How the Almanac Advisor Works: AI That Knows Your Stack

Most AI health tools are glorified search engines. You ask a question, they give you a Wikipedia-quality answer. The Almanac Advisor is different: it knows your entire supplement protocol, your compliance history, your outcomes, your biology, and your goals. Every answer is personalised.

Here's how it actually works.

Full personal context, every conversation

When you open a conversation with the Almanac Advisor, the AI already has access to:

• Your complete active stack: every supplement, form, dose, and time block
• 14 days of compliance data: which supplements you confirmed, assumed, or skipped, with week-over-week trends
• Your daily outcome scores: energy, sleep quality, mood, focus, stress, and overall well-being with trend arrows
• Health data: steps, sleep hours, resting heart rate, HRV (from Apple Health or manual entry)
• Supplement interactions: the top conflicts and synergies in your stack, ranked by severity with evidence grades
• Bloodwork: any out-of-range values flagged
• Your bio profile: sex, age, weight, hormonal status, medications, genetic variants, chronotype, stress level, and health concerns
• Correlation data: what the correlation engine has found about which supplements affect your outcomes
• Outstanding recommendations: what the advisor suggested before and whether you acted on it

This isn't a chatbot that starts fresh every time. It remembers across conversations and follows up on its own suggestions.

One-tap Quick Actions

When the Almanac Advisor recommends a change to your stack, it doesn't just tell you what to do. It generates a one-tap action you can apply immediately.

These Quick Actions include:

• Add a supplement: advisor suggests a new supplement with dose, form, and timing, matched against the catalogue
• Remove a supplement: if something isn't working or is redundant
• Change timing: move a supplement to a different time block
• Adjust dose: increase or decrease based on your response data
• Start a trial: test removing a supplement for a set period to see if outcomes change

Each Quick Action appears as a colour-coded card below the advisor's response. One tap to apply, one tap to dismiss. No manual data entry.

Dynamic conversation starters

The advisor doesn't wait for you to ask questions. Based on your actual data, it generates contextual conversation starters like:

• "Your sleep quality dropped 18% this week. Want to look at what changed?"
• "You've been skipping your evening magnesium. Should we adjust the timing?"
• "Your compliance streak hit 14 days. Want to optimise your stack further?"
• "Your bloodwork shows low vitamin D. Let's discuss dosing."

These prompts are generated from real data triggers, not generic templates.

Safety built in

The advisor has a multi-layer safety system:

Hard refusals: It will never provide advice on medication dosing, pregnancy supplementation without disclaimers, diagnosing conditions, treating children, or making disease claims.

Interaction validation: Every time the AI mentions a supplement interaction, a secondary AI model cross-references it against the interaction database. Novel claims are flagged.

Medical disclaimers: Every response includes a reminder that the advisor is not a replacement for medical advice.

Consent gate: First-time users must acknowledge two screens of disclaimers before accessing the advisor.

Powered by Claude

The Almanac Advisor runs on Anthropic's Claude models:

• Claude Sonnet for most conversations: fast, accurate, cost-effective
• Claude Opus for deep analysis: bloodwork interpretation, complex interaction questions, protocol overhauls

Free users get 5 Sonnet messages per day. Pro users get 30 Sonnet + 5 Opus messages per day.

What makes it different from ChatGPT

You could ask ChatGPT about supplements and get a decent answer. But it doesn't know:

• What you're actually taking right now
• Whether you've been consistent
• How your sleep changed after adding magnesium
• That you have an MTHFR variant and should avoid folic acid
• That you're on levothyroxine and need to space certain supplements

The Almanac Advisor does. That context is the difference between generic advice and personalised guidance.