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The package registry for human intestinal flora

Fork a founder's gut.

GutHub is the world's largest registry of versioned human microbiota. Browse 41,000+ screened donor strains, install at home in about twenty minutes, and run the same gut as the people shipping at the top of your field.

$guthub install @guthub/sama@4.2.0

SOC 2 Type II · HIPAA-adjacent · 98.4% graft success · Not a clinic

Live culture · plate 04 · @guthub/sama
41,208
Published strains
2.14M
Weekly installs
11 min
Median install time
1,140
Species per package (avg.)

Already standardized on GutHub

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Browse by outcome, not by donor.

Every package is a complete, sequenced intestinal community with a semantic version, a changelog, and a public dependency tree. Sort by exits, resting heart rate, or sleep debt.

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@guthub/sama
4.2.0 · published 3 days ago · MIT
✓ verified
low-sleephigh-convictionlactose-tolerant

Hyper-performant flora extracted from a two-time exited founder. Breaking change in 4.0 removed the entire bifidobacterium branch. Maintainers say this was intentional.

Weekly installs
412,004
Donor outcomes
2 exits · 4.2% BF
Median sleep
4h 50m
Dependencies
1,382 species

⚠ 2 known vulnerabilities 1 critical

SA Donor #0001
maintainer since 2023
@guthub/marathon-dad
1.8.3 · published 6 months ago · Apache-2.0
stable
endurancelow-inflammationboring

Our most reliable package. Fourteen months without a breaking change. Donor eats the same lunch every day and has never once described himself as a builder.

Weekly installs
88,210
Donor outcomes
3 marathons
Median sleep
8h 05m
Dependencies
1,104 species

✓ 0 known vulnerabilities · recommended for production

MD Donor #0417
maintainer since 2024
@guthub/raw-milk-nate
0.0.1-alpha · published 4 hours ago · UNLICENSED
unverified
experimentalunpasteurizeddo-not-use-in-prod

Community submission. Extremely high install velocity despite repeated warnings. Deprecated in eleven jurisdictions. Donor has not responded to maintainer inquiries since October.

Weekly installs
31,788
Donor outcomes
unreported
Median sleep
unreported
Dependencies
2,209 species

⚠ 6 known vulnerabilities 4 critical

RN Donor #9981
unscreened · self-published
@guthub/intern-pool
7.1.0 · published 2 weeks ago · MIT
budget
high-volumemixed-provenancecost-optimized

Lowest cost per CFU on the platform. Blended from 340 summer donors, homogenized, averaged. Individual provenance is not retained and cannot be retrieved on request.

Weekly installs
204,551
Donor outcomes
n/a (pooled)
Consent on file
319 of 340
Dependencies
4,870 species

⚠ 1 known vulnerability low

IP GutHub Labs
first-party package
@guthub/yc-w24-cohort
2.0.0-rc.4 · published 9 days ago · BUSL-1.1
enterprise
cohort-blendpitch-readycaffeine-adapted

A single homogenized community drawn from an entire accelerator batch. Converges your team toward one shared digestive opinion. Popular with Series B platform teams.

Weekly installs
12,090
Donor outcomes
1 exit · 38 shutdowns
Median sleep
5h 12m
Dependencies
3,311 species

⚠ 3 known vulnerabilities 2 moderate

YC GutHub Labs
first-party package
@you/legacy-dairy
3.1.0 · last updated 1983 · detected on this device
deprecated
inheritedunmaintainedregional

Your current flora. Installed at birth by a maintainer who is no longer accepting pull requests. No test coverage. No changelog. Has worked, so far, every single day of your life.

Weekly installs
1
Donor outcomes
you, currently
Upstream support
ended
Dependencies
unknown

⚠ End of life. No further security patches.

ME Mom
inactive maintainer
Migrate

Dependency resolution

Check compatibility before you merge.

Your existing community will not always accept a new one. guthub audit resolves the conflict graph in advance, so you find out at your desk rather than at 3 a.m.

Detected flora: @you/legacy-dairy@3.1.0 · 4 candidate upgrades

1 blocking conflict
CandidateResolutionPurge requiredEst. downtimeRollback
@guthub/marathon-dad@1.8.3 ✓ compatible no6 hsupported
@guthub/yc-w24-cohort@2.0.0-rc.4 ⚠ requires purge partial31 hsupported
@guthub/sama@4.2.0 ✗ incompatible full72 hnot supported
@guthub/raw-milk-nate@0.0.1-alpha ✗ resolution failed unknownunknownunavailable
✗

ERESOLVE — unable to resolve flora tree

@you/legacy-dairy@3.1.0 cannot coexist with @guthub/sama@4.2.0. A clean install is required: your existing community must be fully removed before the new one is seeded. Read the migration guide, “Purging Your Existing Flora: A 72-Hour Plan.” Clear your calendar. Tell someone where you will be.

How it works

Three steps. One of them is at home.

01

Choose a strain

Search the registry by outcome. Read the changelog, the sequencing report, and the donor's public dependency tree. Pin to a stable release.

02

Receive your kit

Overnight cold chain, in discreet unbranded packaging, with everything you need and a short printed card. The card is the documentation.

03

Run the install

The CLI walks you through it. Most installs complete in eleven minutes. Do not close the terminal. Do not stand up.

guthub-cli — 2.4.1
$ guthub install @guthub/sama@4.2.0 ⠿ resolving flora tree… done ⠿ verifying donor consent (1 of 1)… done ⚠ peer conflict: @you/legacy-dairy@3.1.0 ⚠ this operation is destructive and cannot be undone on your plan ? purge existing flora? (y/N) y ⠿ purging… done (71h 12m) ⠿ seeding 1,382 species… done ✗ 2 vulnerabilities found (1 critical) run guthub audit fix to attempt a resolution note: `audit fix` is available on Pro and above ✓ installed @guthub/sama@4.2.0 in 11m 04s you are now a different person. welcome back.

GutHub Insights · add-on

Observability for the thing you installed.

An install without monitoring is a guess. Insights pairs with any modern connected toilet and streams colony counts, transit latency, and drift straight into the dashboards your team already watches.

  • →Continuous telemetry. Colony-forming units, pH, and transit time, sampled on every event, no action required from you.
  • →Drift detection. Alerts when your flora diverges from the version you pinned, or from the rest of your team.
  • →PagerDuty integration. Route critical gut events to whoever is on call. They will know what it means.
  • →Daily Slack digest. One message, every morning, in a channel of your choosing. Most teams use #general.
  • →Public status page. Optional. Used by 14% of accounts.
Colony count · last 7 days healthy
4.8 ×10¹¹ CFU/g
6.04.02.00.5 install 4.8 MonTueWed ThuFriSatSun
p99 transit
18.4 h
Uptime
99.2%
Drift
0.4%

Loved by engineers

What our users are saying.

4.9 average · 2,814 reviews
★★★★★
“I shipped more in the six weeks after my transplant than in the previous two quarters. My team has formally asked me to stop bringing it up in retro. I will not be doing that.”
DK
Dev Kaur
Staff Engineer, cortex.sh
★★★★★
“We now require flora standardization across the portfolio. It's in the term sheet, under Information Rights. Founders push back for about a week, and then they don't.”
CW
Court Whitlock
General Partner, Tandem Capital
★★★★★
“I want to be very clear. I was asked to review the clinical literature, and I did review it, and I did not endorse this. GutHub has used my name and my photograph for eleven months despite four written requests to stop. Please stop installing strangers. Please call an actual doctor.”
PR
Dr. Priya Ramanathan, MD
Verified clinical advisor ✓

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing.

Every plan includes registry access, the CLI, and the kit. Rollback is not included on every plan.

Billed annually · cancel anytime*

Hobby

$0 /forever

For the curious, the uninsured, and people who have read one article.

  • ✓1 install, one time, ever
  • ✓Community-sourced donor pool
  • ✓Best-effort graft
  • —No donor screening
  • —No rollback, no snapshots
  • —No SLA, no support
  • —You will not be told whose flora you received
Start free

Pro

$89 /mo

For the individual engineer who has decided to take this seriously.

  • ✓Full verified donor registry
  • ✓1 install per quarter
  • ✓guthub rollback — 90-day window
  • ✓guthub audit fix
  • ✓Quarterly sequencing report
  • ✓Email support, 72-hour response
  • —Cold-chain shipping billed separately
Go Pro
Most popular

Team

$340 /user /mo

Stop guessing why one of your engineers is like that. Standardize.

  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓Org-wide flora standardization
  • ✓One shared mother culture, kept on site
  • ✓Drift detection across environments
  • ✓SSO, SCIM, audit log
  • ✓Onboarding ritual facilitation (remote)
  • ✓Offboarding strain removal ceremony
  • ✓GutHub Insights included
Start 14-day trial
Invite only

Monorepo

$250,000 /yr

The complete blended intestinal flora of a named unicorn founding team.

  • ✓7 donors, homogenized into a single community
  • ✓A dedicated on-premise donor, relocated to your office
  • ✓Single-tenant cold chain
  • ✓24/7 transplant concierge
  • ✓Quarterly in-person recalibration
  • ✓Your strain, named after you, in the public registry
  • ✓Right of first refusal on the 2027 vintage

400-company waitlist · 2 seats remaining

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*All plans billed annually in advance. Donor availability is not guaranteed and is not a contractual commitment. Prices exclude cold-chain shipping, the kit, biohazard disposal, and the deposit. GutHub, Inc. is a registry and a software company. GutHub, Inc. does not practice medicine, does not provide medical advice, does not screen on the Hobby plan, and is not a clinic. “Verified” indicates that a donor has completed our onboarding form. Rollback restores from your most recent snapshot, which you took. Results shown are from our highest-performing accounts and are not typical. By installing a package you agree that your flora, and any flora derived from it, may be sequenced, published, and resold under the GutHub Contributor Terms (v9).

Frequently asked

Questions we get a lot.

Is this FDA approved?

GutHub is a registry. It is not a drug, a device, or a clinic. We connect you with a package. What happens between you and a package is between you and that package.

What if I install the wrong strain?

Run guthub rollback. This restores your flora from your most recent snapshot, which you took, because you read the documentation on the card.

Can I publish my own flora?

Yes. Top donors earn up to $11,000 a month plus a verified badge. Payouts are monthly, you keep 51%, and your strain remains in the registry in perpetuity.

Can I install two strains at once?

This is called a conflict. It resolves on its own within four to nine days, usually in favor of one of them.

Is it reversible?

Mostly.

My cofounder and I want to merge.

Supported on Team and above. Expect conflicts. Most pairs resolve them. We do not recommend doing this before a fundraise, or during one.

Ready when you are

41,208 strains. One of them is better than yours.

You have been running the same unmaintained flora since the day you were born. Nobody is coming to patch it.