Why this exists

I’m Sean, founder of Canvass Research and a wellness travel concierge.

Right now, I’m deep in the process of planning my own ptosis revision surgery in South Korea. Third eyelid surgery, second revision, one failed.

When I first started researching Korean surgeons, I did exactly what most people do. I scoured Reddit threads, clinic websites, and Google results for weeks. Yet I still felt like I was guessing with incomplete information.

The real issue wasn’t a lack of effort. It was access.

The most valuable details live on gated Korean-language platforms and communities that simply don’t appear in English searches. Honest patient outcomes, detailed complaint records, medical registry data, unfiltered discussions. None of it shows up in an English Google search.

On top of that, most agencies and intermediaries earn 20–30% commissions from the clinics they “recommend.” Their service is free because the clinic, not you, is the actual customer.

I refused to make a high-stakes decision with only a fraction of the picture. So I built the system I wished existed. A rigorous, independent research process that pulls from hundreds of sources most English speakers can’t reach.

That system became Canvass Research.

I originally created it for my own surgery. Once I saw how powerful it was, I realized so many others are facing the exact same information gap and the same pressure from biased recommendations.

Canvass Research runs on a system I designed using over 20 specialized research agents — each one built to handle a specific task: credential verification, review analysis, red flag detection, pricing patterns, complaint records, and more. They work in parallel across hundreds of Korean and English-language sources that most people can’t access or read, and cross-reference everything before a human research layer checks the output.

The result is a level of depth and cross-referencing that would take a single researcher weeks to replicate. Every claim in your report is evidence-cited so you can verify it yourself.

I built it for my own surgery. Then I realized how many people are making the same decision with almost none of this information available to them.

My wife is Korean. We visit Seoul every year and have family there. Korea isn’t a market opportunity for me — it’s personal. I know the healthcare system, the culture, and the gap between what’s available in Korean and what reaches English speakers. That’s what Canvass Research is built to bridge.

Canvass Research is independent by design. No clinic partnerships. No referral fees. No commissions. No investors pushing us to upsell. You pay us. We work for you. That’s it.

We don’t recommend surgeons or provide medical advice. We give you the research — credentials, patient outcomes, red flags, pricing, complaint history — and you make the decision.

Our full operating principles are published in our Transparency Charter. We think you should be skeptical of anyone who won’t tell you exactly how they operate. So we put it in writing.