MedStartr Venture Studio Services
Your Healthcare Product, Built and Live in Weeks, Not Quarters.
MedStartr Venture Studio pairs fifteen years of healthcare innovation know-how with an AI-powered engineering team that builds, tests and ships working software every day.
Built in days, not quarters. No tech bros holding your product hostage. You own the code and every decision is written down.
Syggy Studio
An app that lets nurses photograph wounds and flags infections early.
Here is a first plan: a photo screen, a review queue and an alert to the care team.
The Problem We Solve
Healthcare founders and innovation teams usually face a bad choice:
- Hire an agency: slow, expensive, and it's hard to tell what you're paying for.
- Hire engineers: months to recruit, and a big fixed cost before you know the product works.
- Use a no-code tool: fast to start, but you hit a wall when the product gets real.
Then there's what makes healthcare different: privacy, clinicians' workflows, buyers who need evidence, and a market where the wrong first feature can cost you a year.
What We Do
1. Healthcare Strategy and Design (Led by Alex Fair)
- Shape the idea against what clinicians, patients, payers and hospital buyers actually need
- Product design and user experience for healthcare audiences
- Go-to-market, pitch and sponsor strategy, drawn from MedStartr's community of innovators and 200 events since 2008
2. AI-Powered Product Engineering (Led by Mike Pence)
- Working software in production, not slide decks or prototypes
- You ask for a change in plain English, in chat. It's built, independently reviewed, tested, and goes live, usually the same day.
- Every change is written down: what was asked, what was built, how it was checked
- You own the code
3. Rapid Build with Syggy
- Describe the product you want in plain English
- Watch Syggy plan it, sketch it and build it, in days
- Every step is written down, and the code is yours
4. Launch and Grow
Events, pitch contests and community launches through the MedStartr network and this site drive first customers, partnerships, pilots, mentor joins, and funding. With thousands of visitors a day, a great profile here is like being on stage or having a booth at a conference every day. You also get matched with MedStartr Mentors, who give expert feedback, expertise and introductions to speed up product development and adoption.
And Gyffy (Get Your Idea Found and Funded Faster), MedStartr's launch agent, coaches your team step by step through your first 60 days: proven ways to drive awareness, sales, partnerships and funding, drawn from years of MedStartr campaigns.
Try Byggy on Your Idea
Describe the healthcare product you want to build. Byggy (built on Syggy), your AI engineering partner, will ask a few questions and then give you a short product document (what to build first, what to leave out, the healthcare rules that likely apply, the main risks and next steps), a first sketch of the key screens, and the main user flows. It's free for up to 10 messages.
Byggy, Built on Syggy
Hi, I'm Byggy. Tell me what you want to build.
What Syggy Is Building
Waiting for your idea. Describe it in the chat and the plan starts here.
Product Plan
- The problem
- Not yet
- Who it's for
- Not yet
- Build first
- Not yet
- Leave out for now
- Not yet
- Rules that likely apply
- Not yet
- Main risks
- Not yet
- Next steps
- Not yet
Screen Sketch and Flows
Syggy sketches the key screens and the main user flows once she has the gist of your idea.
Your Messages
Want to keep this conversation? Sign in or create a free account and it's saved to your account, so you can come back to it here any time.
Byggy flags the rules that likely apply and how to design for them. It doesn't certify compliance — that's for your own legal and compliance review.
Proof: We Built MedStartr.ai This Way
MedStartr.ai, the platform this page is on, is built and run by this team.
In the last 30 days on MedStartr.ai
1,519
commits, about 50 a day
266
finished changes shipped, about 9 a day
about 167,000
lines of code and tests
26
minutes from ask to live, on October 8
200
MedStartr events since 2008
- Over 500 changes shipped to the live site in its first year
- Requested in the morning, live by lunch. On October 8, Alex asked for past events on the Events page at 11:24 am. It was live at 11:50 am.
- One afternoon, one archive. The same day, all 200 MedStartr events since 2008 went into a single Past Events archive, with 51 of them linked to their recordings.
- Events, ticketing, member profiles, company pages and reviews, a live community "Salon", sponsor pages, and security hardening, all built the same way
Our track record. We have built custom solutions for the AMA, AHA, AMIA, Ochsner, BC/BS, HHS, GE, and over two dozen early stage companies.
How It Works
Talk to us. A free call about what you're building and who it's for.
Plan. We agree on the first version together: what's in, what's out, and how we'll know it works.
Build in the open. You see every change as it lands and can ask for changes in plain English.
Launch. Go live, with MedStartr's network behind you if you want it.
Who It's For
- Healthcare startups that need a real product, fast
- Hospital and health-system innovation teams testing a new idea
- Sponsors and partners who want a branded platform, challenge or event site
Pricing
Engagements may include equity-based compensation, subject to due diligence. Talk to us about what fits your company.
The Team
Alex Fair, founder of MedStartr: 25 years building software and solutions in healthcare and commercial software. Founded 7 startups, including MedStartr. As CTO of Scanbuy, he helped create and patent the first connection from a cell phone to a QR code.
Mike Pence: AI engineering and the build system behind the studio. His work includes Kickstarter, MedStartr, and ESPN's Emmy-nominated AI-hosted SportsCenter.
Syggy: your AI engineering partner, fluent in HIPAA, FHIR, GDPR and the rest of healthcare's rules. Try her on this page.
Your MedStartr Acceleration Team
Questions
I already started building with another AI tool or team. How does that work?
We start from the code you already have, so nothing is thrown away. We review it, keep what works, and make it ready to grow: tests, security, healthcare rules and a clear record of every change. You keep full ownership, and you're never dependent on one person or one tool.
Your Idea, Your Code: what happens to what I share?
What you share with Syggy is used only to help you, and we never share it with anyone without your written consent. Your conversation is stored securely so you can come back to it, and only you can see it on the site. Our team looks at it only if you ask us to, or to fix a problem. For deeper work, your code stays in your own repository, and we access it only under a signed NDA.
About NDAs: as fund managers, developers and active members of the healthcare innovation community, we've seen thousands of ideas, so parts of what you share may overlap with things we already know. Our NDA therefore covers what's unique to you, not what's already public or already known to us. We will not disclose anything you share without your express consent.