Well Purposed. The commercial case for a healthier world
The fortnightly letter on health systems, economics, and what it actually takes to build and scale in HealthTech - read by 7,500 founders, investors, and operators.
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The three questions that decide whether prevention scales
Most prevention products are priced incorrectly.
You build something that genuinely helps people stay well, and then you showcase it to an infrastructure that analyses costs in quarters and health in decades. So you offer early detection to a health service that won’t bank the saving for ten year...
by Sara Roberts —
Sep 01, 2026
commercial scale
prevention
scaleup
The full VITAL Framework - five stages of HealthTech commercial scale, in one place
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This is the full version of the LinkedIn series introduced over the last five weeks. The series ran one stage per Monday: Validate, Identify, Target, Articulate, Land.
The VITAL Framework is what I use with the Series A HealthTech founders I advise through Well Purposed. It is the operational c...
by Sara Roberts —
Jun 01, 2026
customer
healthtech
scaleup
vital framework
The Reflective Founder
In 2023, I lost my company after being targeted by fraudulent investors. It wasn’t just the numbers or the contracts, it was the culmination of years of work, a £10m ARR pipeline, and a team I believed in. And in a matter of weeks, it was gone.
I’d lost not only a business, but also my identity.
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Sep 15, 2025
founder journey
grit
resilience
scaleup
Design-Led Innovation in Health: A Lesson from 10+ Years Ago That Still Guides Me
Over a decade ago, I was living in Kenya, immersed in a vibrant, complex landscape. During that time, an external team from the UK flew out to work on a new innovation project. They were bright, motivated, and deeply committed to making a difference.
But within weeks, the project started to falte...
Jul 22, 2025
culture
design
innovation
scaleup
startup
Well Purposed. The commercial case for a healthier world