Last year, I had a routine. Every morning I’d open my Oura ring app, then my Apple Health, then my Peloton history, then my doctor’s portal. I’d screenshot them all. Then I’d paste the screenshots into ChatGPT and ask it to coach me.
It worked. Better than any single health app I’d ever used. A real AI, with real context, actually helped me sleep better, train smarter, and make sense of my body.
But the workflow was ridiculous. Six apps. Twenty taps. Every day.
I kept doing it because the outcome was worth it. But I knew the friction was the whole problem.
The real problem isn’t AI. It’s fragmentation.
Everyone talks about AI coaching. Nobody talks about the plumbing underneath.
Your sleep ring knows your deep sleep minutes. Your workout app knows your heart rate zones. Your scale knows your body composition. Your doctor has your labs. None of them talk to each other. Every app shows you its own slice and leaves you to connect the dots.
That is not a coaching problem. That is a data problem.
The best health coach in the world, if you handed them twelve different apps every morning, would burn out in a week. That is what we do to ourselves.
What I wanted, and couldn’t find
I wanted something that:
- Connected every source I already use, quietly, in the background
- Synthesized all of it into one view I could trust
- Actually coached me against it — not with charts, but with real answers
- Grounded its advice in published research, not vibes
- Got to know me better over time
Nothing on the market did all of that. Some apps do one thing well. None do the whole thing.
What Meld is
Meld is an iOS app. You connect your data sources once — Oura, Apple Health, Peloton, Garmin today, more coming. Meld reads from them in the background. You never screenshot anything.
Then a coach talks to you. Not a chatbot with a name. A coach that already knows what your sleep looked like last night, how your recovery is trending, and what you ate yesterday. It proactively reaches out when something matters. It answers when you ask.
Every time it makes a claim about your health — “your deep sleep improved when you added more protein at lunch” — it cites the research behind it. Literature-grounded, not hallucinated.
Why now
Three things came together at the same time.
First, wearables finally cover real health signal. Oura, Apple Watch, Garmin, Whoop — these aren’t toys anymore. They are as close to continuous lab data as most of us will ever have.
Second, Claude is finally smart enough. A year ago the AI was impressive. Today it can reason about your body with the care of a real coach, when you give it the right context.
Third, fragmentation keeps getting worse. Every new wearable adds another app. The problem I lived through last year is about to get worse for everybody.
Meld exists because I want an AI coach I can trust, that already knows me, and that I never have to feed screenshots. I’m building it for myself first. If it works for you too, great.
Where we are
The app is in active build. The data integrations ship today. The coach engine is real. We are putting the last polish on the first version now.
If you want early access when we open it up, leave your email at the top of this page. We will email you — nothing else — the week we ship.
— Brock Founder, Meld