Aidy: Mobile app helping people better manage chronic health conditions

Mobile app helping people better manage chronic health conditions

Aidy is a mobile app that helps people live fuller lives with chronic health conditions, beginning with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis). Our app lets users easily log their symptoms, diet, and treatments, then uses clinical indices to track disease severity and trends over time. Aidy excels at identifying patterns between diet, treatment adherence, and symptoms, giving our users a much more comprehensive and up-to-date picture of their condition to supplement clinician care. Previously in our careers, both Max and Peter worked in health in different capacities. At the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Senate, Max worked in public health policy and COVID-19 response, while Peter worked as an ML researcher for a number of biotech companies. After a lengthy “pivot hell” we decided to finally listen to a friend with IBD who insisted that there weren’t any decent apps to help people live with the disease. Pretty quickly, we discovered how LLMs and regular structured questionnaire responses could provide a level of patient empowerment not possible before for chronic diseases. From there, Aidy was (re)born!

Active Founders

Max Williamson

Founder

I'm building Aidy, a mobile app that helps people better manage chronic health conditions, starting with IBD. Previously I worked on AI and global health at The Rockefeller Foundation, served as a foreign policy fellow in the U.S. Senate, worked as the data director for a victorious Senate campaign, and helped launch a COVID testing lab in Delaware during the pandemic. I studied CS and policy at MIT, where I was named a Truman Scholar and a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Max Williamson

Founder

I'm building Aidy, a mobile app that helps people better manage chronic health conditions, starting with IBD. Previously I worked on AI and global health at The Rockefeller Foundation, served as a foreign policy fellow in the U.S. Senate, worked as the data director for a victorious Senate campaign, and helped launch a COVID testing lab in Delaware during the pandemic. I studied CS and policy at MIT, where I was named a Truman Scholar and a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Peter Crocker

Founder

I'm building Aidy to deliver persistent research on the key issues driving company decisions. My background is in machine learning, where I specialized in graph neural networks and causal inference. I hold a BA (2020) and MEng (2021) from MIT, where I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.

Peter Crocker

Founder

I'm building Aidy to deliver persistent research on the key issues driving company decisions. My background is in machine learning, where I specialized in graph neural networks and causal inference. I hold a BA (2020) and MEng (2021) from MIT, where I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.

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Company Launches

Aidy: AI-Assisted TurboTax for Federal Grants

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Hey everyone, we are Max, Peter, and Greg, and we’re building Aidy.

In our past roles at The Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, we saw how difficult it is for organizations to apply for federal grant funding. Determining eligibility and competitiveness for federal grants typically involves sifting through confusing criteria scattered across multiple documents, which are usually challenging to navigate and difficult to understand. The application process itself requires tons of paperwork and can cost up to $18k and 100 staff hours per grant. After watching our former employers invest millions in helping folks apply for federal grants, we realized the enormous potential of AI in making the process more accessible. From there, Aidy was born!

Solution

Aidy guides organizations through the entire federal grant application process. To start, we’re focused on Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants, which provide $80k-$1M to rural small businesses and agricultural producers. The program recently received a $2.1B investment under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Eligibility and Competitiveness Assessment: After a few quick questions, Aidy evaluates your organization's competitiveness for grants by navigating eligibility requirements and scoring criteria.

Clear Instructions: Aidy helps steer you through every step of the application process to make sure you have everything you need to apply.

AI-Assisted Form Filling: Aidy takes a first pass at drafting documents and filling forms. Once your application is complete, Aidy fills in all the appropriate forms with your answers.

Grant Writer and Technical Assistance Platform: We’ll soon roll out a collaborative tool for grant writers and applicants to work together. Grant writers can manage multiple applications and request documents from applicants through the platform.

Check out our full demo!

Our Vision

Comprehensive Federal Grant Search: Build a comprehensive federal grant search platform, complete with eligibility and competitiveness checkers for each federal grant.
Support for all federal grants: Quickly support applications for all 1,000+ federal grant programs.
Beyond Federal Grants: Expand to include state, local, and philanthropic funding opportunities.

Our Asks

Please send our REAP Eligibility and Competitiveness Quiz to anyone you know in the rural energy sector, especially rural small businesses, farms, or renewable energy companies.
Connect us with any grant writers or other organizations you think may benefit from Aidy.
If there are federal grants your company is interested in applying for, let us know!
Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Thank you!