Altitude gives clinicians a second pair of hands.
Altitude answers, guides, and acts throughout the day — and keeps working between patient visits until the outcome is verified. Used every day, by every kind of clinician we serve
We met running the New York market of a national healthcare brand. One of us was accountable for its financial and operational performance, the other for its clinical performance. Abhishek is an engineer who came to healthcare first as an investor, then as an operational and product leader. Prabhjot is an internal medicine doctor who ran a multi-specialty practice in New York.
Prabhjot wanted intelligence at the point of care, meaning the right tool in clinicians’ hands as they reach for it, and a second pair of hands that keeps working after the visit ends. Abhishek wanted performance measured in patient outcomes, not activity. The market still sells one or the other: agents that flag, or services that stall. Neither moves a patient to goal alone.
An elderly woman would come in with heart failure, kidney disease, and diabetes, each making the others harder to manage. The plan was knowable: start the right medication, recheck her labs in two weeks, raise the dose, watch her weight, adjust again — eight steps over ninety days, most of them outside the visit. In a single short visit, the best you could do was take the first step and hope to see her again before long. You did not know, or even believe, that you would get the chance, end to end, to bring her to the stability she badly needed. Following every guideline for an average panel takes 27 hours in a day; clinical inertia takes over, and patients stall. We took solace in lists; lists do not complete themselves.
Patients have always wanted the same thing: to be healthier, and to get there faster. What’s missing is the follow-through between what they and their clinician decide, and what happens after they leave the conversation.
Altitude is what we wanted and could not buy. It is the only clinical AI company that combines intelligence at the point of care with the clinical capacity to carry that same intelligence beyond the walls of the visit and across time. One system, accountable for the result.
Here’s what we believe: AI only works with real-world context, and over a longer horizon than a single task or a clever answer.
Care beyond the visit can now be written, the way software is written. We build clinical campaigns for any condition with an outcome you can verify. Heart failure optimized. Kidney decline slowed. An A1c brought to goal. A campaign isn’t outreach. It doesn’t stop when a message goes out or a call gets attempted. It runs, with the clinician’s permission, until the result is real or a clinician says stop.
Running campaigns well takes context most software never holds: who this patient is, what’s been tried, how this clinician practices. With that context, we can anticipate what each patient needs — and act across many patients at once, so the clinician can give the person in front of them their full attention. We have no interest in standardizing clinicians. Every good clinician is good differently, and that difference is their craft.
The work is growing faster than the workforce. Patients live with more conditions, earlier in life, for longer, and every therapeutic action toward goal creates more work, not less. That work already outruns the supply of clinicians by orders of magnitude — it’s why so much chronic disease goes unmanaged, and why so many people have no access at all. We’re built for that space. We strengthen the clinicians we have, and we extend real management where there has never been any.
Every campaign makes the next one better, because the context never has to be learned twice. That’s what intelligent clinical infrastructure means, and it’s what we intend to be, market by market.
We built for nurse practitioners first: training varies, patient expectations don’t. We made every step clear, matched support to training, and extended capacity before overload set in. Experienced physicians adopted it next, not because it was the smartest system, but because it met each clinician where they were weakest and strengthened from there. Today clinicians use Altitude every day, trust it to extend them, and increasingly to act for them. They do more of what only they can do.
The craft changes. The outcome doesn’t.
Abhishek Gupta and Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD