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Nesvia

Reads every label in your home, scores each product against public science, and tells you what to swap first.

Role
Founder, sole engineer
Status
MVP running end to end
Focus
Vision / Scoring engine / Data pipelines / Mobile

Can an app read the whole label of everything you own, score it honestly, and hand you one clear swap at a time?

People who want a less toxic home have apps that say “this is bad” and stop there. Nesvia does the next part: it audits the whole home, orders the swaps, and shows the score moving as you make them.

A product comes in as a shelf photo, a label photo, a barcode or a typed name. A vision model reads it, every ingredient is matched against public scientific and government sources, and the product gets a 0–100 score where higher means more concern. A product we cannot read stays unrated; it is never counted as clean.

How it works

  1. Photo, barcode or name

    Shelf photo, label photo, barcode, or a typed product name.

  2. Vision model

    Reads the product and its full ingredient list off the photo.

  3. Ingredient matching

    Each ingredient is resolved to a known substance.

  4. Public sources

    PubChem, EPA CompTox, openFDA recalls, Open Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts, USDA FoodData Central.

  5. Product score 0–100

    Higher means more concern. Unreadable stays unrated.

  6. Home Score and swap plan

    Highest concern and easiest swap first; the score falls as swaps land.

Decisions that shaped it

Cite, don't guess

Why

Trust is the product. A score nobody can trace is just another opinion.

How

Scores come only from public sources (no EWG or Mamavation data in any pipeline), and every flag points back to where it came from.

Unreadable is unrated

Why

Counting a product we could not read as clean would flatter the home and break trust.

How

The pipeline carries an explicit unrated state all the way to the Home Score instead of defaulting to zero.

One swap at a time

Why

People arrive overwhelmed. A list of forty problems makes them quit.

How

The plan orders products by concern and ease, so there is always exactly one next action, and the score visibly drops after it.

Built with

  • Expo / React Native
  • FastAPI
  • Postgres
  • Vision model
  • PubChem
  • EPA CompTox
  • openFDA
  • Open Food Facts
  • Open Beauty Facts
  • USDA FoodData Central