Investor in 10 Minutes · Rōvn Investor Room

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The hook

Clinicians waste months re-proving they are qualified every time they switch jobs. Facilities sit idle waiting, bleed money covering the gap, and lose the people they already have. Rōvn is building the network where a clinician proves it once, controls that proof, and carries it to every next job, while each facility applies its own rules and makes its own decisions. The atomic transaction is the Work Activation: approved to start, with proof. The design target, not a delivered result, is to collapse the roughly 90-day clearance tax into days.

AI compresses the work. Source systems prove the facts. Humans make every credentialing, privileging, hiring, and clinical decision.

Rōvn is the operating network for the healthcare workforce, and it is two-sided by design. Workers keep a live, consent-controlled Passport and carry their proof across every job, shift, and facility. Facilities see their own workforce state, apply their own requirements, and keep every approval decision. How the network does the work: the facility-side Operator runs the repetitive workflow behind hiring, credentialing, readiness, and monitoring, and every operated case feeds the Rōvn Workforce Model (a proprietary exception and outcome dataset plus the specialist models trained on it, not a foundation model we built). LinkedIn owns professional identity. Indeed owns job discovery. Rōvn is building workforce trust. Axuall is the closest strategic overlap, and Axuall, CAQH, and Medallion each hold real pieces of this corner from the enterprise and payer side; none of them is worker-controlled and portable across employers. That worker-controlled corner is the one Rōvn is structurally positioned to win.

023 min

The thesis

Why now

NCQA CR-3 credentialing standard tightens primary-source verification cadence.
Joint Commission EP updates raise the bar on credentialing & privileging evidence.
CMS CoP §482.22, surveyor-ready medical-staff governance is no longer optional.
Labor structural shortage across nursing and allied roles compounds compliance load. The pain is three-headed: facilities cannot FILL (~78 days average experienced-RN recruitment per NSI 2026, ~118 days median physician time-to-fill per AAPPR 2025), cannot CLEAR (the roughly 90-day re-verification tax), and cannot KEEP the floor covered ($60,090 average cost per RN turnover, NSI 2026).

The wedge

A Readiness subscription for Joint Commission and CMS surveyor prep, priced at a $2,500 per month entry. That is the only public price; everything above it is governed and quoted. The buyer pays for a packet they can hand to a surveyor. Rōvn lands inside the medical-staff office and the MSO.

The expansion

Readiness →
Operator →
Worker Passport →
Network →
The operating network for the healthcare workforce

Pricing logic

Readiness, $2,500 per month entry, the one public price · $30K annualized.
Operator Pilot, 90 days · governed and quoted.
Operator, full facility operation · governed and quoted.
Platform, multi-entity groups · governed and quoted.

One public price; everything above it is governed and quoted. The billable unit is active monitored lives, and multi-site reuse never raises price within a band. Workers are free forever, with no placement or success fees.

033 min

The proof

Live, click and verify

operator.demo.rovn.to, protected Operator console.
readiness.rovn.to, Readiness demo (no login).
worker.demo.rovn.to, the Worker demo and clinician-controlled Passport.

Deploy receipts

room          rovn-investor-room (Google Cloud Run, us-east1)
revision      rovn-investor-room-00005-cbq
agent         Vertex AI · gemini-2.5-flash · hash-pinned canon g8
domain        investors.rovn.to · HTTP 200
demo data     synthetic · no PHI · no real roster yet

AI provider chain

Google Cloud Vertex AI → Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI → Rōvn Cloud Run BAA available · executed agreements itemized in 06.4

Compliance posture

designed for HIPAA-governed workflows · BAA path subject to counsel and execution.
SOC 2 program status requires current evidence.
NCQA CVO alignment path; certification not held and not claimed.
Joint Commission / CMS surveyor-evidence rail.

Current stage, stated plainly

Pre-launch by design: zero signed pilots and zero paying customers. Reported founding-pilot LOIs remain unverified pending signed documents and are not claimed as traction.
YC Fall 2026 application submitted 2026-07-10.
The risk an investor is pricing is execution, not invented traction. Every current-state claim in this room carries its evidence and date.

Advisory

Founding Advisor: Danielle K. Miller, DNP RN, healthcare workforce and medical-staff governance. Advisors also include Dr. Mohammed Quadri, MD, MBA and Aki Hashmi.

Outside legal counsel: Jason Thomas Acevedo, MSA, DPA, BAA, IP-assignment, SAFE, formation, and contractor-agreement review.

042 min

The ask

We are raising a $5M seed round, opening November 2026 into YC Demo Day on December 3. The round is sized to fund the team through the 18-to-24-month NCQA-CVO certification clock. Terms are shared on request once counsel confirms the offering exemption.

Raise $5M seed opening November 2026 into YC Demo Day (December 3)

Sizing 18 to 24 months funds the team through the NCQA-CVO certification clock

Terms On request once counsel confirms the offering exemption · see 02.1 Use of Funds

What we are looking for in a partner

Healthcare-vertical experience and operator relationships.
AI-application thesis, not infrastructure-only.
Ability to write a check this quarter.

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Next steps

→ 01 Book a 60-min founder call cal.com/rovn-entreprise/intro → 02 Open the live Operator demo operator.demo.rovn.to → 03 Open the Readiness demo readiness.rovn.to → 04 Ask the AI agent anything Grounded in the deep-context corpus. → 05 Enter the full 11-section diligence room Pitch · Financials · Product · Compliance · Live Proof.