1. Make digestive care accessible, affordable, and actionable.
OUR MISSION
Make digestive care accessible,
affordable, and actionable.
A personal system for the continuing digestive-care journey.
Starting with a personal system.
Building a global digestive-care company.
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2. Digestive illness can consume a life without anyone else seeing it.
Digestive illness can consume a life without anyone else
seeing it
At dinner At work While traveling
“Will I pay for this tomorrow?” “Can I get through this meeting?” “What if my symptoms return?”
Repeated symptoms cost attention, confidence, and freedom to plan.
Illustrative situations, not customer testimonials.
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3. We start where constipation has become a daily job.
We start where constipation has become a daily job
WHO TRIED GAP
The first customer Already trying Still connecting it all
Severe, recurring constipation. A Diet changes, remedies, advice, Knowledge, clinicians, and logs
flare or failed attempt triggers visits. Still unsure what helped. exist. Connecting them remains the
another search. person’s job.
Starting with adults under high burden, diagnosed or undiagnosed.
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4. A personal digestive-care system in a mobile app.
Gutsphere is your personal digestive-care system in a
mobile app
Your story Your six-week plan Your next action
Your history, plan, daily actions, and reviews stay connected.
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5. The need, the technology, and the insight are converging.
The need, the technology, and the insight are converging
NEED TOOLS PURPOSE
Continuing need New capabilities Founder conviction
History, daily action, and care can Our thesis: use AI to organize personal Built from the founder's experience
remain disconnected. context into useful next steps. of managing digestive illness.
For people who built their own system and those who never could.
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6. What happens between visits can make the next visit better.
What happens between visits can make the next visit better
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What I tried What happened What happens next
Record whether the agreed care was Softer stool, but straining remains. Bring the unresolved question to the
followed. Preserve both. clinician.
Why return: useful context carries into the next plan and care decision.
Learning goal: test usefulness and follow-through. Clinical benefits are not established.
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7. The first session turns your situation into a place to start.
The first session turns your situation into a place to start
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“I understand my “I can see a way forward.” “I know where to start.”
situation.”
Relevant questions help me recall and A personal plan connects my goals with Today gives me a first action that fits my
describe what has been happening. manageable steps. capacity.
Starting with chronic constipation. Built for the wider digestive-care journey.
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8. The person's continuing digestive-care journey.
Our position is the person’s continuing digestive-care
journey
GENERAL PURPOSE BROAD HEALTH DIGESTIVE CARE
Personal Gutsphere General-purpose AI Health-focusedassistants
systems Personal digestive-and systems
care system
Clinical care Broad virtual-care Digestive-care Not mappeddelivery providers providers
Connect history, daily action, and response so the person does less reconstruction.
Categories describe role and scope, not quality or exclusivity. Personal support complements clinical care.
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9. Start with a focused customer. Earn the right to expand.
Start with a focused customer. Earn the right to expand.
THE INITIAL CUSTOMER A clear starting need
Adults whose recurring Help people connect what they tried, what happened, and what comes next.
constipation has
A consumer-first approachbecome a daily job.
Test whether ongoing practical support earns repeat use and
payment.
Focus comes before a broader Expansion is a hypothesis
digestive-care ambition.
Broader conditions, care-team tools, and partnerships depend
on evidence from the initial product.
No numerical market-size claim is made in this public edition.
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10. The personal system is the front door to a global care company.
The personal system is the front door to a global care
company
LONG-TERM DIRECTION
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04 Connected
physical care 03 Products
and servicesTODAY 02 Payers and
employers 01 Connected
care teams Personal
system
Understand, act, Bring personal context Make useful support Medications, tools, Global clinics:
and carry care forward. into professional care. more affordable. supplements and apps. a franchise ambition.
Long-term ambition; partnerships and physical care are not established.
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11. The business starts with direct membership.
The business starts with direct membership
PERSON PROVIDER ECOSYSTEM
Direct membership Provider contracts Later revenue layers
Test willingness to pay for Useful visit context → a pilot → Sponsored access, partner
useful, continuing support. paid preparation support or commissions, clinical fees and
care-team tools. franchise royalties.
The person comes first. Every new payer must improve their care.
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12. Our bet: vertical depth compounds into an enduring advantage.
Our bet: vertical depth compounds into an enduring
advantage
More relevant support
01
02
Digestive depth Daily usefulness
Knowledge and workflows
Practical support that earns
built before scale
continued use
Deeper knowledge
More experience and workflows
to learn from
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04
Increasing value Evidence that Earned trust
for the consumer improves care
Continuing relationships and
What helps, for whom, and
ecosystem participation
under what conditions
More confidence to participate
Defensibility thesis, not an established moat. Research and clinical benefits require further validation.
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13. Available to try. Repeat use still needs to be earned.
Available to try. Repeat use still needs to be earned.
AVAILABLE TODAY WHAT WE NEED TO LEARN
Gutsphere is listed on the Apple Does practical support earn
App Store and Google Play. continued use and payment?
Store availability establishes access to the product. Proposed acquisition path: useful content, website,
It does not establish active use, revenue, retention, onboarding, and membership. Conversion and
or outcomes. repeatability remain to be tested.
Store listings reviewed September 30, 2026. No traction or clinical-outcome claim is made.
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14. Built from experience: Bimal Maharjan.
I lived the problem. I know how to build the system
Bimal Maharjan
Founder & CEO
Building from lived experience of digestive illness and
an engineering and product background.
Bimal Maharjan
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15. The next $1M tests who benefits, stays, and pays.
The next $1M tests who benefits, stays, and pays
THE DESTINATION
A global digestive-care company
Retention Acquisition Outcomes
$1M Do people keep Can we reach the Is support useful
using and paying? next cohort in everyday life? PRE-SEED
repeatedly?
Completion and Conversion and cost User feedback and
repeat-use measures across cohorts follow-through
Learning priorities; numerical targets and runway are not presented here.
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16. Let's build Gutsphere together.
JOIN THE MISSION
Help us build a future where
digestive illness no longer decides
the size of someone’s life.
Let’s build Gutsphere together.
Bimal Maharjan · Founder & CEO · gutsphere.com
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