Certuma.AI

The biggest bottleneck in saving lives isn't a lack of scientific theory; it's the sheer friction of the biological and regulatory process. Health and AI. We are seeing this play out in two parallel stories today. First, Anthropic is testing Operon to automate the massive coding workloads biologists face before a drug even reaches human trials. Second, the founder of GitLab, facing a rare cancer, had to essentially become the CEO of his own survival because standard care hit a wall. These two points illustrate exactly why we are building @Certumaai and why the intersection of AI and medicine is the most critical frontier of our time. In software, if you have a breakthrough idea, you deploy it. In healthcare, a breakthrough therapy spends 5 to 10 years trapped in preclinical data processing, regulatory purgatory, and administrative bloat. The cost? Hundreds of billions of dollars in lost productivity and millions of lives lost while waiting. AI is finally attacking this friction. Not just by discovering new molecules, but by automating the grueling, repetitive data work that keeps cures locked in the lab. When you apply LLMs and specialized medical AI to the operational side of healthcare, you don't just cut costs: you buy time.

Everyone's talking about the jobs AI will destroy. Nobody's talking about the jobs AI will save. And the lives. Here's what's actually happening in American healthcare right now: Poor health costs US employers $575 billion a year. Not in healthcare spending. In lost productivity. That's nearly a billion work days of absence, plus another half billion of reduced productivity from people showing up sick because they couldn't see a doctor in time. The average wait to see a family physician is now 23.5 days. Specialists? Up to 42 days. In cities like Boston, 65. A third of Americans don't even have access to basic primary care. 40% are delaying care altogether. And here's the absurdity: millions of people with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, asthma miss work not because they're sick, but because they need a 10 minute appointment just to get a prescription refill. You take time off, drive to the office, sit in a waiting room, see the doctor for 5 minutes, drive to the pharmacy, and lose half a day of work. For a refill. So when people ask me "isn't AI going to destroy jobs?" I say: the current healthcare system is already destroying productivity at a scale no technology ever could. This is exactly why we started Certuma. We're not building a chatbot that says "I am not a doctor, please consult a professional." We're building an actual autonomous AI doctor that can think, diagnose, prescribe, and manage your care. Yes, we're going through the hard path. FDA approval. Hallucination proof architecture. Clinical trials. The regulatory gauntlet that every other AI health company is avoiding. But when we come out the other side? Imagine this: You wake up, your throat hurts, you open your phone, the AI doctor examines you through your camera and sensors, prescribes what you need, and the medication is on its way. You never left your house. You never missed a minute of work. Imagine over 129 million Americans with major chronic conditions getting their refills without losing a day of work. Imagine the single mother who skips her checkup because she can't afford to take the afternoon off. Now she has a doctor in her pocket, available 24/7. Imagine the rural communities where there simply are no doctors within 50 miles. Now there's one on every phone. Same anywhere in the world. The doctor is coming to your pocket. @certumaAI

@martinvars Every AI health tool stops at the diagnosis. "I'm not a doctor. Consult a professional." @CertumaAI doesn't stop there. We're building the AI that can actually act — legally, safely, FDA-approved. Follow us. This is just the start.

Anunciamos el comienzo de Certuma la empresa que quiere que la gente que hoy tiene dificultades para acceder a un médico pueda llevar uno en su bolsillo. Pero a diferencia de la IA actual que sea legal y aprobada por la FDA y otros entes reguladores médicos. forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm…

Our founder @martinvars — 5x unicorn, 10+ years in FDA-regulated medicine — was just featured in @Forbes for this mission. We're asking the FDA to approve the first autonomous AI doctor. If you're in healthcare or hospital networks — DMs open.

Today: fast.doctor — autonomous triage for low-complexity cases, physician-verified at machine speed. Next: clinical infrastructure inside hospital networks and clinics — wherever decisions need to be made and a doctor isn't immediately available.

The world is short 4.3 million doctors. Training more won't close the gap fast enough. We're building the infrastructure to close it differently. This is @CertumaAI — and this is what we're building.