A diagnosis that
changed everything.
And an app born from what came after.
In 2025, Clinton — a 45-year-old Type 1 diabetic — was rushed into hospital with severe diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). What followed was six days in hospital, a Type 1 diagnosis, and a journey he describes as overwhelming, isolating, and completely life-altering.
The hospital was helpful while he was there. But the day he was discharged, the support largely disappeared. Clinton went home to his family with a new condition, new medication, and an enormous number of unanswered questions. Appointments were weeks away. His diabetes care team were hard to reach. The internet gave him information overload rather than clarity.
As someone who understood the potential of AI, Clinton saw an opportunity — not just to build a better glucose tracker, but to build something genuinely different. An AI that remembered your conversations. That checked in on you. That knew your medications, your patterns, and your goals. Something that could sit in your pocket and be there whenever the doctors weren't.
He also noticed something that alarmed him during his diagnosis: the role that food plays in blood sugar management, and how little most people understand about what's actually in the food they eat every day. The hidden sugars. The misleading labels. The ultra-processed ingredients hiding behind complicated names. GlyBeat addresses this head-on — with food scanning, AI carb estimation, and a knowledge engine that can explain exactly what you're eating and why it matters.
Clinton built GlyBeat for himself. And for his family, who live alongside this condition with him. And for the 537 million people worldwide who deserve an AI companion that genuinely understands what it means to live with diabetes — one that learns, remembers, and never stops improving.