What is Remi: a membership for diabetes, high blood pressure, and weight in Mexico

Remi is a monthly membership in Mexico for people with diabetes, high blood pressure, or weight problems. For a single fee, it brings together an AI companion on WhatsApp, doctors, medication delivered to your home, and connected devices. It starts with a free diagnosis at your home.

I'm building it from scratch, in public. It doesn't have members or a price yet. This page explains what it will be, how it starts, why I chose it, and what's still missing. I update it as things move forward.

What the membership includes

Today, someone with a chronic illness has to get everything separately. Remi brings it together for one monthly fee:

1. An AI companion on WhatsApp. For day-to-day follow-up, where people already are.
2. Remi doctors and specialists. People, not just AI.
3. Medication delivered to your home.
4. Connected devices to measure what needs measuring.

What each tier includes and how much it costs is exactly what I'm defining now.

How it starts: a doctor at your home

Everything starts with a free diagnosis at your home.

My original plan was a kit you'd do yourself. I talked to a doctor and it's not possible: home tests aren't accepted as a diagnosis.

So the diagnosis is done by a doctor who comes to your home, at no cost. That visit pays for itself when the person subscribes.

The full story: Why Remi's diagnosis is done by a doctor at your home, not a kit.

Why I chose Remi

I spent four or five months choosing what to build. I started with 112 ideas. I cut it down to 7. Then to 4, modeling what each one would need to reach a million dollars in EBITDA. And then to 2.

The final round was between a collections company and Remi. The collections company needed more than 2,000 business clients. Remi won for three reasons:

• I think I can grow faster selling to people than to companies.
• The problem is interesting and can help a lot of people.
• It's a real pain. People need to solve it today, not someday.

The full process: From 112 ideas to 7 and Collections or diabetes: why I chose to build Remi.

Where it stands

Remi's plan has five steps:

1. Choose the company. Done.
2. Architecture. Done: how the business and operations work end to end.
3. Tech and legal. Working on this now.
4. The real structure. Taking it from paper to reality.
5. First members. The first customer and the first peso.

On the legal and regulatory side, I already have a team: a law firm for legal and a consultancy for COFEPRIS. I wrote about it in Remi and COFEPRIS. I also filed Remi's trademark registrations.

And I'm putting together the Medical Board: specialists in diabetology and endocrinology, nutrition, cardiology, and internal medicine.

What's still not defined

• The price of each membership.
• The date the first member joins.

When they're set, they'll show up first on the Remi page and in the Tuesday newsletter.