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HIFP · Health-Informed Financial Planning

Plan for the next 30 years with the data you already have.

A financial concierge married to a medicine concierge — one plan, two experts, built around you.

Founders
Dr. Sindhu Pandit, MD MBA
Dr. Fatima Paruk, MD
Brandon Stauber
Ask
SAFE $2.5M target
$2.0M floor · $15M cap
Series A Q1–Q2 2027
Live demo
hifp-poc.pages.dev
NDA-only · 3 personas
Access allowlist required
Distribution
NDA-only
Post-Karen general-counsel
Q4 2026 open
Draft · pending trio ratification. Companion to HIFP-investment-memo-v4 (draft-02). Distribution restricted pending SAFE-sizing formal ratification + Fatima bio finalization.
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The insight

Biomarkers moved into consumer life. Financial planning didn't notice.

Function has 350K members. Neko is raising at $700M. Aura/Oura filed its S-1. HNW consumers now generate biomarker data continuously — and no one has built the layer that turns that data into planning decisions the household can act on.

The gap

Financial-wellness owns one axis

Origin, BrightPlan, SmartDollar — planning tools with no biomarker signal. Recompute annually against averages.

The gap

Biomarker labs own another

Function, Neko, Superpower — health signal at consumer scale. No planning surface. Data lives in inbox.

The intersection

Nobody worth naming

Genivity/Lumiant distressed at 7 employees mid-2026. Category is unclaimed. 12–24 month window before post-IPO consumer-longevity moves up-stack.

The compound bet. Own the biomarker-informed planning decision at the point of trust — the concierge physician, the employer benefits plan, and the direct consumer — before Aura/Oura IPO capitalizes an up-stack competitor and the intersection stops being unmapped.
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The greenspace

HIFP owns the intersection.

Every adjacent player owns one axis — health signal on one side, wealth planning on the other. The intersection itself is currently unclaimed at scale. That's the greenspace HIFP is architected for.

◐ Health-side · signal sources + access
HIFP

The greenspace

Biomarker + wearable + EHR + credit + employment → household plan. AI-native · physician + advisor in-the-loop · consumer-trust posture.

Unclaimed · 12–24 mo window
Wealth-side · planning surfaces ◑
Biomarker labs · wearables

Function · Neko · Superpower · Aura/Oura

Signal source at consumer scale. No planning surface. Post-IPO up-stack risk (slide 12).

Financial wellness

Origin · BrightPlan · SmartDollar

Planning-side. No biomarker signal. Annual recompute against population averages.

Concierge medicine · EHR

MDVIP · One Medical Premium · EHG · Epic sandbox

Physician access + clinical data at premium. No planning integration.

Advisor tech

eMoney · RightCapital · Orion

Advisor-facing tools. No consumer surface. No biomarker signal.

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Product

Three primitives, one continuously-updating household plan.

HIFP is a dual-surface consumer platform — AI-native at the user layer, actuarial under the hood. Household aggregation is first-class. Physician and advisor are in the loop where advice-shaped output would occur.

Primitive 1

Planning Agent

Scoped tool-use LLM agent that runs stratified planning scenarios against household inputs. Every response passes an Advice-Boundary Classifier before render. Anthropic Fable 5.1 primary; OpenAI GPT-5 fallback.

Primitive 2

Plan-Delta monitor

Continuous surveillance of health and financial signals: biomarker · wearable · EHR · credit score · financial background · employment · HENRY-segment markers. On material trajectory shift → "three decisions worth revisiting." Never a specific recommendation, always a decision reframe.

Primitive 3

Coverage Navigator

User-side advocacy surface. Portability warnings on benefits transition · coverage-gap identification across household + employer + Medicare · comparative-quote question prompts. Explicitly not fiduciary, not carrier data channel.

Live in POC as of 2026-09-12. All three primitives working end-to-end on mocked data at hifp-poc.pages.dev. Three demoable persona surfaces (User · Physician · Employer benefits-admin). Access-controlled; NDA-only.
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Compounding moats

Four moats. None transpilable at speed.

Any competitor with an LLM API can ship a v0.1. The four moats below each protect a distinct part of the architecture, IP-independently. Estimated replication time for a well-funded copyist: 12–18 months.

Moat 1

Advice-Boundary Architecture

Model-output classifier + Boundary-Integrity mechanic + Ethical Framework enforcement. Copyist must independently reason through classifier design, adversarial test corpus, physician-in-loop mechanic. Whitepaper publication IP-gated by provisional filings.

Moat 2

Coverage Navigator + Underwriting-Firewall IP

Data-scope architecture + contractual firewall + category reshape from "insurance partner" to Coverage Navigator. The structural refusal to route data toward carrier underwriting is the moat. Trust-brand posture most copyists will fumble.

Moat 3

Chain-partner integration depth

SMART-on-FHIR integrations with T2a Concierge chains (MDVIP · One Medical Premium · EHG · PartnerMD). Once installed at chain level, switching cost is high — practice-branded advisor briefs, cohort dashboards, member consent flows.

Moat 4

User-primacy trust posture

Delete-forever, consent-scoped, underwriting-firewall-enforced, auditable. Every consent event, every AI response, every share event visible to the user. Copyists whose business model requires data monetization cannot ship this.

Three-mind pressure test in flight. Legal + financial + actuarial advisors (advisors-via-SAFE-round posture) engaged to stress-test the moats to Sindhu's "defensible in court" standard before Series A pitch. See slide 9.
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Four-lane GTM structure

Ratified 2026-09-11. Diversified from Day 1.

T1-only would produce 55% top-5 concentration and enterprise-SaaS multiples. The four-lane mix drops top-5 concentration to ~25%, smooths quarterly growth, and unlocks consumer-platform multiples at Series B/C.

LaneBuyerLive in POCY3 revenue mix (base)
T1 · Employer — self-insured; Salesforce-shapeCHRO / benefits committee/employer benefits-admin dashboard~63%
T2a · Concierge active-direct — MDVIP / One Medical Premium / EHG / PartnerMDPractice management/practice cohort dashboard + chain-1 pilot~16%
T2b · Partner-channel D2C — Consumer-Wellness Partnerships (biomarker · wearable · concierge-adj · telehealth)Direct consumer via partner ecosystemLanding + signup + user-app surfaces~13%
T3 · Employer-overflow — broker / exec-perk / voluntary-benefitOverflow inbound from T1 conversationsHome upsell paths + Stripe billing live~8%
Ratified Friday 2026-09-11

Sindhu on record

"I am fine with those four areas, right? For now." — trio ratification of four-lane structure.

Benefits-consultant channel

Gallagher / Marsh / Aon — partner, not competitor

Broker ecosystems already run health-and-wealth-bucket offerings. HIFP posture: competitive/complementary/partner/different framing (see slide 12). Adds to T1 candidate list.

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Financial trajectory

$40M–$142M Y3 ARR. Consumer-platform multiples.

Three consistently-computed cases per GTM Tier Strategy v0.4 §5 methodology. Each case applies same PMPM assumption across all four lanes; account counts held constant; PMPM assumption varies.

Downside case · low-end PMPM
~$40M
Y3 ARR · 60/18/13/9 mix
$1.0B – $1.6B pre-money at 25–40× ARR
Premium case · aggressive PMPM
~$142M
Y3 ARR · 42/31/17/10 mix
$3.5B – $5.7B pre-money at 25–40× ARR
Concentration risk
~25%
Top-5 concentration in base case (vs. 55% in T1-only counterfactual)
Quarterly smoothing
4 lanes
T2a monthly cadence + T2b partner compounding + T3 inbound-elastic smooth T1 enterprise lumpiness
Multiple category
25–40×
Consumer-platform range (vs. enterprise-SaaS 8–15× that T1-only would trigger)

Full derivation in HIFP-gtm-tier-strategy-v0.4 §5. Downside case assumes lower PMPM realization + slower T2b partner ramp; base case assumes signed chain-1 + first PEO deal within SAFE window; premium case assumes multi-chain by month 18 + Aura-shape partner licensing revenue online.

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The founding trio

Each founder retires one of four otherwise-fatal DD questions.

Not standard three-founder team-page casting. Functionally MECE across the four DD questions Series A investors ask health-tech / consumer-AI companies. 75+ years of combined startup, entrepreneurial, healthcare, and tech.

CEO (prospective)

Dr. Fatima Paruk, MD

Exact title + bio phrasing pending Fatima input (P0 blocker; single-Slack-message to close).

Currently senior health-leadership at Oracle. Formerly SVP & CHO Salesforce Global H&LS · McKinsey Clinical CoE lead · Microsoft H&LS CMIO · Allscripts CMO. Active AARP involvement + longevity / quality-of-life planning specialty.

Closes: health-strategic distribution · CEO gravitas · F500 CHRO + regulatory-counsel relationships · AARP + elderly-longevity positioning credibility.

CCO

Dr. Sindhu Pandit, MD MBA

VP, Clinical Product Strategy at Hyro. Formerly Clinical Leader at Salesforce Global H&LS. MD physiatrist, MBA SMU. Concept originator.

Closes: clinical concept validity · physician-community access · concept-to-clinical-validation execution · Ethical Framework authorship.

CPO / CTO

Brandon Stauber

Director, Partner Innovation Engineering at Salesforce · Agentforce Partner Innovation Lab lead. Dual Salesforce Certified Architect (System + Application) + AI Associate. 2× founder-operator with exits (iNetEvents 1999→2004 · Wine Spies 2007→2012).

Closes: regulated-consumer-AI ship credibility · chain-side technical integration · prior-startup operating history + commercial exits.

Why the trio is more than the sum of its parts. Without Brandon, "regulated consumer AI ship" fails. Without Fatima, "warm-intro to chain + F500 CHRO + health-strategic investor access" fails. Without Sindhu, "clinical concept validity + adversarial-test adjudication" fails. MECE.
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Advisor board — advisors-via-SAFE-round posture

Legal + financial + actuarial minds engaged early — not hired.

Formalized 2026-09-12. Advisors funded through SAFE proceeds implement Fatima's three-mind pressure-test framework as advisor-board scoping. Closes Sindhu's "defensible in court" moats-strengthening ask without requiring a fourth co-founder or full-time hire.

Legal mind

Karen (Sindhu ex-Salesforce GC)

Status: in flight. Sindhu texted 2026-09-11 to schedule coffee. Sequence: coffee → briefing → GC intro. Alya sequenced second-line.

Financial mind

Cathy Lanning (FINS lead industry advisor, Salesforce)

Sindhu-proposed 2026-09-11 as answer to the wealth-management-expertise gap. Same-shape asset as Fatima's HLS role, opposite domain. Outreach sequenced post-Karen coffee → NDA.

Actuarial mind

Fatima's contact (placeholder)

Actuary contact from 2026-09-04. Placeholder per 2026-09-07 alignment; final identification owed with actuarial-hire criterion.

Operator + longevity mind

Romi Chopra (CEO MIMIT Health, Chicago)

Fatima seeing at Dreamforce week of 2026-09-14. Healthcare-operator archetype; potential investor-shape as well.

Investor-shape early advisors: Julie Yu (a16z Bio+Health, Katie intro) · James Lakes (diversity of investments) · Frisk Cressy (James Lakes intro) · Tara Bishop (Hyro-portfolio conflict flagged, waved off by Fatima). Consent-model expert: Kristen Valdes (b.well founder — dual-angle: consultation + partnership contingent on funding).

Budget: ~$100–200K of SAFE proceeds across advisor honoraria + equity grants over the 16-month runway. Individual moats-read consultations vs. ongoing advisory-board seats.
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POC live · demoable

Three persona surfaces live at hifp-poc.pages.dev.

Deployed 2026-09-11; v4-alignment updates shipped 2026-09-12. Cloudflare Access; NDA-only allowlist. Working end-to-end on mocked data — not a screenshot deck.

User persona · T2b lane

D2C consumer surface

Landing (dual-concierge tagline · employer-first trust band · AARP archetype) · Signup (5 tiers) · MFA · Consent onboarding · Home dashboard · Plan view with health + financial Plan-Delta signal categories · Planning Assistant · Share-with-advisor · Household · Billing · Settings.

Practice persona · T2a lane

/practice

Cohort dashboard · anonymized signal trends (min n=5) · individual-consent-gated patient list · SMART-on-FHIR integration status · practice-branded advisor briefs · cross-persona link to employer view.

Employer persona · T1 lane · NEW

/employer

Benefits-admin cohort dashboard · self-insured metrics · family-attach take-rate · HENRY leverage flag · AARP-age quality-of-life segment · underwriting-firewall callout · Gallagher/Marsh/Aon benefits-consultant channel positioning.

Demo path for investors: Access allowlist (email OTP) → landing → DemoModeMenu (bottom-left) → Employer view / Physician view — each opens in a new tab. Full operations runbook: HIFP-poc-hosting-runbook-v1.

What this proves at pre-SAFE stage: the trio can ship. Three demoable persona surfaces across three GTM lanes, deployed with authentication + hosting + version control + operations documentation, in the weeks preceding this deck.

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Build + engineering plan v4

16-week MVP. Load-bearing chain-1 pilot. HIPAA infrastructure from Day 1.

MVP scope locked: concept-proof + T2a chain-1 pilot + one clinical-import path proven end-to-end on test data. Series-A milestone locked: multi-chain HIPAA-hosted production + banking-tier security. Clean ladder, no over-promise.

WeeksFocusMilestone
1–2Founding-eng #1 onboard · AWS BAA + HIPAA infrastructure baseline · Karen legal-gate follow-throughEng environment ready · HIPAA infra baseline live (test data)
3–4Onboarding + consent hardening from POC pattern · Brandon full-time · Fatima chain-1 conversations openAuditable consent working end-to-end · chain-1 pilot conversations initiated
5–6Founding-eng #2 onboard · Oura + Empower integrations · b.well individual-access as clinical fallback · Founding-eng #3 hire criterion decidedTwo integrations live · fallback path stood up
7–8Chain-1 SMART-on-FHIR integration · Week 8 hard sequencing decision on chain-1Chain-1 signature yes/no explicit gate
9–10Plan-view + Plan-Delta scenario (sell-home-at-70) · financial-signal ingestion (credit + employment + HENRY)One scenario runnable with real test data · financial signals integrated
11–12Planning Assistant + canned response library + boundary classifier · Sindhu review-cycleAssistant answers 40+ questions, all guarded
13Employer + Practice persona production hardening · trust surface (export + delete)Employer + Practice demoable at production quality
14–15Share-view · Stripe billing production · mobile-responsive polish · analytics · investor-shareable URL deployExternal URL live · testing protocol ready · NDA scaffolding operational
16User testing kickoff (5–10 HNW 55+ testers) · investor conversations open under NDAFirst 3 sessions recorded · first 3 investor conversations initiated

Full plan in HIFP-build-engineering-plan-v4 (supersedes v0.1 timeline-compression cut-sheet + hustle plan). Three-engineer founding bench (Brandon + FE#1 HIPAA-fluent + FE#2 full-stack + FE#3 hire-criterion-decided-Week-6). Nine named commitments required at SAFE close.

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Risks — surfaced and priced

Eight risks. Three extinction + one existential fully resolved.

HIFP surfaces and prices risk explicitly, per the a16z Julie Yoo criterion: "the vast majority of what we index on is the founder, and how deeply they've thought through what could go right and wrong."

RiskStatusMitigation summary
T20 · Reverse-judo underwritingRESOLVEDA+B+C adopted 2026-09-07: data-scope architecture + contractual firewall + Coverage-Navigator reshape. Standing insurance-data-outbound veto.
T3 · Frontier-LLM AUP exposurePASS-strongAnthropic AUP direct-verified 2026-09-08. HITL + AI-disclosure requirements satisfied natively via Advice-Boundary Classifier. Karen briefing final gate.
Regulatory (federal + state + zip)PARTIALThree-tier frame adopted. HIPAA + GINA + WA MHMDA + IL GIPA + FL HB 1189 + NAIC AI Bulletin largely VERIFIED. Karen briefing gates final PASS.
Concentration + sales-cycle lumpinessRESOLVEDFour-lane GTM (see slide 6). Top-5 concentration to ~25%; Q/Q smoothed by T2a + T2b + T3.
Aura/Oura post-IPO up-stackACTIVEThree-layer: architectural (not replicable by acquisition) · positioning (Aura as T2b P1 channel partner) · optionality (Aura-as-data-source fallback if up-stack anyway).
Gallagher/Marsh/Aon second vectorACTIVECompetitive/complementary/partner/different framing. Partnership-first posture through Karen briefing → NDA → broker conversation sequence.
Founder-contingency (2-of-3 scenarios)DOCUMENTEDFounder Contingency Analysis v0.1 models scenarios with new-CEO network-recovery lever. Advisor-only fallback locked.
Sindhu IP-assignment / Hyro moonlightingACTIVEFour-layer: Karen employment-agreement input + IP counsel inventorship opinion + provisional filings identify inventor chain + transition-earlier optionality.
Composite signal. The trio has already thought through the risks a DD partner would surface, produced written analysis, and reshaped strategy where the risk was structural — see the T20 underwriting-judo Friday-flagged → Monday-ratified reshape as the clearest example.
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The ask

SAFE seed · $2.5M target / $2.0M floor / $15M cap post-money.

Directionally adopted 2026-09-11 (Sindhu + Fatima trio; formal ratification pending as of this draft). $500K bump from prior $2.0M/$1.5M funds specifically the 3rd founding engineer + HIPAA infrastructure baseline from Day 1 + Epic sandbox access + advisor-board budget. Cap unchanged; organic-fallback preserved.

Floor
$2.0M
Round works at floor. Organic-to-A documented fallback at 90-day trigger.
Cap post-money
$15M
Unchanged. Signals discipline. Same conversion math as prior sizing.

Use of proceeds — full ask ($2.5M)

CategoryAllocation
Founder living-standard floor (3 × $250K/yr + insurance)~$500K annualized
Founding engineering (3-eng bench — Brandon + FE#1 HIPAA-fluent + FE#2 full-stack + FE#3)~$500K
HIPAA infrastructure baseline from Day 1 (AWS BAA + HITRUST-adjacent + Epic sandbox)~$150K
Karen briefing + IP counsel + provisionals + NDA infrastructure$50–75K
Advisor-board budget (advisors-via-SAFE posture)~$100–200K
Founder-network market-signal lunches + travel + benefits-consultant scoping$25K
SaaS / infrastructure (AWS · Anthropic Claude API · Stripe billing)$50–75K
Reserve for Series A pitch cycle + clinical adjudication~$100K

Series A follow-on: $7–9M targeted Q1–Q2 2027, led by health/longevity-strategic investor. AI-forward generalist as parallel warm-lane. Both lanes' warm-intro paths sequenced by Fatima post-Karen general-counsel gate.

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Recommendation + timing

Lead or follow the SAFE at $15M cap. Institutional lead of pulled-forward Series A at Q1–Q2 2027.

The insight window is 12–24 months. Post-Aura/Oura IPO, the biomarker-informed-planning intersection will not remain unmapped. Trio has built the moats architecture, ratified the four-lane GTM, deployed a demoable POC across three personas, locked the MVP scope with a clean Series-A ladder, and formalized the advisor-board approach that closes the moats-strengthening pressure test.

Why now

The window is real and closing

Aura/Oura S-1 filed. Function 350K members. Neko $700M raise. Genivity/Lumiant distressed. Category is un-defended today. Post-IPO capitalization will change that in 12–24 months.

Why HIFP

The moats architecture is built

Advice-Boundary + Coverage-Navigator/Underwriting-Firewall + chain-partner integration depth + user-primacy trust posture. Copyist replication time 12–18 months.

Why this trio

Four DD questions retired

Regulated-consumer-AI ship (Brandon) · concierge chain buyer access (Fatima) · clinical concept validity (Sindhu) · risk-thinking discipline (T20 A+B+C precedent).

Why this ask

The bump is defensible

$500K funds 3rd engineer + HIPAA infra + advisors — NOT scope expansion. $2M vs. $3M+ is the practical raise-difficulty line at current valuation estimates. Ladders cleanly to Series A milestone.

Immediate next step for interested investors. Karen general-counsel briefing is in flight (Sindhu texted 2026-09-11). Once NDA scaffolding is in place, investor conversations open under NDA — targeting first cycle Q4 2026 / Q1 2027 concurrent with MVP Week 16. Reach Brandon to be on the outreach list.

Companion artifacts: HIFP-POV-v4 (strategic canonical) · HIFP-investment-memo-v4 draft-02 (this deck's companion) · HIFP-gtm-tier-strategy-v0.4 (four-lane GTM analytical spine) · HIFP-build-engineering-plan-v4 (16-week MVP + Series-A ladder) · HIFP-general-counsel-briefing-v0.1 (regulatory + IP posture) · HIFP-poc-hosting-runbook-v1 (live POC operations). NDA-only pending Karen general-counsel briefing.