Recover $200K/clinic in lost revenue — the AI that runs the dental front desk
Confirmed by founderTensorLinks runs dental operations, starting with the front desk. Voice/SMS/web AI is the wedge — it lands us in the clinic by capturing missed calls, recall, and no-show recovery across every location, orchestrated above the PMS (19+ live integrations: Open Dental, Dentrix Ascend, Denticon, Axium). From there we expand into the full operations layer: scheduling, insurance verification, payment collection, treatment-plan follow-up. Competing AI receptionists only answer the phone; we own the cross-channel revenue workflow and grow into the operating system for multi-location dental groups. Roadmap: AI front desk → operational intelligence layer → healthcare operations platform. Team: founder Sridhar Uyyala (ex-Intel Research, 3 US patents); growth & engineering led by Nithin Anaparthy; advised by Carla Leibowitz (ex-VP Flatiron, CBDO Paige.AI, NVIDIA, Stanford MBA); plus AI/infra engineers (IIT, Azure AI) and a DSO-operations domain lead. 30 months bootstrapped at ~$19K/mo burn.
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Sridhar Uyyala
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Dental clinics lose $200K+/yr per location: 30-40% of calls go to voicemail, 20-40% of patients are overdue for recall, and front-desk staff burn 60% of their time on phone tag. Existing AI receptionists only answer calls — they don't run outreach, recall, or no-show recovery.
Workflow engine that runs the dental front desk today and the whole practice tomorrow. Wedge: AI captures and books across voice, SMS, web chat, recall campaigns, no-show recovery, and post-op follow-up — not a chatbot, an autonomous workflow engine with native integrations to Open Dental, Dentrix Ascend, Axium, and Denticon (19+ live). Expansion: scheduling, insurance verification, payment collection, and case acceptance — the full operations stack above the PMS. We run our own operations on the same platform, so headcount grows sub-linearly with clinic count. Voice is the interface; owning the cross-channel revenue workflow is the moat. Compliance: HIPAA-aligned with BAAs across the vendor stack; SOC 2 Type II in progress (funded by this round) — healthcare-AI table stakes built in, not bolted on.
$170K ARR ($14K MRR) across 27 active clinics in 8 customer groups; 6.2:1 LTV:CAC, ~10-month payback, 55% contribution margin. Zero churn on multi-location DSO customers (5+ clinics) since Q4 2025. First 12-month contract signed: Smile Dental Group (7 clinics, $50K contracted ARR). 70K+ appointments managed lifetime; 1,158 booked in April 2026 across 17 live clinics; $359K lifetime collected. 30 months bootstrapped at ~$19K/mo burn (10-30x leaner than funded competitors). The ask: $1M seed at $7M pre takes us from $170K to $1M ARR by ~M19 — funding a senior US sales rep + SDR against a named DSO pipeline (Healthy Dental +5, Nova 10, Avanta 5, BSD reactivation) — reaching operational breakeven (~148 clinics) on this single round.
