K&C Vital
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Show up where it matters.

GEO and content built for health, life sciences and MedTech.

The most-recommended health brands in AI aren't the loudest. They're the ones AI platforms trust enough to cite. K&C Vital is the K&C specialism for the brands that have to get it right – clinically, legally, commercially.

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As seen at HIMSS Europe 2026·Provoke Media·Featured by Jan Beger (GE HealthCare)·Guardian coverage forthcoming
The problem

Health is the hardest place to be invisible – and the easiest to get wrong.

Patients, clinicians and buyers ask AI platforms about health daily. Get cited badly and the consequences aren't a missed click. They're a worse decision, a wrong recommendation, a letter from the regulator.

AI is sceptical of health claims – rightly. Generic content gets filtered. Loose language gets downranked. Hallucinations in health have real consequences, so the platforms are conservative by design.

Most agencies can't tell a peer-reviewed paper from a marketing whitepaper. They write copy that won't survive regulatory scrutiny, and they optimise for clicks instead of citations from sources AI actually trusts.

The wrong word in the wrong place is a compliance event. Supplements, wearables, clinical platforms, pharma – showing up well in AI requires copy that holds up to MHRA, ASA and equivalent overseas review. Most content doesn't.

What makes Vital different

Vital is people, not platforms.

GEO specialists, healthcare copywriters, and clinicians – pulled in where they're needed. Same K&C methodology, executed by humans who understand the regulatory tightrope.

GEO specialist

K&C's K&C report measurement, run by someone who knows the difference between a Daily Mail citation and a peer-reviewed source.

We measure where you show up across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Perplexity – and which sources AI is drawing from. For health brands, the source matters more than the position. We tune the read to NHS guidance, NICE, peer-reviewed journals, and trusted trade press over volume-only signals.

ScenarioA consumer wellness brand we work with had three of their best-selling products being recommended by AI under a competitor's brand name. They didn't know until we measured.

Copywriting specialist

Writers who can read a clinical study and rewrite it for the trade press, the regulator, and the consumer – without losing the science.

Generic content gets filtered by AI platforms in health. Our writers come from healthcare PR and clinical communications backgrounds. Every word is optimised for AI citation and defensible against MHRA, ASA, and FDA scrutiny.

ScenarioWe rewrote a supplement claims page that was being filtered by ChatGPT. Inside a single measurement cycle, citations moved from zero to first-page-of-results visibility.

Medical expert – where required

GP, registered nurse, specialist consultants. The second-opinion layer between writer and audience.

Where the output goes near a patient, a clinician, or a regulated channel, a clinician reads it before it ships. Resident GP for primary-care-facing content. Registered nurse for patient education and nurse-recommended product narratives. Rotating panel of specialist consultants – oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, mental health, paediatrics – for brand-specific work.

ScenarioCaught a marketing claim three weeks before launch that would've drawn an MHRA letter. The brand thanked us. The MHRA never knew.

K&C's founder Russ Read-Barrow speaks publicly on patient-led AI work – most recently on the patient AI panel at HIMSS Europe 2026 in Copenhagen. The cancer side of his work runs through FC:AI, a separate project building free AI tools for patients. See /press for the room's reaction.

Who Vital is built for

Two worlds. Same standard.

K&C Vital works across the full spectrum – from consumer health brands talking to buyers, to clinical platforms talking to institutions. The methodology stays the same. The vocabulary changes.

Health Tech · Consumer-facing

Health Tech

Supplements, wearables, recovery (saunas, red light, cold plunge), sleep, women's health, fertility, mental health apps, diagnostic kits, fitness tech, nutrition platforms, consumer telehealth.

MedTech · Clinical / institutional

MedTech

Hospital systems, clinical decision support, medical imaging, EHR vendors, diagnostics platforms, surgical tech, remote monitoring, pharma marketing, biotech communications, clinical trials recruitment.

The K&C mantra

Focus. Measure. Plan. Deliver. Repeat.

Five steps. One continuous programme. That's how you get – and stay – known and cited.

Packages

Three ways in.

Every Vital engagement is a 12-month programme. No pilots, no one-shots – measurement only earns its keep with longitudinal data, and clinical review only earns trust through repetition.

Vital engagements typically start from the mid-five-figures and scale to bespoke programmes for pharma and multi-brand portfolios. We scope to your regulatory environment, internal team structure and content cadence.

Vital Annual

Vital Annual

The baseline. For brands establishing their AI presence in health.

Bespoke
12-month engagement · scoped to your programme
  • K&C Bi-Annual subscription measurement
  • 2 measurement cycles per year
  • 12,600 data points across the K&C report 12-pillar framework
  • Monthly copywriting allocation
  • Light PR activation
  • Clinical content review on every output
Vital Bespoke

Vital Bespoke

For large MedTech, pharma, and multi-brand portfolios.

Bespoke
Scoped per engagement
  • Scoped to your regulatory environment
  • Mapped to your internal team structure
  • Multi-brand and multi-market scope
  • Dedicated specialist reviewer panel
  • Integrated with your medical, regulatory and comms teams
  • NDA and SoW pre-engagement
What Vital is – and isn't

What Vital is

  • Measurement, content and clinical review under one roof
  • A 12-month programme with repeatable measurement
  • Defensible against MHRA, ASA and equivalents
  • Built for buyers who can read a study
  • Reviewed by clinicians before it ships

What Vital isn't

  • A regulatory affairs consultancy – we work alongside yours
  • A one-shot audit – AI moves; one cycle doesn't
  • A press-release factory – PR is part of the programme, not the product
  • A SaaS dashboard – humans read every output
  • Cheap – clinical review costs what clinical review costs

Be Known. Be Cited.

K&C Vital is built for the brands that don't have the luxury of getting it wrong.

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