K&C Vital
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Show up where it matters.

AI brand intelligence 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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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 K&C Vital does

Three pillars. One programme.

Measurement, production and review — tuned for the sources, language and standards of health.

Pillar 01

Measure

We run the same measurement platform we use for every K&C client — but tuned for the citation sources that matter in health: peer-reviewed journals, NICE guidance, NHS pages, the FT and Reuters over the Daily Mail. You know what AI says about you, and which sources it's drawing from.

Pillar 02

Produce

Content and copy built by writers who can read a clinical study and rewrite it for both the trade press and the consumer. Every piece is structured for AI citation and built defensible against regulatory scrutiny — not a separate compliance pass at the end.

Pillar 03

Review

Every output that goes near a patient, a clinician or a regulated channel is read by a clinical reviewer before it ships. Resident GP, registered nurse, and a rotating panel of specialist consultants. Not a fact-check at the end — a clinical eye on the work from the start.

Who reviews the work

Most agencies have a fact-checker on retainer. We have clinicians on the team.

Reviewer roles are kept consistent across every Vital engagement, with specialist consultants brought in by sector for brand-specific work.

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.

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 Annual

Vital Annual

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

£7,000/year
12-month engagement · invoiced annually
  • AVS Bi-Annual measurement
  • 2 measurement cycles per year
  • 12,600 data points across 12 pillars
  • Monthly copywriting allocation
  • Light PR activation
  • Clinical content review on every output
Vital Bespoke

Vital Bespoke

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

POA
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. Be Trusted.

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

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