Designing products that work for real human bodies requires understanding how real human bodies work. BalanceFlo's data and tools give product designers the ergonomic intelligence to build that understanding into every design decision.
Film any user performing a task with a prototype or production product. BalanceFlo's AI scores posture frame-by-frame using REBA, RULA, NIOSH, OWAS, and RAPP - identifying design-induced ergonomic risk with the speed and consistency that iterative design requires. Available for any product category, any environment.
REBA · RULA · NIOSH · OWAS · RAPP · Framework-Independent scoring - all standard. Framework-independent scoring supports bespoke assessment methodologies for novel product categories where standard frameworks don't map cleanly.
On-demand certified ergonomist access embedded in the platform. For complex product-user interaction assessments, regulatory compliance reviews, or expert validation of design-stage ergonomic findings.
AI-enhanced ergonomist assessment for products requiring formal specialist sign-off. Certified ergonomists use BalanceFlo's AI tools to assess more product variants with greater consistency - faster and more cost-effectively than traditional specialist engagement models.
Compare ergonomic risk profiles across product variants, user populations, and task conditions. Track improvement across design iterations. Generate structured evidence reports for procurement, certification, and regulatory purposes.
Access to BalanceFlo's anonymised ergonomic risk and posture dataset - one of the largest real-world ergonomic datasets in existence. Covering multiple industries, roles, and body regions. Available through BalanceFlo's research and data partnership programme for qualifying organisations.
For designers of office furniture, accessories, and equipment: BF Office's AI photo assessment provides a structured method to assess the ergonomic impact of your product in real user workstation configurations - the validation data that distinguishes credible ergonomic claims from marketing assertions.
1 in 3
Workplace injuries globally are musculoskeletal - many directly attributable to product and workspace design that doesn't accommodate real user variability (ILO)
40%
Of all workplace injuries are MSDs - equipment, tool, and workspace design is a primary contributing factor
95%
Reduction in assessment time when AI-powered ergonomic analysis replaces manual observation - making iterative ergonomic testing during design sprints viable for the first time
$20B+
Annual cost of workplace MSDs - the addressable cost reduction that better-designed products could contribute to
Formal ergonomic evaluation of product prototypes requires qualified ergonomists - expensive to engage, slow to schedule, and difficult to involve iteratively in a fast-moving design process
REBA, RULA, OWAS, and NIOSH are the validated tools for assessing product-induced ergonomic risk - but applying them requires specialist training that most design teams don't have
Standard UX and product testing methods identify user preferences and usability issues - they don't systematically assess musculoskeletal risk arising from product use
Design for the 5th–95th percentile is standard guidance, but the actual postural variation of a diverse user population using a specific product in real conditions is rarely captured or analysed
CE marking, ISO 9241, EN 614, and sector-specific standards increasingly require ergonomic validation - but the tools to generate that validation are not standard design toolkit items
AI-powered ergonomic assessment at design-sprint speed - assess a prototype in minutes, not weeks
Catching ergonomic issues during prototype testing is a fraction of the cost of addressing them post-manufacture or post-launch
Structured, validated assessment data that withstands procurement scrutiny, regulatory review, and competitive challenge
Posture profiles and risk patterns from real users in real environments - insight that lab testing cannot replicate
The assessment infrastructure for ISO 9241, EN 614, and sector-specific standards without building an in-house ergonomics capability
In markets where ergonomic claims are common, BalanceFlo-validated performance data is a defensible differentiator
BalanceFlo brings ergonomic assessment infrastructure, validated frameworks, and real-world usage data into your design process - at design-sprint speed.
BalanceFlo's AI video assessment tool allows design teams to assess the ergonomic risk profile of any product in use - without engaging an external specialist for every iteration. Film a representative user performing a task with a prototype; BalanceFlo scores posture across all relevant body regions using REBA, RULA, OWAS, and NIOSH, producing a detailed assessment report that identifies design-induced risk. Iterate faster. Assess more variants. Catch ergonomic issues before manufacture.
For products where regulatory compliance or safety-critical ergonomic performance is required, BalanceFlo's Expert Ergo Coach and expert-led assessment tools bring certified ergonomist review into your design process - without the scheduling delays and day-rate costs of traditional specialist engagement.
BalanceFlo's anonymised assessment dataset captures posture profiles, risk patterns, and discomfort trends across hundreds of thousands of real-world assessments - spanning office, industrial, healthcare, retail, logistics, and construction environments. For product designers seeking to understand how real people use and are affected by their category of product, this dataset offers insight that lab-based user research cannot replicate. Data partnership discussions are welcome.
Increasingly, ergonomic product claims require evidence - from procurement teams, certification bodies, and regulators. BalanceFlo's assessment infrastructure provides the methodology and documentation to generate that evidence systematically - distinguishing credible ergonomic performance data from unsubstantiated marketing claims.
BalanceFlo supports assessment against ISO 9241, EN 614, ISO 11228, and sector-specific ergonomic standards - generating the structured evidence base for CE marking and regulatory submissions where ergonomic performance is a compliance requirement.
