Intellectual Frontiers Portfolio

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SoftwarePressOperating2026

AI Slop Check

A free browser tool that turns a few answers about a business document into a review prompt that scores how much of it is specific, evidenced, and useful, and how much of it could have been written for any company.

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EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Stop Wasting Your Colleagues’ Time With Your Bad Writing

Bad internal writing is not a writing problem. It is a respect problem. Every vague document you send asks your colleagues to finish your thinking for you. AI made the slop cheap to produce and did nothing for the cost of reading it.

EssayPressDesign Pattern2026

If It Isn't Written Down, It Didn't Happen

Regulated industries run on one rule: no document, no event. That sounds bureaucratic until you try to reconstruct a decision from six Slack threads and five different memories. Here's the pattern, and why AI just made it cheap.

SoftwareStudiosOperating2026

Workspaces Host v3

One engineering setup that installs the same way on Windows through WSL, Linux, macOS, in a container, or in a cloud agent session, with the shell, git credentials, repository layout, and everyday tools already configured.

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EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Stop Telling People to Communicate Better. Instrument It.

Most companies don't have a communication problem. They have an uninstrumented one. Here's how I'd use AI to score communication behavior, turn complaints into structured findings, and leave the human judgments to humans.

EssayPressWorking Theory2026

Why LLMs Seem to Get Wobblier Near Completion

My working theory: these models are great at continuing and lousy at being done. The last stretch of a project probably needs different rules, not a smarter model — a canonical spec, scheduled audits, and a second model as judge.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Why Doesn’t Engineering Already Know This?

A guide for executives who think every technical problem should already be obvious to the engineering team. Simple after discovery is not the same thing as obvious before discovery, and confusing the two produces terrible management decisions.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Alpha, Benchmarks, and Why I Borrowed the Word From Investors

Alpha in finance is the return you cannot explain by the market. Here is what that actually means, why investors bother separating skill from luck, and which parts of the idea carry over to running a company and which do not.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Capability Is Cheap Now. Advantage Is Not.

AI made building things dramatically cheaper, which quietly destroyed a lot of differentiation that was never real. How to tell commodity execution from differentiated execution, and where to spend the judgment you have left.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Someone Outside the Room Has to Care

Enthusiasm inside a company proves nothing. The strength of evidence for an advantage is measured by what somebody outside gave up to act on it, from a compliment at the bottom to a renewal at the top.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Product-Market Fit Does Not Tell You Who to Sell To

The same product can be ordinary for one buyer and transformative for another. Product-asymmetry fit and the Ideal Alpha Profile explain why the customer with the biggest problem is often the wrong customer.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

Where Native Alpha Actually Lives, and How It Decays

Advantage is contextual, it hides at surprisingly small scales, it needs protection in the place it actually lives, and it expires. How to find it, where to put the fence, and when to admit it is gone.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2026

First Principles Got Turned Into a Slogan

Reasoning from first principles means stripping a problem down to what you can verify and rebuilding from there. In executive hands it usually means ignoring people with experience. This is the real version, and how it fits with Native Alpha.

Research paperResearch & IPPublished2026

Integrating trust into artificial intelligence for medicine: using diabetes as the exemplar disease

Journal of Translational Medicine. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact healthcare across multiple domains. In diabetes, a complex chronic disease affecting 600 million people globally, AI is already being used from primary care to tertiary specialist care to reduce patient and clinician burden. However, for medical AI to be widely implemented and applied specifically to diabetes, such stakeholders as patients, clinicians, healthcare administrators, regulators, and AI developers will need to establish trust in this technology.

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Research paperResearch & IPPublished2026

Research Code Sharing in Support of Gold Standard Science

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. Sharing research code in an open access version-controlled repository offers significant benefits for both science as a whole and for individual researchers. This article focuses on this practice, which is fully aligned with the NIH's Gold Standard Science (GSS) program as well as FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) and TRUST (transparency, responsibility, user focus, sustainability, technology) principles.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

AI-native defensive security

AI makes some attacks cheaper and gives defenders more ways to watch systems continuously. This pillar asks which neglected defensive jobs machines can now do, and which decisions still need a person.

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VentureStudiosIn build2026

Ambient Biomarkers Reference Lab

A reference lab for biomarkers captured passively from ordinary sensors: voice, gait, respiration, facial expression, wearable and metabolic signals, standardized into panels, reported like any other lab result, and governed by an integrated review board and clinician network.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Attack-and-recovery engineering

Engineering disciplines specify an outcome, instrument the system, attack the assumption, measure what happens, and improve. This pillar applies that sequence to cyber resilience and collects the evidence needed before any composite score can honestly be defined.

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BookPress2026

Bare Metal Software

Software stacks grew taller because human developers needed abstractions, frameworks, libraries, SDKs, and managed services to make difficult work practical. Native AI changes that tradeoff.

FundCapitalIn formation2026

Care Delivery Fund II

Back the clinicians rebuilding care delivery. An intelligence engine built on CMS and claims data decides whether the firm invests in a founder already in motion, takes selective control of an operator worth re-platforming, or builds the company itself.

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BookPress2026

Chasing Native Alpha

When every competitor can reach for capable models, coding agents, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly similar technology, producing more software is no longer a sufficient strategy.

Shared serviceStudiosIdeation2026

Companion Executable Source Code Repositories

An open initiative for scientific research reproducibility. Companion executable source code repositories pair a published paper with the code, data, and documentation needed to reproduce it, turning static publications into living evidence.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Compliant Insecurity

An organisation can hold every certificate its market asks for and still be unable to detect, contain, or recover from an ordinary intrusion. Compliant Insecurity is the name for that condition. This pillar studies how regulatory and contractual obligations move from periodic attestation to continuous operational evidence.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Consumer tech for medical grade devices

Zero Neo says new software should be the last resort when you already own the platform. The same question applies to hardware. Consumer electronics has already commoditized most of the sensing, compute, radio, and power a large class of medical devices needs. If that is true, and if AI-native methods can compress the regulatory and quality work, then some reimbursed devices are priced as though neither change happened.

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VentureStudiosIn build2026

Continuous Care OS

An operating system for supervising an accountable digital care operation. A clinical leader reviews decisions, evidence, and billing as a queue of work with owners and dates, instead of hunting through a dashboard for whatever went wrong.

Shared serviceStudiosOperating2026

Demand Engineering AI Workforce™

The companion shared service we run when Revenue Engineering is too early. The outcome it owns is proven demand: a named audience, a claim that survives contact with them, and a first step they will actually take.

BookPress2026

Doing the Right Thing Is Not a Business Model

“There's no business model in healthcare to do the right thing” is not a complaint. It is a research question. A product can be clinically effective, FDA cleared, physician-loved, and pilot-proven, and still have no institutional path to a purchase, because the person who benefits is rarely the person who pays, the person who pays rarely controls the budget, and “the hospital” is never actually the customer.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Eidolons: working digital reflections

We hand capable engines important work and then hand them a thin description of the people, companies, customers, competitors, products, and systems the work is about. An Eidolon is a working digital reflection of one of those things: not a replica, not a clone, but enough grounded reality for an AI to reason about the original without guessing.

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BookPress2026

FixedOps Performance

Most fixed operations problems do not arrive as large, obvious failures. They arrive as small, repeated variances: a discount here, two-tenths of an hour there, a technician waiting on a part, an advisor who presents some recommendations but not others. Individually, none of that looks like a crisis. In aggregate, it is the operating economics of the department.

BookPress2026

Getting Paid to Do the Right Thing

American healthcare is accused of paying only for sickness and visits, and the charge is mostly fair. It is also incomplete. Medicare now pays for chronic care management, transitions after discharge, remote monitoring, behavioral health integration, illness navigation, caregiver training, advance care planning, and monthly advanced primary care bundles. Most practices collect a small fraction of it, because the administrative work of earning that payment costs more than the payment itself.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

GRC engineering

Governance, risk, and compliance teams write policies, maintain spreadsheets, collect screenshots, and answer questionnaires. This pillar asks how much of that evidence the systems themselves can produce.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Human error without human blame

A large part of security practice asks employees to remember instructions and behave correctly under time pressure. This pillar studies what happens when that expectation is replaced with technical arrangements that make the safe action the default.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Intermediation in Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare is unusually intermediated. Between an innovation and the patient sit physicians, hospitals, distributors, DME suppliers, pharmacies, PBMs, payers, employers, purchasing organizations and government programs, and each of them controls a different part of the money, the workflow, the risk or the door. This pillar treats that structure as something to be mapped and redesigned rather than accepted.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Labor as Code™

Work becomes governable when its purpose, evidence, authority, limits, exceptions, and tests are written clearly enough to inspect and change.

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BookPress2026

Medical Device Connectivity

Infusion pumps, ventilators, monitors, imaging systems, lab analyzers, dispensing cabinets, dialysis machines, sterilizers, and refrigerators all do work the hospital is accountable for. When a device can’t report that work, staff write it down by hand, rebuild it after the fact, or never learn it at all.

Shared serviceStudiosIn build2026

Medigy Demand Intelligence

A governed evaluation platform for hospitals and health systems. Instead of a procurement queue full of unranked vendor claims, a health system gets structured evaluation: who has been vetted, on what evidence, against which internal need.

Shared serviceStudiosIn build2026

Medigy Opportunity Atlas

Finds reimbursed demand in healthcare and states it in the terms a business plan needs: the claims-defined cohort, the counties where the gap is largest, the CMS signal that proves it, the CPT and HCPCS codes and bundles that pay for it, and the revenue at stake. It is a shared service to every other venture and the intelligence spine of Fund II.

Shared serviceStudiosIn build2026

Neuvist

A healthcare growth and care-access capability that turns fragmented patient demand into timely, scheduled care. The team designs, launches, and operates AI-driven demand intelligence, orchestration, and routing on behalf of provider organizations, filling real provider capacity instead of reporting clicks and leads. The portfolio's ventures draw on it as the shared demand-and-access engine.

VentureStudiosIn build2026

OurHakeem

Verified practitioner consults delivered online, with a real operating stack behind the booking screen: intake, a longitudinal care record, agents that carry the routine work, a clinician copilot, and the compliance apparatus a regulated consult requires.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Patent to Alpha

Read an existing patent backward to recover the unusual insight, current use, product opportunity, and decision the right can still change.

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Shared serviceStudiosIn build2026

PatientTeam.com

An execution layer that turns the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace a provider already pays for into a working digital front door. The argument is that most organizations do not need to buy more healthcare software; they need the software they own to actually run the work. It serves the portfolio as the shared front-door capability.

VentureStudiosIn build2026

Payshent

An HSA card that pays patients a data dividend for consented, de-identified health data. No surveys, no tracking: the value exchange rides on the card transaction itself. The privacy architecture (HIPAA Expert Determination de-identification, transparent revocable consent, IRB oversight for research partnerships) is the work, not the marketing.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Recovery as a first-class discipline

Prevention attracts budget and attention. Recovery is usually delegated to infrastructure, measured by job success, and rehearsed rarely. This pillar studies whether recovery capability is systematically underinvested relative to its effect on total loss.

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Shared serviceStudiosOperating2026

Revenue Engineering AI Workforce™

The shared revenue capability every company in the portfolio draws on. We define an outcome, build an AI Workforce™ that owns it end to end, and run it on one platform with the same observability and reporting for every firm.

BookPress2026

Surviving Scientific Review

NIH reported 62,592 Research Project Grant applications in fiscal year 2025 and funded about 13 percent of them. Peer review is careful, rule-bound, and about as fair as a system that size can be, but a scientist normally meets it from the outside, a few applications at a time, while NIH and experienced institutions operate with accumulated knowledge most PIs never see.

Shared serviceStudiosIn build2026

Symvion

A continuous clinical research infrastructure platform that reads signals across consented health transaction data for earlier detection and continuous research. Payshent is its funding and consent layer; Symvion is the intelligence layer that turns compensated patient data into detectable signal.

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BookPress2026

The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart

Schools divide labor among classroom teachers, language specialists, special educators, counselors, interventionists, and administrators for good reasons. Children do not experience those divisions. They experience a single week, and when the adults around them do not coordinate, the child is the one who carries the information, reconciles the contradictions, and absorbs the delay.

BookPress2026

The Code Takes Care of Itself

A contrarian, practical leadership book for the technologist who was promoted because they were the best engineer in the room, and is now discovering that the same instinct can make them the organization's most expensive bottleneck.

BookPress2026

The CTO You Actually Need

The CTO title hides radically different jobs. A startup builder, SME technology leader, business-unit CTO, enterprise strategist, and fractional adviser can all be excellent, but not for the same company or moment.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

The dangers of data privacy theatre

Most privacy programs are documentary. Notices, consent language, contractual clauses, and a data inventory maintained by interview. This pillar studies privacy as an engineered property of running systems, where the claim in the notice can be checked against the behaviour of the data.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

The dangers of security theatre

Security programs are usually described by what they have: purchased tools, signed policies, closed findings, and certificates. That says almost nothing about what would happen if a capable attacker tried something today. This pillar tests the controls and measures what happens.

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BookPressIn progress2026

The Product Manager’s New Job Is Acceptance

A release passes QA and a scripted acceptance test, and the demo looks great. Then real customers arrive. Setup takes days, the person who does the work never saw the promise, and success has to rescue every account. Nothing was broken. The feature worked and the promise did not hold.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Therapeutic Enablement

A therapy, device, or diagnostic succeeds only when the patient, care team, and delivery setting are ready to carry its clinical capability into a reliable result.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Vendor and supply-chain resilience

Other organisations hold much of a company's security in their hands: managed providers, cloud platforms, software vendors, clinical systems, contractors, open-source maintainers, and AI providers. This pillar asks what those parties actually do when trouble starts.

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BookPress2026

You Are Not the User

A nurse says, “I need to know which patients need my attention.” Support, Customer Success, Product, Design, Engineering, and QA each do competent work on that sentence. Months later the nurse gets a status column and says, “This doesn’t help me decide who to call.” Nobody failed. The system worked as designed, and that is the problem.

BookPress2026

You Are Not the Warfighter

A unit identifies a need. Years later, after requirements writers, program offices, a prime contractor, its suppliers, and test ranges far from any fight have each done competent work, the system arrives. By then the threat has changed.

ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Zero Dashboard Experiences

The dashboard is an artifact of software that could not reason. When a system can rank, explain and justify, the correct interface is a briefing, a ranked stream of judgment calls and a conversational explorer, not KPI tiles, module sidebars and worklists. This pillar documents what replaces the dashboard and what it costs to give one up.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2026

Zero Neo

New software for business operations should be the last resort if Microsoft 365 or Google platforms are already good enough. Zero Neo is the program that tests whether AI has made that position defensible, and looks for the places where it is wrong.

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BookPress2026

Zero-Bureaucracy Product and Project Management

A team can now build the wrong feature with remarkable efficiency: turning a passing remark into shipped software before anyone notices no decision was made. The old management stack of product managers, project managers, and status meetings existed partly to compensate for expensive human coordination. AI changes which parts of that stack still need a human doing them.

Research paperResearch & IPPublished2025

Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data Analysis 2.0: Functional Data Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Applications

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. New methods of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data analysis are emerging that are valuable for interpreting CGM patterns and underlying metabolic physiology. These new methods use functional data analysis and artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML).

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EssayPressDesign Pattern2025

How Senior Officials Should Think About AI Roadmaps

AI roadmaps are not just technical plans; they are trust strategies, implementation guides, and accountability tools. In this post, Shahid Shah outlines the essential components of AI roadmaps for governments and mission-driven organizations, and how to evaluate if your roadmap is truly ready for execution.

FundCapitalActive now2025

Care Delivery Fund I

A small, working fund that incubates the foundational ventures and shared services the rest of the portfolio will run on: demand intelligence, revenue operations, an execution layer for providers, and ambient measurement.

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DatasetCapitalOperating2025

CMS and claims opportunity atlas

The claims-defined view of where reimbursed demand actually sits: cohort, county, CMS signal, the codes and bundles that pay, and the revenue at stake. It is the intelligence spine under Fund II, and an asset in its own right.

TrademarkResearch & IPPending at Intellectual Frontiers2025

Native Alpha™

The firm's operating method, together with the written materials and engagements delivered under the name.

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Research paperResearch & IPPublished2024

How the Diabetes Research Hub Will Modernize and Enhance Diabetes Data Utilization

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. The Diabetes Research Hub (DRH) is a centralized data management system and repository that will revolutionize how diabetes data are gathered, stored, analyzed, and utilized for research. By harnessing advanced analytics for large datasets, the DRH will support a nuanced understanding of physiological patterns and treatment effectiveness, ultimately advancing diabetes management and patient outcomes.

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EssayPressWorking Theory2024

Why Machine Attestation is Key in the Age of CMMC

Under the DoD’s CMMC Program, maintaining continuous compliance is crucial, and machine attestation provides the consistency and accuracy human checks can’t match. By automating compliance tracking, contractors can ensure real-time verification, creating a robust audit trail and reducing compliance risks across contract lifecycles.

EssayPressPractitioner Journalist2024

Healthcare’s Cybersecurity Crisis: Leadership Challenges and Strategic Solutions

Healthcare's cybersecurity crisis is critical, with outdated defenses exposing patient data and trust. Zero Trust is now mandatory, and delays in breach detection can cause immense damage. Effective leadership, including fractional CISOs, is essential for modern defense. Inaction isn't an option, proactive steps are necessary to safeguard against sophisticated threats.

EssayPressPractitioner Journalist2024

CTOs: The Overlooked Asset in a VC's Portfolio

Venture capitalists often overlook the strategic importance of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), mistaking technical co-founders as a simple checkbox. A seasoned CTO bridges vision and execution, aligning tech strategy with business goals, mitigating risks, and driving innovation, key factors that can make or break a startup's success.

EssayPressPractitioner Journalist2024

Transforming Healthcare with Advanced Applications of High-Performance Computing

High-performance computing (HPC) has revolutionized healthcare, particularly in fields like oncology and biomedical engineering, where it enables researchers to perform complex simulations and genetic analyses far quicker than traditional methods. The transition from conventional numerical analysis to dynamic generative AI has further expanded the capabilities of this powerful technology, not only enhancing patient care but also reshaping expectations for rapid medical innovation.

EssayPressDesign Pattern2024

From Vulnerability to Strength: The Role of CISO Services in Cyber Resilience

There was a time when no one really needed a CISO. Today, an organization would be dangerously insane not to have one. And that CISO had better be top-notch. The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has evolved significantly from being solely a technology-focused professional to becoming a strategic business leader

Landscape studyResearch & IPPublished2024

Precision Learning Patenting Trends (2014-2024)

Over a decade of innovation in precision learning and education has led to a significant surge in patent activity, with filings growing from 85 in 2014 to 1145 in 2023, marking a clear trend towards increased innovation and investment in this sector. Driven by a surge in demand for remote learning solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the precision learning sector has witnessed an unprecedented focus on developing and commercializing e-learning platforms recently, which is visible in patenting trends as well.

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Landscape studyResearch & IPPublished2024

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Security Technologies

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems are used for efficient and effective patient care management. However, with the increasing reliance on these digital systems comes a significant challenge: ensuring the security and integrity of sensitive medical data.

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EssayPressWorking Theory2023

Embrace Compliance as Code

Exploring the benefits of transitioning to a 'compliance as code' model by reflecting on successful implementations of other 'as code' models.

EssayPressContrarian Brief2023

Staff Retention Might Be More Important Than Recruiting

Staff retention refers to the ability of a company to retain its employees over a period of time. It is a crucial aspect of any organization, especially in the technology sector where skilled professionals are in high demand.…

EssayPressDesign Pattern2023

Enterprise Architecture: A Guide for Tech Leaders

Enterprise architecture is a strategic framework that helps organizations align their business and technology strategies. It provides a holistic view of the organization’s structure, processes, and systems, enabling effective…

EssayPressDesign Pattern2023

The Benefits of Hiring a Fractional Chief Technology Officer

A Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a senior-level executive who provides part-time, strategic guidance and leadership in the technology domain. Unlike a full-time CTO, a fractional CTO works on a contract basis,…

EssayPressWorking Theory2023

How a Fractional Chief Technology Officer Can Drive Innovation

A Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a highly skilled and experienced technology executive who works with companies on a part-time or project basis. They provide strategic guidance and leadership in the development…

ResearchPressOngoing2023

The plain-English patent summary series

Every family in the register, rewritten so an operator can tell in two minutes whether it applies to their problem. A standing publication program, not a marketing page.

Research paperResearch & IPPublished2022

The Launch of the iCoDE Standard Project

Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. The first meeting of the Integration of Continuous Glucose Monitor Data into the Electronic Health Record (iCoDE) project, organized by Diabetes Technology Society, took place virtually on January 27, 2022. Clinicians, government officials, data aggregators, attorneys, and standards experts spoke in panels and breakout groups.

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VentureStudiosOperating2021

Unblock Health

A patient access venture, sponsored by the nonprofit Netspective Foundation, that helps people obtain the health records they are already entitled to and helps provider organizations meet their information-blocking obligations.

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ResearchResearch & IPOngoing2020

Human knowledge as a closed loop

Training is treated as a broadcast: publish the course, record the completion, hope for the change. We treat human knowledge as a control loop instead, where every step from delivery to outcome produces evidence and the evidence decides what the person gets next.

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Online publicationPressOperating2018

OperationalTruth.org

The record of what systems actually do in the field versus what they are documented to do, which is where our findings start.

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CompanyStudiosOperating2018

Revenue Acceleration LLC

Revenue operations and denial management built for home-based care. We run the operational layer over the intake-to-cash lifecycle for home health, home infusion, DME, hospice, and respiratory providers.

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Online publicationPressOperating2017

Medigy.com

A health innovation discovery platform: crowd-curated technology, use cases, and market signal used as an intelligence surface, not a blog.

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Online publicationPressOperating2016

CompliantInSecurity.com

The standing argument that passing an audit is not the same as being secure, written for the people who own both obligations.

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MethodPressIn use2016

Native Alpha™

Our method for turning a finding into an owned position: find, prove, decide, compound. It is a work in its own right, because everything else in this register was produced by running it.

Online publicationPressOperating2015

GovConIC.com

GovCon Intelligence Center (GovCon IC): the publication for how public agencies buy, modernize, and evaluate technology.

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CompanyStudiosOperating2015

Netspective Foundation, Inc.

A nonprofit operating company that equips medical researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates with software engineering, data architecture, AI, and machine learning to advance real-world evidence.

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Online publicationPressOperating2008

HealthcareGuys.com

A healthcare media network of news, interviews, and vendor coverage written for the people who buy and run health technology, not the people who sell it.

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Online publicationPressOperating2005

HealthcareGuy.com

The longest continuous record in the publishing program: a personal site where health IT arguments, field observations, and invention sketches have been published in public for two decades.

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TrademarkResearch & IPPending at Intellectual Frontiers2004

Medigy™

Pending at Intellectual Frontiers in class 42, held by Shahid N. Shah.

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CompanyStudiosOperating1997

Netspective Communications LLC

Engineering and delivery for regulated software: the bridge between AI-generated code and a product that survives FDA submission, FedRAMP authorization, HIPAA audit, and SOC 2.

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What counts as a work

Patent family

A family of USPTO filings around one invention, granted or pending, with its real status.

Venture

An operating company chartered by Studios, with an entity, an operator, and a closure path.

Shared service

A capability built for the whole portfolio and designed to be spun out on its own.

Company

A company funded, built, or spun out. (Lapsed filings remain in the patent register.)

Fund

A pool of capital with a written thesis and a stated deployment model.

Book

Long-form publishing that makes the case for an invention or an operating model.

Research

Standing research programs and publication series, including peer-reviewed work.

Landscape study

A landscape read that changed a filing or funding decision.

Defensive disclosure

A defensive publication that puts prior art in the open so a bad patent cannot be filed later.

Dataset

A structured intelligence asset that decides where capital, filings, or ventures go next.

Method

A reusable operating method that the rest of the portfolio is built on.

Essay

A piece the founder published on his own site, tagged by type, that argues a finding in the open before it becomes a filing or a fund.

Software

Software we build and maintain, under whatever licence fits it: open source, source available, proprietary, or held inside a venture.

Online publication

An owned online publication that makes the case for our work to a standing audience.