A companion between appointments
Gabriel is a personalised digital companion for people living with chronic dizziness, vestibular migraine and related conditions - designed to support the daily work of recovery, not just record that you feel unwell.
Gabriel supports you alongside your clinicians. It doesn’t diagnose or treat medical conditions, and it isn’t a substitute for medical advice.
Living with it
Chronic dizziness rarely stays in the clinic. It can reach into walking down the street, a trip to the supermarket, travelling, exercising, a full day at work, and hours in front of a screen. Over time it can quietly wear away at social life, confidence and independence.
And recovery is rarely a straight line. There are good days and bad days, progress and setbacks, and long stretches where you’re managing mostly on your own - trying to work out whether to push through or rest, and whether anything is actually helping.
Who it’s for
Dizziness isn’t one condition. Gabriel is being designed for the overlapping conditions that share the same daily reality - the world no longer feeling reliably still.
A chronic, non-spinning dizziness and unsteadiness that’s worse standing, moving, or in busy visual places.
Often begins after another trigger - an inner-ear illness, a migraine, or a period of intense anxiety - and is maintained by the balance system staying “on guard”.
Common experiences: rocking or swaying, unsteadiness, worse on screens and in supermarkets, better lying down.
Episodes of vertigo or dizziness linked to migraine - with or without headache.
One of the most common causes of recurring vertigo. Attacks can last minutes to days and are often provoked by stress, poor sleep, hormones or certain foods.
Common experiences: dizziness with light or sound sensitivity, motion sensitivity, sometimes headache.
A persistent feeling of rocking or swaying that lingers after travel - as if you’re still on a boat.
Often follows a cruise, flight or long drive. Distinctively, the sensation can ease while moving again (like driving) and return once you stop.
Common experiences: rocking, bobbing, swaying, imbalance, fatigue, brain fog.
Unsteadiness and dizziness associated with neck pain or stiffness.
Thought to arise when signals from the neck and the balance system don’t line up. It’s a diagnosis of exclusion and can be difficult to pin down, so clinical assessment matters.
Common experiences: dizziness with neck pain or movement, unsteadiness, sometimes after whiplash.
Dizziness set off by busy or moving visual scenes - traffic, crowds, patterns, scrolling.
A core feature of several vestibular conditions, reflecting an over-reliance on vision for balance. Gradual, guided exposure is a recognised way to rebuild tolerance.
Common experiences: discomfort in supermarkets, on screens, in crowds or in cars.
Brief, intense spinning triggered by head movements - rolling over, looking up.
The most common cause of vertigo, caused by tiny inner-ear crystals moving out of place. It’s highly treatable with repositioning manoeuvres done by a clinician - and can recur.
Common experiences: short spinning spells with position changes, often on waking.
Symptoms overlap, and several of these conditions can occur together or be mistaken for one another. Only a qualified healthcare professional can diagnose what’s happening for you - Gabriel is designed to support you after that, not to diagnose.
The gap
Your clinician can assess you, diagnose you and give you a plan. The hard part is often what comes next: following that plan, adapting it to real life, understanding setbacks, and staying consistent for months.
Recovery mostly happens at home, every day. That’s the stretch Gabriel is built for.
This isn’t about clinicians doing anything wrong - good care is essential, and vestibular rehabilitation, migraine management and repositioning treatments genuinely help. It’s about the long space in between, where most people are left to manage alone.
What Gabriel does
Not another symptom tracker. Gabriel is being built to turn tracking into understanding - and understanding into a daily, adaptable plan.
Log episodes, symptoms, triggers and environments in a way that’s quick - and doesn’t turn into anxious over-monitoring.
See the patterns over time - what tends to help, what tends to set you back - instead of guessing in the moment.
Build an evolving picture of your own experience, so support adapts to you rather than a generic checklist.
Follow structured, guided exercises and gradual exposure - with a clear answer to “is this dizziness expected?”.
See progress over weeks and months - not just today’s score - and take a simple summary to your next appointment.
Steady support through setbacks and difficult days, so a bad week doesn’t undo months of effort.
Grounded in research
We’re not inventing testimonials for a product that hasn’t launched. Instead, these are recurring themes from clinical research and patient communities - the things people living with vestibular conditions say again and again.
Research insights, paraphrased from the clinical literature and patient communities. Not individual testimonials.
“I can get through the appointment. It’s the other six days that are hard.”Research insight · the between-appointments gap
“I was given exercises, but I never knew if I was doing them right - or if feeling dizzy meant I should stop.”Research insight · home-exercise adherence
“I track everything, but I still don’t know what to actually do with it.”Research insight · tracking without action
“The hardest part is staying consistent when progress is so slow and setbacks feel like starting over.”Research insight · staying the course
Why we’re building this
“I know what it feels like to search for answers at 2am, track every symptom, wonder whether a setback means you’re getting worse, and try to navigate recovery while still trying to live your life.”
Gabriel is being built by a technical founder and former senior software engineer at Visa, who lived with chronic vestibular symptoms - and spent more than a year unable to work because of them.
Through that, the gap became obvious: the appointments mattered, but so much of recovery happened alone, at home, every day, with very little to hold onto in between. The existing options felt fragmented - a tracker here, a set of exercises there, a video somewhere else. Gabriel is an attempt to build the steady, joined-up companion that was missing.
Early access
Join the waitlist to help shape Gabriel and get early access when it’s ready. We’ll only email you about early access and the occasional question to guide what we build.
Gabriel is designed to support people alongside professional healthcare. It does not diagnose or treat medical conditions and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always speak to a qualified healthcare professional about your symptoms, and don’t change or stop any prescribed treatment based on an app.
Seek urgent medical care if dizziness comes on suddenly and severely, or with symptoms such as a severe or unusual headache, slurred speech, weakness or numbness, double vision, difficulty walking, fainting, chest pain, or new hearing loss. These can be signs of something serious and need prompt assessment.
Questions
No. Gabriel is designed to support you alongside professional healthcare - helping you understand patterns, follow and adapt a plan, and stay consistent. It isn’t a medical device, and it doesn’t provide medical advice or treatment.
No. Only a qualified healthcare professional can diagnose your condition. These conditions overlap and can be mistaken for one another, which is exactly why diagnosis needs proper clinical assessment. Gabriel is designed to help after diagnosis, not to replace it.
No - it’s meant to complement it. Vestibular rehabilitation is effective, but a lot of it happens at home between appointments, where support and consistency are hard. Gabriel is designed to help you follow and stick with the plan your clinician gives you, not to substitute for their care.
We’re still building, and we’re shaping the product around the people on our waitlist. Join the list and we’ll keep you posted - and give you early access before general release.
We’re focusing on the common, overlapping causes of chronic dizziness: PPPD, vestibular migraine, MdDS, cervicogenic dizziness, motion and visual sensitivity, and BPPV. Which we support first will partly depend on what the waitlist tells us people need most.
We plan to use personalisation to adapt support to your individual experience over time. Any AI is there to help tailor and organise your support - never to diagnose you or replace your clinicians. We’ll be clear and careful about what it does and doesn’t do.
We take this seriously and will only ask for what’s genuinely useful. We use what you share to provide and improve your support, and we don’t sell your information. We’ll publish full, plain-English privacy details before launch so you can decide with the facts in front of you.