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 to support both 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 even read articles and click on a few cited research papers. We start to believe we understand what we're taking—only to later realize that supplement was a waste of money, or worse, that it set us back. For most of us, it's 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. (The harm isn't speculative, we've broken down the evidence and sources in detail [1])

This isn't an accident—it's structural. With almost no oversight, aggressive lobbying [2], and the FDA's limited resources [3], companies get away with unsubstantiated claims [4], misleading labels, and hidden adulterants [5]. (I'll be publishing a full deep-dive soon, with a complete overview of the origins, current state, and consequences of the supplement industry.)

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, all we need is a platform that is rigorously evidence-based, checks for interactions, identifies which products and brands can be trusted, isn't part of the supplement industry, and adapts to our unique goals without requiring us to be 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 on whether the products actually worked. Nothing tied it all together, and the most important features simply didn't exist. (And still don't, except for Supplement AI.)

Why not build it myself? How hard could it be? (Naivety, ambition, and an ever-present sense of purpose wouldn't let me leave it be.)

I was sixteen and didn't really know where to start, but I strongly believed in solving this problem — for me, for you, for anyone who takes supplements — because we deserve a complete solution. LLMs had just become mainstream; I was reading AI research papers, tinkering with small projects, and the idea seemed obvious: combine evidence with personalization, and use AI to finally make supplementation accessible. 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's 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 team of developers, and I'm not a supplement industry insider. But I don't need to be. If I'm discredited because of my age or lack of domain expertise, so be it. The platform works because it's built entirely on evidence — nearly 200,000 dietary supplement research papers distilled and made accessible for non-experts like us. All I did was package that evidence into something usable.

Supplement AI is the solution we deserve.

The Future

Hopefully global domination, but I'll settle for helping as many people as possible reach their goals through supplementation. The future of Supplement AI (and the supplement industry) is ultimately up to you. 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 improving your own regimen — you're helping reshape a $200 billion industry.

So let's fix this massive but broken system. Let's only use the supplements that work. Together, we can make dietary supplementation as beneficial as it should be, 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