Progress & Collaborations

Building the evidence. Building the partnerships.

VBuddies is progressing from working technology and early user validation towards research partnerships, clinical evidence and health-system adoption.

We are developing the company alongside researchers, health and care professionals, and people with lived experience to ensure the technology is relevant, responsible and designed for real-world use.

Progress to date

Momentum across technology, users and research.

Technology

Working product developed and moving through iterative user testing.

Users

10+ early users have participated in product testing and feedback.

Research

Scientific and academic expertise established around the programme.

Healthcare

Early discussions underway around research, pilots and future pathway integration.

IP

Patent-pending technology and registered VBuddies brand protection in place.

Next milestone

Structured pilot and validation partnerships.

Scientific & clinical advisors

Credible scientists guiding the approach.

Named academic and clinical advisers are working with VBuddies to guide development across cognitive ageing, autobiographical memory, healthcare AI, quality and regulation.

Dr Helena Gellersen

External Cognitive Advisor

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Research expertise in cognitive ageing and early dementia assessment.

Professor Louis Renoult

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

University of East Anglia

Research expertise in autobiographical memory, ageing and cognition.

Additional research, clinical and technical relationships are being developed as the evidence programme progresses.

Building with health and care

Engaging where longitudinal cognitive information could add value.

VBuddies is engaging with health, care and community organisations to explore where longitudinal cognitive information could add value within existing pathways.

Healthcare

Exploring how repeated cognitive information could complement assessment, review and ongoing management.

Care & community

Gathering practical feedback on usability, engagement and person-centred relevance.

Research

Developing the partnerships and study designs required for structured validation.

Next milestone

Structured pilot & validation partnerships.

A focused route from working technology to evidence, partnerships and adoption — not simply more users.

Pilot partnerships

Structured pilots with health, care or research organisations.

Letters of support

Evidence that prospective partners see a relevant use case and value proposition.

Research collaborations

Joint work that strengthens scientific validity and future clinical evidence.

Clinical pathway evidence

Real-world learning on how longitudinal cognitive intelligence can fit within care pathways.

From working technology to evidence, partnerships and adoption.