What is a Medication Companion? Coaching that keeps patients on the drug.
A Medication Companion coaches patients through the side effects that make them quit, with nutrition, fitness, sleep and stress plans built for the drug they take. Telehealth, pharmacies and pharma brands offer it under their own brand.
Weeks 2–12
When most patients quit: side effects peak before the benefit shows
88%1
Of GLP-1 cash pay patients stop within a year
10
Drug categories, one product, a playbook for each
- 1. Rodriguez PJ et al., JAMA Network Open, January 2025 (125,474 US adults).
Patients don't quit because
the drug failed.
They quit because it felt bad first. The pattern is the same for GLP-1s, hormones, antidepressants and statins: dropout clusters in the first weeks, before the drug can prove itself.
Start
First dose
Benefit
Starts to show
8%
of GLP-1 patients still on therapy at three years
Prime Therapeutics, June 2025
53%
of new statin users stop within two years
Penning-van Beest et al., Eur Heart J, 2007
~20%
of metformin patients get a gut side effect
Nabrdalik et al., Front Endocrinol, 2022
3 mo
for menopause hormone therapy side effects to settle
NHS, Side effects of HRT
Coached patients
stay on the drug.
Pharmacy-claims-confirmed GLP-1 persistence, against the largest real-world study available. That gap is the business case.
Without coaching
46%
still on their GLP-1 at 12 months (125,474 US adults).
+21
points
With coaching
67%
still on their GLP-1 at 12 months in a published coaching program.
With coaching, more GLP-1 patients are still on therapy at 12 months: 67% vs 46% when insurance pays, 40% vs 12% when patients pay cash. We bring the same effect to any qualifying drug, through any channel, at software cost.
Sources: Rodriguez PJ et al., JAMA Network Open, January 2025. Omada Health, Eucalyptus and Second Nature.
A daily plan written
for the drug.
An app with an AI coach for every patient and, on the premium plan, a human health coach and fitness coach. It eases the side effects and builds the habits prescribers ask for.
01
Persistence
Patients stay on the medication.
The drug only delivers value while they keep taking it.
02
Side effects
Patients manage their side effects.
The coaching help ease the side effects and build the habits prescribers ask for.
03
Quality of life
Patients feel better.
Side effects are predictable, and daily habits help with each.
Six protocols,
not two.
Most programs coach food and exercise. Sleep, stress and supplements are often skipped, and they decide whether patients keep up the rest.
- Nutrition
- Fitness
- Supplements
- Sleep
- Stress
- Lifestyle
Personal to each patient.
Intake answers, shared labs and symptoms tailor the plan and screen out anything unsuitable. It never diagnoses; medical questions go to the prescriber.
Coaches supplied.
Health and fitness coaches already trained on the drug's protocols. Nobody for you to hire, credential or manage.
AI or human, your call.
AI Coaching in every US state. AI + Human Coaching in most. The AI coach is not a doctor, dietitian or therapist.
You get the retention.
The patient buys the coaching.
Most channels don't absorb the cost. They sell the companion alongside the drug as a paid add-on.
Telehealth and pharmacies
The patient, as an optional coaching plan or as an embedded AI coach in the GLP-1 subscription.
At checkout, at the counter or in the app.
Pharma brands
The pharma brand.
Inside the patient-support program, or offered to every pharmacy and platform selling the drug.
Ten categories.
One product.
One companion, configured per drug. A patient on a GLP-1 and a statin, or metformin and hormones, gets one plan where the protocols reinforce each other.
- 01Live
- 02Next
- 03Next
- 04
Non-GLP-1 weight loss drugs
- 05
Antidepressants
- 06
Longevity prescriptions
- 07
Dermatology
- 08
Fertility
- 09
Statins
- 10
Metformin
Managed for you,
or built on our API.
The same GLP-1 medication companion runs underneath both. The only choice is who runs it.
Option 01
TeraRx Managed
Managed Solution
We host the technology and provide the coaches. You launch under your brand.
- Health and fitness coaches supplied and managed by us
- Turnkey and white-labeled
- Live in weeks, not a multi-year build
Option 02
TeraRx API & SDK
Build It Yourself
License the engine and build GLP-1 coaching into your own product and apps.
- Clinical Reasoning Engine and Protocol Builders
- Access by API and SDK
- Your own coaches, or ours as staffing
Clinical AI your team
can sign off on.
Built to clear your compliance, legal and clinical reviews.
How our AI stays safeClinically reviewed
Rules signed off by clinicians.
Licensed dietitians sign off every food and supplement rule. Our clinical lead, a Medical Doctor, approves the rest.
Rule-based
AI explains. It doesn't invent.
Plans come from rules with peer-reviewed citations. AI never writes rules or adds advice of its own. Every change is logged.
Lifestyle only
Your prescriber keeps the drug.
Coaching covers food, exercise, sleep and side effects. Dosing, labs and risk always go back to the prescriber.
Rules build the plan. Clinicians sign off the rules. AI explains it. Coaches help patients follow it.
Bring a Medication Companion
to your patients.
See how it would run under your brand, for the drugs you already prescribe or dispense.