Active hospital physicians · GDPR · EU MDR
Built by doctors
who still do
the night shifts.
We’re 3 physicians currently practicing in Portuguese public hospitals. We built the operational tools we wished we had — for COOs and hospital administrators who know the problems we’re solving from the inside.
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Founding physicians, still practicing
Hospitals visited
Platforms in beta
Patient records processed
WardControl · Emergency department
Patients boarding in ED
7 > 4h
Inpatient beds available
14 / 38
Avg wait — Urgência → Internamento
4h 12m
Transfers awaiting porter
3 pending
Public hospitals lose hours every day to friction that nobody measures.
Beds occupied by waiting, not by need
Patients ready for discharge stay admitted because coordination fails between teams and services. The bed shows as occupied. The next patient waits.
Processes that nobody can audit
When the JCI or DGS audit arrives, the information exists on paper, in people’s heads, or doesn’t exist at all. Weeks are lost reconstructing what should be live data.
Invisible waste that erodes budgets
Without process metrics, it’s impossible to know where the problem is — and impossible to justify investment to the board of directors.
Technology not built for medicine
Most tools come from outside healthcare and require adaptations that consume clinical team time. They solve generic problems, not clinical ones.
Three platforms, in active beta.
Built from what we saw working in 21 hospitals across five countries. Active beta in Portugal.
Highest traction
Hospitals preparing for JCI or DGS audit spend weeks reconstructing process data that should exist in real time. LeanColab digitises operational flows, maps value streams, identifies measurable waste, and generates audit documentation automatically. Teams collaborate to crowdsource waste identification and solutions across the organisation — and simulate process changes before implementing them.
Process simulation
Community waste reporting
Audit documentation
Gemba walk tools
Lean Six Sigma analytics
Hospital flow breaks in the emergency department first. Patients board for hours waiting for an inpatient bed, and nobody sees the bottleneck forming until the shift is over. WardControl gives the ED and operations directors a real-time command centre with AI agents — an ER Manager Agent that prioritises cases and detects bottlenecks as they build, and a Chief Support Agent that coordinates flow from triage through to admission. RFID asset tracking feeds live bed and equipment status straight into the dashboard. Decisions based on data, not phone calls.
ER Manager AI agent
Chief Support AI agent
Boarding & bottleneck detection
Triage-to-admission tracking
RFID asset tracking
Flow automation
Most clinical trials fail not because the science is wrong, but because the right patients never get recruited. Eligible4 generates high-quality referrals that reduce screening failures and dropout rates — AI matching connects the right patient to the right trial from the first contact, across a multi-centre network of participating hospitals.
Reduced screening failures
Lower dropout rates
Multi-centre network
GDPR compliant
Three platforms, one thesis: take the processes still running on Excel, paper and phone calls, and make them measurable.
They are not three separate bets. Each one answers the question the previous one raises, and each is useful on its own.
Alongside these we publish free clinical tools for individual clinicians, and run ReanimaTech as a resuscitation quality-improvement research project. Neither is sold as a platform.
Three founding physicians and a full-stack CTO.
The medical founders still do shifts, see patients, and feel the same pressures our clients feel. The CTO builds the technology to match that clinical precision. Insider clinical knowledge with full-stack engineering — that combination is our moat.
“We visited 21 hospitals across Portugal, the UK, Sweden, Spain and the US. The operational problems are the same everywhere. We decided to solve them.”
Built for the European regulatory framework, not translated into it.
The least data the job needs
Each platform is scoped to the minimum data required for its purpose. WardControl tracks beds, equipment and workflow states — not patients. Where a product does process health data, we say so and document the legal basis.
Purpose limitation and subject rights
Aligned with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 for lawful basis, data minimisation, purpose limitation, retention and data subject rights. DPIAs prepared per product, per deployment.
Regulation (EU) 2017/745
Technical documentation for Class I is in preparation under Annex VIII. Class IIa conformity assessment is in development for the modules that fall under Rule 11. We do not claim CE marking that we do not yet hold.
Regulatory status is stated per product, not per company. If a module is not yet CE marked, it is not sold as a medical device — it is deployed in shadow mode or as a non-clinical operations tool. Detailed documentation is available to procurement and legal teams on request.
A 30-minute call with a founding physician.
No sales pitch. We want to understand whether the problems we solve are the problems you have — and whether it makes sense to move forward together.
