Neil James · Independent research & development
Building and testing support for nutrition care in daily life.
I’m building KeyRD: software and proposed research into governed, auditable support for longitudinal adherence to an RDN-defined dietary plan. When should support help, adapt, or pause?
Current stage: a research prototype and synthetic demonstrations. Effectiveness and suitability as a scientific instrument remain unproven.
The proposed research loop
Make each decision inspectable.
Observe context.What is known, missing, or outside scope?
Apply defined boundaries.Support, no prompt, or human review.
Measure behavior over time.Adherence, missing reports, and burden.
The question
Can a governed, auditable just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) help people follow an RDN-defined plan over time?
For employers
Explore my work. Discuss where I can contribute.
I’m responsible for KeyRD’s concept, research, and product and architecture design.
I welcome employment conversations in nutrition, digital health, product development, research operations, and technology. Read the technical overview and try the synthetic demonstrations.
What exists
A concrete system to investigate.
KeyRD includes implemented policy gates, source-bound plan interpretation, decision receipts and observation-recording components, alongside a separate protected professional-evaluation workflow and public synthetic demonstrations. These components remain to be qualified for the proposed research use.
The continuity prototype makes four responses explicit: SUPPORT, ASK RDN, ABSTAIN, and RETURN CONTROL. These are proposals within RDN-led care. Nothing is automatically sent to patients.
The Maya demo illustrates a proposed six-week study: eligibility, prompt-versus-no-prompt assignment, adherence measurement, and a traceable longitudinal record. Its records are fabricated; it does not run a trial.
See component status and technical overview →What remains unproven
A working demonstration is a starting point.
KeyRD has not established that it improves dietary adherence, health outcomes, clinician workload, or economic outcomes. Its adherence measures, delivery reliability, safety in actual use, and suitability as a research instrument still need evaluation.
A prompt being opened is not evidence that a prescription was followed. A missing report is not evidence of nonadherence. A plausible explanation is not evidence that an intervention caused an outcome.
Read the evidence and its limits · Review the separate continuity-evaluation plan
What I want to study
When, for whom, and under what conditions does support help?
With collaborators, I want to define clinically meaningful adherence, validate its measurement, test whether decision rules respect patient preferences and clinical boundaries, and investigate adaptive support over repeated daily opportunities.
I’m seeking RDNs, behavioral scientists, research-methods and statistics collaborators, and people working on reliable research systems. The first step is critical review of the questions and study design. No patient records are needed.
Discuss a research collaboration →Who’s behind the work?
Research and development, with potential paths to application.
Neil James founded Statera Systems Inc. to build KeyRD. His background includes technology and operations, a BS in Nutrition & Food Science from LSU, work supporting the Nutrition for Precision Health study at Pennington Biomedical, and a systematic review of dietary-adherence interventions.
He completed the Didactic Program in Dietetics and is not an RDN. This is founder-led independent research and development through the company that owns KeyRD; James has a commercial interest in its future use. No current academic affiliation is claimed; no university affiliation, institutional endorsement, or study approval is implied. Statera remains responsible for the system and its claims. Possible routes include a standalone offering, licensing, partnerships, or integration with existing care and research systems. Each requires technical verification, appropriate evidence, and demonstrated demand; none is announced as available today.
Why I’m working on this · Safety and accountability · Inspect fictional continuity decisions