Our Mission
Every woman deserves to walk into her appointment already understood.
SOLAIA exists because too many women leave doctor's appointments feeling dismissed, confused, or invisible. Not because their symptoms aren't real. Because the medical system wasn't designed to hear them the way they speak.
We built SOLAIA to close that gap. When a woman can walk into an appointment with her experience already translated into clinical language, the whole conversation changes. She doesn't have to fight to be taken seriously. She already is.
But this is bigger than any one appointment. The long-term mission of SOLAIA is to contribute to women's health research. The data gap that causes dismissal in the exam room starts long before that. Women have been underrepresented in clinical research for decades. We want to be part of changing that.
A portion of all SOLAIA revenue goes directly to women's health research. Because the work of being believed shouldn't end at the doctor's office.
Founded in Los Angeles · Built for women who are done being dismissed
I spent sixteen years thinking I was the problem.
I'm Lindsey. I'm 25, from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's at nine years old.
Nobody explained what that meant. They handed me Synthroid and sent me home. For the next sixteen years, I thought the exhaustion, the brain fog, the weight I couldn't lose. I thought that was just me. I thought I was lazy.
I wasn't lazy. I was sick. And nobody gave me the language to say that.
I saw four endocrinologists in two years. Each one said some version of the same thing: your labs are in range, your symptoms are just part of your disease. The last one told me my weight gain and chronic fatigue were just something I'd have to live with, and moved on.
I cried in my car for hours. I was exhausted from not being believed. All I wanted was for someone to hear me.
That was the moment SOLAIA started.
I built SOLAIA because I learned the hard way.
What I figured out too late is that it was never about whether my symptoms were real. It was about how I communicated them.
Doctors are trained to process information in a specific format: chief concern, symptom timeline, relevant history, specific ask. When a patient says "I just feel terrible all the time," even a good doctor doesn't know where to start. But when that same patient hands over a one-page brief, the entire conversation changes.
SOLAIA is the tool I wish I'd had at every appointment for sixteen years. It takes what you've been trying to explain and puts it in the format your doctor is trained to read. Not because your words aren't enough. Because the system wasn't built to listen to them.
This is for the woman sitting in the parking lot after an appointment, wondering if she's crazy. For anyone who has Googled symptoms at 2am because her doctor said everything was fine and she knows it's not. You're not exaggerating. You're not dramatic. You've just been speaking the wrong language.
I'm here to translate.
Lindsey Perez, Founder of SOLAIA
UCLA '23 · Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
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