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The Company That Runs on Boring: How Simplify Group Turned 17 Years of Health Insurance Plumbing Into an AI Portfolio
For 17 years, Simplify Healthcare quietly ran the paperwork behind 70-plus health plans. In late 2025 its founder folded that experience into a four-company group betting that operational scar tissue, not just models, is what makes enterprise AI actually work.
Alaffia Health
Alaffia Health is a New York-based healthtech company that uses agentic AI paired with expert clinicians to help health insurers detect and stop waste, fraud, and abuse in medical claims. Its Autodor platform forensically reviews complete patient medical records against submitted claims to power payment integrity, utilization management, and appeals workflows - reviewing complex facility claims up to 20x faster than manual processes while keeping humans in the loop for defensible, explainable outcomes.
Shannon Goggin
Shannon Goggin is the co-founder and CEO of Noyo, an API-first company building modern data infrastructure for the employee benefits industry. After watching benefits data break down behind the scenes at Zenefits, she and co-founder Dennis Lee launched Noyo in 2017 to fix the plumbing that connects insurance carriers, benefits platforms, and the people who depend on accurate coverage. She has raised more than $57 million for the company, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020, and calls her approach 'collaborative disruption' - rebuilding an entrenched industry by understanding it rather than ignoring it.
Collective Health
Collective Health is a San Francisco-based health benefits technology company that operates an integrated platform for self-funded employers. It brings medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and digital health partners together in one system, pairing claims administration with a member app, care navigation, and analytics so employers can control costs while making coverage easier for employees to understand, navigate, and pay for.