Built by someone who needed it and couldn’t buy it.

Indaga began with a single, expensive disappointment. I bought one of those premium DNA-and-blood health reports — the kind that arrives looking authoritative, full of confident verdicts about who you are and what you should fear. When I checked its claims against the actual evidence, several of them didn’t hold up. It overstated some risks with false precision, and stayed silent about everything it couldn’t actually see.

So I rebuilt it. Using the same open-source bioinformatics and public, peer-reviewed databases that academic labs rely on, I re-ran my own DNA — and then joined it with my blood panels, my wearable, and my continuous glucose. The rebuilt analysis corrected findings the paid report had gotten wrong, put each number in its honest context, and — crucially — refused to assert anything it couldn’t support.

Two convictions became non-negotiable along the way. First: this data should never leave your machine. Your genome identifies your relatives and can’t be changed after a leak; it has no business sitting on a company’s servers — something the 23andMe collapse made painfully literal. Second: every claim should be checkable — traceable to a named source and to your own record. A health claim you can’t verify isn’t worth making.

I’m Indaga’s first user — multi-omic-tracked, privacy-conscious, and technical enough to insist the whole thing run locally. Indaga is the tool I wanted and couldn’t buy, now being built so that anyone holding a DNA file they already have can do the same in a few clicks — without handing their biology to anyone.

— The founder, Indaga