We began this journey in mid-June with just four people: just enough to fit into a proverbial VW Evra hippie bus.

Then, every month or two, someone else climbed in. An engineer. An advisor. Another builder. Another believer.

Somehow, that bus is now carrying a very comfortable 13.

And if you listen to the video closely, you may notice another musical nod — this version is a cover by Jerry Garcia (lead singer of the Grateful Dead).

In a way, we managed to conjure him for one last song.

The Grateful Dead got their name after the band abandoned its original name, The Warlocks. Garcia reportedly opened a dictionary and landed on grateful dead, a phrase tied to a folk myth found across cultures: a traveler helps someone who has died by paying a debt or ensuring a proper burial, and later that spirit returns to help the traveler in a moment of need.

It is a story about gratitude, reciprocity, and not fearing death.

That feels strangely fitting for a healthcare company.

Evra exists to reduce the risk of early death from chronic disease. But it also exists to help people live more fully while they are here.

The Dead were counterculture. Startups often are, too, especially in health.

Perhaps the clearest example is Apple. From the beginning, Apple positioned itself against the dominant culture, crystallized in its iconic 1984 Super Bowl ad. It stood for the idea that the best products merge art and technology, logic and beauty, head and heart.

That has always resonated with me.

Healthcare today is too often broken, bureaucratic, and antiquated. AI and technology can become a disruptive force for good, not by making healthcare colder or more mechanical, but by making it more intelligent, elegant, and human-centered.

People often ask whether Evra has a personality.

It does not.

Its voice (which you can hear in coach mode) is intentionally androgynous. Some people hear it as male; others hear it as female.

But if Evra did have a personality, I think it would have the heart of a hippie and the brain of a medical savant.

It wants to help you understand what you need to know — and what you want to know — about your health.

But it doesn’t want to keep you trapped inside the app.

It wants you to get the guidance you need, review your labs and stats, refill your prescriptions, check in with your community, order or scan your meals, maybe do a short breathing reset…

…and then close it.

And go outside.

And go dance.

And go play.

Because health gives you more time to play, and more capacity to play hard.

Evra launches in two weeks.

App Store + Google Play
Free tier • Premium • Student pricing

Evra hallucinates less than most models.

But every now and then, it does seem to trip a little (usually when there is an exceptionally good guitar solo involved).

Jerry Garcia’s guitar has a way of inducing interesting states. It may be the one thing that can reliably get Evra to come out and play.

So, watch the demo all the way to the end.

Sit back. Groove a little.

And maybe let us know (founders@evrahealth.com) if we should bring the Evra VW van out for a ’26 Summer of Health Tour? 🙂

To health (& peace) for all. We can’t wait for you to try Evra for yourself very soon.

Amitha