Olya is a free companion for people with cancer and the people who love them. There’s too much to remember, and no one to tell it to until the next visit. When something comes up, talk to Olya. It explains what it can, remembers what’s happening, and turns the rest into questions for your care team.
Always free for patients and families.
Olya isn’t a doctor and doesn’t give medical advice. If this is an emergency, call 911.
Keeping track of what’s happening and getting ready for appointments works for any cancer. The detailed, cancer-specific part starts with colon and rectal, with more coming.
Your diagnosis, stage, treatment, and where you are in it. Olya learns them once, from your records or just from talking, and remembers. So when you ask something at nine at night, the answer is about your cancer.
Whenever Olya doesn't know something, it writes the question down for the right person on your team, in words your doctor can answer. The list is yours, for whenever you see them.
Symptoms, side effects, what changed and when, in your own words. If two things happened together, like nausea after lunch a few days running, that stays together in the record. With everyone's permission, Olya can also record a visit and write it out.
Olya finds real clinical trials for your situation and explains what each one involves, so you have something solid to bring to your doctor.
Cancer care happens in appointments. Cancer happens every day.
Nobody’s chart says you couldn’t button your shirt on a Tuesday, or that the nausea moved a day earlier this cycle. That part isn’t written down anywhere.
The rest is written down, just not in one place. The doctor who found it has one file. Your surgeon has another. Your oncologist has a third. If you went somewhere else for a second opinion, that’s a fourth, and it probably never reached the others.
Each of them holds a piece. None of them holds all of it, and none of them holds the weeks in between.
You lived all of it. Olya helps you keep it in one place. And it stays with you. If your care moves, a new oncologist, a different hospital, a second opinion, Olya moves with you. It isn't tied to any one system.
The difference
“Numbness is a common chemotherapy side effect. Talk to your doctor.”
“That’s oxaliplatin, and you’re on cycle 5. You’ve said it’s been getting worse for two weeks. I’ve written this for Dr. Chen: ‘Numbness daily for two weeks and getting worse. Is it time to adjust the oxaliplatin?’”
Same question. Very different answer.
The difference is four pieces of information. Stage 3. KRAS wild type. FOLFOX, cycle 5.
They don’t all do the same work. Your treatment and where you are in it shape which side effects matter. Your stage and biomarkers shape which treatments and trials are in the conversation at all.
Olya learns them once, from your records or just from talking, and remembers. So when you ask something at nine at night, the answer is about your cancer. Not cancer in general.
Knows who's on your team. Early on, Olya asks who your doctors and nurses are. That way it can point you to the right person, instead of telling you to "call your doctor" when your nurse navigator is the one who picks up.
Set it up your way. Use Olya yourself, or let a family member or caregiver help, with your permission.
Track how you're doing. Nausea, tiredness, appetite, mood. Say it once and Olya keeps the thread.
When eating gets hard. Nausea, no appetite, nothing tasting right. Olya will talk it through with you and help you figure out whether it's worth asking your team about seeing a dietitian.
A one-page summary you bring with you. Olya turns your day-to-day updates into a short, clear page you can hand to your doctor or read from.
A list of things to ask. Whenever Olya doesn't know something, it turns it into a question for the right person on your care team instead of guessing.
Nothing goes anywhere without you. Olya doesn't send anything on its own, not to your care team and not to family. You decide what to share, when, and with who. That includes a spouse, a son or daughter, or anyone else you want kept in the loop.
Keep the record with you. Your summaries stay in one place, so you can look back at what changed and when, without digging through paperwork.
You don't need a reason to try Olya. But it tends to matter most when:
The questions don’t come while you’re sitting in the exam room. They come at nine at night, three days later, when something feels different and you’re not sure if it matters.
Is this normal. Should I call someone. Is it getting worse. It’s late and you don’t want to bother anybody.
That’s the part Olya is for. Ask anything, any time, in whatever words come out. Olya will either help you understand it, or write it down for the person who can.
And for the things that shouldn’t wait, Olya will tell you to call your team instead of waiting for the next visit.
Olya doesn’t decide things. It won’t diagnose you, tell you which treatment to choose, or tell you to change a medicine. Those belong to your care team, and Olya will point you to them.
Olya turns everything from between visits into one page. Numbers, dates, what changed, and the questions you want to ask. Short enough to read before the exam starts, on paper or on your phone.
OLYA SUMMARY
Maria R. · DOB 04/12/1961
Prepared for: Dr. Chen · Visit 3/14
Covers: 2/21 – 3/13 (21 days)
SYMPTOMS
“Couldn’t button my shirt” — 3/9
OTHER VISITS
3/02 Dr. Patel, surgery · cleared, no revision needed
3/07 CT abdomen · report uploaded
MEDICINES
Reports 2 missed capecitabine doses (3/05, 3/06)
QUESTIONS FROM MARIA
You choose what’s on it, and you decide who sees it.
Your recordings, documents, and summaries are encrypted when they’re stored and when they’re sent. We don’t sell your records or send them to your care team unless you choose to share them. Service providers process information on our behalf only as needed to operate Olya, under contracts that prohibit them from using it for their own purposes.
Olya is a companion for the time between appointments. It learns your cancer, your treatment, and what's been happening, and keeps that context with you over time. When something comes up, it explains what it can. When the answer belongs to your doctor, it turns it into a question for your care team. Before your next visit, it turns what happened between visits into one page you can bring with you.
Yes. Olya is free for you and your family, and that's how we intend to keep it. We're building the parts that clinics and health systems pay for, so patients never have to. There are no ads, and we do not sell your information.
The detailed, disease-specific answers are colon and rectal today, because that's where we can be most useful right now. Other cancers are coming, as fast as we can do them well. The parts that keep track of what's happening and get you ready for a visit aren't specific to any cancer.
Not exactly, and nobody can from an app. Only the trial's own team can say whether you're eligible, after they screen you. What Olya can do is find trials that look like a fit, explain what each one involves, and give you the trial's contact details so you and your doctor can look into it together.
Yes. A family member or caregiver can help you get started, with your permission. You stay in control of what's shared, and you can change that at any time.
Yes. The page Olya makes for your appointment is yours. Print it, email it, or send it to anyone you choose, including family who aren't in the room. Nothing goes out unless you send it.
Not on its own. Olya puts together a short summary you can bring to your appointment or send yourself. You stay in control of what your care team sees.
Yes, and Olya will remind you to ask first. In many states everyone in the room has to agree to being recorded. Olya gives you a simple way to ask so there are no surprises.
No. Olya can help you understand your situation and get ready for appointments, but it isn't a doctor and doesn't tell you what to do. For anything urgent, call your care team or 911.
Olya works from published clinical guidelines, including NCCN and ASCO, and trusted cancer information from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. When Olya connects something to your treatment, that connection traces back to a specific passage in an approved source and is checked against that source before it can be used. An oncologist reviews these clinical connections before they go into Olya and can reject any of them. That review applies to the clinical library Olya draws from, not to individual conversations. Individual responses are generated by Olya and are not reviewed by an oncologist before you see them. Olya doesn't invent connections, and it doesn't decide anything about your care.
English today. Other languages will come when we can do them properly. For cancer, that means getting the clinical words and the tone right, not running the English through a translator.
Olya grew out of what our clinical advisors kept hearing, over and over, from the families they treat. Different diagnoses, different ages, different situations. The same question underneath all of it: who is keeping track of all of this?
Cancer care is very good at appointments. It has no good answer for everything that happens in between. Olya is our attempt to give that back to the patient. Not another system that holds a piece of the picture, but something that stays with you and helps keep the whole picture together.
Olya is free, and you can share as much or as little as you want. For now, leave a number and we’ll text you when it’s ready.