Aequus

Equitable health is an information problem before it is a technology problem.

Aequus is an AI-native health technology company. We build the trusted context and intelligence layer that helps health information move from source to decision: from regulated product information and global health infrastructure to clinical workflows, patients, populations and research.

  1. 01Source
  2. 02Context
  3. 03Action
What we offer
TrueSourceLive

One GS1 code, the right answer for whoever is holding it.

  • PatientsThe approved leaflet for that exact pack
  • Pharmacies and hospitalsA recalled batch or a suspected counterfeit
  • CliniciansPrescribing and dosing information
  • Care teamsAn authenticated gate, records never public

GS1 Digital Link · the codes already printed on the pack

01Purpose

What we are for

MissionTurn fragmented health and product information into trusted, contextual intelligence that people and organizations can act on across the healthcare ecosystem.
VisionA healthcare ecosystem where trusted information moves with context from source to decision, so every person and organization can act with confidence.
ThesisEquitable health depends on three things held together: information that is trustworthy and usable, data that carries its meaning, and systems designed with every side at once.

02The cost

Why now

Health information loses its value as it moves across fragmented systems. The cost is measurable.

$451B
Estimated annual US cost of racial and ethnic health disparities.
$30.5B
Spent each year on substandard and falsified medical products.
€9.6B
EU pharmaceutical sales lost to counterfeits every year.
4.5B
People not fully covered by essential health services.
11M
Projected global shortfall of health workers by 2030.

Sources: NIMHD, WHO, EUIPO, WHO and World Bank. Each figure stands alone; they are not summed.

Where information breaks

SourceIs the information authentic, approved and traceable to a credible source?
ContextDoes it carry the provenance, population, place and purpose needed to read it correctly?
WorkflowDoes it arrive where decisions are made, or become one more disconnected destination?
SystemDoes solving it for one stakeholder shift the burden onto another?

03Offering

TrueSource

Our main offering · Live

One GS1 DataMatrix code, the right answer for whoever is holding it. TrueSource is a fully managed resolver for regulated product information, built on the GS1 Digital Link standard. Every scan of a product, batch, serial or patient code goes to the verified destination for that code and for the person scanning it.

Every route carries compliance, security, content integrity and accountability built in. Each manufacturer or hospital runs its own isolated tenant, with its own data, keys, rules and audit trail, and signs in with its own identity provider. It works with the codes already printed on the pack, so nothing on the line changes.

What a scan does

Patients

A phone camera opens the approved leaflet for that exact pack, with nothing to install.

Pharmacies and hospitals

A scan flags a recalled batch, a suspected counterfeit or a serial that does not match its batch.

Clinicians

Provider links open prescribing and dosing information meant for professionals.

Care teams

A patient wristband scan goes through an authenticated gate. Patient records are never public.

How it is offered

Built on GS1Follows the GS1 Digital Link standard and works alongside manufacturer-run and third-party resolvers.
Manufacturer resolverA TrueSource-hosted resolver and services, run for each manufacturer in its own isolated tenant.
Premium assuranceCompliance, cyber defense, content integrity, geographic controls, analytics and support.
ServicesClinical labeling, document generation, patient-friendly content, evaluation and human-factors work.

04Clinical AI

Halo

One secure fabric, four applications.

A secure, standards-based clinical AI platform that extends the record rather than replacing it, bringing context to the point where care is decided. TrueSource proves the thesis closer to the source. Halo proves it closer to care.

Alpha
Halo Companion

For patients. Guidance grounded in their own record, in their own language.

In development
Halo Beacon

For population health. Proactive risk stratification and care-gap closure between visits.

In development
Halo Bridge

For community. Culturally fit care and social-needs follow-through from clinic to community.

In development
Halo Prism

For research. Privacy-preserving cohort discovery and governed research access.

05Products

Alongside it

What is live today and what is on its way.

AQ RepoApproved medicine leaflets and public device documents in one repository, searched and answered from the source text.Live
VerifyCatches the errors health AI makes quietly, traces each one to the source document, and publishes how often it catches them.Beta
Prior Auth EnginePayer criteria checked one by one against the clinical summary, with a ready-to-submit request letter.Beta
EngineHospital feeds turned into verified FHIR, with cross-site patient matching.In development

06Proof

Measured, not claimed

From our own test runs on held-out cases, August and September 2026.

100%
Precision. Every error Verify flags is a real error, with zero false alarms.
Verify · held-out cases
99.4%
Mean table coverage across verified leaflet records in AQ Repo.
AQ Repo · 212 records
3
Markets: the Gulf, Switzerland and the United States.
Abu Dhabi · Basel · Washington, D.C.

Errors caught on held-out cases, the ones a model quietly gets wrong.

07Principles

What we hold to

Principles guide how we behave. Pillars decide what we build, and what we refuse to.

Compassion and equityBreakthroughs should reach underserved communities first, not last. Equity is a design constraint, not a downstream feature.
Trust and transparencyGovernance, auditability and verifiable lineage are how trust is earned in clinical and regulated settings.
Human-centricAI inside the human workflow, not outside it. It supports judgment and capacity, and never replaces accountability.
Local capabilityWe build with local talent and institutions, so the work leaves lasting capability rather than dependency.

The three pillars

01
Information

Can people trust and use what they are given? Credible source, accurate content, relevant meaning, timely delivery.

02
Data with context

Does the data carry what it means? Provenance, population, place, point of care, purpose, versioning and audit.

03
Systems approach

Who does this serve, and who helped design it? Solving one problem must not shift the burden onto someone else.

Every solution has to answer all three. If it only answers one, we do not build it.

08Story

Our story

Built from shared work, then a shared conviction.

  1. At Google

    The co-founders worked across Google health and cloud, bringing complementary perspectives in clinical strategy, health equity, policy and technology.

  2. A shared project

    Their paths converged on a Harvard-connected project supporting a Google Cloud client and a real health-system challenge.

  3. Aequus takes shape

    After leaving Google, they came together around one conviction: build a company with equity, integrity, context and measurable value at the forefront.

09People

Our team

Our team has worked and studied at

  • HARVARD
  • Google
  • YouTube
  • COLUMBIA
  • Pfizer
Kiran Dattani
Kiran Dattani
Co-founder & Chief Executive
MBA MPH · Formerly Google, health and cloud

Health policy innovator leveraging augmented intelligence to eliminate health disparities and cure our fractured care systems.

Magdala Chery
Magdala Chery
Co-founder & Clinical Strategy
DO MBS MPH · Formerly Google, health and cloud

“I have spent my career across clinical care, policy, and health technology. In the pandemic, I watched all three fail my own family, and I could name every place it broke. Now I do something about it.”

Krishi Dattani
Krishi Dattani
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Formerly Columbia, Cal Poly · Clinical and physical AI startup founder

“I build the technology that carries trusted health information into as many systems, workflows and hands as possible, because equitable access is the whole point.”

10Markets

Where we work

Three markets we work in.