Max Williamson
| Max Williamson | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, startup founder |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-Founder and CEO of Aidy (Y Combinator W24) |
Max Williamson is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Aidy, a mobile application designed to help people manage chronic health conditions. Aidy was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch.[1]
Career
Before founding Aidy, Williamson held several roles in public health, policy, and government. In 2020, he served as a Special Projects Manager at New Castle County, Delaware government. In 2021, he was a Foreign Policy Legislative Fellow at the United States Senate. That same year, he began work as a Data Engineer at HCP Cureblindness. From 2022 to 2023, Williamson worked on the Health Team at The Rockefeller Foundation, eventually serving as Senior Associate for AI Partnerships and Strategy. During his time at the Rockefeller Foundation and the United States Senate, Williamson worked on public health policy and COVID-19 response. He has been recognized as a 2021 Truman Scholar.
Williamson co-founded Aidy alongside Peter Crocker, who serves as the company's CTO, and Gregory Miller. The company is based in San Francisco and operates in the consumer health services and digital health sectors.[1]
Aidy is a mobile application that helps users manage chronic health conditions, with an initial focus on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The app allows users to log symptoms, diet, and treatments, then employs clinical indices to track disease severity and trends over time. It uses pattern recognition to identify relationships between diet, treatment adherence, and symptoms, providing users with a comprehensive view of their condition to supplement clinician care. Features include food tracking through photos or descriptions, symptom logging, treatment reminders for pills, injections, and infusions, trend analysis, physician-friendly report exports, and personalized educational content about the user's condition.[2]
According to the founders, the idea for Aidy emerged after a friend with IBD insisted that no adequate apps existed to help people live with the disease. The team discovered that large language models combined with structured questionnaire responses could enable a level of patient empowerment not previously possible for chronic disease management.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Aidy – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ "Aidy". 'Aidy}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.