UC Founder Builds AI Gut Health Coach After 11-Year Flare Battle

A Personal Battle With Ulcerative Colitis Leads to a New AI-Powered Gut Health Tool

Rory Bokser spent 11 years managing ulcerative colitis with medications and advanced therapies before a flare sent him searching for answers beyond his medication regimen. After discovering that a strict carnivore diet kept his symptoms under control, he found himself stuck in a dietary dead end — unable to reintroduce other foods without triggering a return of symptoms. A turning point came through a long conversation with Claude, an exchange that gave him a structured path forward and ultimately inspired him to build Tract, an AI gut health coach designed to help people managing IBD (Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis), IBS, and elimination diets. Bokser is now making Tract available to others facing the same frustrating cycle he experienced firsthand.

Stuck Between Symptoms and a Severely Restricted Diet

For Bokser, the challenge was not simply managing a chronic condition. Despite being on advanced therapies — a category of strong prescription medications used to suppress the immune response in conditions like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s — he entered a significant flare roughly three years ago. The carnivore diet brought relief by stripping his meals down to animal proteins and eliminating nearly every potential dietary trigger. But that relief came at a cost.

Every attempt to reintroduce foods brought symptoms rushing back. He was caught between a diet that worked and a quality of life that felt unsustainable. The standard elimination diet guidance available online and through general health sources did not account for the specific complexity of gut inflammation in someone with his history.

“I had controlled my symptoms with a strict carnivore diet, but I was completely stuck. Every time I tried to reintroduce a food, I’d flare. A careful conversation with Claude opened up a path I hadn’t seen before — and I realized this kind of structured, personalized guidance was exactly what people with IBD and IBS were missing,” said Rory Bokser, Founder of Tract.

An AI Conversation That Changed the Approach to Reintroduction

The moment Bokser describes as a turning point came during a conversation with Claude, an AI assistant developed by Anthropic. Rather than generic dietary advice, the exchange helped him think through a personalized, methodical, phased approach to reintroducing foods — one that accounted for inflammation patterns, symptom tracking, and the specific sensitivities that come with a long history of ulcerative colitis.

That experience pointed directly to a gap in the tools available to people managing chronic gut conditions. Existing apps were built around calorie counting or general wellness. Nothing was designed to help someone with IBD or IBS navigate the intersection of symptom data, food-reintroduction sequencing, and inflammation triggers in a conversational, adaptive way. Recent advances in large language models, paired with the right accredited clinical resources, produced a structured plan that worked for him — and a clear template for a tool that could do the same for others.

Tract: An AI Gut Health Coach Built From Lived Experience

Tract functions as an AI-powered gut health coach, built specifically for people managing Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, IBS, and elimination diets. It allows users to log symptoms and bowel movements, identify patterns connected to specific foods or lifestyle factors, and receive structured guidance on reintroducing foods methodically, one at a time. Alongside the app, Tract offers free, no-signup web tools — a searchable food directory and a “Can I Eat This?” checker — so anyone can start without creating an account.

The tool draws on the kind of nuanced, context-aware dialogue that Bokser found missing from conventional gut health resources. Rather than presenting static lists of safe or unsafe foods, Tract engages with users the way a knowledgeable coach would — asking follow-up questions, adapting to reported symptoms, and helping users build a clearer picture of their own gut health over time.

Bokser designed Tract with a specific population in mind: people who have been told to manage their condition primarily through medication and who are looking for a complementary, data-informed approach to diet and inflammation management. The focus is not on replacing medical care, but on giving patients a more active role in understanding what affects their gut health day to day.

About Tract

Tract is an AI gut health coach built for people managing IBD, IBS, Crohn’s, ulcerative colitis, and elimination diets. Founded by Rory Bokser, Tract helps users track symptoms, identify inflammation triggers, and navigate food reintroduction with structured, conversational guidance.

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Contact Information:

Tract

4504 Chemin Circle
Montreal, QC H3W 1Y7
Canada

Rory Bokser
+1 514-827-5784
https://tract.health