Your labs, your Apple Health export, your after-visit summaries, read honestly by an AI, on a private cloud computer that wipes itself when you close it.
Almost everyone has a stack of health information — bloodwork, an Apple Health export, an after-visit summary — and no calm way to look at it all at once. The obvious tools carry a privacy cost: chatbots keep your labs on someone else's server forever, and a truly HIPAA-compliant app is too expensive and legally heavy for almost any consumer product to be one.
The Wellness Brief is different. It's not an app — it's a notebook you copy, running on a temporary cloud computer you control, with an AI model that lives only inside it. Close the tab and it all disappears: files, model, conversation. No server, no account, no database, no me.
Opens in a new tab. You'll make a private copy before running anything — instructions are on the first screen.
Colab is a free Google product that gives you a temporary cloud computer inside your browser. Think of it as a rental car: click a button and you get a real machine with a powerful graphics card (a GPU) for a few hours; when you're done, anything you uploaded is wiped. Nothing to install — if you can open Gmail, you can open Colab. The notebook is just a document with code blocks you run by clicking play.
Ollama is a free program that runs AI models on a single computer instead of a giant data center. The model here (Qwen3) is like ChatGPT but runs locally — the only computer that sees your prompt is the one Ollama is on. On your temporary Colab computer, it talks to the AI while you talk to it; nothing ever leaves that rental car.
Truly HIPAA-compliant health software is a five- to six-figure undertaking before it does anything useful — encrypted databases, business associate agreements, audited infrastructure. That cost is why most "AI health" products are either expensive subscriptions or quietly logging your data. I didn't want to build either.
Putting the tool in your hands skips the whole problem. The data never lands on my infrastructure because I don't have any — you run it on Google's free GPU, close the tab, and the only place your health story existed is a machine that no longer exists.
Click the launch button above. Nothing to install — Colab loads in your browser.
Top-left menu: File → Save a copy in Drive. Close the original tab; now you're working in a private copy only you can see.
Top menu: Runtime → Change runtime type → T4 GPU → Save. Without it, replies take 30+ minutes instead of seconds.
Click the ▶ button on the big code cell. The first run installs Ollama, downloads the model, and warms up — typically 3–5 minutes. Just leave the tab open and come back.
When the upload widget appears, drop in whatever you'd like analyzed — a bloodwork PDF, an Apple Health export, a lab printout. The notebook reads them, gives an analysis, answers follow-ups, and produces a print-ready report for your physician.
That's the cleanup. When the runtime ends, the files, model, and conversation are gone. Next time, re-open your copy and press play.
Colab is the easiest way to try this, but the same idea works on your own laptop. On a reasonably modern machine — especially one with a discrete GPU — running it locally means it never even touches Google's hardware.
ollama pull qwen3:8b — the same model the notebook uses. A few gigabytes, once.
ollama run qwen3:8b to paste lab values, describe symptoms, or ask follow-ups. For a friendlier interface, pair Ollama with a free app like Open WebUI or Msty.
No install. Free GPU. Boots in a few minutes, disappears when you close the tab. Best to try right now without touching your computer.
One-time install. Runs forever, never uses anyone else's hardware. Best if you want a permanent local setup you can use offline.
Every part of The Wellness Brief runs inside the temporary Colab session you control. The AI model and document reader execute on Colab's GPU and CPU — no outbound API calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, or anyone else, including me. Files land in the session's /content/ folder and are deleted when the runtime ends. No database, no server, no account. For the strongest guarantee, follow the desktop steps above and the data never leaves your house.
Open the notebook, make your copy, switch on the GPU, and press play. Five minutes from now you'll be talking to your own data.
Not medical advice. The Wellness Brief helps you understand your records and walk into your next appointment prepared. It does not replace a clinician, diagnosis, or treatment plan — read its report alongside your physician, not instead of one.