About PracticeX

A quantitative mind. A clinical one. One product built between them.

PracticeX is what happens when a hedge-fund systems engineer and a practicing gastroenterologist look at the same problem — scattered contracts running a $500K/year facility into the ground — and refuse to accept that the only tools available are built for Fortune 500 legal departments.

Our thesis

The most important operating documents in a specialty practice are its contracts. And yet in most independent facilities, they live where nothing else important lives: in email threads, on shared drives, in filing cabinets, and on the laptops of admins who change jobs every eighteen months.

Enterprise contract platforms are not the answer. They are priced for the legal team of a public company and built for the procurement workflow of a Fortune 500 — not the practice admin at a 5-physician GI group deciding whether to renew the scope service contract.

EHRs are not the answer either. To an EHR, a contract is a PDF glued to a patient workflow — storage, not intelligence.

PracticeX is the thing that should have existed ten years ago: a contract operating system built for the people who actually run independent facilities — the admins, the operators, the owner-physicians. Start with visibility. Expand into reimbursement intelligence. End with a negotiation copilot that prepares renewals the way a good analyst would. And never, ever let AI commit to anything on the customer's behalf.

The founding team

Two people. One very specific problem.

S
Co-founder · CEO

The quantitative architect.

20 yrs · Hedge fund systems · AI infrastructure

Spent two decades building high-precision trading and research systems where a mis-extracted number ends careers. Now applying that discipline to contracts — structured records, confidence scoring, audit trails, and reviewable AI outputs from day one.

  • Ex-Quant Systems · Multi-strategy fund
  • Built extraction pipelines processing 10M+ docs/yr
  • First production LLM system in 2021
  • Synexar · prior AI infrastructure startup
P
Co-founder · Clinical & practice lead

The clinical compass.

15 yrs · Practicing GI · Multi-facility operator

Practicing gastroenterologist and facility administrator for 15 years. Runs a 10-location independent group. Has personally missed a notice window, negotiated with the carrier that caused it, and written down exactly what a product like this should do.

  • Partner · 10-location GI & ASC group
  • 400+ employees across facilities
  • Lived the payer renewal cycle 40+ times
  • Design-partner for every feature shipped
Principles

Seven rules we will not break.

01

Start narrow. Solve one painful workflow extremely well.

The wedge is contract visibility for independent facilities. Everything else comes after we earn the right.

02

No heavy IT project required.

If onboarding takes more than two weeks, we've failed. Practice admins do not have a migration team.

03

Documents first. Intelligence second.

The repository has to be trustworthy before benchmarks or negotiation prep mean anything. No shortcuts.

04

AI accelerates review. It does not replace judgment.

Confidence-scored. Source-linked. Audit-logged. Reviewable. Never the last word.

05

The human is the final authority.

No term is accepted, sent, or committed without explicit human approval. This is a product principle, not a limitation.

06

Every premium feature must tie to action or dollars.

If a Pro feature doesn't change a renewal decision or surface a real opportunity, it shouldn't ship.

07

The contract record is the long-term asset.

Every module — repository, alerts, benchmarks, copilot, agents — builds on the same structured contract base. No re-onboarding when a new module ships. The data you clean up in month one compounds for years.

Where we are

A company-shaped object — today.

Q4 · 2025
Done

MVP validated with design partner.

Repository, extraction, renewal tracking, and search running against real contracts from a 10-facility GI group. First missed-window alert caught a 45-day Aetna notice with 3 days to spare.

April · 2026
Now

Pilot cohort launch — 5 facilities.

Five design-partner facilities, one full renewal cycle, weekly co-design. The product gets built in the room with the people who will use it for the next five years.

H2 · 2026
Next

Pro intelligence layer.

Rate visibility, benchmarks, facility variance, amendment lineage, renewal prep packs. SOC 2 Type I readiness. Target: 25 paying practices.

2027
Planned

Negotiation copilot.

The system starts preparing — prioritized renewals, risk summaries, suggested asks, draft language. Human approval before anything leaves the building.

Raise
Open

Pre-seed · $1.5–2.0M.

AWS/HIPAA production rebuild, founding engineering hires, SOC 2 Type I readiness. Target: scale from 5 design partners to 25+ paying practices within 12 months.

Design-partner cohort · April 2026

If you run an independent facility, we want to talk.

Five slots in the pilot. Weekly co-design. Locked pricing for 24 months. In exchange — your honest feedback and, eventually, a case study.