somnath sandeep

lots of AI cos starting to experiment with paid marketing so here’s my take: Paid acquisition is a tax on your product's defensibility. the moment you can't out-spend the incumbents and competitors, you die. build channels that get cheaper as you grow or you're just renting your growth

in USA, fixing your knee costs more than an international vacation + fixing your knee! the typical arthroscopic knee repair (pretty much the most common sports surgery out there) in US costs $7800. that's the median: half of all americans pay more than this. in new mexico, $21,984. in south carolina, $13,206. here's what you could do instead: - round-trip flight to india: $900 - 2 nights at the taj mahal palace hotel (5 star luxury): $400 - same surgery at top hospital (JCI-accredited, US/UK-trained surgeons): $3,500 - fly home. total: $4,800 you just saved $3,000 & stayed at a 5-star hotel! 💰✈️ medical bills are the #1 cause of bankruptcy in US. the US spends more on healthcare than any nation on earth & ranks 38th in outcomes. americans aren't buying better healthcare. they're buying someone's third yacht

medical debt is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in america. not gambling, not bad investments, STAYING ALIVE! around 550,000 americans file for bankruptcy each year bc of healthcare costs. 1 in 4 americans didn’t call an ambulance bc they were worried about the cost. avg. ground ambulance ride costs $1500 & air ambulance: $40,000 (ref: ₹36 lakhs, for indians) ppl google "how much does an ambulance cost" while having a medical emergency (in the richest country on earth)

@HyperBeastTL @alexolim_ what’s the litmus test for smthn not working fast enough? when do you take the call?

@alexolim_ Volume isn’t the hard part. Killing what doesn’t work fast enough is. Most teams keep posting losers because “it might hit eventually.”

don't overthink ugc > hire 20 creators. not the big ones. under 10k followers. post twice a day minimum. > distribute everywhere - tiktok, reels, shorts, facebook, snapchat. same content, different feeds. > stop trying to be creative with formats. find what's already converting and replicate it. the strategy isn't complicated, the volume required is just scary

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Most people using Health AI aren’t experiencing obvious emergencies. They’re caught between a symptom and uncertainty or anxiety, wondering if they should panic or go back to sleep. This is where emergency escalation accuracy matters most: accurately identifying what’s actually urgent vs. what’s a false alarm. @meetaugustai an “AI doctor,” benchmarks 100% on the metric that both patients and doctors actually care about. All other major LLMs don’t stand a chance (see chart). Try for free: meetaugust.ai

@DrDatta_AIIMS yes, we have an API for integration @DrDatta_AIIMS DM-ing you abt this

@somnathsandeepp do you have an API for integration?

🚨I don’t comment on every tech launch, but after eight years in healthcare AI, I have to ask: is India handing over its healthcare sovereignty to foreign platforms? 🇮🇳 I must share some raw thoughts about the launch of ChatGPT Health (for patients) and OpenAI for Healthcare (for doctors) this week, because the implications are enormous, and we as Indians need to pay attention (which we aren’t!) In the last 24 hours, OpenAI has initiated a direct play to become the “operating system” for global healthcare data. This is not just about replacing human doctors but about becoming the default interface where your health data, wearables, lab reports, clinical notes, fitness logs (and literally everything related to you) gets stored, organized, interpreted and ultimately monetized! 🚀 Healthcare is now one of the world’s biggest data economies. In India, this market is exploding, well over 500 billion dollars, with digital health leading the way. In India have more than a billion people (and potential customers). The diversity of cases we see in hospitals is unmatched! TB, rheumatic heart disease, tropical infections, cancers all of them present differently in Indian populations. A treasure trove of clinical information that does not exist anywhere else in the world! And for decades, most of this data has been siloed and stuck in different places. Fitness apps stored your steps and activity. Hospitals locked up imaging in their PACS. Half our X-rays and ultrasounds are still physical films or printouts lol AI has changed everything in the last few years. Today, models can read scans, parse clinical notes, integrate vitals, understand behavior, and connect it all. We have patient health record apps which store all our information, so it’s easier for us to connect them to AI apps through APIs and MCP servers. The truth is: Whoever controls the layer that stitches this together will control diagnostics, healthcare policy, and population health at scale. I have absolutely no doubt about that! That is what OpenAI is building. Connect your records. Connect your wearables. Let the platform learn how your body, your disease, your life works. It starts free. Later, you pay for the smarter version. We have seen this movie before. Google Drive. iCloud. Google Photos. Once your data and your habits live inside a system, how do you ever leave? Right? But healthcare is not just your email or photos. There is sovereign angle to it. If India’s imaging, clinical records, and behavioral data flow only into foreign platforms, (and yes, many Indian startups have already been forced to share data just to survive), we are reduced to data suppliers, not data owners, and definitely not builders. If this continues it will be disastrous!!! Our diagnostic standards. Our clinical pathways. Our public health priorities. All of it may eventually be shaped by decisions made outside this country! I see something every day in practice. Indian TB. Rheumatic heart disease. Infections and patterns Western models still struggle to understand. If we allow foreign entities to own the “brain” trained on this data, we will end up paying for insights generated from our own people. I have worked, often pro bono, with some of the most brilliant health-tech founders in this country. They are hardworking, creative, deeply committed. But most are just fighting for survival. No one has the runway to build national infrastructure! An Indian “ChatGPT for Health” cannot be another under-funded startup. We need patient capital. Serious policy support. Digitization of decades of legacy records. Multimodal datasets that connect hospitals, labs, public systems, wearables, and wellness platforms. Long-term governance that balances privacy, equity, and innovation. And I am not being anti-global. This is not anti-free market. And honestly, anyone who reduces this to that is missing the point! We absolutely need global collaboration. But the core intelligence built on Indian health data MUST be governed in India. Because The stakes are massive. Whoever controls health data and health AI will set the rules for medical care, public policy, and healthcare innovation for the next decade. If we build our own now, we control our future. If we wait, we will be locked out and locked in. The clock is ticking. So my question is: Are we going to do something about it, or are we going to remain passive users while a few companies in Silicon Valley decide how healthcare for 1.4 billion Indians should work?

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One of our users was at the hospital and his wife was in labour. High-pressure situation, doctors and nurses working hard, constant stream of updates and calls for him to take. Throughout it all, for 45 minutes, he was on chat with August.

Most public benchmarks suck, but your internal benchmarks shouldn’t. Public benchmarks are going to be subject to noise. Meta gamed benchmarks for Llama. Someone will solve the PhD level benchmark question on Reddit. It’s hard to stop gaming a benchmark, even unintentionally

@levelsio august, your personal health companion ai (meetaugust.ai), used actively by 4 million+ users. think of it like a doctor-friend in your pocket for free @levelsio

What Indian startups are used globally?

love this initiative & "listen more, prescribe less" philosophy, @varundubey! having someone to patiently listen is often all that's needed. that's where real understanding happens. millions of users check in w/ august (a personal ai health companion, made & backed by real doctors) exactly for this: someone available 24/7 to talk through their concerns over days, help 'em process what's happening ex: 1 user had persistent headaches after switching medications. through conversations w/ august over a few days, they realised the pharmacy had dispensed a generic w/ a different active ingredient (MDD XR 50 → Psyfax-D 50mg), smthn they could then clarify w/ their doctor the solution wasn't another prescription, it was understanding the one they were already taking. these conversations w/ august can become a summary patients can share w/ their doctor for a 2nd opinion. so when they walk in, both patient & doctor start from a place of clarity. listening matters! we're tryna make that possible 24/7 for free, in b/w appointments, in ways that complement what doctors like you are already doing. would love your thoughts on this approach

I am just so sick of this unnecessary rush to prescribe surgeries going on in our industry. Girl in her 20s gets prescribed a pace maker. At age 20. Comes to us for a second opinion. Our doctors took a super detailed history, as they always do, and figure out it was just drug interaction between her various acne medications! Prescribing people things they don't need is not ok. We will do our best to fix this. Not sure if we can do it for everyone but we will try. Today we are launching a new product called Honest Second Opinions. If you have been prescribed surgery and are not sure if you really need it, email us your reports on HonestSecondOpinion@super.health and come meet our doctors. They'll tell you whether you really need it or if there's something else we can try. Don't want this to be commercial thing so I'm making this free. Even if you don't have a VIP pass, you can email us your reports and then come in and see our doctors to get an honest second opinion completely free. I am proud to say that at Superhealth we prescribe less than half the surgeries than legacy healthcare. This is honest healthcare. It's for everyone.

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@OneManMobile agreed, but only if it's a specialised health AI (not general-purpose), that's made by doctors & clears the highest standard of health benchmarks. the stakes are too high, one wrong medical fact can have irreversible consequences (both for med students & practicing doctors)

I don't think this is bad, I think its good. As a student, while learning, you can stop every time you have questions and your study partner is infinitely patient. I want a doctor who consults an AI about what to do, while knowing their domain back to back. The greatest combo

@basicprompts AI

@realsudarshansk yea, agreed, but for medical/health related info, this has to be done very deliberately & religiously. for to-be-doctors, the risk & consequence of getting a medical fact wrong is too high

@somnathsandeepp I think you can mitigate a lot of it with good prompting though. Have it look up info and explicitly state when it's unsure about something

lol, love that voice mode is like a professor-on-demand! i'd be very wary of it hallucinating medical facts w/ complete confidence tho. as non-tech folks, do med students know chatGPT can sound right while being dangerously wrong?

@antoniogm would love for you to check out august ai. it's a personal health companion ai made & backed by real doctors. actively used by 3.8mn+ users & 100k+ doctors. scored the highest on almost all the benchmarks compared to any other ai model @antoniogm

Uploaded a comprehensive blood test to ChatGPT for interpretation (literally just the PDF), and got a better answer than I got from the doctor. Just imagine having that throughout your life, ingesting all your data points including fitness trackers. Countless lives saved.