“The ER attending told us to our faces: this thing will kill someone. Six months later, she was our first clinical advisor.”

She spent three years inside trauma bays before writing a single line of code. The algorithm she eventually shipped reduced misdiagnosis rates by 31% across four hospital systems — but the path there required her to lose everything she thought she knew about medicine.

“Every investor asked about the exit. Not one asked whether it would actually work in a community hospital in rural Ohio.”

She has sat across the table from 140 cancer patients. She has also sat across the table from 47 venture partners. She says the conversations are more similar than either group would like to admit — everyone is trying to understand their odds.