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BodyAudit full-stack health platform

Case Study

BodyAudit

BodyAudit is a full-stack health platform built to bring advanced biomarker testing and personalized health insights directly to users' homes. We partnered with the BodyAudit team to bring their vision to life with a data-driven brand identity, third-party integrations, and analytical AI models.

Updated July 2026

In the details

The highlights

50+ screens, headless Shopify, third-party API integrations

504 hours

8 months

Fully enabled desktop app, marketing page, and social media share screens

FHIR adapter for lab results, with kits ordered without customer data touching the store

BodyAudit brand imagery
BodyAudit
A laptop shows the BodyAudit marketing site landing page

1) The vision

Three BodyAudit screens on iPads showing the dashboard and biomarkers list

BodyAudit turns complex health data into clear, actionable insights, showing users a full picture of their overall health. At its core, BodyAudit set out to create a platform that evolves alongside its users throughout their lifetime, offering deep insight, convenience, and personalized care.

Thousands of dollars less expensive than seeing the doctor.

BodyAudit is a preventive health platform offering users at-home biomarker testing, wearable data integrations, and a personalized AI-powered health dashboard.

A MacBook screen showing the Lifestyle category report and two iPhones showing Instagram stories with BodyAudit Ages and Health Scores

In practice, that meant creating an interface that:

  • Displays proprietary BodyAudit Age and Health Scores with overviews and key action items for improvements
  • Groups biomarkers into meaningful categories to help users easily track progress and focus their efforts
  • Enables effortless social sharing to foster community and engagement
  • Runs as a headless, full-stack implementation built on Shopify, Recharge, and third-party lab APIs
  • Delivers AI-powered analytics, summaries, explanations, and recommendations
  • Includes robust platform features for subscription management, engagement, and retention

2) The design

Two iPad screens showing category breakdowns and overall status reports

The BodyAudit team described their product as minimal, modern, visual, and approachable, never intimidating or overwhelming. With those principles as our guide, we developed a crisp, data-driven brand identity that blends simple design with a distinctly tech-forward aesthetic. The green and yellow palette plays on intuitive color theory to signal positive and negative trends, while the mix of sans-serif and monospaced fonts reinforces BodyAudit’s promise: empowering users to understand and improve their health through clarity, not clutter.

Key design features include:

  • Flexible data views: Complementary category and list layouts for biomarkers and recommended actions let users explore their data however they prefer.
  • Concise, actionable summaries: Reports distill individual biomarkers into clear insights and next steps.
  • Visual depth: A variety of charts from shadcn/ui provide multiple ways to interpret trends and track progress.
  • Streamlined subscriptions: Simplified payment and shipping flows include options to fast-track a panel, skip a shipment, or manage preferences, all powered by Recharge integrations.

To cap it off, we designed shareable social screens for Instagram and other platforms that let users proudly showcase their BodyAudit Age and Health Scores with their community.

3) The development

A MacBook screen showing a section of the BodyAudit landing page that says 'take control of your health'

To bring the BodyAudit experience to life, our engineering team built a custom headless architecture that combines Shopify for e-commerce and authentication with a flexible backend designed to integrate seamlessly with third-party lab APIs. The platform manages the entire journey, from kit purchase and registration to data ingestion and result visualization, through one unified dashboard grounded in the new brand identity.

Built for scalability, the underlying architecture supports future AI coaching, predictive insights, and additional partner integrations without major redevelopment. The result is a robust, adaptable foundation that powers BodyAudit’s vision for personalized, lifelong health intelligence.

Where the health data goes

Lab results do not arrive as a tidy list. They come back in FHIR, the format hospitals and labs use to pass clinical records between systems, so we wrote an adapter that reads it and a sandbox pipeline to test against before a real result ever reached the product.

The ordering path got the same care. Test kits are ordered without the customer’s personal details passing through the store, so the commerce platform never holds health information it has no reason to hold.

The model changed while we were building it

BodyAudit started as one test covering more than 45 biomarkers. Partway through the build it became three smaller panels of about twenty markers each, taken in rotation, so a subscriber fills in their whole profile over a few months and then keeps cycling to keep it current.

That is a different dashboard. Someone who has taken one panel is holding a third of the picture, so the categories they have not reached yet sit behind a frosted panel with a lock on it, and each one carries a button to ship that test now.

Your body. Amplified.

BodyAudit is the data-driven path to better health. Track, measure, plan, and more with AI-powered insights and advanced data visualization to deliver a deeper, science-driven view of health.

Frequently asked questions

BodyAudit lets users order at-home biomarker test kits, sync data from their wearable devices, and view results through a personalized AI-powered health dashboard. The dashboard displays a proprietary BodyAudit Age and Health Score, grouping individual biomarkers into meaningful health categories with overviews, trend charts, and specific action items for improvement. AI-powered analytics generate summaries, explanations, and recommendations based on a user's actual data rather than generic health advice. The platform also supports subscription management through Recharge integration, so users can manage recurring kit orders, skip shipments, or adjust preferences without leaving the app. Social sharing screens let users share their BodyAudit Age and Health Score on Instagram and other platforms. The checkout and subscription flows handle the full journey from kit purchase and registration through data ingestion and result visualization in one unified experience. HQ built the platform end to end, including design, development, brand identity, and all third-party integrations, in 504 hours across eight months.

The BodyAudit platform runs on a custom headless architecture that HQ built to handle the full journey from kit purchase to health data visualization in one unified system. Shopify handles e-commerce and authentication, giving BodyAudit a stable and proven foundation for product sales without requiring a custom checkout implementation. Recharge manages subscription logistics, including recurring kit orders, shipment skipping, and preference management. Third-party lab APIs handle data ingestion, pulling biomarker results from testing partners into the BodyAudit system automatically after a kit is processed. All of those data sources surface through a single unified dashboard built on BodyAudit's brand identity. HQ designed the architecture with future scalability in mind, supporting additional AI coaching features, predictive health insights, and new lab partner integrations without requiring major redevelopment of the core platform. The design system uses shadcn/ui charts to present biomarker trends in multiple visual formats, giving users more than one way to interpret their health data over time.

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