Leveraging bioscience foundations
GLP-1 drugs (part of a broader group of medicines called incretin analogs) mimic natural human hormones that regulate appetite, glucose metabolism, and satiety.
In clinical trials, drugs such as high-dose semaglutide (Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Zepbound), average 15–22% weight loss, and up to 20% reduction in cardiovascular events like stroke and heart attack¹, and benefits for kidney function, liver disease, and systemic inflammation.
At the same time, real-world outcomes have been more mixed—driven largely by discontinuation and difficulty maintaining weight loss long-term:
50-70%2, 3 of patients stop treatment within 12 months
After completing treatment, individuals struggle to sustain weight loss 4
The reasons are multifactorial: side effects, cost, access barriers, insufficient clinical support, and the behavioral complexity of long-term weight management.
We study both dimensions of the persistence challenge: the gut-brain mechanisms underlying drug response, and the behavioral and systemic factors that drive discontinuation—and what interventions can improve long-term outcomes.
Unlocking the potential of clinical AI
Healthcare analytics date back to at least 1854, when John Snow traced a cholera outbreak in London to a contaminated water pump—work widely credited as founding modern epidemiology.5
More than 170 years later, we can capture more about your health than ever through lab tests, genomics, imaging, and wearables. But when it comes to deciding what to do next, most tools still describe what happens to people on average.
They're not built to help you and your care team understand what's likely to happen to you, or how different treatment choices might change that.
Breakthroughs in generative AI now enable us to construct rich representations of an individual’s clinical profile and model its evolution over time—often called "digital twins."
We simulate forward trajectories that capture latent signals across multiple dimensions: weight, cardiometabolic biomarkers, renal and hepatic function, inflammatory markers—identifying downstream risks before they surface in traditional diagnostics and assessing different courses of treatment.
Innovating care models
Obesity is a chronic, multifactorial disease—shaped by genetics, biology, environment, behavior, and psychosocial context—that intersects deeply with identity, mental health, and social experience.
Weight stigma is pervasive, affecting quality of care, employment, and emotional wellbeing.6, 7, 8 Patients who experience bias are less likely to seek care and more likely to discontinue treatment.9
Onsera goes beyond prescribing to focus on sustainable behavior change, meeting patients where they are—not where the system assumes they should be.
Our model integrates clinical support, behavioral coaching, care navigation, and patient engagement. We address both the physiological effects of anti-obesity medications—satiety, glycemic control, metabolic improvement—and the psychological work of building motivation, overcoming barriers, and forming lasting habits.
Human connection remains central to effective care.
Our approach to deploying provider-facing AI tools is to complement the care teams rather than replace them. Our tools surface relevant patient context, prioritize outreach, and handle routine coordination, so care teams can focus on what matters most.
Moving to health assurance
Obesity is linked to $2.76 trillion in lost global GDP annually, driven by reduced labor force participation and productivity.10 For employers offering anti-obesity medication (GLP-1 RA, GLP-1/GIP RA) coverage, an estimated 75% of spend is currently non-productive—lost to discontinuation, off-label use, and misaligned incentives.11
We believe the future of cardiometabolic care requires a shift from traditional care models to health assurance—where payers can quantify expected outcomes before making coverage decisions, where clinical and economic incentives are aligned, and disease prevention is the major focus
Healthcare systems — enabling value-based care, closing funding gaps, shifting spend from treatment to prevention
Payers — predictable spend, measurable ROI, investment in care
Patients — affordable medication access, personalized care, disease prevention
AI Innovation & Research
We are building a research and engineering hub in London, investing in the UK's world-class scientific talent and partnering with leading academic institutions. Our work spans causal ML, generative AI, and applied AI research for clinical applications—applied to some of the hardest problems in cardiometabolic care.
Great science requires great people, and we're committed to assembling teams that push the boundaries of what AI can do for health.
