New AI companion tool helps track Parkinson’s symptoms, guide care
App analyzes real-time data to offer guidance on symptoms, meds, routines
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- Rune Labs’ StrivePD Guardian is an AI tool designed for people with Parkinson’s.
- It uses an Apple Watch and app to track symptoms and provide personalized guidance.
- The system offers real-time support for symptoms, medications, and care management.
Rune Labs has launched StrivePD Guardian, a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) companion tool that helps people with Parkinson’s disease track symptoms and receive support.
The system, which pairs the StrivePD app with an Apple Watch, uses extensive real-world clinical data, including wearable-derived data and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared symptom algorithms. It provides AI chat access that delivers guidance on symptoms, medications, daily activities, and care.
AI companion offers real-time guidance for Parkinson’s symptoms
StrivePD Guardian can be downloaded from the App Store, while existing users can upgrade within the app.
“With StrivePD Guardian, we designed a conversational interface grounded in years of clinical and real-world data collected from users,” William Newby, vice president of product and strategy at Rune Labs, said in a company press release. “Because StrivePD Guardian is trained on our continuous wearable datasets, it can interpret ‘off times’ and dyskinesia with a level of precision that general-purpose AI models simply cannot achieve. We’re connecting abstract symptoms with objective physiological patterns.”
Parkinson’s is caused by the progressive dysfunction and death of nerve cells that produce dopamine, a signaling molecule involved in motor control. Loss of dopamine leads to motor symptoms, such as slowed movements, tremors, rigidity, and problems with balance and walking.
Off episodes occur when symptoms return between doses as medications wear off, while dyskinesia refers to uncontrolled, involuntary movements, which can develop with long-term use of levodopa, a mainstay treatment for Parkinson’s.
StrivePD app tracks symptoms, medications, and daily activity
StrivePD is care companion app designed for people with Parkinson’s disease. The app allows users to track and manually log symptoms, set medication reminders, learn from activity patterns, and connect with care teams. When paired with the StrivePD Apple Watch app, detailed symptom information is automatically logged and can be used to support clinicians and care coordination.
StrivePD Guardian is available as an upgrade within the app and offers personalized, real-time monitoring of symptoms and daily routines, helping guide users on symptoms, medications, and care goals.
“People with Parkinson’s live with symptoms that change hour-to-hour,” Amy Franzen, CEO of Rune Labs, said. “StrivePD Guardian provides support in those moments, translating continuous symptom changes into clearer understanding, better management, and more productive clinical visits.”
In an earlier version of the program, the system combined AI-based technology with data on symptoms, medication, and activities, and paired it with dedicated coaches familiar with each patient’s disease journey.
That earlier service combined human coaching with AI-driven insights. The current version builds on those capabilities to provide guidance on symptoms, medications, daily experiences, and care goals.
System provides tools to track symptoms, routines, and care goals
It offers specialized tools, including interpretation of symptom trends and fluctuations using wearable-derived data and user-reported inputs, as well as education on medication use, side effects, and their impact on symptom control and quality of life.
It also provides evidence-based support for routines and goal-setting, a reflective diary for symptom and emotional tracking, and data visualization and analysis that present collected data as easy-to-understand insights.
The system learns from symptom data, medication tracking, chats, diary entries, and care goals, becoming more helpful over time. This enables more personalized support without adding burden to patients or care teams.
“It’s like having a conversation with my own StrivePD data. The monthly AI reports help me step back and see the bigger picture, and the StrivePD Guardian chat helps me day to day. I can ask questions, get quick answers, all grounded in what I’ve logged,” said Kevin K., a StrivePD Guardian user. “I’ve asked it to review my many unique symptoms and their fluctuations and trends, and prepare me for what to discuss with my clinician.”
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