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Opkit

AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry

Y CombinatorSummer 2021InactiveHealthcareHealthcare ITSaaSHealth TechDigital HealthHealthcare

What they do

Problem

Healthcare organizations waste significant staff time and face delays handling routine, non-clinical patient and payer phone calls.

Solution

Opkit provides a HIPAA-compliant AI voice agent that automates non-clinical healthcare phone tasks like verification of benefits, patient intake, and appointment scheduling.

Who it's for

Medical practices, telehealth companies, and other healthcare provider organizations in the US.

Founders

Sherwood Callaway
Co-founder/CEO

Sherwood Callaway is a 2x YC founder and software engineer with over ten years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, and observability engineering roles top VC-backed startups, including Crunchbase and Brex. Currently, he is founder and CEO at Sazabi, the AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams. Sazabi is directly inspired by Sherwood's experience at Brex, where helped start the company's infrastructure and observability engineering teams.

Justin Ko
Founder

Former early employee at Brex on Growth, Card, and Cash engineering teams. Before that, co-founder of SpeakGenius, an English learning tool. Studied entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California.

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