Insights
Insights.
Notes from inside the build: the science of routine, the product, and the people making Kata. Easy, accessible, personalized health, told plainly.
We are building Kata
A note before the doors on where we are, what is going live, and what comes next. The calm kind of momentum.
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Inside Kata: the coach, the memory, the privacy
What Kata is, why it is built the way it is, and how the coach, the lock-in cards and local-first privacy fit together.
Why Kata: easy, accessible, personal
The case for Kata in three words, and why taking away any one of them makes the other two fail.
How much water do you really need?
Not necessarily eight glasses, and not only water. What the official numbers say, why your coffee counts, and the simplest signs that you are doing fine.
Mind: something short to do when the day gets loud
Kata's Mind area starts with something to do rather than something to fill in. How it works, why the practices are short, and what stays on your phone.
Switzerland's new health dossier: what the vote means for you
The National Council has backed an electronic health dossier that every resident would get by default unless they say no. What is in the bill, what is still open, and how it differs from a health app on your phone.
Your watch now scores your readiness. Here is how to read it
Apple's new watch measures heart rate variability far more often and turns it into a daily readiness score. What HRV is, what a score can and cannot tell you, and how to use one without being ruled by it.
Same time to bed, same time up: why regular sleep matters
How long you sleep matters, and a growing body of research suggests that how steady your sleep is may matter just as much. What the large studies found, and what they cannot tell you.
How much protein do you actually need?
Less than social media suggests, and often more than people eat once they train or get older. What the official numbers and the research say, in plain terms.
Talk to Kata: walking through your day by voice
Voice logging is not a novelty. It removes the last of the friction, and friction is where daily health breaks.
From 2 August, an AI has to tell you it is one
The EU AI Act now applies in general, and its simplest rule is the one you will notice first: when you talk to an AI, you have to be told. What changed, what was postponed, and what it means for health apps.
The science of routine: why repetition, ease and personalization change health
A research-grade look at the mechanisms behind daily health: circadian timing, habit formation, friction and adherence, framed honestly.
AI health assistants are arriving: ask where your data goes
In one week, two of the biggest names in tech opened AI health assistants to millions of people in the US. Before you connect your records to anything like them, here are the questions worth asking.
The founders behind Kata
How Mégane's day, too many apps and her husband Roman's one place turned into Kata, first for her, then for friends and family, now for everyone.