The most important decisions impacting your health don’t happen in a doctor’s office or a lab. They happen years before that.
I know this personally. As a child who struggled with his weight, exercise felt like punishment more than possibility. Finding strength training during high school changed that. It became something I genuinely loved, and it’s been a near-daily part of my life ever since. That experience shaped how I think about health. The version of me that found the gym early had a very different road ahead than the version that didn’t.
I’ve worked in data across finance, agriculture, and biotech, and the problems that have always pulled me in are the ones with tangible human impact. Most recently I worked in cancer research, building data tools that give researchers a clearer picture of how diseases evolve and react to treatment. That work matters enormously, but it sits at the end of a long road that starts with the choices people make years earlier.
Everfit is the start of that road. It is where someone decides to hire a coach, start a program, and take their health seriously before they are forced to. That’s the intervention I want to be part of building.
Two sides of the same mission
What I love about Everfit is that there are two sets of people we’re trying to help, and their goals are deeply connected.
Coaches come to Everfit to build businesses around something they believe in. They have expertise, they have clients, and they need the tools and insights to grow sustainably. Data plays a real role here: understanding what drives retention, helping coaches make smarter decisions about how they spend their time, and surfacing the moments that matter most to their clients.
On the other side are those clients, people working to improve their health, often for the first time. For them, data is less about business metrics and more about momentum: seeing progress, staying accountable, and understanding what’s actually working.
Getting both of those things right, at scale, is exactly the difficult and interesting problem I want to work on solving.
What’s ahead
Everfit is already a powerful platform. My focus is on making it smarter, so that the right information reaches the right person at the right time. Better intelligence for coaches, clearer feedback for clients, and AI that fits naturally into how people actually work rather than getting in their way.
The mission here is real. Helping people build their health before they ever need to walk into a doctor’s office is work worth showing up for every day, and I’m excited to be part of building it.
— David Howell, Data Scientist
