The Vision

Your Practice as a
Living Organism

Today, AI tools do what you tell them. Tomorrow, an autonomous system observes your practice, adapts overnight, and surfaces only what your brain needs to decide. Not a dashboard. An organism.

The Surgeon as Nucleus

A surgeon's clinical judgment is the DNA of the practice — it can't be replicated. But today, surgeons spend only 30% of their time on surgery and clinical decisions. The rest is information logistics.

An agentic practice flips that ratio. Six autonomous agents handle compliance, revenue, documentation, patient communication, ambient capture, and surgical readiness — while the surgeon focuses on what only a surgeon can do.

Today30% clinical

70% information logistics

Agentic85% clinical

15% high-judgment decisions only

Six Agents. Six Biological Systems.

Each agent mirrors a biological system that keeps the organism alive. Together, they form a self-regulating practice.

Compliance Agent

Immune System

Constantly scanning for threats — missed deadlines, OAT thresholds dropping, CMS penalties approaching. Reacts to danger before the surgeon knows it exists.

Revenue Agent

Metabolic System

Converts every patient encounter into energy. Auto-selects optimal CPT codes like cells auto-regulate glucose uptake. Nothing billable falls through the cracks.

Documentation Agent

Protein Synthesis

Takes raw clinical data and assembles it into structured outputs — LMNs, PROM interpretations, care plans. Template + input = output, like a ribosome.

Patient Comms Agent

Nervous System

Sends and receives signals — SMS PROMs, appointment reminders, milestone sharing. The interface between the organism and its environment.

Ambient Documentation

Sensory Cortex

Listens to everything — encounters, calls, notes — and converts raw sensory input into structured clinical memory. Always on, always learning.

Surgical Readiness Agent

Reproductive System

Identifies when conservative care has failed and a new episode — surgery — needs to begin. The division and differentiation moment.

The Breakthrough

The Sleep Cycle

Every 24 hours, two meta-agents review the entire system, debate what needs to change, and modify tomorrow's behavior. Like the brain during sleep — consolidating memory, pruning noise, strengthening what matters.

01

Observe

Two meta-agents read every patient encounter, PROM score, billing event, and communication from the past 24 hours across all 6 agents.

02

Synthesize

Condense the day’s activity into actionable insights. Which patients are falling behind? Which revenue was missed? Which care plans need adjustment?

03

Challenge

The two agents have a contrarian discussion — one argues the current approach is working, the other pushes for optimization. This adversarial process prevents stagnation.

04

Adapt

Based on conclusions from the debate, they modify tomorrow’s agent priorities — reweight token allocation, reprioritize outreach, flag cases for surgeon review.

This Is Backpropagation on Your Practice

Forward Pass

One day of autonomous agent operations across all patients

Loss Function

Patient outcomes (PROM scores) vs. predicted trajectory

Backward Pass

Nightly synthesis adjusts tomorrow's agent behavior

Weights

Agent configuration files that determine priorities, thresholds, and actions

The system gets better every day it runs. That's a compounding data moat no competitor can copy.

When the Organism Grows

Cell Division

Patient enters the surgical readiness zone

Surgical Readiness Agent spawns a specialized sub-agent for that patient’s pre-surgical pathway — insurance verification, imaging coordination, consent documentation.

Differentiation

Surgeon hits 100 active patients

System recognizes it needs a dedicated triage layer and auto-creates a Patient Intake Agent that didn’t exist before.

Multicellular

Practice adds a second surgeon

System differentiates practice-level agents from surgeon-level agents — shared compliance infrastructure, individualized patient communication.

Tools vs. Organisms

Every other platform

A Tool

  • Surgeon tells it what to do
  • Static workflows, manual triggers
  • Same behavior on day 1 and day 365
  • Breaks when the practice changes
SurgeonAccess

What we're building

An Organism

  • Observes, adapts, optimizes autonomously
  • Nightly sleep cycle refines next-day behavior
  • Gets measurably better every day it runs
  • Grows new agents when the practice needs them

A Day in the Life: Agentic Surgeon

Today (no agents)

6:00 AMReview charts for today’s surgeries
7:00 AMSurgery
12:00 PMClinic — 20 patients, 15 min each
4:00 PMReturn calls, sign notes, prior auths
6:00 PMMore notes, more charts
RevenueWhatever billing dept catches

Agentic (6 agents + sleep cycle)

6:00 AM30-sec dashboard — agents surfaced 3 items needing judgment
7:00 AMSurgery
12:00 PMClinic — PROMs collected, docs pre-generated, codes selected
3:30 PMDone. Agents handle notes, billing, follow-up.
OvernightSleep cycle: synthesize, debate, adapt for tomorrow
RevenueEvery code, every payment, every opportunity captured

The Platform

From Product to Infrastructure

SurgeonAccess isn't just 8 agents for orthopedics. It's the open agent infrastructure for every surgical specialty. Orthopedics is vertical one.

Phase 1Live

Closed Platform

Now → 200 surgeons

8 proprietary agents. $299/month. Prove the model. Build the data moat.

  • CMS compliance automation
  • RTM billing engine
  • PROM collection via SMS
  • Social media + chat + brand
Phase 2

Open Agent Layer

200 → 2,000 surgeons

Open-source the agent framework. Third parties build agents on our platform.

  • Agent SDK published
  • Marketplace for specialty agents
  • EHR connectors (Epic, Cerner, Athena)
  • Partner scheduling integrations
Phase 3

Multi-Specialty Platform

2,000+ surgeons → every specialty

The framework works for ANY surgical specialty. We become the infrastructure layer.

  • Cardiothoracic agents
  • Neurosurgery agents
  • Urology agents
  • Specialty-specific PROM instruments

Open the Pipes. Close the Intelligence.

Open Source

  • Agent orchestrator framework
  • NPI profile auto-generation engine
  • Chat widget embedding system
  • PROM scoring algorithms
  • FHIR resource templates

Proprietary (10 Patents)

  • Behavioral economics engine (Patent #1)
  • De-artificialization engine (Patent #7)
  • Conservative-to-surgical detection (Patent #4)
  • CMS compliance logic + billing rules
  • Longitudinal outcomes data layer

Open the infrastructure everyone builds on. Keep the intelligence that makes it valuable.

The Market Expands With Every Specialty

Orthopedics20,000
Cardiothoracic5,000
Neurosurgery4,000
Urology12,000
General Surgery25,000
Plastic Surgery7,000
Ophthalmology19,000
ENT10,000
Vascular3,500
Spine4,500

110,000+ surgeons across 10 specialties. Same infrastructure. Specialty-specific agents.

Orthopedics first. Then everything.

Boulder Startup Week 2026

8 Agents, Not 8 Hires

How AI is replacing the back office for specialty medicine. A live demo of agentic staffing built by a 3-person team in Boulder using Claude, Next.js, and 60 days of obsessive focus.

Blaine Warkentine, MD MBA

Co-Founder & Board — Boulder, CO

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Levonti Ohanisian, MD MBA

CEO & Co-Founder — Stanford Ortho

The future of orthopedic practice is autonomous.

Start with a free profile. Your first agent is already watching your compliance.