Inspiration
Multiple friends going through fertility treatment in Toronto, each navigating the same broken process independently. One couple didn't know reciprocal IVF was available to them until a year in. A friend assumed she couldn't afford IVF without knowing OFP funding existed. Another spent weeks calling clinics to find one with a shorter wait. Nobody was getting bad advice. They were just getting no guidance at all — left to piece together one of the most important healthcare decisions of their lives from clinic websites and word of mouth.
Found Fertility is the resource none of them had.
What it does
Found Fertility matches people in the Greater Toronto Area with the right fertility clinic — personalized, fast, and free. A comprehensive quiz adapts to the user's specific situation (treatment needs, funding eligibility, family structure, location) and returns a matched clinic recommendation rather than a generic list.
How I built it
Next.js, Vercel, Supabase. The matching quiz is a branching React component that adapts based on the user's pathway — individual, couple, same-sex, single parent. The clinic database covers every major GTA fertility clinic across 180+ data points, scraped and verified source by source.
Challenges I ran into
The fertility space is opaque. Clinics don't publish wait times, pricing is inconsistent, and OFP eligibility isn't clearly documented anywhere. Building a trustworthy dataset meant verifying every field individually. The other challenge is sensitivity. This isn't a restaurant finder — people using it are often in a vulnerable, high-stakes moment. Every word in the product has to earn its place.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Building a clinic database that doesn't exist anywhere else in this form. 180+ data points per clinic, verified against primary sources. That's the moat.
What I learned
That the information gap in fertility care is a structure problem. The information exists. It just isn't organized around the person trying to make a decision.
What's next for Found Fertility
Direct clinic partnerships across the GTA to build more unique datasets that aren't available anywhere else online.
