Cenote 押注 AI 智能体修复传真时代的诊所转诊——周经常性收入增长 50%，YC W25

做的是什么生意

Cenote sells AI back-office automation to specialist medical clinics: agents ingest referral faxes, extract and validate patient data, check insurance eligibility and integrate with clinic EHRs, compressing referral-to-treatment from weeks to hours.

启动资金：$500K standard YC W25 investment (early 2025).

起因

Kristy Gao (University of Waterloo BCS '22, ex-Watershed Climate) moved to San Francisco for her first job and got into an accident; as a Canadian on a work visa she spent months disputing four insurance claims, and the follow-up surgery she was told would happen within a month took six. She quit her job — moving home to Canada for months while her visa situation resolved — and founded Cenote in 2024 with Kofi Ansong and Ajani Smith-Washington, friends from the book club she had started to build community in the city. Their target: specialist clinics where referrals, insurance requests and follow-ups still arrive by fax.

经过

Cenote was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch and presented at Demo Day on 2025-03-12. The Launch HN post on 2025-03-06 drew 61 points; commenters pressed the team on EHR competition and liability, and the founders answered that their system flags low-confidence OCR and LLM output for human review, and that physicians always make the final call. The $500K went into a sales-forward push — conferences like Medtrade, in-person onboarding and custom EHR integrations built with AI browser automation. By May 2025 TechTimes reported 50% week-over-week ARR growth, with sleep clinics, durable-medical-equipment providers and neurology practices processing thousands of patients monthly; specialty pharmacies and wound-care clinics were next on the roadmap.

可借鉴之处

攻击失败可见的工作流程：对于亲眼看传真转诊消失的诊所，损失立竿见影，所以能挽回一部分的智能体不经推销就能卖出去。