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BESPOKE × HELIX · ENGINEERING PROPOSAL · 2026

Keep the soul.
Rebuild the engine.

Six biological domains. One AI companion. A real product, already in members' hands. This is the platform that carries it to the next hundred thousand.

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ADD LIFE TO YOUR YEARS

WHERE THIS STARTS

Three years. One founder. A real product.

Not a concept deck. Bespoke is live, reading six domains of a member's biology and answering with cited, guarded intelligence.

BLOODGUT MICROBIOMEGENETICSPHARMACOGENOMICSEPIGENETICSBODY COMPOSITION

84,778

SA products indexed

36,848

Science papers

657K

Genetic variants

730K+

Records

iOS

Live in the App Store

LIVE

Clinic portal deployed

SOURCE: BESPOKE INVESTOR PRESENTATION V7

THE FIELD

We're not chasing anyone.
We're borrowing from everyone.

No one else combines six domains, family scanning and South African data. That advantage stands, so we treat the global players as a pattern library.

ZOELevelsFunction HealthWhoopOuraInsideTracker23andMeViomeMyFitnessPalNoom

Studied for UI, UX and flow. Not feared.

THE HONEST PICTURE

Why rebuild. Why now.

One process. One database. One deploy. Exactly how a solo founder ships this fast, and exactly what cracks at scale.

AI quality controls

·No benchmarks on model changes
·No visibility on cost or quality

Security posture

·Health data needs the highest bar
·Formal audit as workstream one

Data encryption

·Encrypted at rest and in transit
·Real key management. Non negotiable

Maintainability

·One change can touch everything
·Some code ships without source

Testing depth

·Unit tests exist and help
·Missing: functional, integration, E2E

Environments

·Changes go straight to production
·Needs dev, staging, production

Infrastructure

·Single instance, little visibility
·Needs autoscaling and observability

The product grew faster than its navigation. That is not criticism. It is what shipping this fast looks like.

THE SHAPE OF THE REBUILD

Three pillars. One platform.

BACKEND

·Microservices along seams the product already shows
·Identity, vault, intelligence, scanning, clinic
·Independently deployable and scalable

FRONTEND

·Member app as a clean client of versioned APIs
·One shared design system
·Fast to change, safe to change

HELIX

·Model routing, retrieval, memory, guardrails
·Evaluation built in from day one
·Model agnostic. Upgrades on evidence

KUBERNETES · OBSERVABILITY · CI/CD · DEV → STAGING → PROD

We agree the shape today, then carve features into it deliberately.

INSIDE HELIX

One companion. A panel of experts behind it.

Members meet one voice. Behind it sit specialist agents, each grounded in the member's own data.

HELIX · THE FRONT DOOR

The Nutritionist

Foods, menus and verdicts, grounded in the member's biology.

The Dietitian

Daily intake, targets and habit change over time.

The Genetic Scholar

Variants, pathways and what the literature supports.

The Trainer

Readiness, training load and event preparation.

Helix is the entry point. You start in it. The screens are where Helix sends you.

Deliberately absent: a doctor. Clinical judgement stays with human clinical partners.

V2 · WHERE THIS GOES

An app that adapts to the person using it.

Version one ships simple. The architecture keeps the door open.

Readiness 82

Today's fuelling

Long run, Sunday

Bloods: iron trend

MEMBER A · THE RUNNER

Family scans

Lunch verdict

Supplement ledger

Gut microbiome

MEMBER B · THE PARENT

Same app. Two members.

GENERATIVE UI · SOURCE: BESPOKE INVESTOR PRESENTATION V7

SCOPE, TOGETHER

What do we launch with?

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LAUNCH

Day one

FAST FOLLOW

Weeks after

LATER

Once the base holds

SOURCE: BESPOKE INVESTOR PRESENTATION V7

WAYS OF WORKING

Built like it matters.

Environments

·dev, staging, production
·Proven on staging with test data
·No more testing in production

AI observability

·Evals on every model change
·Retrieval, quality, memory, cost
·The AI equivalent of uptime

The feedback loop

·Beta cohorts and tagged feedback
·A visible path from say to ship
·The right product, not just a working one

Testing pyramid

E2E

Integration

Functional

Unit

Releases are certified, not hoped for.