Our story
No one should have to carry their health story alone.
Chrysalis is a patient advocacy and care management app for people living with chronic and invisible illness. It started with one patient who was tired of retelling his story, and a decade of listening to people doing the same.
Where it started
Brent has lived with chronic illness for more than twenty years.
“I know what it feels like to be fogged, exhausted, dismissed, and still expected to explain years of complexity in a short appointment.”
For more than two decades, Brent carried his own history from practitioner to practitioner: symptoms, labs, timelines, what helped, what made things worse, and the parts that never fit an intake form. He built Metabolic Me in 2009, and in 2013 co-founded Lyme Less Live More to support Lyme and invisible-illness patients in the long stretches between doctor visits.
He heard the same thing for years. People wanted to be heard, they were tired of retelling their story, and they were too depleted to use tools that added more work.
How it became a company
Brittany has spent a decade in expert-led education.
She was President and COO of a global digital education company that grew from $1M to $12M in annual recurring revenue. Her graduate research is on consent, ownership and agency in digital systems.
Together they started Chrysalis around a simple belief: the person who lives the story should hold it, decide who sees it, and never have to rebuild it from scratch.
Why Chrysalis
From the outside, it looks like nothing is happening inside a chrysalis.
It's where the real change takes place, out of sight. That's what living with an invisible illness is like: the work is constant, and almost none of it shows. We named the company for that stage, and for what comes after it.
How we got here
- Metabolic Me
Brent's first personalized health education platform for practitioners and patients.
- Lyme Less Live More
A decade of educating and supporting Lyme and invisible-illness patients between doctor visits.
- Chrysalis is founded
A private, portable place for a person's own story, built to work with any AI.
- Four patent applications filed for ethical AI infrastructure
From recursive identity memory to consent-based memory portability and personalized AI, our foundational technologies are designed to safeguard private information and proprietary knowledge while keeping users in control of what they share with AI.
- Proven where the bar is highest
To fund the build, we brought our platform inside two Fortune 500 companies. It meant building to their standard for privacy and security from the start.
- Back to where it began
When HHS opened a national sprint on AI and invisible illness, during Lyme Awareness Month, we came home to health. We were TOPx Phase 1 winners of the AI + Invisible Illness track and one of 15 teams selected for the 12-week tech sprint building with HHS.
- Public launch
A free, invitation-only beta first, then Chrysalis opens one cohort at a time.
How we build
Every feature traces back to something a patient, caregiver or practitioner told us.
You decide who sees it and for how long, and you can take it back.
People and their care teams make the decisions. Chrysalis helps them see the whole picture.
Conventional, functional, dietary or behavioral. We track what helps, without ranking how people get there.
The people behind it
Two decades architecting AI and data platforms at Capital One, PayPal, eBay, Ancestry and PwC, including systems serving 2.5 million public servants.
Founder and CEO of BioInsights, an AI platform for functional medicine. Built a certified EHR acquired by Allscripts.
Co-founder of CenterX with successful exit. Healthcare enterprise, national e-prescribing infrastructure, and platform scaling.
Chrysalis at a glance
- Company
- Chrysalis AE Inc.
- What it is
- A patient advocacy and care management app for people with chronic and invisible illness
- Who it's for
- People living with chronic and invisible illness, their caregivers, and the practitioners and educators who support them
- Founded
- 2025
- Founders
- Brent Martin, Founder & Chief Architect
Brittany Martin, President & Co-Founder - Headquarters
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Website
- chrysalis.inc
- Status
- Free, invitation-only beta. Public launch in early 2027.
- Pricing
- Free during the beta, then a monthly membership offered in cohorts
- Your data
- You own your record and decide who sees it, and for how long.
- Security
- SOC 2 certification and HIPAA compliance expected November 2026
- Recognition
- Phase 1 winner of the HHS TOPx Tech Sprint on AI & Invisible Illness, 2026
- Contact
- chrysalis@chrysalis.inc
Questions people ask about Chrysalis
Is Chrysalis a medical provider?
No. Chrysalis helps you and your care team see the whole picture, so the decisions stay with you and the people you trust.
How is it different from a patient portal?
A portal belongs to one health system and shows what that system recorded. Chrysalis belongs to you. It holds what you track between visits and goes with you to every practitioner you see.
How is it different from asking an AI chatbot?
A chatbot keeps your history inside its own account. Chrysalis keeps it in a record you own, organized around your case, and you decide which tools and which people can read it.
Who owns my information?
You do. You choose who sees it and for how long, and you can take access back at any time.
When can I use it?
We're opening a free, invitation-only beta first, then launching publicly in early 2027. Join the waitlist to get an invitation.
Get involved
Or write to us at chrysalis@chrysalis.inc