Parados Passes 1,000 Users Turning Any Camera into a Gait Lab

Parados wants a biomechanics lab that fits in a pocket — or on a hallway camera. The Fredericton company turns ordinary video into joint-level movement data, and in early 2026 it told Entrevestor it had cleared 1,000 active users and five-digit cumulative sales after a 2025 push across research, education, and care settings.

What it measures

Founder and CEO Pascal McCarthy — a former professional volleyball player and later a UNB coach — built Parados to assess gait and mobility without wearables or force plates. Phone, tablet, laptop, or CCTV footage feeds software that estimates joint positions and tracks how someone walks, sits-to-stands, or lifts over time. The company pitches results in roughly 30 seconds at under 1% of conventional motion-capture cost, and is careful to say the product is not a medical device — a change-over-time monitor, not a diagnostic.

That framing matters for the markets McCarthy is chasing. Entrevestor quotes him on early detection of mobility shifts linked in research to conditions from Parkinson's to depression, and on partnerships already underway with home care, long-term care, and physiotherapy providers. UNB and Dalhousie are among the academic sites using the tool.

From mouthguards to software

Parados started in 2020 with a hardware idea — mouthguard sensors for head-impact force in contact sport — then pivoted after a 2021 sports pilot to a pure software stack. McCarthy now serves as an athlete-entrepreneur in residence with the Victory Accelerator. The company has also explored dual-use angles (workplace injury prevention, physical-readiness assessment), but the near-term ask is institutional: more LTC and home-care partners who will run continuous, camera-based mobility screening as capacity pressure grows.

For a province thick with cyber and industrial software, Parados is a different Fredericton export — clinical-adjacent AI that ships as a product you can open in a browser. The 1,000-user mark is still early; converting care-home pilots into sticky contracts is the harder half.

Sources

• Parados Eyes More Partnerships — Entrevestor (Apr 2, 2026; 1,000 users; five-digit sales; LTC/home-care focus; McCarthy quotes; UNB/Dalhousie)
• Parados Ramps Up Business Development — Entrevestor (founding pivot from hardware; workplace-injury positioning)
• Parados — company product site (camera-in, kinematics-out positioning)
• Entrevestor Interview with Parados — video interview with McCarthy