Clarion is a healthcare AI startup founded in 2024 by CEO Dr. Ryan Gallagher, a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician previously on the founding team of Two Chairs and Ophelia, and CTO Jeffrey Lamothe, who built voice AI at Amazon Alexa and held AI/ML leadership roles at Salesforce. The San Francisco company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and has raised $5.4 million from Accel, YC, and healthcare-focused scout investors.
The platform answers and routes the volume of phone calls and messages clinics field daily, appointment scheduling, prescription refills, billing questions, by connecting directly into a practice's EHR and practice-management systems, so the AI agent can act on real patient data rather than take a message for a human to follow up on later. Patients can reach it by voice, SMS, or web chat, and Clarion is tuned specifically for value-based care and population-health workflows rather than generic call-center scripts.
Clarion is built for clinics and healthcare organizations struggling with call volume and administrative overhead, not individual patients. It uses outcome-based pricing, charging only when the AI resolves a patient request rather than a flat per-seat subscription, with exact rates available on request.
