The best medicine already exists. The infrastructure to deliver it is 15 years behind.
I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease in 2022, an autoimmune condition affecting my thyroid. My doctors at UCSF told me surgery was the only path forward.
I wasn't ready to accept that. After plenty of research, what finally helped wasn't a new drug or a new specialist. I found a physician who approached my case differently. They ran deeper panels, tracked my data over time, and connected the dots between my labs, my lifestyle, and my history. Someone treated me as a whole person and not just a set of symptoms.
I went into remission without surgery. And I couldn't stop thinking about why that kind of care was so hard to find.
I'd spent six years at Meta leading AI products, including the Ray-Ban smart glasses and the Oculus Quest launch. I knew what AI could do when it was built with real intention. I just hadn't found the problem worth building it for.
What I found when I looked closer
I spent the next year working closely with physicians. I talked with hundreds of functional medicine doctors, longevity clinicians, and integrative practitioners. What I saw surprised me.
These were brilliant, deeply motivated clinicians who had left institutional medicine specifically to practice the kind of personalized, data-driven care I'd experienced as a patient. They knew exactly what good medicine looked like.
But they were drowning.
Their EHR was built for billing, not for the longitudinal, data-rich medicine they'd set out to practice. So they'd patched together a stack: a legacy EHR here, a data platform there, an AI scribe bolted on, a patient portal that didn't talk to any of it. One physician told me she spent 10 to 12 hours a week just on administrative work. Another said he'd stopped taking notes during visits because the cognitive load of managing five systems while being present with a patient had become impossible.
These doctors didn't start their practices to spend half the visit typing. They started them to spend more time with patients. The tools were the thing getting in the way.
Why this, why now
At the right moment I met my co-founder and CTO Pedro Tabio. Pedro had spent years deep inside healthcare infrastructure as an engineering lead, watching the same broken system from the other side. He'd seen how the tools failed clinicians, and he had a clear picture of what it would take to rebuild from the ground up.
We didn't set out to build a better EHR. We set out to build the infrastructure that matches the medicine these clinicians are already practicing. One platform where charting, labs, prescriptions, telehealth, and billing all share the same brain. Where AI works in the background to handle documentation, surface trends, and synthesize data, so the clinician can do the thing no algorithm can: think deeply, listen carefully, and treat the whole person sitting in front of them.
We called it Ultralight because that's what it should feel like. The technology disappears. The clinician is present. The patient is seen.
Where this goes
There's a movement happening in medicine right now that most people outside of it can't see yet. Thousands of clinicians are leaving institutional practice, not because they've given up on medicine, but because they've found a better way to practice it. They're building practices around prevention, around data, around actually knowing their patients.
What they don't have is infrastructure built for the medicine they're building. That's the gap. That's what Ultralight exists to close.
75 clinics are live on the platform today. They found us organically. We didn't go looking for them. They were looking for this.
We're just getting started.
— Sunita Mohanty, Co-Founder & CEO, Ultralight
