Patient voice is not a feature. It's the whole point.
Every hospital measures outcomes. Almost none measure whether a patient was heard. The two are connected: people whose values and wishes are known get care that matches them, follow the plan, bring their families along, and spend fewer days in places they never wanted to be. People who aren't heard get care nobody asked for, and the system calls it a complication.
UzObi was founded by a clinical ethicist, a critical care physician, and a team that has spent two decades in the rooms where this goes wrong. We build tools that make patient voice a deliberate, measurable part of care instead of an accident of who happened to ask.
Two products, one question
Does the care this person is receiving reflect who they are and what they said they wanted? Sanctuary answers it before the crisis. Sawubona AI answers it during one.
Available for pilot
Sanctuary
One story, told once, carried to every clinician.
Sanctuary is a guided platform where a person living with serious illness writes down who they are, what matters to them, what a good day looks like, what they fear, who decides with them, and for them when they can't, and what they want when they can no longer say so. The result is their Medical Blueprint: one living document, in their own words, that they own and can change as life changes.
From the Blueprint, Sanctuary writes a Care Guide for each reader on the care team: a clinical summary for the pulmonologist, a bedside brief for the ICU, a practical guide for the care navigator, a plain-language version for the family. The member publishes and shares each guide with the people they choose. We are building toward delivering guides into the records clinicians already use. The patient writes once. Everyone who cares for them reads the version that fits their role.
For patients and families: care that reflects you, and a family that doesn't have to guess.
For clinicians: the patient's reasoning in the chart at 2 a.m., and advance care planning conversations that are documented and billable.
For health systems: fewer conflicted decisions, fewer ethics consults, fewer ICU days at the end of life.
Sanctuary is in beta; founding-partner pilots are forming. Members never pay. It's the first layer of a platform we're raising capital to build: AI-powered, messaging-enabled, with a living Medical Blueprint that advocates for the member.
In development · Seeking funding and partners
Sawubona AI
The risk hospitals don't measure, measured.
Hospitals track infections, falls, and readmissions. They have no comparable way to detect relational harm: the patient who feels dismissed, the family that has stopped asking questions, the mistrust that builds across a stay and surfaces later as a complaint, a readmission, or a death nobody saw coming.
Sawubona AI is a relational risk surveillance system. It connects to the EHR and reaches out to patients and families during a hospital stay in their own language, through multilingual avatars, voice, and text, and listens for the signals that trust is breaking down. Every concern it flags goes to a human reviewer. Hospitals get real-time visibility into the risks that drive safety, experience, and equity outcomes; patients get a safe way to raise a concern before it becomes a crisis.
Built on a named governance framework: clinical safety, equity performance, operational efficiency, stakeholder trust, community accountability.
Reviewed by a Community Trust and Accountability Council, not only by us.
Designed to civil rights, language access, and emerging AI governance standards from day one.
The model, the governance framework, and the engagement design are built. The MVP is next, and we are raising capital and selecting health system partners to build it with us.
What we believe
A patient's own words are clinical data.
The care team includes the family.
Technology should make people easier to hear, not easier to manage.
Where to go next
I'm a clinician or health system leader
The pilot, the ACP revenue, and how it reaches the EHR.
I'm a patient or family member
What a Medical Blueprint is and how to get one through your doctor.
I'm an investor
The two-minute video and how to request a meeting.
Get in touch
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Your voice. Your care. Your way.