Enterprise AI for healthcare
AI built with your team.
Owned by you afterwards.
Cara partners with medical practices, health systems, payers, pharma, and digital-health operators to ship the AI systems their workflows actually need. Senior engineers embedded with your team. Your platform when we’re done.
In partnership
Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care is rolling out Cara’s AI platform across patient acquisition, scheduling, onboarding, and clinical workflows. Read the announcement ↗
The idea
Solve the patient experience.
The rest follows.
A better front door brings more patients in. A better experience keeps them coming back. And the automation underneath means your team does less manual work as you grow, not more.
Acquisition, retention, and margin. Solved by the same thing.
How we show up
Three products. One foundation.
Cara is three products that share the same architecture, the same design philosophy, and the same security posture. The difference is how much of the work you want to do yourself.
The foundation
One architecture underneath all of it.
Every Cara product runs on the same infrastructure. HIPAA compliant. Operates to SOC 2 Type II controls. BAA included, not upsold. PHI stays in your compliance envelope. Your data, your rules.
Start with Practice today. Extend with Build tomorrow. Bring in Enterprise when the work demands it. Nothing to rip out in between.
- HIPAA compliant
- SOC 2 Type II controls
- BAA by default
- Row-level audit
- Scoped PHI
- Your compliance envelope
Who we work with
- Specialty practices
- DPC and concierge
- Digital health
- Pharma direct-to-patient programs
- Health systems and payers
Common questions
What people ask before
they get on the call.
- What does Cara do?
- Cara is enterprise AI for healthcare. We build AI systems for medical practices, health systems, payers, pharma, and digital-health operators — embedded with their teams during the build, and transferred to them at the end. Cara is a consulting practice and a platform: senior engineers do the engagement, and the work runs on Cara's HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
- Is Cara a platform or a consultancy?
- Both. Three product tiers — Practice (configured platform for medical groups), Build (agentic builder for custom apps), and Enterprise (the Enablement Sprint, our embedded-engineering engagement) — all share the same infrastructure, security posture, and ownership model. Most enterprise partners begin with a six-to-twelve-week Enablement Sprint and decide afterwards what to keep running with us.
- Who does Cara work with?
- Independent medical groups and specialty practices, health systems, commercial and government payers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and CROs, and digital-health operators in longevity, weight loss, women's health, mental health, and chronic care. We are intentionally narrow within healthcare and we will tell you when a workflow is not a fit.
- How does Cara handle PHI and HIPAA?
- BAA included by default — never upsold. PHI stays inside your compliance envelope. Cara operates to SOC 2 Type II controls. Every workflow is built with row-level audit, scoped PHI access, and the security posture our health-system and pharma partners require.
- Do we own what Cara builds?
- Yes. The Enterprise engagement transfers source code, documentation, runbooks, and where relevant model weights at the end. There is no platform lock-in: Cara accelerates the build, but you can run the system without us. An open-ended retainer is available if you want one — never required.
- How long does an engagement take?
- An Enablement Sprint runs six to twelve weeks: roughly two weeks of embedded observation, four weeks of build against real data, and a transfer phase that hands ownership to your team. Practice can go live in days. Build apps typically ship in weeks.
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