Healthcare is deeply personal. So is why we built Cura.
We didn’t start Cura to create another generic software product. We started it because we’ve lived the frustration, the exhaustion, and the gaps in healthcare — and we believe understanding the whole person behind the symptoms changes everything.
Who we are & why we are doing this
Four people from engineering, medicine, AI, and family caregiving. Each of us brought our own lived experiences to the same conclusion: healthcare must become more human, continuous, and contextual.
Mechanical Engineering · Lived with chronic IBS for over a decade
“After years of struggling with fatigue, bloating, and unanswered questions, I started keeping detailed records to connect the dots. Cura is my mission to turn that lived experience into clarity and hope for patients and clinicians alike.”
Clinical Personnel, Healthcare Policy & Patient Advocacy
“Having experienced healthcare as a patient, from clinical floors, and in health policy, I’ve seen how systemic communication gaps hurt both patients and clinicians. Cura is our way of bridging those gaps and restoring genuine human connection.”
AI Systems Architecture & Human-Centered Technology
“Technology should empower human understanding, not replace it. I am dedicated to building AI pipelines that respect medical truth through strict verbatim grounding, giving clinicians and patients clear, trustworthy insights.”
Why Cura exists — my personal experience
By Rutger Wiersma, Co-Founder & CAIO
Cura didn’t start with a business idea.
It started with a personal experience.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with things like fatigue, overstimulation, bloating and stomach problems. During my studies in Mechanical Engineering, these complaints became much more intense. I felt constantly stressed, exhausted and physically and mentally out of balance.
Eventually, I was diagnosed with IBS.
It gave my symptoms a name, but it didn’t really answer the question I kept asking myself:
“Why is this happening?”
Over the years, I tried different approaches. I changed my diet, started exercising more, worked with healthcare professionals and began learning much more about nutrition and lifestyle.
At some point, I started keeping detailed records of what I ate, how I felt, my symptoms and what was happening in my daily life.
And slowly, I started seeing patterns.
The problem was that all this information was scattered across food diaries, notes, test results and my own observations. Connecting the dots took months and required a huge amount of effort.
But the more I understood, the more I realized how valuable this information could be. Not just for me, but also for the healthcare professional trying to understand what was really going on.
That led to a simple question:
“Why don’t we make it easier for people to capture what is happening in their daily lives, while using AI to help identify meaningful patterns and turn all that information into something useful?”
Not to replace healthcare professionals. But to help people understand themselves better, while giving healthcare professionals a more complete picture of the person behind the symptoms.
That is a big part of the vision behind Cura.
I believe healthcare should be about more than treating individual symptoms. It should be about understanding the person as a whole.
And that is what we are trying to build.
How we are building Cura
We intentionally reject the playbook of impersonal SaaS metrics and black-box algorithms. We build for genuine human connection and medical safety.
Understanding the Whole Person
99% of health happens between 10-minute clinic visits
Healthcare cannot be confined to brief visits once every few weeks. Daily nutrition, sleep disruptions, stress, and subtle symptoms hold the real keys to understanding what is happening.
Verbatim-Grounded Medical Truth
Strict grounding in verbatim patient words
We reject black-box AI that makes guesses or assumptions. Every symptom, medication note, and pattern surfaced by Cura is strictly verifiable against raw patient or carer logs.
Empowering Clinicians, Never Replacing Them
30-second pre-visit longitudinal briefs
We never diagnose, prescribe, or record live consultation rooms. We provide clinicians with clear, structured 30-day summaries so they can spend their precious consultation time truly listening.
We are building this together with you.
Healthcare is too important to be built behind closed doors. We believe true progress comes from listening to the people living with chronic symptoms, the families caring for them, and the clinicians striving to give better care.
For Patients
Your Voice & Ownership
Share your daily reality without being second-guessed. Help us test new logging tools, take part in co-design roundtables, and ensure your health memory belongs 100% to you.
For Carers & Families
Recognizing the Care Circle
Carers provide the indispensable daily support that clinical records miss. Help us build proxy workflows that recognize your observations with proper provenance and dignity.
For Clinicians
Collaborative Clinical Care
Join our clinical advisory circle. Help us refine 30-second pre-visit briefs that save consultation time, prevent hospitalisations, and restore the joy of practicing medicine.
“Cura grows through honest conversations with real people. If you have an idea, feedback, or simply want to talk about how healthcare could work better for you — our inboxes are always open.”
— Rutger, Fredrick, Manoj & Redmer