Our story
It started with
one simple thought.
That I could plan around my pain and my cycle. That I wasn't inconsistent. That my colleagues weren't. That millions of women weren't. We just hadn't been given the right tools or the basic knowledge to live more in sync with our bodies.
Why it matters
Every woman's menstrual cycle is unique, typically lasting 24 to 38 days. Your cycle influences energy, mood, and wellbeing throughout the month.
Understanding your phases (menstrual, follicular, ovulation, luteal) empowers you to align lifestyle and self-care with your body's natural rhythms, or more simply, just understand why you feel the way you do. We believe understanding your cycle better can be a foundational step to better health outcomes.
Timeline
Our journey so far
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2021–2024
Working on women's financial inclusion
Megan leads a team focused on the gender pension gap and recognises the clear correlation between women’s health and their wealth.
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2023 · ongoing
Cycle tracking
Megan starts tracking her own cycle deeply for over a year. Patterns emerge within three cycles.
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January 2025
Research
Qualitative and quantitative research with 150 women, from within Megan’s network.
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September 2025
Nadi is named, and ideation begins
From the Sanskrit for channel, flow, rhythm. A philosophy before a product.
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January 2026 · ongoing
Group sessions
Ran group sessions on the basics and importance of the menstrual cycle, for men and women.
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March 2026
User testing
V.1 of Nadi tested with a small pool of users.
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June 2026
Beta version live
Iterated based on user testing of V.1 and launched the beta version.
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Meet the founder
Megan built Nadi from her own experience. Put on the pill at sixteen to manage period pain severe enough to bring vomiting, stomach upset and a loss of feeling in her hands, she stayed on it for around a decade before coming off it in her late twenties to understand the root cause.
She tracked her cycle every day for over a year, in a spreadsheet, and found a clear, repeating pattern she had never been taught to read.
When she surveyed over a hundred women to understand their experience, it wasn't only her, 90% said their cycle affects their daily life. So she thought: isn't it crazy that our calendars (where most of us plan our lives) aren't built around a cycle that affects 50% of the population?
So she created Nadi. It is not another app to download, just a simple overlay that brings your cycle phases into the calendar you are already using. Alongside the tool, Megan runs menstrual cycle awareness sessions for workplaces, grounded in the BSI standard for menstruation and menstrual health at work.
Megan spent seven years at Standard Life, a FTSE 100 financial services business, designing customer propositions and journeys before leading a team of around forty in a senior role reporting to the COO. That work, and her later financial coaching, kept surfacing the same problem she had found in her own health: women left under-informed about the things that deeply shape their lives, from how their money grows to how their bodies work.
She sits on the board of the Fihri Foundation, a global non-profit working to end period poverty, and trained as a Menstruality Mentor with Red School while building Nadi.
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