COMPANY · EST 2026

Continuous clinical awareness for the modern care journey.

We're building the intelligence layer between patients and care teams — an extension of clinicians, never a replacement. Starting in the emergency department, where the gap is widest.

25+
Clinician conversations
5
Chicago-area health systems
6h
Hardest hours in the hardest room
$1M
Pre-seed raise · currently active
Our thesis

Healthcare systems should do more than document a patient's condition. They should continuously understand how it evolves.

Our belief

The waiting room is not empty time.

It's an underused clinical environment. Healthcare is rapidly evolving, but the time patients spend between assessments remains largely unmanaged. Clinical decisions are still made from a moment — even though the patient keeps changing.

The problem

Reassessment relies on isolated snapshots.

In high-volume environments, this creates operational blind spots, delays the recognition of changing symptoms, and contributes to patients leaving before receiving care. It's a workflow gap the industry hasn't named yet.

Our thesis

Continuous workflows will be foundational.

Healthcare organizations will move beyond isolated snapshots and adopt intelligent workflow platforms that continuously collect, organize, compare, and surface meaningful changes throughout the patient journey — extending clinicians rather than replacing them.

Our approach

Build platforms, not features.

We start with the hardest six hours of the hardest room — the emergency department night shift — and prove the platform works there before extending it into urgent care, outpatient, and post-discharge environments.

Seven principles

The commitments we make to every patient, partner, and hire.

1

Technology extends human care

Tools strengthen the relationship between clinician and patient. Never replace it.

2

Create continuous awareness

Clinical understanding should evolve with the patient — not freeze at intake.

3

Workflows drive innovation

Technology adapts to how healthcare actually works. Not the other way around.

4

Every minute matters

Reducing delays in awareness directly improves outcomes. We optimize for that.

5

Transparency builds trust

Nurses should see what the system is doing, and why. No black boxes.

6

Build platforms, not features

Solve enduring categories of problems. A one-off feature is not a mission.

7

Collaboration drives innovation

Nurses, physicians, engineers, and researchers, at the same table. No shortcut around this.

Team

Operators turned builders.

A small team with deep operator context. We spent the last year inside emergency departments before we spent a day writing production code.

Piece 01
AC
Founder & CEO
Annabella Christophe
Operator-turned-builder. Coded the core Jessie engine. Leads product vision, technical development, customer discovery, and company strategy. Spent the last year inside emergency departments across the Chicago healthcare ecosystem.
Piece 02
BA
Co-Founder · Sales & Clinical Strategy
Breanna Alexander
Leads hospital partnerships, commercialization planning, pilot design, and go-to-market strategy.
Piece 03
JC
Chief Marketing & People Officer
Joanna Chavez
Leads business development follow-up, relationship management, growth coordination, and early people operations.
Piece 04
FS
Director of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure
Francesca Santos
Leads cybersecurity planning, technical risk management, infrastructure security, and preparation for healthcare security requirements.
Next piece
You?

We're growing the team — clinical, engineering, and operations. If you love the ED problem, write us.

DZ
Technical Advisor
Dr. David Zaretsky
RAG & LLM framework specialist. Guides foundational architecture, product development, and system-direction decisions behind Jessie.
Advisor
Closing philosophy
AI should never replace compassion, clinical expertise, or human judgment.

Every decision we make begins with one question: will this help someone receive better care?