Your body speaks
in chemistry.
We help platforms
listen.
Cognara is the AI infrastructure layer that gives health and wellness platforms real-time, hyper-personalised nutrition intelligence — powered by continuous metabolic data, microbiome profiling, and a multi-omics AI model.
The problem we're solving
Nutrition science has been built on
population averages for decades.
That era is over.
One-size fits nobody
A landmark study that measured glucose responses to 46,898 meals in 800 people found high variability in the response to identical meals. Glycemic indices tell us nothing about individual biology.
Platforms lack the infrastructure
Every wellness platform wants to offer personalised nutrition. But building metabolic AI from scratch requires years of work and deep biology expertise most teams don't have.
Data exists. Intelligence doesn't.
CGMs, microbiome tests, wearables — the raw signals are everywhere. The missing piece is the AI model that fuses them into actionable, real-time nutrition guidance.
"The same meal can be medicine or
metabolic noise depending on your gut,
your genome, and what time it is.
Cognara knows the difference."
Cognara — The thesis
The cognara suite
Five intelligence
modules. One API.
Plug any or all modules into your existing platform. No data science team needed. Built for fast integration.
GlucoseIQ — Predictive Postprandial Modelling
Our flagship model predicts your user's glucose response to a specific meal before they eat it — using their personal CGM history, microbiome profile, and circadian state. No generic glycemic index. Pure biological precision.
MicrobiomeOS
Translates stool microbiome sequencing data from any lab partner into food compatibility scores and probiotic recommendations personalised to microbial composition.
CircadianTime
Optimises nutrient timing windows based on chronotype, HRV patterns, and cortisol proxy data. The right food at the right biological hour.
StressMetab
Adjusts daily macro and micro targets in real-time based on detected physiological stress via wearable HRV signals. Cortisol changes metabolism. Now your app knows.
PopulationIntel
Anonymised, consented cohort insights for food companies and insurers. Understand how different metabolic profiles respond to ingredients, formulations, and interventions at scale.
The market reality
The numbers behind
the urgency
People whose glucose responses to 46,898 meals were measured, showing high variability to identical meals
Each figure comes from the public source linked beneath it. They describe the market and the science, not Cognara results or customers.
Who we build for
Platforms that put
people first
Cognara is infrastructure. We power the intelligent nutrition layer inside the platforms your users already trust.
Corporate Wellness Platforms
Embed Cognara to deliver personalised nutrition programmes aimed at reducing metabolic healthcare costs.
Clinical Nutrition Software
EHR-integrated dietitian tools powered by Cognara's AI — real-time decision support that augments clinical expertise rather than replacing it.
Health Insurance Carriers
Preventive metabolic programmes aimed at reducing type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease claims.
Food & Beverage R&D
Replace focus groups with real metabolic response data. Understand how different consumer segments biologically respond to your formulations before launch.
Fitness & Longevity Apps
Consumer nutrition and longevity apps can use Cognara as their nutrition intelligence engine — avoiding years of data science investment.
Sports Nutrition Programmes
Elite team nutrition departments and high-performance coaching platforms. Real-time metabolic optimisation personalised to each athlete's biological state.
The technology
Seven signals.
One coherent
metabolic picture.
Our multi-omics AI model fuses data streams that are usually siloed — creating a dynamic, real-time biological portrait of each individual user.
The founder
Building at the
edge of biology
and intelligence.
Shriman Maheshwari is the founder and CEO of Cognara. He began building technical systems independently at 13 — starting with GPU mining operations, pivoting to Chia after independently reading the whitepaper, and by 14 was running live equity and crypto trading with custom API-based alert systems. He grew up watching his family's B2B distribution business run entirely on intuition — and spent years thinking about what happens when you give founders and operators real intelligence about their systems.
Cognara emerged from a simple observation: the human body is the most complex system we interact with, and we're making decisions about it with less data than we use to manage a supply chain. The tools to change that — CGMs, microbiome sequencing, multi-omics AI — have all matured at the same moment. Shriman's thesis is that the opportunity isn't a consumer app. It's the infrastructure layer that every health platform will eventually need.
B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science — BITS Pilani Goa Campus, with dual-degree track to CentraleSupélec, Paris (AI/ML specialisation, Years 3–4)
Junior Associate, 180 Degrees Consulting — BITS Goa chapter; consulting and strategy projects
Active in CEL BITS Goa — entrepreneurship & leadership community; building, not just studying
Originally from Mumbai. Deep roots in B2B enterprise distribution — the domain insight that shapes how Cognara thinks about platform sales and enterprise health buyers.
Questions
Frequently asked
questions
Straight answers about what Cognara is, which signals it uses and who it is built for.
What is Cognara?
Cognara is a metabolic intelligence API. It is an AI infrastructure layer that gives health and wellness platforms real-time, personalised nutrition intelligence, powered by continuous metabolic data, microbiome profiling and a multi-omics AI model.
What does the Cognara API do?
Cognara offers five intelligence modules through one API. GlucoseIQ predicts a user's glucose response to a specific meal before they eat it. MicrobiomeOS translates stool microbiome sequencing data into food compatibility scores and probiotic recommendations. CircadianTime optimises nutrient timing windows. StressMetab adjusts daily macro and micro targets from wearable HRV signals. PopulationIntel provides anonymised, consented cohort insights for food companies and insurers.
Who is Cognara built for?
Cognara is built for platforms rather than individual consumers: corporate wellness platforms, clinical nutrition software, health insurance carriers, food and beverage R&D teams, fitness and longevity apps, and sports nutrition programmes.
Which data signals does Cognara use?
Cognara's multi-omics AI model fuses seven signals: continuous glucose monitoring, gut microbiome profiling, wearable HRV and recovery data, genetic markers, circadian and sleep patterns, food log and nutritional intake, and biomarker lab results such as HbA1c, lipid panels, CRP and insulin markers.
Is Cognara a consumer nutrition app?
No. Cognara is B2B and API-first. It is infrastructure that powers the nutrition intelligence layer inside the platforms your users already trust, so a platform does not have to build metabolic AI from scratch.
Why does personalised nutrition matter?
A landmark study that measured glucose responses to 46,898 meals in 800 people found high variability in the response to identical meals (Zeevi et al., Cell, 2015). Cognara is built on the premise that nutrition guidance should reflect individual biology, not population averages.
How can a platform get access to Cognara?
Request early API access with the form on this page or by emailing operations@cognara.space. Cognara is onboarding a small cohort of platform partners who want to shape the product alongside the team, and the conversation is with the founder directly.
Who founded Cognara?
Cognara was founded by Shriman Maheshwari, Founder and CEO. He is pursuing a B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science at BITS Pilani Goa Campus, with a dual-degree track to CentraleSupélec, Paris.
Ready to give your platform
a metabolic brain?
Request early API access. We're onboarding a small cohort of platform partners who want to shape the product alongside us.
No spam. No pressure. A conversation with the founder, directly.
Prefer email? Write to operations@cognara.space