Everything we get asked, in one place.

A smart insole that slips into an ordinary shoe and reads the way a person stands, bears weight, and moves. It confirms the person at the source, in their own shoe, with every step.

Trusted data about a person, anchored to proof of who they are. Everything begins with identity: verified identity produces Ground_Truth™, and Ground_Truth™ is trusted data. Wellness, work, recovery and sport are all built on that foundation.

Bio_Sole International Group is the platform that makes Ground_Truth™ possible. Bio_Sole builds the smart insole and the architecture behind it; Ground_Truth™ is what that architecture produces.

To answer one question reliably: is this really the person? It began after our founder was asked whether the age-old problem of enemy impersonation could be solved, following an attack in which impersonators were indistinguishable from a legitimate military convoy.

That your body authenticates itself and stays yours. The biometric never leaves your device, and what travels is only proof that a verified person is present, not anything about their body.

No. It slips into an ordinary shoe, the one a person already owns and already wears.

Pressure and motion at the sole: 58 sensels per foot with 6-axis inertial measurement, left and right in step, more than 50,000 points in 10 seconds of walking.

No charging ritual and nothing to clip on. The insole goes into an ordinary shoe and stays there, which answers the two complaints practitioners raise most often about consumer trackers: forgotten charging and lost devices.

Because the wrist misses what matters. Practitioners have long reported that wrist-worn devices under-count steps when someone walks with a frame or a slow gait, since the arm barely moves. The foot is where the whole body meets the ground, and an insole sits there without anything to clip on or remember.

The science of how bodies move. It studies anything that moves, how it moves, what it needs to move, and how to help it move better. Walking, running, and cycling are all biomechanics.

Gait is the scientific word for the way you walk. A full cycle runs from heel strike, through toe off, to the next landing of the same heel. Everyone's cycle has the same parts, but no two people perform it the same way.

For decades, motion capture labs tracked reflective markers with cameras. Today, small wearable sensors measure movement anywhere, in real life rather than a lab. The same kind of sensor sits in every smartphone.

Yes. Your foot shape, your build, and habits formed over a lifetime combine into a pattern that belongs to you alone. That is why gait can identify a person, and why it is very difficult to fake.

A smart insole reads how a person stands, bears weight and moves through each stride, capturing more than 50,000 data points in 10 seconds of walking. That pattern, a spatial temporal fingerprint, is distinctive enough to verify that a person is who they say they are.

Our smart insole reads the way you stand, bear weight, and move, and is designed to confirm that you are you with every step. The biometric stays on the device, and the world only ever receives a yes or a no.

Inside the person's own shoe, on their own device. It is never stored as an image or a template anywhere else, and no biometric database exists. What leaves is a single-use, time-stamped proof that a verified person was present. We call this Known, Not Shown.

A yes or a no. Nothing else crosses the line. Bio_Sole calls this Known, Not Shown.

No. Recognition happens on the device, in the person's own shoe. Systems that rely on it receive only a single-use, time-stamped proof token. There is no biometric database to breach. We call this Known, Not Shown.

Faces, fingerprints and irises leave the body and are stored as images, so they can be copied and, increasingly, manufactured by software. A walk is not an image. It is never stored as a picture of anyone, so there is nothing to lift, photograph or replay.

A walk cannot be photographed, lifted from a glass, or replayed by software, because it is never stored as an image. The credential is the person, so a badge passed hand to hand stops working.

Individuals control what they share and can withdraw at any time. Research teams own the data their studies generate. Bio_Sole does not sell data.

No. Chatbots are language models that predict plausible words. Bio_Sole uses classification models that label real physical events in sensor data - heel strikes, toe-offs and strides - and are tested against what actually happened.

Yes. The pipeline is time-native: every reading and every model decision is time-stamped, kept and replayable, and every version of every model is retained. Auditable, inspectable and explainable are the three tests every model must pass.

Thomas Elliott, Head of AI and Machine Learning: 30 years across Nortel, Entrust, Amdocs and Ericsson, and an advisor to boards on AI governance.

A measurement that can account for itself. It carries four things from the moment it is taken: who it came from, what took it, when, and under what conditions, so it can be checked later rather than assumed. It does not claim to be perfect. It claims to be checkable.

Ground_Truth™ is the standard: what a measurement has to carry before we will trust it, and what we refuse to claim about it. Bio_Sole is what produces it, meaning the company, the smart insole, and the architecture behind it.

Because a measurement that cannot say whose it is cannot be trusted, and no software turns a number of unknown origin into a reliable one. Identity is confirmed first, and everything after it inherits that.

Yes. Every model must pass three tests before it runs: auditable, meaning the record exists and an outside party can check it; inspectable, meaning it can be opened and examined; and explainable, meaning any decision can be given a reason a person can follow.

Bio_Sole is positioned as a general wellness product. It is not a diagnostic tool, and it makes no medical claims.

No. Bio_Sole is a general wellness product. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition, and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

Two reasons. It is the rule for a general wellness product, and it is the right way to earn trust. We only say what we can stand behind.

Our quality system follows the FDA's Quality Management System Regulation and ISO 13485:2016. Every stage of the product's life is planned, recorded, and reviewed, including data integrity, cybersecurity, and privacy.

No. Bio_Sole is a general wellness product. It does not diagnose, assess, screen for, monitor, or treat anything, and it is not a substitute for professional judgement. What it produces are attested wellness signals, not clinical results.

The client, every time. Sharing is opt in, visible before they agree, and can be withdrawn at any point. Nothing reaches a practitioner by default.

No. The biometric stays on the client's own device, inside their insole. Your practice never holds a face, a print, a template, or a movement record, so there is no biometric database to defend. We call this Known, Not Shown.

It answers who with certainty, which matters for virtual sessions, community visits, and funded programs. Identity is confirmed at the source and systems receive only a yes or a no.

Verifying that the person on a policy, claim, or work site is really that person, throughout the relationship rather than once at intake. Bio_Sole does it through gait: the way a person stands, bears weight, and moves.

The biometric is read and kept on the person's own device, in their shoe. It is never stored as an image or template anywhere else. Systems that rely on it receive only a yes or a no.

Identity fraud, policy fraud, account takeover, ghost claimants, and credential sharing in high-security environments. Identity is the root control every other control inherits.

No. Your organization never holds a face, print, template, or gait record. There is no biometric database to defend and no honeypot to breach.

The signal belongs to the person. They may choose to share general insight into how they are, as observations, not diagnoses, inside a program they opted into. Opt in, and transparent.

Bill Tyson, Insurance Lead at Bio_Sole: a 5th generation insurance professional with 40 years across the industry, from reinsurer to broker.