# Beacon Health

> Beacon Health is a Y Combinator (W26) startup building AI agents that operate real electronic health record systems the way a human employee would - clicking through Epic, athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks to close care gaps, capture risk adjustment codes, handle prior authorizations, and run preventative screening outreach. Aimed at primary care practices in value-based care arrangements, the product turns recorded EHR workflows into deployable agents so small practices can chase quality measures and shared-savings revenue without hiring more back-office staff. Founded in 2025 by Mark Pothen and Obinna Akahara, the company has gone live with an independent physician association covering roughly 40,000 patients.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Mark Pothen (CEO & Co-Founder), Obinna Akahara (CTO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 2-7
- **Products:** AI Employees for Primary Care, Workflow Recorder, Mission Control Dashboard
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch., Went live with an independent physician association supporting roughly 40,000 patients., Built AI agents that operate real EHR systems (Epic, athenahealth, ECW) end to end.

## Products & services

- **AI Employees for Primary Care** — AI agents that navigate and operate real EHR systems (Epic, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks and others) to run end-to-end workflows - quality gap closure, risk adjustment coding, prior authorizations, referrals, and preventative screening outreach - directly inside the chart, with no new portal for staff to learn.
- **Workflow Recorder** — Lets a practice record any EHR workflow and convert it into a reusable, deployable AI agent within minutes, then chain agents together for multi-step tasks across patient charts.
- **Mission Control Dashboard** — An oversight console to deploy, monitor, pause, and review AI agents across an entire patient population, with full visibility and human intervention controls.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
- Went live with an independent physician association supporting roughly 40,000 patients.
- Built AI agents that operate real EHR systems (Epic, athenahealth, ECW) end to end.
- Signed multiple named early customers including MWA, Kaaya Health, Boroughs, Town Center, and Nully.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Raised seed funding and joined Y Combinator's W26 batch.
- **2026-01** — Launched publicly via YC as 'AI Agents for Primary Care.'
- **2026-01** — Went live with an independent physician association covering ~40,000 patients.

## Links

- Website: https://beaconhealth.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beacon-health-ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31