Health & Wellness
Guidance is abundant. Guidance that knows your context is not.
Consumers will not pay for generic advice, and they should not have to pay for it with their data either. The commercial opportunity sits with the businesses on the other side — gyms, trainers, equipment brands, providers — who will pay for genuinely qualified intent, provided the consumer product earned that intent honestly.
- $47.0B
- US gym, health and fitness clubs industry revenue2026 · IBISWorld
- 108,000
- US gym and fitness club businesses2026, 2.1% CAGR since 2021 · IBISWorld
- $9.44B
- Global mental health apps market, growing 18.3% year on year2026; US segment approximately $2.74B · Research and Markets
How the market is structured
The supply side is fragmented in the familiar way: roughly 108,000 gym and fitness businesses in the US, plus a far larger and almost entirely unmapped population of independent trainers and studios. The consumer side is saturated with content and starved of relevance — plans that do not know which machines are in the room, coaching that does not know what happened last week.
Digital wellbeing is a separate and faster-growing market, where subscription is the dominant model and where the ethical failure mode is well established: products that monetise attention, and in the worst cases monetise intimacy.
Where the opportunity is
Connecting plan to place is the unserved join. A training plan that maps to the equipment a specific gym actually has is more useful than either a plan or a gym listing alone, and it creates intent that a gym, a trainer or an equipment brand will legitimately pay for.
On the wellbeing side the discipline is commercial restraint. A companion product that holds what matters most to someone cannot be funded by selling what it learns, which means proving subscription retention before layering a marketplace on top — and being willing to ship late rather than ship compromised.
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