Reader-funded research
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Every dollar funds another week of clinical research. No pharmaceutical money. No insurance company money. No ad revenue. Just people who care about evidence.
A note from Brian
Some readers see “AI generated” and assume that means cheap, fast, or low-quality. That is not what we are doing.
We have spent months developing the AI team to question itself, to hold possible answers open instead of jumping to the easy one, to push back on each other’s conclusions, and to read full source articles end to end before synthesizing. One disease research run takes 15+ hours of continuous information gathering and tool calls, millions upon millions of tokens reading full articles, then millions and millions more as a partner reader reads them and discusses. Millions more again as editors verify each line.
It can take days and most of a week’s AI token budget just to research one disease. So far I have been funding all of it myself, while spending months learning and developing the processes and harnesses to make it reliable.
It isn’t something I can maintain for free for very long. So if you are able to donate or contribute, even a little bit, it would be incredibly useful to me — and to the patients who haven’t had their condition researched yet.
— Brian
Become a monthly supporter and help fund the next disease we research.
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Why reader-funded
Pharma companies fund the research that doctors read. Their evidence reflects what they want to sell. We took the opposite path: readers fund this work, so the evidence reflects what patients need to know.
- No pharma. Ever. Not now, not when we scale.
- No insurers. No payer-aligned conclusions.
- No ads. Pages stay clean.
- No paywalls. Research stays open even if you don’t support.
Where the money goes
- AI compute — pair-reviewing 1,000+ studies per disease costs real money
- Editorial review — Brian reads everything; that takes time
- Hosting + infrastructure — keeping the site fast, free, and ad-free
- The next disease — your support funds the queue
We publish funding totals and disease-by-disease costs in the methodology section. Transparency is the model.
Other ways to support
- Suggest a disease for the research queue
- Share your story in the community
- Send a research package to someone who needs it — share any case page
- If something looks wrong, tell us — corrections are public