About Us

TLDR

Our mission is to ensure dietary supplementation is as beneficial as possible for every unique individual.

The Problem

We take supplements to better our foundational health and support our short- and long-term goals. But finding the right ones is no small feat. We're faced with hundreds of thousands of products, thousands of unique ingredients, and endless variations in form and dose.

So we try our best. We find a brand we think we can trust. Maybe we follow an influencer who seems knowledgeable. We read articles and click through to a few cited research papers. We start to believe we understand what we're taking—only to later realize that a supplement was a waste of money, or worse, that it set us back.

For most of us, it is just frustration. But for some, the harm is irreversible. Research has linked dietary supplements to thousands of emergency room visits and hospitalizations every year, including fatal cases. We review that evidence in detail here [1].

This isn't an accident—it's structural. With limited pre-market oversight, aggressive lobbying [2], and constrained FDA resources [3], the market remains vulnerable to unsubstantiated claims [4], misleading labels, and hidden adulterants [5].

That leaves us with two bad choices: roll the dice with our health, or spend endless time sifting through scientific papers, trying to decode the mechanisms, interactions, and nuances of thousands of supplements. There has to be a solution: a platform that rigorously evaluates the evidence, checks interactions and safety context, understands product quality and dosage, adapts to our unique goals, and turns all of that into practical regimen decisions without requiring us to become experts.

It must exist…

The Solution

It didn't. The “evidence-based” platforms weren't accessible. The “personalized” ones were built by supplement companies. Review sites focused on brands and label accuracy, but not whether those products actually fit a person's regimen. Nothing tied together evidence, dosage, product quality, safety, and personal context into a clear upgrade path.

That gap is what Supplement AI was built to fill.

Why not build it myself? How hard could it be?

I started building Supplement AI when I was sixteen. LLMs had just become mainstream, and I was reading AI research and exploring how emerging language models could make scientific evidence more usable. The idea seemed obvious: combine evidence with personalization, then use AI to help optimize a real supplement regimen. So I picked the most obvious name I could think of and started building.

Of course, it turned out to be far from straightforward. For the past two years, it has been what I've spent most of my time working on and thinking about—and it will be for the foreseeable future.

Supplement AI wasn't built by a supplement company, designed to sell products, or shaped by affiliate commissions. I built it around the evidence itself: nearly 200,000 dietary supplement research papers distilled into structured signals for goals, dosage, product quality, and safety.

The work has been turning that evidence into something usable: a way to score your current regimen and surface the upgrades most worth considering.

Supplement AI is the solution I wanted to exist.

The Future

Hopefully global domination—but I'll settle for helping as many people as possible make better supplement decisions.

By choosing products that genuinely help and ignoring the ones that don't, we can shift the market toward evidence, transparency, and safety. When you use Supplement AI, you're not just optimizing your own regimen; you're rewarding the parts of the supplement industry that deserve to succeed.

So let's fix this massive but broken system. Let's use supplements for what the evidence says they can actually do. Together, we can make dietary supplementation as beneficial as possible for every unique individual.

Sources

1. Schorr, A. (2025, March 13). Supplements kill. Supplement AI. https://www.supplementai.io/blog/supplements-kill
2. Brown, E. (2019, June 21). How the dietary supplement industry keeps regulation at bay. OpenSecrets News. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/06/dietary-supplements-industry-keeps-regulation/
3. Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Drug Discovery, D. (2007). Summary. In Challenges for the FDA: The Future of Drug Safety, Workshop Summary. National Academies Press (US). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK52919/
4. Avery, R. J., Eisenberg, M. D., & Cantor, J. H. (2017). An examination of structure-function claims in dietary supplement advertising in the U.S.: 2003–2009. Preventive Medicine, 97, 86–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.01.008
5. White, C. M. (2020). Dietary supplements pose real dangers to patients. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 54(8), 815–819. https://doi.org/10.1177/1060028019900504