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About CalorieTally

Building the future of nutrition tracking with AI

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Our Mission: Making nutrition tracking effortless and accurate through artificial intelligence, helping people make better food choices without the complexity.

Our Story

CalorieTally was born from a simple frustration: tracking nutrition shouldn't be a chore. Traditional food logging apps require endless searching through databases, manual portion estimation, and complex calculations. We believed there had to be a better way.

What if you could just speak your meal, snap a photo, or describe what you ate, and AI would handle the rest? That vision became CalorieTally – an intelligent nutrition tracking platform that understands food the way humans do, but with the precision and knowledge of a nutritionist.

Meet Our Founder

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Luis Alejandro Vargas Ramos

Founder & CEO

Chemical/Software Engineer with a passion for using technology to solve real-world problems. With over +15 years of experience across pharmaceutical, food, and technology sectors, Alejandro combines deep technical expertise with a practical understanding of how people interact with nutrition.

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Why CalorieTally?

Alejandro's background spans from Chemical/Software Engineering to machine learning and AI implementations, giving him a unique perspective on both the science of nutrition and the technology needed to make it accessible. His experience in project management and lean methodologies drives CalorieTally's focus on eliminating waste – particularly the wasted time people spend manually logging meals.

"I've seen how data and AI can transform industries," says Alejandro. "But most nutrition apps still work like databases from the 1990s. We're building something that actually understands food the way people think about it."

What We're Building

CalorieTally isn't just another calorie counter. We're creating an AI-powered nutrition intelligence platform that:

  • Speaks Your Language: Tell us about your breakfast, and our AI understands context, cooking methods, and portions
  • Sees What You See: Photo recognition that identifies food, reads nutrition labels, and estimates portions
  • Learns Your Patterns: Personalized insights that help you understand your eating habits
  • Fits Your Life: No databases to search, no complex logging – just natural interaction with intelligent analysis

Our Approach

We believe in building technology that adapts to people, not the other way around. That means:

  • Accuracy Through Intelligence: Our AI models are trained on comprehensive nutrition data to provide precise estimates
  • Privacy by Design: Your health data belongs to you, and we protect it accordingly
  • Continuous Learning: Every interaction helps improve our AI while keeping your data anonymous
  • Humble Progress: We're constantly improving, learning from users, and admitting when we can do better
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Looking Forward

We're just getting started. CalorieTally represents the beginning of a journey to make nutrition science accessible to everyone. We're building with the belief that when technology truly understands human needs, it becomes invisible – and that's when the magic happens.

Our roadmap includes expanding our AI capabilities, adding more personalization features, and eventually, helping people not just track their nutrition, but understand it in ways that lead to lasting positive changes.

Join Our Journey

Whether you're trying to lose weight, gain muscle, manage a health condition, or simply understand your eating patterns better, CalorieTally is being built for you. We're learning every day from our users, iterating based on real feedback, and staying focused on one goal: making nutrition tracking so simple and intelligent that it just works.

Ready to experience nutrition tracking that finally gets it right? We'd love to have you along for the journey.

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