Tough Workout? Deleon’s At-Home Tech Reveals Personalized Insights to Guide Your Recovery
Drawing on their shared enthusiasm for extreme outdoor sports and aerospace research, José Andrade and Chad Pozarycki, PhD, founded Deleon Technologies to help athletes train smarter, recover faster, and fuel their bodies more effectively.
“The data is in your internal chemistry,” said Andrade, an engineer, data scientist, and former medical device consultant who has a BS in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. With this in mind, Deleon is bringing daily metabolomics tracking of ten amino acids into homes by miniaturizing lab testing equipment and leveraging data-driven insights to provide athletes with personalized workout and recovery tips.
Deleon is a CREATE-X alumni company based in Midtown Atlanta, working in partnership with Pravida Health. “Participating in CREATE-X, which is experience-based, taught me how to think like a founder,” said Pozarycki, who has a PhD in analytical chemistry from Georgia Tech and is a former NASA Mars rover researcher.
In August 2025, after one year of working together, including participation in both CREATE-X and Nucleate, Deleon received funding from Boost VC. “I was working in the Georgia Tech bike shop as a mechanic when I got the call about the Boost VC funding. In that moment, everything changed. We were now able to focus full-time on customer research, finding a lab space, obtaining the needed technology, doing pilot metabolomics studies, and securing intellectual property,” said Pozarycki.
Deleon, which currently focuses on wellness tracking and is not yet a clinical point-of-care company, is a team of Georgia Tech alumni, current students, and faculty advisors with collective scientific expertise in machine learning, microfluidics, metabolomics, and analytical chemistry.
How Personal Metabolomics Can Shape Athletes’ Recovery
There are many ways athletes can track their health, ranging from continuous monitoring with wearable devices, such as activity-monitoring watches, to point-in-time snapshots obtained when blood or urine is tested at a doctor’s office, which can require expensive, large equipment and highly trained laboratory analysts to process samples.
“The missing key to optimizing your athletic training and recovery with personalized insights is the ability to continuously monitor, from your own home, what is happening inside your body, using your metabolome, and to integrate this data with what is already being collected from your activity-tracking device,” said Andrade.
Deleon uses metabolomics, the comprehensive study of small-molecule metabolites in our bodies, to understand what is happening in your body on a day-to-day basis and draw insights from the data in our internal chemistry.
Metabolites, including amino acids, lipids, and sugars, provide insight into what our bodies are doing at a cellular level, including those related to nutrition, stress, and early signs of disease. The current Deleon metabolic baseline includes ten amino acids, such as leucine, tryptophan, and glutamine, that are key indicators of athletic recovery.
From Outer Space and Advanced Labs to Your Own Place
By applying sampling technologies used in aerospace to search for amino acids, including those developed at NASA, Deleon is building compact, automated at-home urine tests that are as sensitive as those found in typical laboratories. This miniaturization of chemical analysis is possible using a technology called capillary electrophoresis, which applies an electric field to separate small molecules as they travel through a thin capillary, then uses a detector to measure their concentrations.
Daily sampling is completed in the morning by collecting a drop of urine with a cotton swab. Current customers are mailing in the 30-day at-home collection kits. The kit is sent to Deleon for sample analysis and development of a personalized digital twin, which will share insights with the customer on a dashboard.
However, later in 2026, Deleon plans to launch the Otea at-home system, which enables daily samples to be collected and analyzed immediately using low-cost, single-use microfluidic chips. “As a result of the small samples, lower cost of materials, and automation, daily tracking is finally possible,” said Andrade.
Digital Twinning Your Workout Recovery Using Data-Driven Insights
Connecting the dots between your personal metabolomics and activity data is the biochemical digital twin, which provides an individual-specific, dynamically updated, predictive model. As a result, a digital twin tracks how each person’s biology shifts over time and eventually guides it.
The data collected from daily sampling is integrated with your wearable data and an evening reflection quiz on the day’s activities and how you were feeling. This data is synthesized into insights by a personalized biochemical digital twin that informs your workouts and recovery decisions.
“Everyone has completely different ranges of metabolites, and the key is to catch the individual distributions for each person,” said Andrade.
Related to exercise and recovery, Deleon’s goal was to make it as easy as possible for people to not only complete the daily tests but also to interpret the data and make sense of what it all means to them. “Our goal is to show how athletes can best recover from their workouts,” said Pozarycki.
The daily insights include your recovery score, fuel balance, sleep & calm, and an actionable AI-powered insight based on your specific data. Here’s an example from Deleon, “Low heart rate value + elevated leucine? You’re recovering. Low heart rate value + depleted amino acids? Time to back off. The combination tells the real story.”
“The digital twin provides another personalized data stream that is used to inform training plans and quicken recovery times,” said Pozarycki, adding, “It’s important to note that this is not a clinical standard of care, and this is used for overall wellness.”
Where Data Tracking Meets Mindful Training
As enthusiasts of physically demanding sports, such as caving, canyoneering, and triathlons, Andrade and Pozarycki seek to use all available tools to lead healthy lives, highlighting the importance of trusting and listening to the body, while also noting that it’s easy to fall into habits that do not support your overall health or workout goals.
“It’s motivating if you can correct your habits and training on a daily basis,” said Pozarycki, adding, “our habits are a combination of both physical and psychological elements and the stories we tell ourselves about what we can achieve when training.” Andrade said, “It’s about living the best habits, spending time outside, and doing fun activities.”
Looking forward, the Deleon team is continuing studies, building the at-home testing system, and speaking with various athletes about potential uses, including sports teams.
“By keeping track of trends on a continual basis, you are able to make changes that can impact your long-term health, bringing us one step closer to personal and preventative medicine,” said Andrade.