under pressure.

Discovery & Strategy

Agilno led a 60-day sprint to define the product strategy and build a blueprint for development.

We focused on:

User personas: Solo athletes + trained responders
Emergency journeys: Scenarios like fainting mid-run or triggering an alert during distress
Market research: Gaps in healthtech tools, wearable overlap, and community responder models
MVP feature set: Clear, high-impact scope designed to evolve with future wearable integration

Our team continuously asked:

Can a user under stress navigate this in seconds—not minutes?