The project was codenamed "bar raiser" not only because what it did, but also because of the impact it could have on humanity and EvolveTech as a whole. The mere ambitiousness of it made Dr. Angela Grant one of the company's top assets and now that it only needed a real field test it could leave her set for life if she so desired, because it was a product capable of killing at least an entire industry. It still didn't have a commercial name but that was none of Dr. Grant's business, what she cared about now was on how to test it.
So what was this product about, just another set of pills that promised to improve your beauty, making the skin look younger and healthier, taking care of undesirable extra fats in critical zones, fixing up all kind of stretch marks, scars, wrinkles and other signs of age, and in general delivering an all around improvement in your appearance, only that this time it was for real. And it was so real it even accounted for that old saying about beauty being on the eye of the beholder. It was a pill that objectively made people more beautiful.
The pill was a combination of two breakthrough advancements, the first at a genetics level that allowed it to tackle all kinds of issues at its root level. Thanks to the secret sauce provided by Dr. Grant, an understanding on highly complex chains of genetic material and their effects on outward appearance of the human body, it was capable of performing at long last all those things that before would be considered miracles, from curing alopecia to potentially even fixing hereditary genetic disorders if taken regularly enough.
The second breakthrough was at a neurochemistry level, a practical application of the theoretical concept that drugs could do something more than just excite or depress certain aspects of what the brain processed like the ability to feel pain for example. The way this worked for the pill was that it could dictate what kind of problem to address based on the individual information received from the brain, that is, it could work to make people more beautiful according to whatever they considered "beautiful" was.
Sure, with the first breakthrough EvolveTech could probably do enough making products that solved individual problems, but this was the "bar raiser" for a reason. If testing was successful it could mean the creation of the first biological machine, and it opened the door to so much more opportunities. But now it was time for the potentially unethical part, human testing needed to be done, and it needed to be done on unsuspecting volunteers to assess the real capability of the benefits of the pill.
Dr. Angela Grant would normally reject such an idea, but for a product like this with everything it could bring to the world, to the company and to her, she was willing to get her hands dirty. Making sure to overlook the testing process herself and with the generous resources provided by the company she could do whatever she wanted, and what she did was have EvolveTech buy some of those companies selling your typical ineffectual beauty pills so one of their lucky customers would receive the "bar raiser" instead and hopefully see real strides towards their image of beauty. She was confident in her product, the only thing she wasn't sure about was how effective it was going to be.
She chuckled when she saw the potential list of customers were all women, but she didn't really have any trouble with it. It felt fair to her in a way, women are more proactive in their search of beauty so they should benefit first. She only needed to pick a name and track her progress.
What happens next?