Your Personal Health OS
Your roadmap to well-being. Be the scientist and architect of your own life by tracking and improving all 8 pillars with holistic coaching in a fun, engaging game.
Physical
Mental
Social
Financial
Occupational
Intellectual
Environmental
Spiritual
Voice logging
Dashboard
Personal Roadmap
Clinician Guided
Science Library
Data Earnings
Your data, your choice.
The Problem
Unwell, underserved, guessing
Healthcare is often unaffordable, unavailable, or ineffective. Even when you reach a clinician, care can rely on guesswork: rushed visits and incomplete data lead to misdiagnosis or treating symptoms instead of causes.
So we Google symptoms, try generic tips, stitch together micro apps, and buy snake oil from influencers. Meanwhile, AI “therapy” is booming, tools designed for addiction and profit, not well-being.
What truly shapes outcomes (genetics, environments, beliefs, finances, biology, relationships, jobs, stress, habits, medical history, purpose) stays invisible, untracked, unactionable.
My Solution
MELIA puts you in the driver’s seat with a map & a coach
Most people can’t ‘seek professional help’ when they need it. MELIA is a holistic health app that addresses this reality with data-driven, evidence-informed guidance, effective collaboration with healthcare providers when possible, and long-term expansion of access to providers.
Guesswork and a lack of care are no longer acceptable. MELIA provides a path forward, whether you have a doctor by your side or not. MELIA is at your side every step of the journey, so you’re not navigating alone anymore.
Empowers self-care
With holistic data capture, analysis, and clinician-authored coaching at home. MELIA maps your whole life, not just fragments. The app helps you discover the drivers of your health outcomes and act on the few changes that matter by filtering research, allowing you test ideas and track results, so you can find what’s optimal for YOU and make sustainable, impactful change.
Improves healthcare
When you have access, with accurate records and true data ownership. Keep your complete health history in your pocket and easily share with doctors in a few taps to get more accurate diagnoses in the five minutes they have to read your records. Sell and earn from your data or donate it to research you care about.
Expands access
Long-term by building cross-border connections between people and providers around the world. Access a network of holistically integrated, cross-disciplinary provider teams in your language. Join private virtual consultations with video, voice, or text and live group workshops in virtual world community spaces.
My Vision
Your personal Health OS
Imagine one health app that you chat with, which turns your words into beautiful data stories and powerful insights, empowering you and your healthcare providers to identify your unique needs and providing you with all the tools you need to live your best life.
MELIA is an all-in-one wellness app that enhances your entire life by capturing, visualising, and coaching you on all 8 pillars of well-being.
Physical
Mental
Social
Financial
Occupational
Intellectual
Environmental
Spiritual
80/20 Life Roadmap
Get a personalised life coaching map on the most effective way to improve your entire well-being, step by step. Go on fun quests and earn rewards. Focus on what matters. The research has been done for you, so you know the 20% effort needed to get the 80% results. Updated as new research is published. Make data-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Powerful Dashboard
Quantify and visualise everything: thoughts, feelings, symptoms, food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meds, habits, menstrual cycle, fertility, labs, pregnancy, environment, and much more. Sync or import data from any wearable or app. Upload historical data. Compare any metrics: “Does lack of sunlight increase my migraine frequency?”
Science Library
Stay up to date with the latest scientific studies on health with simplified, bite-sized text summaries and deep dive videos. Quickly bust health myths & claims, see an overview of all studies on any topic, and identify flagged ones with helpful tags. Get notified when the data are rigorous enough to warrant life changes.
How It Works
Data capture is a roadblock
Every person is a unique culmination of genetics, environments, biology, experiences, beliefs, and behaviours. Studies are limited to a small sample of humans (historically, mostly White males), so many established guidelines don’t apply to many. What helps one person can harm another, so guesswork healthcare isn’t good enough. Instead of waiting for access or answers from scientists and doctors, MELIA is empowering all of us to be scientists of our own data and drive studies that matter to us.
Each person has a wealth of data that holds the key to unlocking their health and advancing science, but data capture sucks. Logging is tedious and slow. Health tech should be effortless and able to keep up with you at the speed of life, doing what tech does best: being always-on and available, remembering perfectly, organising, analysing, visualising, sending, and scheduling; so you can focus on living your best life.
With MELIA, logging is as effortless as talking to a friend or snapping a picture.
Personalise
Take a quiz to personalise your experience.
Log
Chat naturally (voice or text) to MELIA on your phone or smart watch as you go about your day. Take pictures of food and your activities.
See
Your data in beautiful dashboards and an overview of your life’s roadmap and well-being status.
Understand
Discover insights into the drivers of your health outcomes.
Learn
Simplified scientific research and educational videos from our Science Library. A trustworthy starting point for your experiments.
Experiment
Studies mean nothing if they don’t apply to you personally. Run experiments to find what works for you.
Collaborate
Securely share your data and consult with healthcare providers globally.
Improve
Get a personalised roadmap to get where you want to go in life. Go on fun gamified quests, see and celebrate progress, earn rewards, join wellness challenges with friends or the MELIA community.
Live
Your holistically integrated, personalised calendar guides you through everything you can expect and need to do in a day and adapts with voice prompts.
My Principles
Why MELIA
Bridging the gap between people and providers.
Collab with Providers
Digitise and securely store all your health records in one place for a complete medical history in the cloud. Easily share custom reports of any data and have virtual consults with holistically integrated teams of healthcare providers globally, serving underserved communities and helping providers make more accurate diagnoses.
Real-time Help
You’re having a crisis at 2 am, you can’t access therapists and helplines are unhelpful. MELIA chatbot talks you through it, helps you regulate yourself in real-time so you can feel better quickly. For human safety, MELIA chatbot is not an “AI companion”, but a bot scripted with mental health tools and guidance written by licensed professionals.
Data Dignity
Your data, your choice. Private and secure by default. Donate it to research you care about (like cancer research), or get paid by selling it to parties you choose, or export it (no lock-in). Data is the new oil, and I believe it’s your right to share in any profits from your data as part of our financial health pillar.
What You’ll Feel
Hope, joy, and agency
MELIA empowers you to take control of your life and well-being today, regardless of your circumstances and resources, by providing the right tools and answers to expand your locus of control. When your life is visible and information is reliable, decisions get easier for you and healthcare providers. You’ll know where you are, how far you’ve come, and what’s next.
Instead of being a miserable mystery, life becomes a fun game you can finally enjoy with a community of people who want to build a better future for themselves and the world. MELIA is creating new health systems and technology that work for us, reducing the factors beyond our control that work against us.
Your Personal Health OS
Your roadmap to well-being. Be the scientist and architect of your own life by tracking and improving all 8 pillars with holistic coaching in a fun, engaging game.
Physical
Mental
Social
Financial
Occupational
Intellectual
Environmental
Spiritual
Voice logging
Dashboard
Personal Roadmap
Clinician Guided
Science Library
Data Earnings
Your data, your choice.
The Problem
Unwell, underserved, guessing
Healthcare is often unaffordable, unavailable, or ineffective. Even when you reach a clinician, care can rely on guesswork: rushed visits and incomplete data lead to misdiagnosis or treating symptoms instead of causes.
So we Google symptoms, try generic tips, stitch together micro apps, and buy snake oil from influencers. Meanwhile, AI “therapy” is booming, tools designed for addiction and profit, not well-being.
What truly shapes outcomes (genetics, environments, beliefs, finances, biology, relationships, jobs, stress, habits, medical history, purpose) stays invisible, untracked, unactionable.
My Solution
MELIA puts you in the driver’s seat with a map & a coach
Most people can’t ‘seek professional help’ when they need it. MELIA is a holistic health app that addresses this reality with data-driven, evidence-informed guidance, effective collaboration with healthcare providers when possible, and long-term expansion of access to providers.
Guesswork and a lack of care are no longer acceptable. MELIA provides a path forward, whether you have a doctor by your side or not. MELIA is at your side every step of the journey, so you’re not navigating alone anymore.
Empowers self-care
With holistic data capture, analysis, and clinician-authored coaching at home. MELIA maps your whole life, not just fragments. The app helps you discover the drivers of your health outcomes and act on the few changes that matter by filtering research, allowing you test ideas and track results, so you can find what’s optimal for YOU and make sustainable, impactful change.
Improves healthcare
When you have access, with accurate records and true data ownership. Keep your complete health history in your pocket and easily share with doctors in a few taps to get more accurate diagnoses in the five minutes they have to read your records. Sell and earn from your data or donate it to research you care about.
Expands access
Long-term by building cross-border connections between people and providers around the world. Access a network of holistically integrated, cross-disciplinary provider teams in your language. Join private virtual consultations with video, voice, or text and live group workshops in virtual world community spaces.
My Vision
Your personal Health OS
Imagine one health app that you chat with, which turns your words into beautiful data stories and powerful insights, empowering you and your healthcare providers to identify your unique needs and providing you with all the tools you need to live your best life.
MELIA is an all-in-one wellness app that enhances your entire life by capturing, visualising, and coaching you on all 8 pillars of well-being.
Physical
Mental
Social
Financial
Occupational
Intellectual
Environmental
Spiritual
80/20 Life Roadmap
Get a personalised life coaching map on the most effective way to improve your entire well-being, step by step. Go on fun quests and earn rewards. Focus on what matters. The research has been done for you, so you know the 20% effort needed to get the 80% results. Updated as new research is published. Make data-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Powerful Dashboard
Quantify and visualise everything: thoughts, feelings, symptoms, food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meds, habits, menstrual cycle, fertility, labs, pregnancy, environment, and much more. Sync or import data from any wearable or app. Upload historical data. Compare any metrics: “Does lack of sunlight increase my migraine frequency?”
Science Library
Stay up to date with the latest scientific studies on health with simplified, bite-sized text summaries and deep dive videos. Quickly bust health myths & claims, see an overview of all studies on any topic, and identify flagged ones with helpful tags. Get notified when the data are rigorous enough to warrant life changes.
How It Works
Data capture is a roadblock
Every person is a unique culmination of genetics, environments, biology, experiences, beliefs, and behaviours. Studies are limited to a small sample of humans (historically, mostly White males), so many established guidelines don’t apply to many. What helps one person can harm another, so guesswork healthcare isn’t good enough. Instead of waiting for access or answers from scientists and doctors, MELIA is empowering all of us to be scientists of our own data and drive studies that matter to us.
Each person has a wealth of data that holds the key to unlocking their health and advancing science, but data capture sucks. Logging is tedious and slow. Health tech should be effortless and able to keep up with you at the speed of life, doing what tech does best: being always-on and available, remembering perfectly, organising, analysing, visualising, sending, and scheduling; so you can focus on living your best life.
With MELIA, logging is as effortless as talking to a friend or snapping a picture.
Personalise
Take a quiz to personalise your experience.
Log
Chat naturally (voice or text) to MELIA on your phone or smart watch as you go about your day. Take pictures of food and your activities.
See
Your data in beautiful dashboards and an overview of your life’s roadmap and well-being status.
Understand
Discover insights into the drivers of your health outcomes.
Learn
Simplified scientific research and educational videos from our Science Library. A trustworthy starting point for your experiments.
Experiment
Studies mean nothing if they don’t apply to you personally. Run experiments to find what works for you.
Collaborate
Securely share your data and consult with healthcare providers globally.
Improve
Get a personalised roadmap to get where you want to go in life. Go on fun gamified quests, see and celebrate progress, earn rewards, join wellness challenges with friends or the MELIA community.
Live
Your holistically integrated, personalised calendar guides you through everything you can expect and need to do in a day and adapts with voice prompts.
My Principles
Why MELIA
Bridging the gap between people and providers.
Collab with Providers
Digitise and securely store all your health records in one place for a complete medical history in the cloud. Easily share custom reports of any data and have virtual consults with holistically integrated teams of healthcare providers globally, serving underserved communities and helping providers make more accurate diagnoses.
Real-time Help
You’re having a crisis at 2 am, you can’t access therapists and helplines are unhelpful. MELIA chatbot talks you through it, helps you regulate yourself in real-time so you can feel better quickly. For human safety, MELIA chatbot is not an “AI companion”, but a bot scripted with mental health tools and guidance written by licensed professionals.
Data Dignity
Your data, your choice. Private and secure by default. Donate it to research you care about (like cancer research), or get paid by selling it to parties you choose, or export it (no lock-in). Data is the new oil, and I believe it’s your right to share in any profits from your data as part of our financial health pillar.
What You’ll Feel
Hope, joy, and agency
MELIA empowers you to take control of your life and well-being today, regardless of your circumstances and resources, by providing the right tools and answers to expand your locus of control. When your life is visible and information is reliable, decisions get easier for you and healthcare providers. You’ll know where you are, how far you’ve come, and what’s next.
Instead of being a miserable mystery, life becomes a fun game you can finally enjoy with a community of people who want to build a better future for themselves and the world. MELIA is creating new health systems and technology that work for us, reducing the factors beyond our control that work against us.
About Me
Founder
Hi, I’m Michél Lipan
I’m a South African ex-tech marketer and data analyst with a passion for helping people and health. I’m currently building MELIA solo and bootstrapped.
I’m a visionary builder with a scientist’s brain and an artist’s heart. I love combining data precision with soulful design to create empowering, humane technology that helps people live healthier, happier lives.
At 16, I escaped an abusive home and spent years surviving, learning, and rebuilding. Later came depression, PTSD, and an autoimmune diagnosis. Care was hard to access; answers were even harder to come by. I realised countless people are in the same place: left to figure it out alone.
MELIA is my response: tech that empowers you to go from surviving to thriving. I believe in Meliorism (Latin melior, “better”): the responsibility to make the world better through concerted human effort. That’s what MELIA stands for.
I share my building-in-public journey on my personal socials.
Blog
Resources on my health & wellness research, experiments, therapy lessons, and personal wisdom.
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Build a better future with MELIA
I’m building a humane, data-driven personal Health OS for real people. If you believe health should be clear, personal, and accessible, come build it with me.
Join the waitlist
Be invited to the app beta and the first to know when the app launches.
Support the build
No investors by design to keep well-being over profit. Your support funds the time and tools to build and power the app.
Contribute your skills
SWE, security, clinicians, researchers, data scientists, design, video, marketing: if you want to help, message me on LinkedIn or email me your LI profile.
Measurable well-being, beautifully human