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A medical assistant that answers patients without inventing anything

Patients ask the same questions at the worst hours. We built an assistant that answers from approved clinical content only, and hands over to a human the moment it is out of its depth.

62%
of queries resolved without staff
<2 min
average time to first answer
100%
of red flags escalated in testing
24/7
coverage without night staff
The challenge

Where it started

The provider wanted 24/7 answers to appointment, medication and pre-visit questions without adding night staff.

Clinical safety was the hard constraint: no invented advice, no answer outside approved content, and an unmistakable route to a person.

Client: Confidential — digital health provider

What we built

The solution, in four parts

Approved content only

Answers drawn from the provider’s own clinical library and policies, with the source shown to the patient.

Red-flag detection

Symptom language that indicates urgency ends the conversation and routes straight to a clinician, every time.

Clear handover

Conversation history and the reason for escalation land with the staff member — the patient never repeats themselves.

Evaluated before release

A clinical test set scored on every change, reviewed by the provider’s own team before anything goes live.

Technology

What it runs on

Mainstream, well-supported technology — chosen so the client’s own team can own it afterwards.

ClaudeRetrieval-augmented generationPythonNext.jsEvaluation suiteHIPAA-aligned hosting

It says “I don’t know, here is a human” more often than we expected — which is exactly why our clinicians trust it.

Clinical Director

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