Are you balding? There’s an AI for that

For Cyrical Lefort, the idea for his new startup, MyHair AI, came about two years ago. The Frenchman was in a New York hair salon getting a routine haircut when his hairdresser looked at him and said, “You’re starting to lose a little hair,” Lefort, who is 32, remembers being told.

“He didn’t say that to my friend who was sitting next to me, but only to me,” Lefort continued. “In my mind, I wasn’t bald, and I still don’t think I am. But when someone tells you you’re losing your hair, you buy what they suggest.”

So he bought the shampoo the barber suggested and left thinking that anyone could sell a man something by telling him he was losing his hair. “Hair loss is an emotional topic for men and women,” he said.

That interaction took him down a rabbit hole where he discovered how confusing the hair loss industry is, with so much misinformation and clinics with unverified reviews. (He later went to a hair doctor who told him that he was not, in fact, bald.)

Lefort wanted to create a product that, using AI, would help men diagnose hair loss.

Lefort is a serial entrepreneur. He has left one company and is currently running two others Tilen Babnikwho is 28. The duo decided to collaborate and create a third company: MyHair AI. They coded the product in just a few weeks. It works like this: users take photos of their heads and upload them to the MyHair app. The AI ​​technology analyzes these photos to measure hair density and detect early signs of hair loss.

As a user uploads more photos over time, the AI ​​tracks the evolution of hair loss, helping people develop personalized hair loss protection routines. Users can also find specialists or clinics through the platform and read verified reviews so they don’t get scammed.

“Our AI tells you what’s really happening to your hair, matches you with products that really make sense for your hair type, and explains the science behind it, including possible side effects,” said Lefort. “By bringing transparency and medical accuracy to this $50 billion market, we believe we can completely reshape the way people understand, treat and shop for hair health.”

It took about a year of ideation, a few weeks of vibe coding on Cursor, a few months of scientific and clinical validation, and a few more weeks of building a consumer app before the duo was ready to launch MyHair.AI. The company launched this summer.

“We didn’t hire anyone for the first prototype; it was completely vibe-coded,” he said, adding that as the product has grown, their engineers are handling the code to ensure it is solid and scalable. MyHair AI is one of many examples of how quickly startups can build today with the rise of vibe coding prototypes.

Lefort said the product already has more than 1,000 paying subscribers and 200,000 user accounts. The app has analyzed more than 300,000 scalp photos and has partnerships that allow specialists and clinics to access MyHair AI so they can assess their own patients faster. The company announced this on Wednesday Dr. Tess, a renowned dermatologistjoins the company’s board of directors.

Others on the market include Hims. Lefort said MyHair is different from others because the product is one of the few that has built a special AI model, trained on more than 300,000 hair images, to diagnose baldness – rather than using a more generic LLM to do so.

Lefort said the company is now focused on expanding. It wants to build a booking platform and collaborate with more clinics. He hopes to build AI that works in the ‘real world’.

“Men are concerned about two things in their health: sexual dysfunction and hair loss,” Lefort said. “We are addressing one of the biggest daily concerns.”