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Clarion

Automates phone-based healthcare workflows with AI

Software Engineer - Fullstack

Full-Time
$160k - $190k/yr
Mid, Senior
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringFull-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Three to five years of experience building and shipping production software.
  • Strong full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and PostgreSQL.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous environments and learning quickly.
  • A strong sense of ownership and care for quality, reliability, and real-world impact.
  • Clear communication and a collaborative mindset.
Responsibilities
  • Build and operate production full-stack features powering AI-driven healthcare communication.
  • Integrate with electronic health records, legacy healthcare systems, and real-time voice infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and senior engineers to turn customer needs into shipped software.
  • Debug and improve reliability, performance, and scalability across live systems.
  • Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and evolving engineering best practices.
  • Support and extend large language model-driven systems used in real-time healthcare interactions.
  • Work on low-latency services that process live voice and patient data.
  • Build resilient abstractions across fragmented, regulated systems while maintaining security and compliance.

About the company

Clarion automates routine and complex phone-based workflows for medical practices using conversational AI, providing 24/7 patient support across voice, SMS, and web. Its AI agents integrate with existing EHR and practice management systems to schedule appointments, answer questions, and escalate complex issues with full context. Unlike many competitors, it uses outcome-based pricing, charging only for successfully resolved patient interactions, and aims to cut administrative work and no-shows while protecting data. Its goal is to free medical teams to focus on in-person care and improve patient satisfaction through secure, scalable healthcare workflows.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • YC listed Clarion on August 22, 2026 with 16 employees and $5.4M raised.
  • Clarion targets scheduling, billing, and prescription workflows clinics pay to automate immediately.
  • Healthcare staffing shortages reward round-the-clock patient support and fast deployment in clinics.

What critics are saying

  • Epic, athenahealth, and Twilio bundle patient communication into existing clinic workflows.
  • HIPAA misfires or hallucinated triage answers trigger OCR scrutiny and patient-safety lawsuits.
  • A single 2026 safety incident can freeze sales and kill category trust.

What makes Clarion unique

  • Clarion combines voice, SMS, and web automation with direct EHR integration.
  • Founders Ryan and Jeffrey bring Stanford medicine and Amazon Alexa voice-AI experience.
  • Outcome-based pricing ties revenue to resolved patient interactions, not seat licenses.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Daily Team Lunches
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Stock Options
  • Meaningful Equity
  • Wellness Program
  • Gym Membership
  • Conference Attendance Budget
  • Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-18%

1 year growth

-3%

2 year growth

-13%
PR Newswire
Oct 14th, 2026
WeInfuse and Clarion partner to bring AI agents to infusion and pharmacy front offices

WeInfuse, a software platform for infusion providers and pharmacies, has partnered with Clarion, which runs medical front offices with AI agents. The deal, announced October 14, 2026, aims to cut the administrative load of phone calls, scheduling, and referrals. Clarion's agents connect directly to WeInfuse, so they see each patient's orders, prior authorisation status, and appointments in real time. They resolve routine calls end to end and route everything else to the patient's clinic. Medix Infusion, a national multi-site infusion center and pharmacy organisation, is the first provider to use the integration. Its chief executive officer, Carmine DeNardo, said the tool is already helping staff work more efficiently. Clarion was founded in 2024 and is backed by Accel and Y Combinator.

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Sep 28th, 2026
Healthcare News, Deals, and investments update September 28th, 2026.

Healthcare News, Deals, and investments update September 28th, 2026. Spenser Lin September 28, 2026 No Comments Healthcare Weekly News and Deals - Sept 28th, 2026 Venture Deals and Other * Pershing Square Inc. (PS), the Ackman Oxman Institute and an undisclosed life sciences investment fund have co-led Precision Neuroscience's oversubscribed $250 million Series D, joined by Duquesne Family Office, B Capital, ARK Invest, Invus, Mubadala Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, Korea Investment Partners (parent Korea Investment Holdings, KRX: 071050), Hitachi Ventures (parent Hitachi, TYO: 6501) and JSL Health Capital, to advance its brain-computer interface toward commercialization. Pershing Square Inc. (PS), the Ackman Oxman Institute and an undisclosed life sciences fund co-led Precision Neuroscience's oversubscribed $250 million Series D, lifting total capital raised to $430 million since the brain-computer interface developer was founded in 2021. Duquesne Family Office, B Capital, ARK Invest, Invus, Mubadala Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, Korea Investment Partners (parent KRX: 071050), Hitachi Ventures (parent TYO: 6501) and JSL Health Capital also joined, spanning sovereign wealth, venture, public-market and family-office capital. Precision holds FDA clearance for its Layer 7 cortical interface, has completed more than 100 procedures across 18 institutions and partners with Medtronic (MDT). Proceeds will fund clinical expansion, further FDA review and commercialization. (Link) * Francisco Partners has led a $155 million Series E in pharmacy benefit management and care navigation company Rightway, with participation from existing investors Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures, to expand its AI and technology capabilities. Francisco Partners led a $155 million Series E in New York-based Rightway, with existing investors Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures participating. Rightway provides pharmacy benefit management and care navigation for employers. Its financial model removes any incentive to profit from higher drug spend, and pharmacists guide members to the most appropriate medications at the lowest cost. It now counts 45 Fortune 500 companies as clients, nearly 10% of the index. Its SureSpend model caps total pharmacy spend and covers GLP-1s and rare high-cost drugs at net cost with 100% rebate pass-through. Proceeds will expand Rightway's AI and technology. Francisco Partners, with over $75 billion raised, brings healthcare technology expertise. (Link) * .406 Ventures has led a $22 million Series A in at-home cervical cancer screening company Teal Health, with continued backing from Emerson Collective (managed by Yosemite), Forerunner and Serena Ventures and new participation from Japan-based MPower Partners, ahead of broad insurance coverage in 2027...406 Ventures led a $22 million Series A in Teal Health, maker of the Teal Wand, the first FDA-authorized self-collection device for at-home HPV cervical cancer screening. Emerson Collective (managed by Yosemite), Forerunner and Serena Ventures returned, and Japan-based MPower Partners joined, lifting total funding to $45 million. Federal guidelines due in January 2027 require most health plans to cover self-collection screening. Proceeds go to payor, health system, employer and provider contracts, direct-purchase channels and hiring. Teal reports that 59 percent of women who use the wand had been underscreened. (Link) * NEA has led a $20 million Series A in Nashville-based AI post-acute admissions platform Basalt Health, with participation from existing investors Frist Cressey Ventures and 25m Health, to scale across Lifepoint Health and ScionHealth hospitals. Return investor NEA led a $20 million Series A in Nashville-based Basalt Health, with existing backers Frist Cressey Ventures and 25m Health, 25madison's healthtech venture studio, participating; total funding now stands at about $24.5 million. Basalt's AI reads post-acute referrals and checks them against clinical and payer rules, cutting median processing time by 86% at Lifepoint Health. The capital will support scaling across 111 markets by the end of 2026, including 62 ScionHealth hospitals and 49 Lifepoint markets, plus expansion into discharge and payer workflows. NEA, with more than $38 billion in assets under management, and Frist Cressey, with $846 million, bring deep healthcare networks. (Link) * Accel has led a $10 million seed round in New York-based healthcare conversational AI company Clarion Health, with participation from Y Combinator, to automate scheduling, referrals, prescription refills and patient communications for providers. Accel led a $10 million seed round in New York-based Clarion Health, with participation from Y Combinator. Clarion's conversational AI platform automates scheduling, referrals, prescription refills and patient communications for healthcare providers. Founded in 2024 by Ryan Gallagher and Jeffrey Lamothe, the company is building what Y Combinator calls an AI communication layer for healthcare, with agents that handle the overwhelming volume of calls and messages providers receive. The Accel-led round gives the two-year-old startup capital to scale its AI communication infrastructure for healthcare providers, and the company is actively hiring following the raise. (Link) * Surgeon investors have backed Redefine Surgery's oversubscribed pre-seed round, bringing total capital raised to $10 million, as Catalyst OrthoScience joins as Founding Partner to co-develop surgical intelligence for shoulder replacement. Redefine Surgery has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed round backed mostly by surgeon investors, bringing total capital raised to $10 million. The company is combining computer vision, software and robotics in a portable platform for the operating room, starting in orthopedics. Naples, Florida-based Catalyst OrthoScience joined as founding partner on surgical intelligence for shoulder replacement. More than 25 surgeons advise the company. Commercial use still requires regulatory clearance. (Link) * Ground State Ventures has led a $3.4 million pre-seed round in Azulene Labs, with participation from existing investor Entrada Ventures and angel investors, to build physics-based AI models for drug and materials simulation. Ground State Ventures led a $3.4 million pre-seed round in Azulene Labs, with participation from existing investor Entrada Ventures and angel investors. Azulene builds physics-based models trained on quantum-mechanical data for drug and materials simulation. Co-founder Nicolas Sawaya previously led quantum chemistry algorithm work at Intel Labs. Proceeds go to hiring and to work with biotech and industrial chemistry customers. (Link) * Elmstead Partners, Chisos Capital, the Chemical Angel Network and individual angel investors have backed Axio BioPharma's $2.4 million pre-seed round to connect biomanufacturing data between pharma companies and their manufacturing partners. Elmstead Partners, Chisos Capital, the Chemical Angel Network and a group of individual angels invested in Axio BioPharma's $2.4 million pre-seed round. The Madison, Wisconsin company connects manufacturing data between drug sponsors and their manufacturing partners through a product called Lattice, with each side keeping its own systems. Proceeds fund first deployments with design partners and further work on Rosetta, an ontology layer that maps those systems to each other. (Link)

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