Understand Your Brain
On a mission to help you understand, measure, and predict your brain health, so we can finally move from guesswork to clarity.
How well do you understand your brain?
Me personally: I didn't start understanding mine until I was 19. It took me nearly two decades to realise that anxiety is a thing, that not everyone lives in a constant fight-or-flight loop.
My mornings were full of chaos. Always late, always losing something important. My afternoons gone. Disappearing into spirals in my head, stuck in loops I couldn't escape. All of it felt so normal that I didn't even realise something was wrong.
But I wasn't the only one. After talking to 143 people — 143 different stories, 143 different struggles — the same pattern kept repeating: it took them decades to understand their own brains because the system kept pointing them in the wrong direction.
The problem is: Mental health is still guesswork.
- —75% of women with ADHD are misdiagnosed, while boys get overmedicated.
- —OCD takes 12 years on average to diagnose, and 17 years to treat.
- —Across conditions, the average person waits 11 years from first symptoms to treatment.
We measure so much about our lives today… yet we still don't measure our minds. Instead, we rely on opinions — from friends, family, clinicians, even chatgpt.
Imagine a doctor recommending surgery without any scans, just ticking a few boxes on a form and hoping they will operate right spot.
Imagine a doctor prescribing heart medication without ever taking a pulse.
In mental health care, this is the reality for millions. A child can get diagnosed after a 20-minute conversation and walk away with a prescription, or a "everything's fine", just depending on who they saw.
The same way the wrong heart medication can make a healthy person sick, the wrong mental-health diagnosis or treatment can make a struggling person spiral — not because of access, but because the treatment is wrong.
The consequences are brutal:
- —Years wasted before the right treatment.
- —People convinced they're "broken" or untreatable.
- —Billions poured into the wrong care.
- —People get help far too late.
All of this can be solved by making brain health data based. When treatment becomes precise, everything changes.
Precise treatment → faster improvement → more therapist capacity → lower costs → more insurance coverage → accessible care for everyone better
This is the future we are building.
Our mission at brainpower is to help you understand, measure, and predict your brain health, so we can finally move from guesswork to clarity.
If this mission resonates with you, you're exactly who we're building Brainpower for. I'd love to hear from you :)
