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Mi — your migraine companion in Mystic Garden
Prodrome Alerts Beta

Feel the migraine coming —
hours before the pain.

Your Apple Watch reads the quiet signals your body sends before an attack. Mi learns your pattern — and warns you while there's still time to act.

Download on theApp Store
Get it onGoogle Play

Apple Watch Series 8+ for prodrome alerts
Everything else works on iPhone alone · Android coming 2026

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The problem

The warning was always there.
You just couldn't hear it.

Most migraine attacks begin quietly — hours before the pain, your body shifts. Heart rate, sleep, temperature, HRV. These signals are real, but far too subtle to notice on your own.

77%
of attacks are preceded by a prodrome phase
~24h
median lead time before pain hits
“Mi sees the storm gathering — and gives you those hours back.”

When you know hours ahead, you get two ways to act

Soften it — or stop it

Change the conditions before the storm builds. Small actions, taken early, can blunt an attack or head it off.

  • Hydrate and rest early
  • Lower stress, calm your system
  • Avoid your known triggers

Medicate at the right moment

Modern migraine drugs work far better taken early — in the prodrome, before pain fully sets in.

−46%
less progression to moderate-severe pain when a gepant is taken in the prodrome
PRODROME trial · Nature Medicine, 2024

Mi whispers signs the mind can read,
before the pain outgrows its seed.
It leaves its marks before the ache,
so mind may choose the paths to take.

The solution · Mi Watch

An early-warning system
for your migraines.

Mi Watch quietly watches your Apple Watch biomarkers, learns what a normal day looks like for you, then recognizes the shift that comes before an attack — and opens your warning window.

Readsthe quiet signals — HRV, heart rate, sleep, temperature
Learnsyour body's normal, then your unique pre-attack pattern
Warns12–24h ahead, while there's still time to act
See it in action

What an alert actually looks like.

A gentle heads-up arrives — and when you open it, Mi shows exactly what it noticed and why.

1 · The heads-up
9:41
Tuesday, 14 July
MIGRAINE COMPANION now
Mi senses early migraine signals
Take gentle care today.
12–24h ahead

The push that reaches you — quiet, kind, no panic.

2 · When you open it
Mi Watch VULNERABLE
Storm gathering
Resting heart rate is up and your HRV has dropped — the same shift Mi saw before past migraines.
What Mi has learned
Before your last 8 migraines, Mi noticed:
HRV typically drops 18%
Resting heart rate rises ~8%
Sleep quality decreases
Why Mi sensed this 12–24h ahead ›

The full picture — what shifted, and how it matches your history.

Mi Watch Vulnerable alert — Storm gathering, 12–24 hours ahead of a migraine
Tuesday, July 14
08:44
MIGRAINE COMPANIONnow
Mi senses early migraine signals
Signals like the hours before past migraines — often 12–24h ahead. Take gentle care today.
tap the notification
VULNERABLE
Storm gathering
Resting heart rate is up and your HRV has dropped — the same shift Mi saw before past migraines.
What Mi has learned
  • ↘ HRV typically drops 18%
  • ↗ Resting heart rate rises ~8%
  • ↘ Sleep quality decreases
Why Mi sensed this · 12–24h ahead

Not a concept: Mi fired its first live prediction on July 11, 2026 — 17 hours ahead, and it was right. Since July 14, alerts like this land on the phone in real time.

Not a number on a dashboard. A warning in Mi's voice — written for you, not for everyone.

How it works

Mi learns you — then warns you.

The more you use it, the sharper it gets. Here's the whole idea in four steps.

Step 1
Your watch reads you
Apple Watch tracks your biomarkers — mostly while you sleep, when signals are cleanest.
Step 2
Mi learns your normal
It builds a baseline of what a calm, healthy day looks like for your body.
Step 3
Mi learns your pattern
With each migraine you log, it learns how your body shifts before the pain.
Step 4
Your warning opens
When the pattern returns, Mi opens your Vulnerable window — 12–24h before pain.
Honest by design — Mi always shows its confidence: Learning → Calibrating → Reliable. No hidden warm-up.
What you need

Three things to get started.

That's it. If you already have an Apple Watch and iPhone, you're ready.

Apple Watch
Series 8 or newer
Reads the biomarkers that reveal an attack is coming.
iPhone
iOS 16 or newer
Where Mi lives — your alerts, tools, and daily companion.
MIgraine Companion
Free to start
The app that learns you and opens your warning window.
The Watch is only needed for prodrome alerts. Everything else works on iPhone alone — Android coming 2026.

In ordered lines the numbers stand,
like stones once scattered, set by hand.
What once was wild, we start to know,
in garden lines the patterns grow.

Mi Lab · your triggers

Most advice says quit.
Mi shows you how to keep going.

A few quick quizzes read how your body actually reacts — to coffee, alcohol, certain foods, missed meals, light and sound. Not generic rules. Your body's real thresholds.

Not “stop drinking coffee” — but your last cup by early afternoon. Not “give up wine” — but dry whites over reds. You don't lose what you love. You learn how your body handles it.

Mi Lab — your caffeine profile, Nervous Sprinter, inside the app
1/5
Coffee deadline
Max daily dose
Main enemy

3 more personal rules + your exact timing — in the app

Get your full profile

A behavioral self-assessment — not medical advice.

Freedom, not a ban list

Knowing your type means tailoring, not quitting. Enjoy what works for your body — and sidestep what doesn't.

Stop guessing your triggers

Years of “was it the cheese? the wine? the coffee?” — answered. You finally know what's yours, and can act before it hits.

The insight, without the lab

Genetic panels mapping these traits run $200–400 and take weeks by mail. Mi's quizzes read your real reactions — free, in minutes.

Mi's quizzes read your body's reactions, not your DNA — a different, practical path to the same answer: what to enjoy, and what to watch.

Why Mi is different

Most apps just say “careful.”
Mi tells you what to do.

Think of a weather forecast paired with your own list of what harms you. Mi has both — and they meet the moment you're warned.

The forecast
When to warn you

Your Apple Watch learns your body's pattern and spots the shift before an attack. This answers when.

Your triggers
What harms you

A few quick quizzes reveal what your body reacts to. Everyone's list is different.

Coffee Alcohol Certain foods Skipping meals Light & sound
they meet here

Knowing early is half of it.
Knowing what to do — that's the other half.

Not generic advice from the internet. A specific action for your body, at your moment. That's the difference between an alarm — and a companion who knows you.

To our knowledge, MIgraine Companion is the first consumer app to combine wearable biomarker prediction with personal trigger profiles — not a black box, but explainable and yours.

More than predictions · the philosophy

Mi doesn't fight your migraine.
Mi keeps you company through it.

Most apps — and most of us — treat migraine as an enemy to battle. But the research on chronic illness points the other way: combat language (“fighting,” “battling,” “victim of”) deepens helplessness and turns up the body's stress response. A companion frame does the opposite.

You are not your migraine.

Mi is built on narrative therapy — the approach of Michael White and David Epston. Its core move is externalization: separating the person from the problem. You're not “a migraineur.” You're someone who experiences migraine — and that small shift in language loosens the grip, lowers self-blame, and gives back a sense of agency. Mi is that idea made into a character: not an enemy to defeat, but a companion whose calm reflects your own care.

Around that philosophy, Mi gives you tools for the hard moments:

Mi, your companion

A character, not a chatbot. Mi's calm reflects your care — a gentler way to relate to something you live with every day.

Ask Mi

A knowledgeable guide that has read the research — and knows your patterns. Ask about triggers, timing, what to try next.

Ask Mi

Calm on demand

Guided 4-7-8 breathing and gentle tools to steady your system — for the moments the storm is close.

A diary that speaks doctor

Track attacks, then hand your neurologist a clear report — the single most useful thing you can bring to an appointment.

The science — and the honesty

Built on real research.
Honest about what's still unproven.

Mi stands on published science — and we're just as clear about the parts still being validated. No overclaiming.

77%
of attacks are preceded by a prodrome phase — subtle physiological shifts, median 24h before pain.
Eigenbrodt et al., Cephalalgia 2022 · meta-analysis, n=2,711
−46%
less progression to moderate-severe pain when a gepant is taken in the prodrome, not after.
PRODROME trial · Dodick et al., Nature Medicine 2024
Hypothalamus
drives the prodrome — producing autonomic shifts in HRV, heart rate and temperature a wearable can read.
Schulte & May, Brain 2016 · biological basis

What we won't pretend

Mi can be wrong — it misses some attacks and flags some quiet days. Its accuracy is still being validated, and it learns from every migraine you log. We'd rather tell you that plainly than sell certainty we haven't earned. The prodrome science is settled; that your personal engine is accurate enough is what we're proving now.

The roadmap

Where Mi is — and where it's going.

We're early, and honest about it. Mi is in beta — here's the real path from today to a validated, out-of-beta product.

July 11, 2026 · Mi's engine fired its first real prediction — and it was right.
A live prodrome warning, from real biometrics. Proof the engine works.
Now
Through Oct 2026
Collect & tune
Gathering real biometric data and finishing the engine's tuning on the founder's own migraines.
Oct 2026 – Mar 2027
Test on a cohort
Bring in a wider group of people with migraine and check how accurately Mi predicts for them.
Mar – Jun 2027
Refine on real results
Tune the engine using what the cohort's data shows — sharpening accuracy where it matters.
Jun 2027
Out of beta
As validation holds, Mi graduates from beta into a fully-fledged product.

Dates are targets, not promises. Removing “beta” depends on the accuracy holding up on real people — we won't call it done until it is.

Rustam Iuldashov, founder of MIgraine Companion
Rustam Founder · patient zero
Marina Mochalova, co-founder and creative director of MIgraine Companion
Marina Co-founder · design
Why this exists

Thirty years of migraine.
Built into an app, during a war.

My first migraine came at twelve, with aura. For thirty years it ran my life — up to fifteen or twenty attacks a month. Slowly, by tracking and learning my own patterns, I brought that down to three or four.

I build MIgraine Companion from Dnipro, through the war — some nights writing code by candlelight when the power is out. I'm patient zero: every prediction is tested on my own body first. My wife and co-founder Marina leads the design — she made it photophobia-first, because she's watched what light does to me during an attack.

Just the two of us. Thirty years of pain turned into something that might spare someone else a little of it.

Feel the migraine coming —
before the pain.

Mi is free to start. If you have an Apple Watch and iPhone, you can begin today — and let Mi start learning your pattern.

Download on theApp Store
Get it onGoogle Play

Apple Watch Series 8+ for prodrome alerts · Everything else works on iPhone alone · Android coming 2026