27 ways Take the Helm helps you investigate

Captain picks ONE prioritized next action per case — a card at the top of the Board with a specific test, specialist, or question.

Captain ranks the 3–5 most-likely explanations for your symptoms with pattern strength, evidence, and what would confirm or rule out each.

Click any theory → 5-tab Captain-curated brief covering the diagnostic path, treatment landscape, patient voices, and centers.

Pick 2–3 theories side-by-side with overlap highlighting — see which symptoms feed both and which test would differentiate them.

An adversarial second AI pass — Captain Critic surfaces 3–5 concrete counter-arguments to the leading theory, side-by-side with the primary view.

Captain Critic across your whole differential at once — the top counter-arguments to each leading theory in one view, for a second-opinion conversation.

Track possibilities set aside — with the reason — so the same doctor questions don't keep coming back. Sourced from labs, history, and your input; anything re-opens if new evidence lands.

A hand-vetted list of patient communities (foundations + moderated subreddits like /r/POTS, /r/MCAS) for each theory's research brief.

The + button on any case page lets you log a symptom, jot a question for next visit, or upload a record in two taps.

Tap to talk — narrate how you feel, Captain parses out mood + symptoms + notes, you confirm or edit before saving. Manual fallback when voice isn't right.

Captain's Board card shows what's been added since the last read — 3 symptoms, 1 lab, 1 appointment — so you know when re-reading would matter.

Cmd/Ctrl+K on any case page opens a search across symptoms, treatments, records, appointments, Q&A, set-aside items, and action items.

PDFs, photos of paperwork, and visit audio — Captain analyzes pages and suggests structured details; lab values wait for your source review.

Record the doctor visit (or upload after), Captain transcribes + summarizes — turn-by-turn, action items, what was said about each topic. Opt-in.

When linking records to a case from a library of 60+, Captain pre-ranks the top 5 most relevant with a one-sentence "why this fits."

Captain ghostwrites a one-page referral letter, specialist consult prep packet, second-opinion request, or insurance appeal from your case context. Print or sign.

Before a specialist visit, Captain builds a 1–2 page packet — case summary, your prioritized questions, key labs, what's been tried — print-ready.

A clean, print-ready one-pager of where your case stands right now — Captain's read, leading theories, recent symptoms, next steps, set-aside log. Instant, hand it to any doctor.

Journey → Timeline organizes your history by year with Captain-written chapter titles + summaries. Severity heatmap shows the shape of each year.

Write your story in your own words — Captain uses it as the ground-truth context for every read. Version history lets you revert any edit.

Captain remembers durable facts across conversations — "my mom had MCAS," "I'm allergic to gabapentin" — so you don't have to repeat them every time.

Add your providers, link visits, track what each one is investigating. Captain references them by name in your case context.

When Captain has gaps, it asks you specific questions — you answer on the Board or Interview tab, and the next re-read uses your answers.

A print-ready one-pager of your care team, current medications, and active conditions — the sheet you hand a new doctor on a first visit or keep in a binder. Instant, no AI.

Your health information is protected with encryption at rest and in transit, no third-party advertising trackers, idle timeout, MFA, and sign-out-of-all-devices.

Download everything Captain knows about you in a single archive — records, symptoms, narratives, letters, conversations. Anytime.

Request account deletion with a 90-day recovery grace period. Settings shows current recovery and deletion status, and export remains available during recovery.