
Across city government, agencies, Medtronic, Merck and UnitedHealth Group, Steven Cragle kept returning to one deceptively simple idea: good communication begins with curiosity about the whole person.
UnitedHealth Group has built a vast loop around American health care - paying claims, delivering care, managing prescriptions and supplying the data beneath it all. The same integration that gives it unusual reach also puts every friction point under a brighter light.
Andreea Bodnari is the founder and CEO of ALIGNMT AI, a New York and Boston based startup building governance-first compliance infrastructure for healthcare AI. An MIT-trained machine learning scientist who built and scaled the B2B healthcare AI division at Google Cloud and served as a product VP at UnitedHealth Group, she now runs a company that monitors AI risk in real time across the model lifecycle. In August 2025 ALIGNMT AI emerged from stealth with a $6.5M seed round led by AIX Ventures. Bodnari sits on national AI safety bodies, has reviewed for the JAMIA journal for over a decade, and argues that transparency is the price of trust in clinical AI.