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It now supports all of Aledade's AI work: hundreds of use cases, from the fine-tuned vision language models that let Assist work across EHRs without traditional integrations to company-wide AI enablement.","Stood up an applied AI research team that adapts and evaluates models for clinical use and turns the results into production capabilities across Aledade's products.","Lead the engineering behind AI enablement at Aledade, putting coding and workplace agents, integrations, and guardrails in the hands of 1,500+ employees.","Grew the engineering team behind Assist and Aledade's EHR integrations from 6 to 40 engineers since 2024. 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