Founding Members

Founding batch — 250 pouches

DRVN started as small hand-mixed batches for local fighters and coaches in Cornwall. Word spread — gyms, fight teams, friends of friends who train hard — until enough people asked where to buy it that we decided to make it with a formulation company.

Why only 250 units?

We're confident in the formula. That part is settled — it's built on clinically relevant doses of electrolytes and dual-source carbohydrate, and it's been tested where it matters: in hard sessions.

What we don't know yet is everything you can only learn from real use: how the flavour holds up session after session, how well it mixes in a shaker at the side of a mat, and whether the packaging survives being thrown in a gym bag five days a week.

What other flavours do you like? Would you prefer tubs or pouches? How many servings per pack?

So the first run is deliberately small. 250 units is few enough that we can stand behind the quality of every single pouch, and that we can read and reply to every piece of feedback that comes back. When they're gone, this batch is gone.

Founding members

Everyone who buys from this batch is a founding member with lifelong benefits.

Full price is £18.95. Founding members pay £13.25 — 30% off, on this batch only. That price won't be repeated.

Founding members will also get a lifetime 5% discount on future batches as a thank you for supporting us and early access to new products. You are taking a chance on us as a new company and we want to thank you for that.

In exchange, we'll email you a short feedback form. It takes two minutes and asks about three main things:

  • Flavour — does it hold up over a full pouch, or does it get sickly?
  • Mixability — does it dissolve properly, or is there grit at the bottom?
  • Packaging — does it work in the real world: resealing, scooping, surviving a gym bag?

Tell us what works and, more usefully, what doesn't. What comes back shapes the full production run.

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Meet the founder

DRVN was founded by Garrett, a vet working in emergency and critical care, where fluid balance and electrolyte status is often the difference between a good outcome and a bad one.  Garrett spends his working life managing acid-base status, hydration and electrolyte levels in animals that are critically unwell. DRVN is the same physiology, applied to a training session. 

He is a data obsessed science nerd, and has always had a deep interest in sport science and exercise physiology. DRVN is where these passions align.

Training for his first kickboxing fight — one to two hour sessions, heart rate sitting at 160bpm, five or six days a week — he couldn't find a sports product built for genuinely high-intensity training. Most were designed around endurance sports like cycling and running, underdosed on sodium, or padded out with filler ingredients that look good on a label but don't do much.

There wasn't much on the market for really high output sports that make you really sweat-combat sports, Hyrox, CrossFit, interval training, sprint triathlons. Sports where you push your limits for 1-2 hours.

So he started making his own. Training partners asked for some. Then their coaches did. Then people they trained with. That's how we ended up here — with a formulation team, a proper manufacturer, and 250 pouches looking for honest opinions.