Your journey back
to what matters.

Founder story

From experience to purpose.

I've spent most of my adult life learning how to get back up.

As an elite-level cyclist competing for Great Britain, injury became the story I didn't choose but had to keep living. It started with a ruptured Achilles — misdiagnosed as a sprain in A&E, caught a week too late. Recovery brought a new complication: calcification at the back of the tendon, requiring surgery nine months later. By then, my calf had wasted down to the size of my forearm. It took two years to get back on a bike.

When I did, I raced at elite level again — and then tore my ACL clean off the femur, in practice, on a section of track so dangerous it was taped off immediately after. Three months passed before surgery.

A year and a half later, I came back. I progressed. I earned selection for Great Britain at the World Cup in Lages. Then, in training, I tore my meniscus — and had surgery on the exact day I should have been competing. I re-tore it during hydrotherapy. My knee never fully straightened again. Instability, hamstring problems, Achilles tendonitis — all compounding, all constant. Eventually, both needed surgery. Another year and a half of rebuilding.

Then came a C5, C6 and C7 fracture, and a traumatic brain injury I'm still recovering from.

I'm telling you this not for sympathy, but because I know exactly what it feels like to be in the middle of it — when getting back to where you were feels impossible, and you can't see how far you've already come. That blindness is one of the cruelest parts of recovery. It's where hope quietly erodes.

Returno Companion exists because of that gap.

It's built on a simple idea: find out what you want to get back to — then help you see, day by day, that you're moving toward it. You track symptoms, mood, motivation, fatigue, sleep, stress, and daily activity. The app turns that into visible progress — proof, on the hard days, that you are heading in the right direction, even when it doesn't feel like it.