Discover how Found Assistant enhances our members' weight loss journey through personalized recommendations that promote sustainable outcomes.
If you ask obesity experts, the holy grail of weight loss is precision medicine. As popular as the newest drugs for weight loss are, they are one part of the current revolution in obesity treatment. Comprehensive care incorporating behavior change—ideally with a personalized approach—is another major part. However, effectively providing people with practical solutions to support their individual lifestyles and needs can be demanding. To help fill the gap, Found now offers members an artificial intelligence (AI) weight loss tool in-app as part of the program.
Found’s in-app AI for weight loss is called Found Assistant. It enhances—but does not replace—the benefits of human interaction with Found’s certified health coaches and peers through the in-app Community.
Found Assistant provides personalized recommendations by accessing information members provide in their intake and onboarding forms. It also learns about each member as they log activities in the app.
Members use Found Assistant for beneficial ideas and useful solutions that support lifestyle change, such as meal plans, recipes, workout plans, or practical steps to take to establish or build on healthy habits.
Since Found launched Found Assistant in its app in 2023, members have used it to get personalized recommendations and ideas to help them incorporate healthy habits into their lives. Less than a year later, members have generated:
Found’s AI for weight loss is not just about meal planning and workout routines. It supports a comprehensive approach to weight care. It can offer tips for better sleep and stress management techniques, answer questions about nutrition, suggest ways to get more movement throughout the day, and even guide members through a meditation exercise.
The most common way Found members use the Found Assistant is for AI-generated meal plans and recipes. Libby, a Found member, wrote, “I tell the Assistant the ingredients I have in my pantry, and it puts together a healthy meal for me. If it adds an ingredient I don't have, I can tell the Assistant I don't have that ingredient, and it rebuilds the recipe. I can also tell the Assistant if I don't like an ingredient, and it will replace it with something else. It makes building a recipe quicker and easier than an internet search.”
The Found Assistant is designed to accommodate specific needs. For example, Found member TayCe uses it to generate recipes based on personal dietary needs. “It's not easy finding meals that fit certain dietary restrictions,” she wrote. “This tool does the heavy lifting for me. I tell it what I can and can't eat, and it gives me a lineup of meals that work. I'm making better choices and feeling less stressed about food!”
The Found Assistant can even personalize workouts for an individual’s abilities and challenges. Found member Luna wrote that “using the Found Assistant is accessible and easy for someone like me who has a disability. It allows me to [get] options for low-impact workouts and continues to give suggestions until I find one that is the right fit for me.”
Found’s clinical approach to weight care is based on providing personalized treatment. The AI weight loss tool in Found’s app is a powerful tool that helps members enact lifestyle changes with ideas and plans that can be adjusted for schedules, lifestyle, dietary restrictions, physical abilities, culture, and personal preferences.
Found’s program is designed by leading obesity medicine specialists and focuses on personalizing prescription plans and comprehensive care to help people lose weight. Found-affiliated health care providers use a proprietary tool, MetabolicPrintTM, to assess each member’s unique biology and prescribe medication to target the root causes of their obesity. This approach is also cost-effective: It avoids a one-size-fits-all approach to weight care, and, through personalization, sometimes less expensive medications will be the best treatment for a member.
Found’s program also includes one-on-one consultations with a health care provider specializing in obesity medicine, one-on-one access to a certified health coach, an in-app behavior change program designed by physicians and psychologists, and an in-app community of peers for support. Together, these interventions work: 91% of Found members who lost 15% or more of their body weight at 12 months did so without GLP-1 medications. On average, members lose 10% of body weight by 12 months without GLP-1s.
Found is among the largest medically supported telehealth weight care clinics in the country, having served more than 250,000 members to date. Our mission is to help employers build happier, healthier teams by effectively improving employee health through comprehensive, personalized weight care.
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