Something has changed. Valora helps you keep track of what.

I was surprised by how often women described being unprepared for perimenopause, uncertain about what was happening in their bodies, or frustrated by how difficult it was to explain months of symptoms during a short medical appointment.

I was also struck by how little many men—including me at first—understood about perimenopause. Some of the men I spoke with had never even heard the word. That gap was difficult to ignore.

While building Valora, I repeatedly tested it from the user’s side: logging simulated symptoms, watching patterns develop, and reading the reports it produced. I knew the data was not real, but the process still changed how I understood the problem. It made the uncertainty, the work of paying attention, and the frustration of having to defend your own experience much harder to dismiss.

Valora is being built around a simple boundary: it should help women preserve and understand their own history without pretending to diagnose them, counsel them, or speak over them. Its job is to notice carefully, organize honestly, and make room for the user’s own voice.

I can build the technology, but the women using Valora will determine whether it is accurate, useful, and worth trusting. I am accountable for listening, protecting what users share, explaining the product’s limits honestly, and changing it when their experience shows that I got something wrong.

I also want credible menopause resources and recognized clinician directories to be easier to find. Valora will not claim to vet or endorse individual doctors, but it can make it easier to find a better place to start.