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People from minoritized backgrounds are rarely offered family therapy; however, the rise in digital mental health worldwide offers unique opportunities to support culturally informed approaches at scale and at a low cost.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n The overarching aim of culturally adapted family intervention (CaFI):Digital was to help address inequalities in the provision of mental health care for people of sub-Saharan African and Caribbean descent, including those of Mixed heritage. A digital platform, CaFI:Digital, was built to support delivery of a CaFI. The purpose of developing CaFI:Digital was to provide an accessible, user-friendly, and engaging website for service users, their families, and therapists as an alternative or adjunct to in-person therapy.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n We used an iterative Agile co-design approach to develop a user-friendly and inclusive website. Co-design workshops (n=2), semistructured interviews (n=2), and collaborative research team meetings (n=3) were used to capture and prioritize end-user feedback on the clinician- and service-user\u2013facing components of the platform. The software was developed using Agile sprints, with each sprint lasting 3 weeks, allowing feedback to be integrated rapidly and revised software prototypes to be shared with end users for review, revision, and approval.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Key software requirements, such as accessibility and diverse content, were identified in the co-design activities and were implemented to maximize accessibility and usability of the website. Following software development, we successfully beta-tested the software with our target end user population of service users and therapists to ensure it was defect-free and ready for use.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n A digital platform to support delivery of CaFI for psychosis was rapidly developed through a series of co-design activities. To our knowledge, this is the first bespoke digital therapy platform that has been co-designed with and for people of sub-Saharan African and Caribbean descent who experience psychosis. 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