Portable

A space to be seen, heard, and understood.

A/Part of the Crowd is a microsite build for sharing real stories of loneliness from young people aged 18–25 across Australia. Through words, art, audio, and video, it creates a quiet place for reflection, connection, and understanding. This project forms part of the ALIVE National Centre’s loneliness initiative, hosted at The University of Melbourne, and is supported by the Medibank Better Health Foundation.

This platform balances emotional safety with usability allowing contributors to share stories anonymously, helping visitors explore content by theme or life transition. While Researchers and moderators required a low-maintenance tool they could manage without technical support.

Portable was engaged to bring it to life; scoping, designing, and building a solution that is both sustainable and future-ready. We worked closely with ALIVE researchers and lived experience advisors, the process was grounded in listening, iteration, and delivering meaningful outcomes at every stage. A/Part of the Crowd is now live and quietly in use, with a public launch planned for April 2026.

The platform offers a safe, thoughtful space to read, reflect, and, when ready, share, while providing scalable, sustainable infrastructure to support ALIVE’s ongoing research.

Read the full case study to learn more.

🔗https://www.portable.com.au/work/safe-digital-storytelling-platform-young-people-loneliness

How do you build psychological safety into your workplaces and digital spaces?

When WorkSafe Victoria partnered with Portable on the WorkWell program, the goal was to help organisations recognise and prevent psychological harm at work. By researching and uncovering practical tools and guidance that help leaders identify risks and respond early, the program enables workplaces to take psychological health seriously and create environments where people feel safe to speak up.

To read more, follow the link in bio.

We are so pleased to announce that we have been re-certified as a B Corporation and have even increased our score from 97.3 to 111.6.

This 14.3-point uplift is evidence of structural progress across governance, environmental accountability, reconciliation, and community impact.

You can learn more about how we innovated to reach this higher score, and why it matters so much to us by following the link in our bio.

Behind the scenes of every AI-powered product are servers that run day and night, consuming electricity and cooling water. As AI accelerates innovation across every sector, it’s also accelerating energy demand at staggering scales. Just this month, the Guardian reported that OpenAI’s new partnership with AMD will deploy hundreds of thousands of AI chips equivalent to six gigawatts of power, or the energy needs of five million US households, beginning in 2026. That tension between AI’s potential for public good and its physical cost to the planet is one we can’t ignore.

At Portable, we see this as one of the defining sustainability questions of our time. How do we use AI responsibly, when its power comes with a measurable environmental price?

Read our article via the link in bio.