Why?

Everybody poops. In fact, 79 million people around the world are pooping, right now. But, upwards of three quarters of us aren’t pooping well and live with digestive conditions (sometimes chronic) like constipation, diarrhea, bloating, or irregularity. It’s pretty shitty.

Patients with gut conditions are often asked by their physicians to track how their poop consistency and color change over time. But, this can be burdensome. But, with a large enough database of poop photos, we’ll be able to train an AI, auggi, to learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy poop, automate symptom tracking and analysis, and help change the future of gut health and patient care.

When auggi is smart enough, we’ll be able to make its algorithms accessible to those who need it most, as well as researchers who are developing novel therapies. This could mean new digital biomarkers for health and even earlier detection and diagnosis for diseases like colon cancer.