{"id":161041,"date":"2025-11-26T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161041\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:43:07","slug":"are-you-balding-theres-an-ai-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161041\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you balding? There\u2019s an AI for that"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Cyriac Lefort<\/a>,<\/a> the idea for his new startup, MyHair AI, came two years ago.\u00a0\u00a0The French native was sitting in a hair salon in New York getting a routine haircut when his hairdresser looked at him and said, \u201cYou\u2019re starting to lose a bit of hair,\u201d Lefort, who is 32, recalls being told.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t say that to my friend sitting next to me, just to me,\u201d Lefort continued. \u201cIn my mind, I wasn\u2019t balding, and I still don\u2019t think I am. But when someone tells you you\u2019re losing your hair, you buy whatever they suggest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, he bought the shampoo the hairdresser suggested and left thinking that anyone could sell a man anything by telling him that he\u2019s losing his hair. \u201cHair loss is such an emotional topic for men and women,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

That interaction sent him down a rabbit hole where he discovered how confusing the hair loss industry is, with so much misinformation and clinics with unverified reviews. (He later went to a hair doctor who told him he was, in fact, not balding.)<\/p>\n

Lefort wanted to create a product that, using AI, would help men diagnose hair loss.<\/p>\n

Lefort is a serial entrepreneur, having exited one company<\/a> and currently running two others with Tilen Babnik<\/a>, who is 28. The duo decided to team up and build a third company: MyHair AI<\/a>. They vibe coded the product in just a few weeks. It works like this: Users take photos of their heads and upload them to the MyHair app. The AI technology analyzes those photos to measure hair density and detect early signs of hair loss.<\/p>\n

Over time, as a user uploads more photos, the AI tracks the evolution of their hair loss, letting people build personalized hair loss-protection routines. Users can also find specialists or discover clinics through the platform and read verified reviews so they do not get scammed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur AI tells you what\u2019s really happening with your hair, matches you with products that actually make sense for your hair type, and explains the science behind them, including possible side effects,\u201d Lefort said. \u201cBy bringing transparency and medical accuracy to this $50 billion market, we believe we can completely reorganize how people understand, treat, and shop for hair health.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took around a year of ideation, a few weeks of vibe coding on Cursor, a few months of scientific and clinical validation, and a few more weeks of building a consumer app for the duo to be ready to launch MyHair.AI. The company launched this summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t hire anyone for the initial prototype; it was fully vibe coded,\u201d he said, adding that now that the product has grown, their engineers handle the code to ensure it\u2019s solid and scalable. MyHair AI is one of the many examples of how fast startups can build these days with the rise of vibe-coding prototypes.<\/p>\n

Lefort said the product already has more than 1,000 paying subscribers and 200,000 user accounts. The app has analyzed more than 300,000 scalp photos and has partnerships letting specialists and clinics have access to MyHair AI so they can evaluate their own patients faster. On Wednesday, the company announced that Dr. Tess, a renowned dermatologist<\/a>, is joining the company\u2019s board.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others in the market notably include Hims. Lefort said MyHair is different than others because the product is one of the few that\u2019s built a dedicated AI model, trained on more than 300,000 hair images, to diagnose baldness \u2014 rather than using a more generic LLM to do so.<\/p>\n

Lefort said the company is now focused on expansion. It wants to build a booking platform and partner with more clinics. He\u2019s hoping to build AI that works in the \u201creal world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMen worry about two things in their health, sexual dysfunction and hair loss,\u201d Lefort said. \u201cWe address one of the biggest day-to-day concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n