The story behind ProviderIntel

ProviderIntel started because I was looking for legitimate peptide therapy for myself and couldn't find it. I'm interested in longevity, I pay attention to my own labs, and I think about health optimization as a system to understand and improve. What I found when I went looking for a real provider was a mess: gray market vendors shipping unregulated compounds from overseas, Reddit threads with conflicting advice, “directories”that were obviously paid listings, and real clinics buried deep in Google because they didn't spend money on SEO.

The people running scams were easier to find than the people running legitimate practices. That bothered me.

I'm a builder by nature. I ran a marketing company for about twenty years, so I know exactly what paid placements look like from the inside — which is part of why the fake “independent review”sites made me so angry. These days I spend most of my time building with Claude Code and other AI tools, on and off the grid. Somewhere in the middle of a frustrating search, it hit me: the thing I wanted didn't exist, and the tools to build it did.

So I started doing my own research. Spreadsheets. Cross-referencing Google reviews against state medical board records. Crawling clinic websites to figure out who actually named their pharmacy partners and who was hiding behind vague “board-certified physicians on staff.”I was doing it for me. At some point I looked at what I'd built and realized: if I was going through this much trouble to find a good provider, everyone else trying to do the same thing was hitting the same wall.

So I kept building — but for everyone.

The “we” you'll see on this site

This is a one-person project in the traditional sense — one human, no employees, no team. But a lot of the research work is done with Claude Code and other AI tools. The AI drafts. I review. I steer. I make the judgment calls. Every provider page has human eyes on it before it goes live.

So when you see “we” on this site, it means me and the AI working together as a research pair, not a corporate “we”pretending to be a company. I think that's worth being upfront about — a few years ago, a site like this would have required a team of researchers, engineers, and analysts. Today, one person with the right tools and the right discipline can do the same work at a fraction of the cost, and verify it more thoroughly. That shift is one of the most interesting things happening right now, and I don't want to hide it.

How this is funded (short version)

Self-funded, out of my own pocket. I'm financially independent from a previous business, so I can run this without needing it to pay. There are no sponsors, no paid placements, no affiliate deals that affect rankings, and none of those things are coming later.

The full commitment — what I will and won't do, today and ever — is on the Independence policy page. If you're going to trust any research on this site, read that page first. It's the whole point.

How this research works

Every provider on the site is evaluated the same way: public data sources are crawled (clinic websites, state medical board records, Google Reviews via DataForSEO, Reddit mentions), AI tools extract structured data and draft summaries, and then I review and score against the published methodology.

The scoring system is called the Trust Score— a weighted 0-100 composite across four categories: Clinical Credentials, Transparency, Community Visibility, and Compliance. It's fully transparent and reproducible. See How We Rank for the full methodology, including the weights, criteria, and color-signal system.

Every claim on a provider page links back to a source. If the research is wrong, you can verify that it's wrong. If the research is right, you can verify that too. Showing the work IS the product.

The person behind this

I go by Tech Farmer online — @realtechfarmr on X. That's not my real name, and that's deliberate. In a space where people get attacked for telling the truth about products and providers, I'd rather keep the work visible and the person pseudonymous. If you want to verify the work, verify the work — it's all here, source-linked. The name behind it doesn't change whether the research is right.

If you want to see what else I'm building, or how this site is being built out in real time, that's what my X account is for. It's where the behind-the-scenes lives.

Contact

For corrections, questions, feedback, or accountability — reach out via X at @realtechfarmr. A proper contact email and form are coming.

For the full independence commitments and funding transparency, see the Independence policy →