Built out of a problem I couldn't ignore

The moment it became real

A few years ago, my father was diagnosed with hypertension and early-stage diabetes. Suddenly, every few months, he would come home from the clinic with a stack of lab reports — printed on different paper formats from different hospitals, in different cities, with different reference ranges printed in tiny type.

My mother has her own set of chronic conditions to manage: thyroid function, cholesterol, kidney markers. She's been collecting test results for over a decade. They sit in a drawer. Some are scanned and emailed to me as photos. Some I can't read because the scanner was too dark.

Every time a new result came in, I would try to compare it to the last one. Which direction is the creatinine trending? Was last quarter's HbA1c better or worse? Is this flagged value actually concerning, or is it within the lab's expected variation? I was manually scrolling through old photos, trying to hold numbers in my head.

And then there's my own health

My wife and I both run annual checkups — nothing alarming, just keeping track. But even "routine" results turn out to be surprisingly hard to manage over time. Which vitamin D reading was from which year? Did my LDL go up after I changed my diet, or was that the year I started exercising? Without a proper timeline, it's impossible to tell whether anything is actually improving.

I tried spreadsheets. I tried storing PDFs in folders. I tried one of the health apps that asks you to enter values manually, one field at a time. None of it stuck, because the friction of maintaining it always exceeded the benefit of using it.

The gap in the market

I went looking for a tool that could do what I needed: upload a photo or PDF of a lab report, automatically pull out the values, and show me a clean timeline. Something that worked with reports from Chinese hospitals and European clinics alike. Something I could use for my parents and for myself without setting up four separate accounts.

I found plenty of options — but none of them were quite right. The better-known apps are either US-centric (they assume your results come from specific lab networks), or they require you to enter everything manually, or they're designed for clinicians rather than for the people actually living with the health conditions. The apps that support multiple languages or multiple family members tend to be clunky, expensive, or both.

So I built my own.

What Kinmetry is

Kinmetry is an AI-powered health record organizer. You upload any lab report — a PDF from a hospital in Singapore, a photo of a Chinese blood test, a scan from a UK GP — and it automatically extracts every biomarker, stores it with the date, and builds a timeline you can actually read.

You can track multiple people under one account. You can ask the AI to explain a specific result in plain language. You can generate a structured summary to share with a doctor before an appointment. And you can see trends across months or years without scrolling through a pile of paper.

It's not a diagnostic tool. It doesn't tell you what to do. It just organizes what you already have — so that when you do talk to a doctor, you walk in with your history in order rather than a stack of photos on your phone.

Where it's going

Kinmetry is still early. I'm building it as a solo founder, mostly in the evenings and weekends, with the specific goal of making it useful for people in situations like mine — managing health records across multiple family members, multiple countries, and multiple languages, without access to a unified healthcare system that does any of this automatically.

I genuinely hope it helps. If you're using it to track a parent's diabetes markers, or to keep your own checkup history in order, or to prepare for a medical appointment in a country you just moved to — that's exactly who I built this for.