Why We Built Orvi
31 million Americans are on GLP-1s. Most of them are lacking the tools they really need.
Our mom
We're Henry and Jackson, two brothers from Wyoming.
Our mom started on Wegovy at 56. 32 lbs came off. Everyone told her she was doing amazing. She'd started needing the couch to get off the floor.
Seven months in, her physical therapist ran the same leg test she'd taken that spring. Then he stopped, and asked her to do it again.
Close to half the strength in her legs was gone.
Half. In seven months.
She had done nothing wrong. Neither had her doctor. He had ten minutes, a scale, and no way to measure muscle.
She wasn't a rare case
In the trial that launched the GLP-1 category, researchers measured not just how much weight people lost, but what kind. Up to 40% of it can be lean mass rather than fat. Other work puts it closer to 1 in 4 pounds. (STEP 1 Trial, 2021. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2025.)
They disagree on how much. None of them disagree that it happens.
Everybody had warned her. Nobody had measured her.
We couldn't find one
So we went looking for the thing that would have caught it. Not a scale. A scale is one number, and one number is what got her here.
Two things had to be true in the same box. It shows the split between fat and muscle. It comes with the plans to change it. Everything we found did one or the other, and almost nothing went near the rebuilding half at all.
So we built both.
The Orvi Protection System. The Body Scan reads your whole body through 8 electrodes in about ten seconds. It isn't a lab and it doesn't pretend to be. Then three months of plans: your protein target, three home sessions a week of about 30 minutes with no gym, and one page you can hand your doctor.
The Orvi Complete System. The same, over six months, with the Grow and Power plans built to help you add muscle back once your body is ready.
Protect it. Then build it.
Who we built it for
Everyone getting protein into a stomach that stopped asking for food, with no way to know whether it's working.
Everyone who has lost 20 pounds and felt proud and frightened at the same time.
You've done the hard part. You should get to know what kind of weight you're losing, while there's still time to do something about it.
That's why we built Orvi.
We wish our mom had it on day one.
Henry & Jackson Ellison
Founders of Orvi