# Founder Quotes: ready for attribution

> Drafted from Austin's own founder story (autonomic.care). Read them once and
> tweak anything that doesn't sound like you, because a journalist may quote them
> verbatim. None of them promise recovery.

Attribute as: **Austin Spaeth, founder of Autonomic** (or just "Austin, founder
of Autonomic" to match how you sign everywhere else).

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### On why it exists

> "I saw specialist after specialist in cardiology and neurology, and kept leaving
> with no real answers. So I started tracking everything myself: HRV, blood
> pressure, sleep, the days I crashed. Slowly the patterns showed up. Autonomic is
> the tool I built to make sense of my own recovery."

### On the privacy architecture (the reporter's favorite)

> "Other health apps promise not to sell your data. Autonomic can't. There's no
> account, no server, and no tracking, so the numbers never leave your phone. For
> people already anxious about who sees their health data, that's the whole point."

### On honesty / no false hope

> "I'm not healed, and I won't pretend otherwise. The app doesn't promise
> recovery. It shows you honestly what's helping and what's hurting. That's what I
> needed, so that's what I built."

### On the measurement rigor (vs. the black box)

> "A noisy reading should tell you it's noisy, not invent a number. Every metric
> is graded against published thresholds, out in the open, so a good day and a
> warning sign don't look the same."

### On who it's for (patient-founder)

> "I'm not a doctor or an expert. I'm someone on this road: four years of long
> COVID, six kids, figuring out my recovery one reading at a time. I built the app
> I wished I'd had when I was getting no answers."

### On the business model (pre-empts the "selling to the sick" fight)

> "It's one person and a subscription, no investor, no data to sell. That's
> exactly why the app has no reason to touch your data. It's free to use, and
> there's a hardship path for anyone who needs it."
