Every person on this team has watched someone they love suffer from a condition that started as invisible, silent inflammation. It became something medicine could no longer fix. We refused to accept that as inevitable.
It begins years, sometimes decades, earlier, as chronic low-grade inflammation quietly damages tissues, disrupts hormones, and derails the body's natural ability to regulate itself. By the time a doctor names it (heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disorder, cancer), the window for simple, powerful intervention has often already closed.
This is the reality that drives us. Not the treatment of late-stage disease, but the disruption of the chain that leads there. Inflammation is the root. It is the origin. And it is measurable, if you have the right tool.
Until now, checking your inflammation required a doctor's order, a lab visit, days of waiting, and a bill that most people can't afford to repeat. We asked: what if it was as easy as a pregnancy test? What if you could know today, at home, in minutes?
The healthcare system is built to treat what's already broken. We're here to stop the breaking before it starts, by putting the data directly in your hands.
Sensa was built on one conviction: that people deserve to understand what is happening inside their own bodies before they are forced into a doctor's office by a crisis. Early information leads to early action. Early action leads to outcomes that late-stage medicine can only dream of.
This is a product we built because people we love need it.
I watched a family member battle a condition for years that doctors kept treating symptom by symptom, never asking why it was happening in the first place. The answer, we'd later learn, was inflammation that had been building silently for over a decade. That question — why didn't anyone catch this earlier? — became the foundation of Sensa.
As an engineer, I've always believed data should empower people, not be locked away in systems they can't access. Building Sensa's technology was, for me, about closing a gap that should never have existed: between what your body is telling you and what you're actually allowed to know about it.
I've seen the disparity up close: who gets early screening, who has access to proactive care, and who only finds out there's a problem when it's already serious. Sensa levels that playing field. Everyone deserves to know their numbers before a hospital visit forces the conversation.
The data tells a story most people never get to hear. CRP elevation precedes diagnosis by years in condition after condition. We have the science. We have the tools. The only thing missing was making it accessible, and that's exactly what we set out to fix.
My work is making sure the science behind Sensa is unimpeachable. When someone trusts us with their health data, we owe them accuracy. I came to this team because I believe rigorous, validated at-home diagnostics can genuinely change what preventive care looks like, and I wanted to help build it right.
Getting a great product into people's hands, reliably, quickly, and affordably, is its own kind of mission. I joined Sensa because I believe this test belongs in every household. Making that happen, at scale, without cutting corners, is what I wake up thinking about every day.
The difference between catching inflammation now and catching the disease it causes later is not just clinical. It's life-altering.
Inflammation in its early stages responds powerfully to lifestyle changes: diet, sleep, movement, stress management. These same changes have little effect on diseases that have already taken hold. The earlier you know, the more options you have.
Knowledge is the first requirement of action. Most people living with elevated inflammation have no idea, not because they don't care about their health, but because no one ever gave them a way to check. Sensa changes that equation permanently.
Every late-stage diagnosis represents a prevention failure. Not a moral failure. A systemic one. A healthcare system that only reacts to crisis will always lose to the quiet, compounding nature of chronic disease. We're building the tools that tip that balance.
Proactive health screening has historically belonged to people with premium insurance, time, and access. At $49, Sensa puts clinically-informed inflammation monitoring within reach for anyone, regardless of their zip code or coverage.
A single blood test is a snapshot. Inflammation fluctuates with stress, diet, sleep, and illness. Regular monitoring with Sensa gives you a pattern. Patterns are where real insight lives. One test tells you something. Twelve tell you a story.
We didn't create a wellness gadget. We built a clinically-grounded, validated tool that measures C-reactive protein (the same biomarker used in hospital labs) and puts that data in your hands in minutes. Science first. Simplicity second.
Sensa wasn't born in a boardroom. It was born from frustration, a shared feeling among our founders that the tools to understand chronic inflammation existed in labs and clinics, but had never been made available to the people who needed them most.
Building a reliable, saliva-based CRP test that works at home took years of research, iteration, and validation. We weren't willing to ship something that couldn't stand behind its results. The science had to be right before anything else.
We paired that with an app that doesn't just display your number. It helps you understand what it means, what's driving it, and what you can do about it. Because a number without context is just noise.
Team members with personal experience of inflammation-driven illness came together around one shared question: why is there no simple, affordable way to monitor this at home?
We developed and validated a saliva-based lateral flow assay capable of detecting CRP at clinically meaningful thresholds, without needles, labs, or waiting rooms.
We built a companion app that logs your results over time, identifies patterns, and gives you science-backed guidance on the lifestyle factors most likely to be driving your levels.
Sensa is live. The test that used to require a clinic visit, a requisition form, and a two-day wait now ships to your door and delivers results in under five minutes.
Sensa gives you the information you need to act now, before inflammation becomes the disease you can't undo.