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We’re [Abdul Jamjoom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abduljamjoom/) and [Rami Rustom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramirustom/) from [Arini](https://www.arini.ai).\n\n**tl;dr**\n\nArini is an AI receptionist for dental clinics that answers phone calls, and schedules appointments. The dental front desk is stretched thin, spending 80% of their time on the phone, yet still missing 35% of calls. Missed calls = missed revenue. Arini answers 100% of calls, 24/7.\n\n## **Problem**\n\nHealthcare in the US is facing a massive staffing shortage, especially since COVID. It’s hard for clinics to find, train, and retain admin staff. As a result, the front desk is overworked and understaffed.\n\nThe dental front desk spends 6 hours a day on the phone but still misses 35% of calls. Each missed call is missed revenue.\n\nEven though 80% of dental clinics have online scheduling forms, most appointments are still booked over the phone. Even if you book online, they’re going to call you back (go ahead and try it).\n\n## **Solution**\n\nWe built an AI voice agent that answers phone calls and books appointments. We plug into the existing software that dental clinics use and populate appointments on their calendar. We can also answer questions about insurance, billing, and anything else the patient needs.\n\nWe help practices increase revenue by booking more appointments. We also help them reduce their operating cost since they need to recruit, train, and retain fewer receptionists.\n\n\n\n## **The team and how we landed on dental**\n\nWe met in high school in Jordan, co-founded a start-up 2 years ago, and are always hacking together. Abdul studied CS at Harvard and was an early engineer at Threads, an enterprise communication tool, where he led search. Rami studied CS at MIT and joined Threads a year ago, and we both led Threads’ AI team, where we automated customer support, document feedback, notification triaging, and more.\n\nWe landed on the dental space after going door-to-door to dentists, shadowing them, and experiencing first-hand the challenges they faced. It was clear that the front desk was a bottleneck for increasing bookings, even though dentists in the US spend $7B a year on front desk staffing.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78760&key=user_uploads/868778/669b3926-305a-4cc9-92d2-adee47bf0991)\n\n## **How you can help**\n\n1. If you have a cleaning coming up, ask your dentist to [**book a demo with us**](https://calendly.com/d/47d-9z6-g2d/ai-receptionist-demo)\n2. 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We’re Dominik, Tim, and Julius from [Dodo](https://dodo.health).\n\nDominik and Julius grew up together, and we have known each other for 15 years. We were all in grad school together and just moved up from Stanford.\n\n# **TL;DR: Dodo handles front- and back-office tasks for specialty clinic end-to-end**\n\n* Our AI agents answer calls, send medical records, and refill prescriptions—fully autonomously, with no human in the loop\n* We are starting with veterinary clinics, and are expanding to dental and physical therapy\n* Same-day cancellations trigger automatic outbound calls, filling availabilities on short notice\n* This means: No more hold music, phone trees (”press 1 for x”), or voicemail beeps (sorry if you like listening to jingles for minutes on end 🎶)\n\n### **How you can help ❤️**\n\n* Know someone **who owns a specialty clinic, independently or through a larger corporate/PE?** We would be grateful for an introduction!\n* **Reach out **[**founders@dodo.health**](https://mailto:founders@dodo.health)** or book time on our **[**calendar**](https://dodo.cal.com)**.**\n\n### **Problem: Clinics can’t keep up with their admin work**\n\n* **🫥 Understaffed**: Clinics face labor shortages for administrative tasks, with staff feeling burned out due to long hours and inefficient workflows.\n* **🚆 Undertrained**: One in three medical receptionists leaves their job each year\n* **☎️ Phone-based**: Clinics handle up to 80% of their communication over the phone\n* **⏳ Result**: Bottlenecks in the front- and back-office, as clinics miss calls and clients. 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Callers spend 67% of their call time on hold\n\n### **Solution: AI EMPLOYEES for Specialty Clinics**\n\n* Handling all calls through verticalized AI agents trained on specialty knowledge and receptionists’ manuals (we’re talking literal binders 📚)\n* Interactions with internal software to update patient files, manage schedules, and execute necessary administrative tasks\n* Automatic outbound calls to fill missed appointments on short notice\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82858&key=user_uploads/1340182/8ce8ac71-be6a-4713-abfb-27bfc9af4e49)\n\n### **👨‍👦‍👦 Meet the Team**\n\nIf you’ve been to a specialty clinic recently, chances are you’ve seen us shadowing their front desk 🕵️‍♂️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82858&key=user_uploads/1340182/81442943-c2ec-40c1-a117-1f3dc4f84616)\n\n**Julius** [julius@dodo.health](https://mailto:julius@dodo.health)\\\n\n\n**Dominik** [dominik@dodo.health](https://mailto:dominik@dodo.health)\\\n\n\n**Tim** [tim@dodo.health](https://mailto:tim@dodo.health)\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LYQ-dodo-ai-employees-for-specialized-healthcare-clinics", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-08-08T20:56:59.839Z" } ] }, { "id": 30218, "name": "Toothy AI", "slug": "toothy-ai", "former_names": [ "Toothy" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1fe65dd62e91bce60fafd27b8e4bea680f8db7d3.png", "website": "https://www.toothy.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We’re Toothy.ai. 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Our first two agents automate the entire revenue cycle, so dental practices can sit back and watch the insurance payments roll in [😎](https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-sunglasses)\n* Our AI handles everything from insurance verification, claim creation, claim submission, denial correction, claim resubmission, and payment posting.\n* We're already seeing early customers cutting their back office teams by 50-75% within weeks of implementing Toothy.\n\n### **Launch video**\n\n\n\n### **❌ The problem**\n\n* Dental practices **waste 800 million hours** and **$13.2 billion** per year on time-consuming and repetitive back-office tasks. On top of that, dental practices are facing an unprecedented labor shortage and **90**% of them find it extremely or very challenging to fill vacant positions.\n* The largest, most time-consuming, and error-prone part of a dental practice’s back office is revenue cycle management (RCM)—the process of getting paid. **80%** of dental practices face financial concerns due to RCM challenges. Tasks like insurance verification, claim submission, and payment posting are labor-intensive and prone to errors. Frequent policy changes make it difficult to verify coverage, leading to billing discrepancies and delayed payments.\n\n### **✅ The solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87923&key=user_uploads/2386492/97bc335c-1d5b-4c4a-ab85-e45f800ca7b2)\n\n* Toothy’s AI agents automate the entire RCM process, **saving practices 160+ hours per month and increasing revenue by 5-10%**. Our AI agents handle everything from insurance verification to payment posting, eliminating the largest source of administrative burden.\n* How do our agents work?\n 1. **☎️ Verify Insurance** – Calls payers and check online portals to confirm coverage.\n 2. 📝 **Input data** - Fills out and uploads a comprehensive breakdown form with 50+ codes into your practice management system.\n 3. 📬 **Create and submit claims** - Accesses imaging software, clinical remarks, and plan details to create & submit comprehensive claims.\n 4. 🛠️ **Correct denials** - Understands denial reasons, updates the claim, and resubmits to payers. Can even draft appeal letters.\n 5. **💰 Payment posting** - Collects, scans, and deposits insurance checks into your bank account.\n* Toothy becomes your full-time RCM team, reducing staff workload and ensuring faster, higher reimbursements.\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* Toothy is already working with dozens of forward-thinking dental practices who never want to deal with insurance again. 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