AI genetic models have shown applications that the combination of a strong knowledge base with the right model can allow them to offer user services – as soon as they depend on expensive professionals such as therapists or executives – on a fraction of the price. Former Product Vice President at Gymnastics Company WhoopRami Alhamad, has similar nutrition to his new app Jump.
The iOS application, which starts today in North America, is a well -designed application with a calorie tracker and a diet guide with an AI layer over it.
Alhamad believes that fitness applications such as myfitnesspal make the diet monitor tiring, with users having to manually search the dishes and insert them for different types of meals. Instead, he thinks you just have to talk (or type) Alma’s AI assistant about what you ate and the application will understand the sections and calorie intake through estimates. You can customize these measures as your application also shows the number of calories.
Alternatively, you can take a photo of your meal and the AI algorithm will detect dishes for you. Such features are already available in applications such as Khols-Backed Healthify and Snapcalorie supported by YC. However, Alma is a banking for its design, the variety of input methods and ease of use as key drivers for development.
In addition to calorie monitoring, you can ask AI assistant to suggest meals to achieve your objectives for fiber and proteins. In addition, you can upload a menu image and ask AI assistant to suggest appropriate information according to your goal.
The app also gives you a score, which is based on what you ate on a particular day in terms of calories and macros. The app uses this score to give you tips to improve your diet.
In addition, as you talk more with the AI assistant in the application, it learns your preferences and gives you suggestions accordingly. You can see this knowledge in your profiles and edit them as well.
The company expects to earn money through a $ 19 monthly subscription of $ 199.
The story behind Alma and the future plans
Alhamad, who created a sports technology called Push and finally sold it to whoop, told TechCrunch that he thought of doing something new in health and nutrition after whoop in 2022. Training and sleep trackers, there is no practical solution to monitoring nutrition.
“For the last 10 years of my life, I’ve won constantly and lost weight. I’ve spent a long time in applications like MyFitnesspal, typing things to watch my food intake. When Chatgpt came around, just like many other people, I started To use it for meal design and kitchen support.
Alhamad, who became a businessman at the Menlo Ventures residence for the construction of Alma, believes that there will be specialized companies using AI focusing on a single issue in the consumer. The start has raised $ 2.9 million from Menlo Ventures and humanity so far.
On the technical front, the company uses a mixture of models to get results. Alma noted that she is using knowledge from Harvard’s diet to receive answers. The company said it has enough people on the staff focusing on nutritional knowledge to expand its set of data. Alhamad said startup also wants to look beyond the US to bring health knowledge from around the world.
Alma’s team would also like to use food discovery in the application. Currently, you can request recipes and receive answers from AI Assistant, but you cannot store them for future reports. The app wants to automatically hurt food suggestions based on your goals and preferences. In addition, it will also have a way to easily cook food from what you have in the closet.
Chatbots like chatgpt and claude can already do a lot of these things, but friction for the user is that you have to prompt them properly with the frame at a time. Applications like ALMA try to remove the headache of writing great prompts through features. Samsung’s food app won some features such as closet monitoring and recipe suggestions Based on the items you have at home last year.
Shawn Carolan, a partner at Menlo VC, said the ease of entry into your food intake makes Alma an attractive solution.
“If I eat 20 things in one day, it’s hard to record each of them trying to find them on a list. With Alma, you can just talk to it and register all of it quickly. If something took you 30 seconds and one New application reduces this in just a few seconds, becomes a key guide of use, “Carolan said.
He added that now, many people do not advise a nutritionist and Alma can give them easy access to such information.
“People spend thousands of dollars a month to get injections to lose weight. So the question is, if you had this perfect nutritionist in your pocket that could help you with your goal, maybe you can follow an approach without Drugs to achieve your health goals, “Carolan said.
