It's live. The new FC:AI is actually live.

If you've been here before, you'll notice things look a bit different. That's because everything is different. FC:AI isn't just a blog anymore. It's a proper platform with real tools — AI-powered tools that help you manage life with cancer or serious illness. Tools I built. Tools I use. Tools that exist because I got tired of writing about problems and decided to start solving them.

This is the relaunch post. Here's what's happened, what's new, and where this is going.

The Short Version

FC:AI started as a side project. A day a fortnight, squeezed around the day job. I've got Stage 4 cancer — diagnosed in 2021, incurable but manageable, on indefinite treatment with no end date in sight. And somewhere along the way, I started building AI tools to help me manage the experience.

Recently, as a result of various changes, I decided to stop squeezing FC:AI into odd days and dedicate proper time to it. New site. New brand. New tools. Proper tools. Not side-project-one-day-maybe tools. Actual, useful, here-right-now tools.

The side effects are real. The fatigue is brutal. Some days I can barely think, let alone code. But the momentum of building something genuinely useful — something that matters to people going through what I'm going through — that gets you out of bed on the bad days anyway.

What FC:AI Actually Is Now

FC:AI used to be a blog. Twenty posts about my cancer experience, my treatment, the weird and sometimes funny reality of living with a disease that's trying to kill you. Those posts were important. They needed to exist. They reached the people they were supposed to reach.

But they weren't solving anything. They were talking about problems. Now FC:AI does something about them.

The new FC:AI is tools-first. Practical AI tools that help you manage the cancer experience. We've launched with three:

• Daily Symptom & WHOOP Tracker: Log your symptoms every day, pull in your wearable stats — sleep, recovery, strain, HRV — and compare across chemo cycles. Spot patterns. Stop panicking at 2am when something feels wrong because you can actually look at your data and see what's normal for you.
• Medication Manager: Track every pill, injection, and supplement. Check interactions. Coordinate with your chemo cycle so you always know what to take and when. Because when you're on fifteen different things and your brain is fried from treatment, you need something keeping track.
• Medical Archive: Every hospital letter, blood test, and consultant note in one searchable place. Ask it questions about your own medical history. No more shouting at NHS portals or digging through emails trying to find that one letter from 2024.

These aren't theoretical. I built them for myself first. I've been using them through my own treatment. They work. And now they're available to anyone who needs them.

The Model

Here's how it works, and this is the bit I'm most proud of: I'll build you a personalised version of any tool, configured for your specific treatment, medications, and needs. Then you choose what to pay. Not a fixed price. Not a subscription. You decide what feels right.

The catch — and it's a good catch — is that 50% of whatever you pay goes directly to a cancer charity. Not some vague pledge. Not a "portion of proceeds." Actual 50%. We track it. We show the totals. We keep it honest. And if you can't pay? Let's have a chat. Nobody gets turned away because of money.

I still need to pick which charity. That decision needs to be right, and I'm taking my time with it. If you've got suggestions, I'm genuinely listening.

The Blog

The original 20 FC:AI blog posts are all still here — they're in the archive. From "Fuck You, Cancer" through to "Hello, It's Good to Be Back." The whole journey from diagnosis chaos to whatever this is now.

Going forward, the blog stays. It'll cover FC:AI updates, tool releases, the reality of building things during treatment, and occasionally just the honest experience of living with cancer. Same voice. Same lack of bullshit. Just with more substance behind it now.

Why This Matters

I know how this reads. Bloke has cancer, bloke launches a website like some startup founder origin story. It's a bit much. I get it.

But here's what's actually happening: I've built something I believe in. Something that helps people manage serious illness better. Something real, that solves real problems, that exists because I stopped waiting for permission and just built the thing.

When you're dealing with what I'm dealing with, that matters more than I can properly articulate. Having something useful to build — something that gets you through the chemo fog and the fatigue and the days where everything feels pointless — that's not a luxury. That's survival.

What's Next

The tools are v1. They work, they're useful, but they're not finished. There's a list of features that will make them properly extraordinary — features that go beyond the "feel-good" factor of supporting someone with cancer and into genuinely indispensable territory.

The charity needs picking. That's coming soon.

FC:AI needs to reach the people who actually need it. Not in some venture-scale growth-hacking way. In a real way — finding the people who are sitting in hospital waiting rooms or lying awake at 3am wondering if that new symptom is something to worry about, and putting something useful in their hands.

And I need to stay alive and keep building. That's the background task that never stops. Chemo cycles, side effect management, blood tests, the machinery of fighting a disease that's decided it quite likes living in my body. It's relentless. But so is the work.

Actually

I could write something here about hope and perseverance and all that inspirational bollocks. You've heard it before. It's usually not helpful.

What I'll say instead is this: I've got something that makes me want to get up in the morning. Something useful. Something that matters beyond just me. And when you're living with what I'm living with, having that — having anything like that — is rarer and more valuable than most people realise.

So here we are. FC:AI is live. Zero bullshit. Let's go.