LeanShield™ for Insurers · PMI & payers

You're paying for the weight loss.
We protect the outcome.

GLP-1s are moving into private medical cover — and the cheapest claim is the one that never comes back. LeanShield™ keeps covered lives losing weight muscle-safely: members use consumer apps they'd choose anyway, and you see the cohort picture — safe-pace rates, risk mix, trend — built for outcomes-based contracts and long-term risk models. Never individual data.

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👥 1,000,000+ users across our apps 🔬 Clinical RCT in design · University of Cambridge 🛡️ Patent-pending LeanShield™ score 🔒 Aggregate only · never premium pricing
The hidden liability

The scales improve.
The claims curve doesn't.

Weight-loss medication delivers the number on the scale. What it doesn't manage is what the weight is made of — and that's where the long-term claims live.

40%Up to 40% of the weight lost on GLP-1s can be lean mass — muscle, organ and connective tissue: the engine of mobility, recovery and healthy ageing.
7/10Around 7 in 10 people who start GLP-1s stop within a year — and regained weight comes back with a worse fat-to-muscle ratio. The second course costs more than the first.
49The average member joins LeanShield scoring 49 out of 100 — a level our data associates with 30–40% of weight loss coming from lean mass.

Lost muscle doesn't show up at renewal. It shows up years later — as frailty, falls, fractures and the slow claims that never close.

How it works

A benefit your members want.
A signal your actuaries can use.

01

Members get the apps

ParrotPal or Turtle Method — award-winning consumer apps on iPhone and Android, offered as a covered benefit. Voice-first logging, so engagement holds beyond week two. No IT integration required.

02

LeanShield protects the outcome

Every member gets a real-time 1–100 muscle-safety score, nudges on protein, pace and recovery — and workouts prescribed automatically to raise the score. Muscle-safe weight loss, by design.

03

You see the cohort

An aggregate dashboard across covered lives: safe-pace rates, risk-band mix, GLP-1 cohort trends. Built for outcomes-based contracts and long-term risk models — never individual member data.

The insurer view

Is the weight loss you're funding
safe? Now it's a number.

Cohort-level, continuously updated, board-ready — the outcome layer for the medication you already cover.

The line we don't cross

Cohorts, not customers.

Members own their accounts and their data. You see populations — never people. The LeanShield score is never shared at individual level and never used to price an individual's premium. That boundary is structural, audited and public — because a health benefit only works if members trust it. The full picture is on our Trust & security page.

Why LeanShield

The same engine clinics run.

Cambridge science

Built in scientific collaboration with Professor Nick Wareham, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Metabolic Science — with a randomised controlled trial in design, measured by hospital-grade body scans.

Already in clinical use

Heracles Health clinicians see every client's live muscle-safety score in their dashboards. HYVE, one of Wales' largest independent gyms, is rolling LeanShield out to 2,000+ members.

Engagement that holds

Over a million users across our award-winning apps, 4.7★ on the App Store — and a logging experience effortless enough that the data is still flowing at month six, when most wellness benefits have gone quiet.

+50%Average LeanShield score improvement across all members enrolled, in the first 30 days — movement your cohort dashboard sees as it happens.
Founding cohort

Founding insurer pilots
are being scoped now.

A pilot is one defined population, one agreed outcome measure, one quarterly aggregate report — designed with your clinical and pricing teams, with our DPIA pack ready for your DPO on day one.

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Your members are already on the medication. The only question is whether the outcome is protected.