RitAI
An AI health assistant for patients and caregivers
In 2024 I lost my mother, Rita, to a rare genetic condition called Caroli disease. For seventeen years it was treated as an ordinary case of polycystic kidney disease — PKD is an effect of Caroli, and the disease underneath it stayed hidden. By the time we had the full diagnosis in 2022, it was too late.
That journey taught me how hard it is to track rare symptoms and make sense of dense medical paperwork. RitAI is named after her, and it is built for the position we were in: upload the reports, the PDFs and the diagnostic images themselves — not a search box — and get them synthesised into something organised and actionable.
It is not a substitute for clinical judgment, and it doesn't pretend to be. The point is to turn online searching into appointment prepping: to give someone the vocabulary and the confidence to advocate for their own health alongside their doctor.
It now shows, as well as tells. A 3D anatomy viewer covers seventeen body parts and 132 conditions, 61 of them rare, each one scrubbed on a slider from healthy to end-stage, in plain language or at clinical depth. An assessment that names a condition opens it on the organ it affects.
Rita's journey was defined by a search for answers. RitAI is my way of making sure those answers are within reach for everyone else.