How the Atlas is built, verified, and governed

Where the record stands today

The Atlas of the Healthspan Economy records 314 organizations. Of those, 312 are distinct controlling organizations once subsidiaries and brands are grouped under their parent. In the last 90 days, 88 records were re-checked against their sources. Every one of these figures is computed at build time from the data, and the full breakdown lives on the data page.

What counts

The Atlas maps the premium healthspan economy across four categories, its pillars:

• P1 Longevity & Preventive
• P2 Femtech & Women's Health
• P3 Integrative & Functional
• P4 Healthtech & Diagnostics

An organization qualifies only if it clears two bars. First, verifiability: it is a real, named organization with an official source that confirms it exists and operates. An announcement of something not yet open is held as a watch item, not admitted. Second, scope: it delivers a health service to individuals, that is clinical care, screening, diagnostics, or a structured preventive or longevity program that people attend or enroll in.

A company that only sells a product for others to use, is purely aesthetic, or is an investor, publisher, event, or media property does not qualify. General practices qualify only for a specific longevity or preventive program they assert, and only that program's modalities are recorded. The full rule is governed by the Atlas policy, the single source of truth for admission, and no organization can pay to be included.

How it is verified

Every record is admitted through a source-first intake. A candidate is confirmed against an official source, classified into a pillar and its modalities, and stamped with the date it was checked. That date is carried through to the entity page and shown as the record's verification date, so a date on the page is a claim about when the source was last read, never when the site was last built.

Records are re-checked on a rolling basis and the verification date is updated when they are. Facts that decay, an event that has passed, an organization that has closed, a rebrand or an acquisition, are moved on the date they are confirmed, not left to imply a currency they no longer have. Organizations that close keep their entity page, marked defunct, rather than vanishing from the record.

What "recorded" means

Recorded means an organization that is published and operating. Rows still under review are held back before publication and are excluded from every public count. Organizations that are defunct or announced but not yet open keep their entity page but are not counted among the recorded organizations.

The recorded count and the distinct-parent count are different figures that measure different things. The recorded count counts every recorded organization, a parent and its subsidiary as two, because each delivers its own services. The distinct-parent count groups subsidiaries and brands under their controlling organization, so it answers how many independent organizations the field has rather than how many records the Atlas holds. Both are shown on the data page, side by side.

The Sandria disclosure

Healthspan Economy is editorially independent. Its founder also operates Sandria, a service that helps healthspan organizations improve their citation share in AI search. Sandria clients rising in HE's AI Visibility Index would be a real fact about the world reflected in a reproducible measurement, not an editorial preference. The relationship is disclosed here, permanently.

Operators listed in the Atlas may correct facts about themselves; they cannot influence how they are ranked, classified, or described.