About auro — building clinical nutrition software the way it should have been built

Registered dietitians do some of the most concrete work in healthcare. A meal plan that holds; a pattern caught early; a habit changed for the next forty years. Most other clinical specialties have native, fast, dignified software. Dietitians have a portal, a PDF builder, a video conferencing tab, and three browsers open at once.

auro is what happens when you decide that's not acceptable. We're building one native Mac app for the dietitian and one native iPhone app for the patient, and we're doing it with the same care you'd expect from the apps you actually love using.

We started with a single practice — Nutrient Rich Life in Texas — and we'll grow with practices that look like them. Solo RDs. Small clinical teams. People who care about getting it right more than they care about getting it big.

What we believe

Four convictions, held tightly.

Native, not Electron.

A dietitian opens their tools dozens of times a day. A Mac app that cold-starts in 80ms compounds. A web portal that takes 4 seconds to load a chart compounds too — the other way. We chose Swift on both ends because the gap matters.

AI as a second set of eyes, not a replacement.

auro uses Claude to draft PES statements, summarize a month of intake, and parse food photos. The RD always sees the input, the output, and the option to edit. We never auto-publish anything the dietitian hasn't reviewed.

Privacy at the database, not in the app.

Postgres row-level security enforces every read. A bug in the Mac or iPhone client cannot leak data that belongs to another practice — the database refuses. HIPAA isn't a checkbox on a marketing page; it's the architecture.

Grow with the practice, not past it.

We're not racing to be a billion-dollar wellness platform. We're racing to be the tool dietitians actually open at 8am, every day, for the rest of their careers. Different game, different metrics, different software.

The team

A small team building for a specific person.

auro Health is two founders in Austin, Texas, with a clinical advisor in Amanda Malone, RD — owner of Nutrient Rich Life, our first practice. Amanda has practiced for 14 years and has opinions about every piece of software dietetics has ever asked her to use. auro is, in large part, what those opinions look like when you actually listen.