In 2024, the number of people using Visible grew tenfold. In many ways, this isn’t surprising. Millions of people with complex illnesses remain deeply underserved. The need for more research, better diagnostics, effective treatments, and improved management strategies is clear.
At Visible, we’re working hard to help bridge this gap. Over the past year, we’ve made significant progress on this mission, but there’s still so much to do.
As we start the new year, I want to take a moment to share what we have planned for Visible in 2025 to keep moving things forward.
All-new Stability Score
Since launching Visible, we’ve built the largest dataset in the world on biometrics, symptoms, and crashes for complex illness. Over the past year, we’ve been diving into this data to develop a cutting-edge AI algorithm that predicts your susceptibility to crashes.
Our early work can be seen in our breakthrough research paper (currently in pre-print), written in collaboration with world-leading experts in complex illness and machine learning, including David Putrino from Mt Sinai and researchers from Yale, Oxford, Polybio and NYU.
We’re excited to bring this cutting edge science directly into the Visible app later this year.
Unlocking the power of Armband 2.0
A month ago we launched Visible Armband 2.0 in collaboration with Polar. This all-new hardware model is a massive step up in all areas. The updated device paves the way for huge improvements for Armband 2.0 members, and we’ll be rolling these out over the coming year, including:
Sleep tracking
Research has shown that sleep plays a huge role in chronic illness. While disrupted sleep is a common symptom of many conditions, it’s also an area where we have some control. We aim to bring you the best insights and guidance across three research-backed pillars impacting illness: sleep depth, sleep quality, and—perhaps less obviously—sleep consistency.
We expect to launch sleep tracking in beta in Q2 2025.
Automated Morning Stability Score
In addition, overnight data from Armband 2.0 enables us to measure HRV readings continuously and throughout the night. We will use this data to automate your morning stability score, so it’s ready for you as soon as you wake up—no manual action required.
You shouldn’t have to think about your illness a second more than you have to. This project is part of our drive to make Visible even more effortless. We plan to launch this feature after sleep tracking becomes available.
Expanding Research Partnerships
In 2024, we launched multiple partnerships with researchers around the world. In 2025, this momentum will continue, with more in-app research studies coming soon. Even more excitingly, we’re beginning to see results from our earliest studies.
Publishing peer-reviewed science takes a long time. We’re excited that three studies that we started 18 months ago are now in the process of being reviewed for publication later this year.
If you enrolled in a study, you’ll be the first to get the results once they’re published.
Smarter and Simpler: Our Focus for 2025
Our main focus for 2025 is to make Visible even more personalized to you, and even more effortless to use. By building more intelligent, automated algorithms and combining them with the latest hardware, we aim to provide you with the best tools possible to manage your health.
This will also enable us to continue collecting data that drives forward our understanding of these conditions. As always, you’ll be able to opt in to share your data with researchers too.
Finally, I want to give a huge thank you to all of our members. It’s only with your support and feedback that we can deliver on our mission. We listen (and respond) to every message you send us, and your feedback will continue to shape Visible. Please keep this going.
Over half of our team live with complex illnesses, and we couldn’t be more motivated to keep building and improving Visible — for all of us.
2025 will only bring more progress.
Onwards!
Harry
