What it takes
Cost estimate
Every module below maps to something you clicked in the prototype. Press ⌘K on any screen to see which line it belongs to.
Two ways in
The core loop only — onboarding, consent, check-in, BP capture with Bluetooth, trends, first-generation insights, crisis path, and a minimal admin console. Enough to put in front of real members and find out whether they log for thirty days.
No risk score, no experiments, no monthly report, no health-platform sync, no cohort analytics. Those are the things worth building after you know people show up.
Everything in this prototype: the complete member app, the insight engine with confidence gating, risk score, experiments, monthly reports, HealthKit and Health Connect, the full admin console, and POPIA/GDPR compliance tooling.
This is what the brief describes, and what we would recommend if the intent is to launch commercially rather than to test the concept.
Line by line
| Module | Scope item | MVP hours | MVP cost | Pilot hours | Pilot cost |
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Assumptions
Not included
- Cloud hosting
- Estimated USD 900–1,600 per month at 8,000 members, billed at cost
- Third-party services
- Push, SMS OTP, error tracking, map/geocoding — at cost
- App store fees
- USD 99/year Apple, USD 25 once Google, on your accounts
- Validated cuffs
- Hardware procurement for testing and any member programme
- Clinical advisory
- Your reviewing clinician's time
- Content translation
- isiZulu and Afrikaans are costed in Phase 2
- Regulatory submission
- SaMD pathway is Phase 3, costed separately
- Contingency
- We recommend holding 12% against change requests. It is not included in the figures above