Three-quarter profile with clear skin against warm cream backdrop
personalized acne treatment

Acne Treatment
That's Actually Built
for Your Skin.

PROVEN's AI analyzes your skin, your environment, and your life — then builds a formula that's never existed before.

Find My Formula — Free, 3 Minutes

MIT AI Technology of the Year · 100K+ Unique Formulas · 30-Day Guarantee

Your Skin Isn't the Problem.
Your Products Were.

01 — Wrong Ingredients for Your Biology

Same Ingredient. Opposite Outcomes.

C. acnes — the bacteria behind most breakouts — has different phylotypes in different people. Research shows benzoyl peroxide clears one phylotype and worsens another. Same ingredient. Opposite outcomes. If your acne treatment didn't work, it might have been the right category but the wrong molecule for YOUR skin.

02 — Products Fighting Each Other

Your Routine Was at War with Itself.

Layer a cleanser from one brand, a serum from another, a moisturizer from a third — and ingredients can cancel each other out. Or react. PROVEN formulates your cleanser, treatment, and moisturizer together. One system. Every ingredient calibrated to work with every other.

03 — A Formula That Can't Keep Up

Your Skin Is Dynamic. Your Products Weren't.

Your skin at 8 AM isn't your skin at 8 PM. Stress, seasons, travel, hormones — acne is dynamic. Static products treat a snapshot. PROVEN's system adapts. When your life changes, your formula changes with it.

Personalized acne treatment means the AI selects specific ingredients and concentrations based on an individual's 47-factor skin profile — including C. acnes phylotype variation, environmental exposure, and hormonal patterns — rather than prescribing a standard formula designed for a statistical average.

Most people spend $500+ and two years cycling through products that were never designed for their skin. PROVEN's system predicts your formula before you buy.

From Your Life
to Your Formula

Most 'personalized' brands use a quiz to sort you into one of a handful of pre-made products. PROVEN generates a formulation that has never existed before.

01

The Quiz — 47 Factors, ~3 Minutes

Your genetics. Your environment — climate, water hardness, UV exposure, pollution. Your lifestyle — stress, diet, sleep, exercise. Your skin behavior. Your specific concerns. Your zip code. 47 factors that determine what your skin actually needs.

02

The Database — 28M+ Data Points

Your answers map against the Skin Genome Project — 28 million+ data points from 20,000+ ingredients, 100,000+ skincare products, and 4,000+ peer-reviewed research papers. The AI cross-references your profile to identify the exact ingredients and concentrations for your acne.

03

Your Unique Formula

The output isn't a recommendation from a catalog. It's a formulation that has never existed before — your specific ingredients, at your specific concentrations, formulated fresh and shipped to you. 100,000+ unique formulations created and counting.

100,000+ unique formulas
04

Continuous Adaptation

Move cities. Change seasons. Have a stressful month. The system detects shifts in your profile and adjusts. 40% of users receive seasonally adapted formulations. Your acne treatment evolves because your skin does.

40% receive seasonal adaptations

The routine you assembled — cleanser from one brand, serum from another, moisturizer your friend recommended — wasn't designed to work together. Curology adjusts the dose of standard prescriptions. The Ordinary hands you ingredients and says figure it out. PROVEN generates a unique formulation — ingredients selected, concentrations balanced, products designed together — for you.

See What 47 Factors Reveal
About Your Acne

Free skin analysis. 3 minutes. Your unique formula starts here.

Find My Formula

2 Patents.
Zero Guesswork.

Amy Yuan, PhD in Computational Physics from Stanford. 2 U.S. patents in AI personalization. MIT AI Idol winner. She didn't start in beauty — she started in data. Her thesis: your skin isn't broken. Your products were generic.

PROVEN exists because skincare was a system-level failure. Discovery was broken — distribution optimized for clicks, not fit. Matching was broken — great ingredients couldn't reach the right people. And products were static — same formula every season, even though your skin changes monthly. PROVEN built the infrastructure to fix all three.

Appeared on Shark Tank. Got rejected by the Sharks. Scaled to $150M+ without them.

Stanford / USC PhD 2 U.S. Patents MIT AI Idol Y Combinator W18 $150M+ Revenue
PROVEN Skincare founder Amy Yuan

Quiz to Clear Skin:
What the First 8 Weeks Look Like

Day 0

The Quiz — ~3 Minutes

Answer questions about your skin, your concerns, your environment, your life. The quiz maps 47 factors — not to categorize you, but to formulate for you. Your results show your unique skin profile and the specific ingredients selected for your acne.

Week 1–2

Calibration

Your skin adjusts to a formula built specifically for it. Texture begins to smooth. Inflammation quiets. Some adjustment is normal — it means the actives are engaging.

Week 3–4

Clearing

Active breakouts slow. New ones become less frequent. Your skin barrier strengthens. The system is working — not by suppressing symptoms, but by addressing YOUR specific acne drivers.

Week 5–8

Compounding

Results accelerate. Post-acne marks begin fading. Skin tone evens. The formulation continues adapting — if your life changes, your formula changes with it.

Week 8+

Maintenance

Skin stays clear because the system keeps adapting. Seasonal changes, stress shifts, geographic moves — covered. 40% of users receive seasonally adapted formulations. 28% receive entirely new regimens as needs evolve.

What you receive

Your Personalized Acne System

Cleanser + Day Moisturizer + Night Cream. Each formulated for your 47-factor skin profile. Made fresh when you order.

$99 for your first personalized system

PROVEN Personalized Cleanser Cleanser Personalized
PROVEN Personalized Day Moisturizer Day Moisturizer Personalized
PROVEN Personalized Night Cream Night Cream Personalized

Not seeing results by week 4–6? PROVEN reformulates your system — free. Not a refund. A reformulation. Because the system learns from your skin, and learning takes iteration.

Real Results

Before and after acne treatment results — Cait, hormonal acne cleared over 8 weeks

8 weeks · Hormonal acne

Real PROVEN user result

Before and after acne treatment results — Alea, inflammatory acne improved over 12 weeks

12 weeks · Inflammatory

Real PROVEN user result

Before and after acne treatment results — Felicia, adult onset acne cleared over 6 weeks

6 weeks · Adult onset

Real PROVEN user result

The Numbers Behind
Your Formula

28M+

Data points in the Skin Genome Project

20K+

Ingredients analyzed

100K+

Unique formulations created

93%

Reported improvement within 30 days

What customers say

"I'd been on benzoyl peroxide for three years and my chin would still flare up every month. Switched to PROVEN and by week six my derm asked what I changed. Breakouts stopped, texture smoothed out, and I actually look forward to washing my face now."

Rachel M., 28, combination skin, Austin TX · 8 weeks

"Hormonal acne since my mid-twenties. I tried Curology, The Ordinary, prescription tretinoin — nothing stuck. The quiz results were weirdly specific about my jawline breakouts and hard water. Four months in, my skin is the calmest it's been since college."

Danielle K., 34, oily skin, Portland OR · 12 weeks

switched from Curology

"I was skeptical — another skincare quiz, sure. But the results page described my skin better than my dermatologist ever has. Adult acne at 41 felt hopeless. Six weeks later my forehead is completely clear and the dry patches around my chin are gone."

Nina P., 41, sensitive/dry, Chicago IL · 6 weeks

Questions Before You Start

PROVEN generates a unique formulation for every customer. The quiz maps 47 factors — your answers directly determine ingredient selection, concentration, and system calibration. There's no catalog of pre-made products. There are 100,000+ unique formulations and counting.

Curology adjusts the dose of standard prescription ingredients — typically tretinoin, azelaic acid, and clindamycin. PROVEN builds an entirely unique formulation from a library of 20,000+ ingredients, selecting and concentrating based on your 47-factor profile. It's the difference between a custom dose and a unique formula.

If you don't see improvement by week 4–6, PROVEN reformulates your system free of charge. The reformulation uses what the system learned from your skin's response to refine your profile. This isn't a refund — it's the system getting smarter.

Most users see initial improvement in 3–4 weeks as inflammation quiets and breakouts slow. Full results compound over 5–8 weeks. Skin cell turnover takes 28 days minimum — any product promising results in 7 days is lying.

Your first personalized 3-step routine is $99. That includes your cleanser, day moisturizer, and night cream — each formulated uniquely for your 47-factor skin profile. Subscribers save on refills, and your formula adapts as your skin changes.

80% of customers choose the subscription — because the formula adapts as your skin changes, shipping on a schedule makes sense. But you can purchase once. Pause, skip, or cancel anytime.

Your Formula
Is Waiting.

Every month on generic products is another month treating your skin like someone else's.

Find My Formula — Free, 3 Minutes
Your personalized acne treatment is 3 minutes away Find My Formula