AHA Accelerator Concept

Heart health should
be visible, social
and real.

HeartLens combines AI food recognition with social accountability to turn everyday eating into a heart-healthy habit, shared with the people who matter most.

The problem

Cardiovascular disease is the
leading cause of death.
Yet prevention keeps failing.

Not because people don't know what's healthy. Because they don't consistently act on it. Existing tools treat this as a data problem. HeartLens treats it as a behavior problem.

Wrong metric

Apps optimize for calories and weight. Sodium and saturated fat, the real cardiovascular risks, remain invisible.

No social layer

Eating is inherently social. But health apps are built for solo use, with no accountability, no shared motivation, and no family involvement.

Feedback is too slow

Heart health is long-term and invisible. Without immediate feedback, people never connect today's lunch to tomorrow's risk.

The solution

Four features.
One powerful flywheel.

A daily habit loop: log, score, swap, share. Each step reinforces the next, compounding into lasting behavior change.

01

AI Photo Logging

Snap a photo and our AI instantly identifies the meal, estimating sodium, saturated fat, and calories. No manual entry, no friction.

Core MVP
02

Heart Score (0–100)

A single clear number based on sodium, saturated fat, and nutritional quality. Heart health made tangible, trackable, and improvable on a daily basis.

Key differentiator
03

Smart Swap

After every meal, HeartLens suggests a healthier alternative with a projected score improvement ("Score 62 → 78"). Actionable, not just informative.

Key differentiator
04

Heart Groups & Leaderboards

Share meals with family and friends. Compete on "Strongest Heart" and "Most Improved." The social pressure that drives lasting habit change.

Network effects
Interactive demo

Try HeartLens yourself.

Navigate between tabs, tap the camera to log a meal, switch themes with the dots in the top right.

try it yourself

Home: your daily heart score

See today's score ring, sodium, calories, logged meals with nutritional mini-bars, and a Smart Swap suggestion.

Log: AI meal analysis

Tap the camera icon, then the shutter to simulate AI analysis. Get a score, nutrition breakdown, and a Smart Swap in seconds.

Feed: family & friends

Scroll horizontally on each person's card to browse their full day of meals, with score, calories, and sodium shown per meal.

Leaders: weekly competition

Strongest Heart and Most Improved leaderboards create the accountability loop that drives lasting behavior change.

"Heart health fails not because people don't know what's healthy, but because they don't consistently act on it. HeartLens makes healthy choices visible, social, and actionable."

Built for the
American Heart Association

HeartLens is purpose-built around AHA priorities: diet-focused prevention, accessible to all (no hardware required), and engineered for community impact at scale.

Positioned as a wellness tool rather than a medical device, it carries low regulatory risk while delivering measurable behavior-change outcomes that insurers and employers value.

The business model scales from freemium consumer ($5–10/mo) to B2B partnerships with employers and insurers, where reducing cardiovascular risk directly reduces healthcare costs.

$60K
per employer (1K employees/yr)
Zero
hardware required