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Inform Is Now Free. Here's Why That Matters.

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We've spent 12 years building a reliable health data infrastructure at enterprise scale. Today, we're making it accessible to everyone. The next great health application might come from a funded startup, a hospital innovation lab, or someone with an idea and a weekend. We want to be the reason the data layer isn't what stops them.

Starting today, people can sign up for Inform at no cost. No contract. No credit card. No sales call.

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The free tier includes cloud-based device integrations, a normalized API, a developer sandbox for simulating data from any device in our catalog, and full documentation. Sign up, your account is provisioned automatically, and you're making API calls in minutes.

The goal is simple: the first step of building with health data should be writing code, not navigating a procurement process.

Why This Matters

Integrating personal health data into an application has never been a small ask.

You’re looking at device fragmentation across hundreds of manufacturers, each with its own data format and SDK. You’re looking at the overhead of HIPAA compliance. You’re looking at the ongoing operational cost of maintaining integrations as firmware updates ship, APIs change, and new devices enter the market. And you’re doing all of this before you’ve written a single line of the product you actually want to build.

That’s been the cost of entry for developers working with health data. And for too long, it’s been the reason great ideas don’t make it to production.

We built Validic to solve that problem for enterprise health systems and health plans. We’ve spent over a decade normalizing data from 700+ devices into a single standard so that organizations running remote care programs at scale don’t have to manage the infrastructure themselves. It works. It's been working for twelve years.

Inform abstracts all of it. What you get on the other side is clean, normalized health data you can actually build on.

But the developers building the next wave of health applications, solo builders, small teams, and AI-native startups, have largely been locked out of that same infrastructure. Until now.

Why Validic

Every device in our ecosystem, whether it's an Omron blood pressure cuff, a Dexcom CGM, a WHOOP, or a Garmin, feeds into a single normalized API. Same endpoints. Same data format. You don't build an integration per device. You build against one API and the device landscape disappears.

In the free tier, you'll get access to our Fitbit, Garmin, Strava, and Whoop integrations, so you can get started with data from real devices. This includes streaming connections for real-time data delivery and REST APIs for user management and data retrieval.

The developer dashboard lets you simulate data from any device in the catalog, so you can build and test against realistic health data without owning every piece of hardware you’re integrating.

When you're ready to ship to real users, the infrastructure scales with you. The platform has processed more than 25 billion data points in real time across 20 million connected lives. The top U.S. health organizations run production workloads on it every day.

What Gets Built When the Data Layer Is Handled

We've watched developers build on Inform for over a decade. The pattern is consistent: when you remove the data infrastructure burden, people don't just build the same things faster. They build things they wouldn't have attempted.

A two-person startup builds a cardiac rehab monitoring app in weeks rather than months because they're not writing the Omron and Withings integrations from scratch. A hospital innovation team prototypes a readmission risk model with real wearable data in weeks, not quarters. A solo developer builds a fitness coaching app for their community that pulls from Garmin and Whoop without touching a single device SDK.

That's what we're excited about. Not the infrastructure. The things that get built on top of it when the infrastructure just works.

Get Started

You can sign up and start building today. The free tier gives you cloud-based integrations, your developer account, and full API docs. When you need HIPAA, BLE and cellular devices, production SLAs, or enterprise configuration, we're ready for that conversation.

Start building: https://validic.com/inform-signup/

This is the first step, not the last. We're building toward a world where an agent can discover, connect, and work with health device data as naturally as it reads a file. Today, we're opening the door. What you build through it is up to you.

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See how Validic can work for your organization — or start building on the platform today.