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Beacon Health

AI Employees for Primary Care

Beacon Health (YC W26) is building AI employees that double revenue for primary care practices while also reducing the total cost of care. Primary care is the primary source of care for over 200M Americans, but physicians don’t have the bandwidth to manage their patient panels. Beacon Health builds AI employees that automate tedious background workflows - preventative screenings, prior authorizations, referrals, and risk adjustment. We handle these workflows from start to finish, directly in their EHR. We’re on a mission is to bring joy back to primary care.
Active Founders
Mark Pothen
Mark Pothen
Founder
Bringing joy back to primary care. Embedded in a primary care practice for 6 months owning their ops - now building AI employees to do the work I was doing.
Obinna Akahara
Obinna Akahara
Founder
Bringing joy back to primary care | Physics @ UT Austin, LinkedIn, Conversion.ai
Company Launches
Beacon Health - AI Agents For Primary Care 🚀
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Howdy howdy 👋

We’re Mark and Obinna, co-founders of Beacon Health.

TL;DR

Beacon Health is on a mission to bring joy back to primary care. We build AI agents that put their practice on autopilot - starting with value based care.

Our Al agents handle workflows like quality gap closures, risk adjustment, and patient outreach, directly in the EHR. We own these workflows from end to end

We just went live with an independent physician association supporting 40,000 patients.

Ask: We’re looking to connect with organizations operating under risk-based contracts - Independent Physician Associations, Accountable Care Organizations, Integrated Networks, and operators serious about value-based care (and direct-to-employer). 📩 mark@beaconhealth.ai


👹 The Problem

Primary care is being pushed into value-based care without the bandwidth to support it.

Most practices are juggling:

  • More than a dozen quality measures
  • Risk adjustment requirements
  • After-hours patient needs
  • Fragmented EHRs and disconnected vendor tools
  • everything else…

The result is predictable: Physician frustration and money left on the table in their value based contracts.

Value-based care doesn’t fail because clinicians don’t care.

It fails because the economics and operations are broken.


🧩 Our Solution

Beacon Health builds AI agents for primary care.

Our Al agents handle workflows directly in the EHR. We own them from end to end - starting by putting their value based care on autopilot.

Today, Beacon helps practices:

  • Close quality gaps by identifying patients who need action and executing outreach or teeing up a lab order automatically

  • Capture risk adjustment codes accurately by surfacing missed documentation and coding opportunities

  • Support patients after hours with triage and follow-up that doesn’t burn out staff

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Our agents work behind scenes, learning to use the EHR like a human would.

We meet the physicians where they’re at. No new portals. No dashboards.

Just infrastructure that makes value-based care actually work.

We string these workflows together, owning them from end to end.

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🙏 Our Ask

We’d love to talk if you:

  • Work with anyone with a risk based arrangement: Independent primary care practices, Independent Physician Association’s (also known as Physician Organizations), Accountable Care Organizations, or Integrated Networks
  • Are a physician or operator struggling with the administrative burden of value based care.
  • Advise, invest in, or lead teams building the future of primary care

👉 mark@beaconhealth.ai

Intros mean everything at this stage.


👬 The Team

Mark (CEO) grew up in his mom’s primary care practice. He spent the last 6 months embedded into a primary care practice, owning ops and augmenting them with AI. He previously worked on product and GTM @ several early stage healthcare startups.

Obinna (CTO) has built production-grade AI systems across AI, healthcare and enterprise software. He studied Physics at UT and is a proud Nigerian 🇳🇬

We’re building Beacon Health to bring joy back to primary care.

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(In the practice with our first customer and CMO Karthik)

Beacon Health
Founded:2025
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Diana Hu