METHODOLOGY
How we formulate, verify, and publish every formula.
Every Stellar product passes through the same operating framework: literature-anchored formulation, AI-optimized against published research, independently lab-tested, and verified by Clinical Index. The methodology is documented and inspectable.
THE FOUR-STEP FRAMEWORK
Every formula passes through the same pipeline.
From literature review to release. Each step is documented and can be audited per product.
01 · LITERATURE
Published research is the starting point.
We begin with peer-reviewed clinical literature for each candidate ingredient — efficacy data, dose ranges, safety profile, interaction context.
02 · OPTIMIZATION
AI screens dose and synergy against the research.
Models cross-reference ingredient combinations and dose ratios against published clinical data — flagging conflicts, redundancies, and dose-rationale gaps.
03 · VERIFICATION
Every batch is tested independently.
Production lots are analyzed at an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory for ingredient identity, heavy metals, microbials, and active compound standardization.
04 · PUBLICATION
The methodology is inspectable.
Scoring criteria, audit process, and COA review are documented at clinicalindex.com. Customers can verify the work end-to-end.
THE PRINCIPLE
WHY METHODOLOGY MATTERS
The supplement category sells outcomes. We sell the work behind them.
Most of the supplement industry markets benefits. Stellar's bet is that the customer who interrogates what they buy wants the methodology — what was tested, by which lab, at what dose, against which research, and how to verify it.
Every page in this section answers a specific methodology question: how the formula was built, how it gets verified, how doses get justified, and where safety boundaries are drawn.
If you find a gap, we want to hear it — methodology is not finished, it's iterated.
DEEP DIVES
Read the methodology by topic.
METHODOLOGY / 01
Clinical Index.
What Clinical Index does, the relationship structure, and the §255.5 disclosure architecture.
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Verification.
Lab partnerships, what gets tested per batch, and how customers access COAs by lot number.
Read →METHODOLOGY / 03
How we formulate.
The literature review, AI-optimization, dose justification, and pre-manufacturing audit pipeline.
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Dose rationale.
How doses are evaluated against published clinical data, with worked per-ingredient examples.
Read →PROOF
The methodology is inspectable.
Read the full Clinical Index methodology, browse COAs by batch, or jump straight to a formula.