Performula turns biomarker data into hyper-personalized supplements at scale

Who is Performula, and what role do they play in the healthcare or wellness ecosystem?

Performula is a Cologne-based healthtech company operating in precision nutrition and supplementation, producing daily sachets of micronutrients tailored to each person’s biomarker profile. Formulations are designed by physicians and medical experts and refined with AI-driven algorithms, positioning Performula as a data-backed partner for performance, longevity, wellbeing, and resilience.

Launched publicly in 2025 with backing from angel investors, Performula serves health-conscious consumers across Germany through a digital-first model, combining diagnostics, personalized formulations, and an app-based experience that can extend to new markets as the lab network grows.

The problem

What limitations did Performula face with lab result delivery, data workflows, or digital patient experience?

To deliver on the promise of “hyper-personalized supplementation,” Performula needed to bring real biomarker data into every step of the customer journey, from onboarding through ongoing optimization. The team had to accept lab reports from various providers and formats, convert them into structured biomarker data, and feed them into the formulation engine while presenting results in a way that customers could easily understand. Building and maintaining a full ingestion, parsing, normalization, and visualization stack in-house would have been expensive, slow, and technically risky—diverting engineers away from medical logic, UX, and algorithm development.

The solution

How did OpenHealth’s Health Portal, Lab API, or Digital Reports transform lab data delivery for Performula?

Performula integrated a Lab Data API and embedded Health Portal layer to act as the backbone for all biomarker data in its ecosystem. Incoming lab reports—whether PDFs, images, or structured files from partner labs—are ingested, parsed, normalized, and harmonized into a consistent biomarker model, including units and reference ranges, before being delivered to Performula’s backend and formulation engine.

On the front end, Performula uses a branded interactive portal where customers upload results during onboarding, review their biomarker status, and track changes over time. Static PDFs are replaced by clear, visual reports embedded in the Performula experience, while new lab results automatically update the user’s profile and trigger adjustments to their micronutrient formula. This architecture allows Performula to keep engineering lean while focusing on medical rigor, algorithm design, and customer growth.

The impact

What measurable improvements did Performula achieve after implementing OpenHealth’s digital health infrastructure?

With lab data flowing through a dedicated API and portal, Performula can now deliver truly biomarker-based supplementation without having to run its own lab-data infrastructure. The company unlocks new revenue opportunities by packaging diagnostics and supplements together, increases engagement through interactive reports and trend visualizations, and accelerates product development by launching new insights and features without rebuilding integrations each time. At the same time, offloading ingestion and normalization saves significant engineering effort and supports international expansion by making it easier to onboard new lab partners and geographies onto the same harmonized data layer.