The Privacy-First Algorithms Big Tech Did Not Want Me to Build

At Amazon, I learned how big tech uses data: collect everything, store it forever, and monetize it through advertising and recommendations. That model works for e-commerce. It is catastrophically wrong for healthcare. Here is why I built OpenMyPro with a fundamentally different approach to data and algorithms.

When a patient searches for a therapist on OpenMyPro, they are sharing deeply personal information. Their mental health concerns, their location, their budget constraints, their treatment preferences. In big tech's model, that data would be vacuumed up, stored indefinitely, combined with other data sources, and used to sell advertising. In healthcare, that approach is not just unethical — it is illegal under HIPAA and deeply harmful to patient trust.

The Big Tech Data Model