Join the Club

Makram Saleh
Medicus AI
Published in
3 min readApr 29, 2019

“I decided to finally dedicate time to pursue this idea.”

I had barely made it to the second page of the menu at Le Pain Quotidien, our favorite Dubai café, before Baher interrupts. I know Baher well enough to sense commitment and excitement in his voice, and having brainstormed this kernel of an idea with him in the past, I am excited too.

It’s simple, it feels obvious, and it makes total sense, so I don’t need much convincing. I listen to Baher as the gears turned in my head too, ignoring my now cold coffee, and I start to sketch.

My early Medicus product sketches, February 2015

Four years later, I look back at these sketches and can’t help but wonder how a product vision can truly inspire, live and evolve.

“Understand your health” keeps driving us, but a product vision alone isn’t enough.

From the very first prototype we envisioned back in that fateful first session, we knew we had to get feedback from as many people as we could— real impact requires real input. It wasn’t good enough to have a product we thought was great, what we needed was market validation; other critical and passionate people to tell us if it was really great. So we recruited a small group of testers to be our guinea pigs and tell us what they thought.

Since then, we’ve been learning, tinkering, tweaking and optimising, taking into account every remark, big and small. And with every insight, every iteration, we come closer to the Medicus AI experience that we have been aspiring to since Day 1.

An early prototype of Medicus iPhone app

Today our vision is clear. Starting with something as simple as a blood test, we’re working towards what we believe a user’s experience should actually look and feel like.

We believe in supporting people every step of the way by helping them understand their test results, which we believe makes them better decision-makers about their own health.

We also believe that good habits are created one tiny step at a time, and on that basis we continue to develop our personalized wellbeing coaching programs as the ideal companion for everyone’s journey to great health.

To help us get to the next phase of our journey, we’re looking for people who are passionate about great products and experiences, and we’d like to invite you to take part in influencing the future of Medicus AI by joining our private beta club.

Your involvement is intended to be both simple and enjoyable. If you get selected, you’ll need to install a special version of our app on your phone that has the new features we’ve been cooking up. We’ll ask you to try everything out and tell us all about your experience, and we want it all: what you loved, what you liked less, and what you think is missing.

Answer a few questions to throw your hat in the ring.

Join the club

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