For Burn survivors. Health and Personal care, Reimagined.

Introducing Emile

Designed with expertise and empathy to fire recovery

Take an active role in your burn recovery with Emile, a pioneering platform designed around the three dimensions of truly comprehensive healing: responding, reflecting and rebuilding.

Developed by a burn survivor who has learnt that recovering is about healing skin, and more. Emile is here to help you reclaim agency over a body you may suddenly feel estranged, and a life that no longer seems like your own.

One platform for the entire journey, to help you become whole again.

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Our Story

Human vulnerability is where healthcare innovation begins

Currently studying at Oxford, I burnt myself one night while filling a hot-water bottle - a small reward after finally submitting my weekly essay. Boiling water stripped the skin from my face. Despite seeking emergency care, I was sent home with little more than an aloe vera mask, my flesh exposed and my-self brutally vulnerable and dehumanised.

Within weeks, access to expert medical guidance enabled me to return to college. While I was deeply grateful for this timely, almost providential support, my sudden recovery also exposed an unsettling asymmetry: accidents are ordinary; access to specialised and comprehensive recovery care is not.

Conversations with burn survivors, clinicians and researchers showed me that my initial confusion about navigating an opaque healing process was not an isolated experience, but an unmet need across the recovery pathway. Even beyond acute treatment, survivors lack continuous support to heal their bodies, understand their recovery and rebuild their lives.

Filling in that gap is a responsibility I embraced.

Emile is what I wish had existed when I was sent home: a companion through burn recovery, bringing medical understanding, practical guidance and psychological support into one continuous journey.

I know first-hand recovery from a visible trauma is never simply about returning to normal. It is about finding the agency, knowledge and confidence to move forward even when everything about us seems to have changed.

Saint Emile of Carthage, a marble statue in an arched niche

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The story behind the name

Emile was named after Saint Emile of Carthage, a 3rd-century Christian martyr in North Africa who was burned alive around 250 AD during the anti-Christian persecutions of Emperor Decius.

He is celebrated alongside Saint Castus on May 22 as one of the patron saint of burn survivors and martyrs.

Augustine of Hippo, a Church Father from the late 4th century, later praised Emile in sermons, highlighting how his faith allowed him to triumph over the flames.

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Our Product

Three movements of care.

Respond, Reflect, Rebuild - a single continuous service, available according to your own rhythm of recovery.

01Respond

Go from reacting to being proactive.

Upon discharge, Emile helps patients become active participants in their recovery - not by prescribing care, but by helping them understand and navigate it. Combining structured, expert-curated information with personalised supportive resources, to make your recovery safer, clearer and more manageable.

Ask, whenever you need toAn expert-informed, AI-powered conversational assistant helps you make sense of symptoms, care routines and how recovery may evolve — turning uncertainty into informed questions and decisions.
Know where you are in recoveryA personalised healing timeline, informed by factors such as burn severity and individual characteristics, helps you understand what to expect and when to seek additional care.
Support healing beyond treatmentRecovery extends beyond dressings and topical treatments. Emile surfaces evidence-informed guidance on nutrition, sleep, movement and other lifestyle factors that can support the body throughout the healing process.

Built to support care but never replaces it.

Emile is an auxiliary to professional care — never a substitute for a clinician's guidance, diagnosis or medical advice. It is designed to help you better understand and engage with your care. Crucially, any clinical action remains at your healthcare professional's discretion.

Curious to go deeper? See the evidence behind Emile! Explore the research bibliography underpinning Emile's knowledge base and discover the clinical and scientific literature informing its AI-powered resources.

02Reflect

Participate in, rather than endure, your recovery

Following instructions can help you heal. Understanding why they matter can change how you engage with recovery altogether. Emile goes above and beyond helping you act: it structures complex medical and biological information so you can understand what your body is doing, why your care evolves, and how to work with - rather than against - the healing process.

See beneath the surfaceExplore clear, medical evidence-based explanations of how your epidermis repairs itself, how lesions evolve and why treatments might change throughout your recovery.
Learn to defuse the risk of complicationsSome of the most consequential mistakes after discharge can begin with simple misunderstandings: what to apply, what to avoid, when a symptom is expected, or when it warrants professional attention. Informed by exchanges with clinicians and burn-care professionals, Emile highlights recurring misconceptions and post-discharge pitfalls — helping patients recognise them before acting on them.

Science, at your levelWe believe medical information should not become inaccessible simply because it is complex. Emile adapts the depth and language of its explanations to you — from intuitive, pedagogical explanations of basic biology adapted to youths, to the level of detail expected by an expert in dermatological research.

Making medical knowledge understandable - so recovery becomes something you can participate in, not simply endure.

03Rebuild

Decide what comes next

After a burn, it often feels like far more than your skin has been blown to ashes. Our relationship with our body, our confidence around others and the rhythm of everyday life - who we used to be seems to be a thing of the past. Burn survivors like us can face the challenges of an intrinsically personal recovery while feeling profoundly alone within it.

Psychological distress, social withdrawal and a changing relationship with one's body deserve attention alongside physical healing. Emile therefore approaches the survivor as a whole person, bringing together resources to help regain agency over one's own identity.

Rediscover life beyond recoveryExplore suggested activities - from creative to relaxing practices - to counter the fatigue, monotony and isolation that can sometimes accompany prolonged healing.
Reconnect with your bodyAccess gentle yoga, stretching and other appropriate forms of physical activity to progressively reconnect with your body, enhance your overall health to suppport healing, and find moments of ease within your physical self rather seeking to escape it.
Create space for your mindExplore meditation, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and guided breathing exercises as practical tools for managing stress and anxiety throughout recovery.
Re-enter the world on your termsAccess socio-aesthetic resources and colour analysis, irrespective of gender or social occasion, to explore ways of navigating changes in appearance and rebuilding confidence — whenever you feel ready to step back into social life.

Regain a margin for action when so much feels beyond your control - to heal your self, as a whole.

What's happening?

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What's happening?

According to the World Health Organisation, around the globe, an estimated 11 million people suffer burn injuries severe enough to require medical attention each year.

Among them, children are particularly vulnerable to burns: they are the fifth most common cause of non-fatal childhood injuries.

Today, non-fatal burn injuries are a leading cause of morbidity. Emile is here to change that. Improving individual lives, worldwide.

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Our Vision

A world where a patient is still a person.

Recovery, personalised

Amid trauma and uncertainty, generic guidance currently provided to burn survivors is painfully insufficient. From fragmented discharge instructions to general-purpose AI, information that fails to account for the individual can create confusion precisely when patients are most vulnerable.

At a time when hospitals and national healthcare systems are increasingly stretched, Emile envisions a new model for scaling care into each and every home: personalised, continuous support that empowers patients while complementing the expertise of healthcare professionals.

And because its developers know from experience the need for recovery extends beyond skin pathology, Emile considers the person behind the patient - supporting physical healing alongside psychological wellbeing and social recovery.

Care that meets you where you are, when you need it - to ensure access to the right support never becomes a privilege.

Health, globalised

Beginning in France and launching in collaboration with CHU Nantes, Emile is designed to scale across languages, healthcare systems and borders.

Burn injuries affect millions worldwide, while climate change and increasing exposure to extreme heat are creating new challenges for prevention and care. Digital infrastructure offers an opportunity to make specialised recovery knowledge accessible far beyond the institutions in which it has traditionally been concentrated.

Our ambition is to bring Emile to burn survivors globally - making expertise travel further than institutional geography allows.

Beauty, universalised

When you no longer recognise yourself, healing cannot be reduced to repairing tissue. Visible trauma can alter how we see ourselves, how we believe others see us, and the confidence with which we move through the world.

Emile exists to help bridge the distance between healing and feeling whole again - giving people the tools to rebuild confidence, reconnect with their appearance and move forward on their own terms.

Burn recovery is only the beginning. Our longer-term vision is to extend this approach to other visibly traumatic conditions, creating support for anyone navigating the physical, psychological and social consequences of a changed appearance.

Because dignity, confidence and the ability to recognise yourself should never be casualties of recovery.

Our Partners

Emile is a venture developed with the support of