Kirtana Vedire
Austin, Texas
I grew up expecting to be a dentist. These days I run operations at a teleneurology company, sell real estate in Austin, and build small AI tools in the evenings.
Exploring
An agentic layer for the operational busywork that kept me from actually practicing when I was chairside — intake, pre-auth back-and-forth, treatment-plan drafts. Written in the afternoons, tested in friends' practices.
Virtual staging that stops looking like virtual staging. Starts with how the room actually lives — same couch in three light conditions, real shadows, the kind of thing a buyer wouldn't notice as generated.
Current
Joined as Director of Operations and stayed to build the thing. In five years we went from around five million in revenue to somewhere between thirty and forty; the team grew past a hundred. Most of what I do now is make that growth not feel like chaos.
Started as a favor for family and grew by word of mouth. I was surprised by how low the bar is — most agents won't walk a first-time buyer through a contract. I do. The work is the opposite of dentistry: transparent to all parties, nobody loses for anyone else winning.
Two shapes: people thinking about walking away from a credential they spent a decade earning, and operators trying to understand how to actually scale a telehealth company from the inside.
Past
A high-volume clinic. The work I was asked to do there — aggressive procedures on children, chosen to hit corporate volume minimums — wasn't something I could keep doing. I loved the care part, couldn't stomach the rest. I left without a backup plan, because I knew I wanted impact I didn't have to apologize for.
Four years and five hundred thousand dollars of education, pointed at a single career I would ultimately walk away from.
The next rung on a path that seemed obvious until it wasn't.
My first look at healthcare from the research side — microscopes, grant cycles, the slow honest work of finding out something real.
The safer-seeming prelude.