About
Freed builds an AI-powered clinician assistant that transcribes visits, drafts and adapts medical notes, supports coding, and integrates records into EHR systems. It primarily serves clinicians and independent small- and medium-sized medical practices, differentiating through clinician-specific personalization, workflow automation, and a product-led approach.
Market
Freed competes in the ambient AI medical-scribe and broader clinical workflow-automation market, converting clinician-patient conversations into structured notes and related administrative outputs. It positions itself particularly strongly for small and midsized clinics through fast, low-IT deployment, broad browser-based EHR compatibility, workflow customization, coding support, and HIPAA-oriented security, rather than focusing primarily on large Epic-led hospital systems.
Freed primarily targets individual clinicians, small and midsized medical practices, and group practices across specialties, with a stated focus on clinics of roughly 2–50 clinicians. Its buyers and users include physicians and other clinicians, practice owners or managers, and broader healthcare organizations seeking quick deployment without extensive IT onboarding.
At a Glance
Problem
Freed addresses the administrative burden of clinical documentation, where clinicians spend hours converting patient conversations into notes instead of focusing on care. The pain is both operational and economic: traditional documentation takes hours each day, while Freed’s pricing starts at $149 per month and its users report reclaiming roughly 5–15 hours per week—or about two hours per day. The core use case is turning a clinical visit into a finished note quickly enough to eliminate the documentation backlog and reduce clinician burnout.
Product / Service
Freed is a subscription-based AI healthcare assistant centered on an ambient medical scribe. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes them, and generates complete, specialty-aware clinical notes— including SOAP notes—about a minute after the visit. The product also supports decision support, coding, patient instructions, referral letters, and other workflow tasks, with browser-based EHR push integrations that let clinicians send notes into their existing systems.
The service is positioned for the broader care team rather than only physicians, extending across scribing, coding, front-desk work, and practice management. Its benefit is to reduce paperwork while preserving clinician attention for patients; Freed says its tools are designed to save time, and its plans include a free-trial path alongside paid subscriptions.
Market
Freed competes in the healthcare AI documentation and ambient medical scribe market, particularly among small and midsized clinics. Relevant competitors include Nuance DAX, Abridge, DeepScribe, and Heidi; Freed’s own comparison positions itself for small and midsized clinics while describing Nuance DAX and Abridge as particularly strong in Epic-centered hospital systems.
Freed is clearly commercial rather than pre-revenue. Its site reports more than 26,000 clinicians across more than 1,300 health organizations, while its careers page says the product is used by tens of thousands of clinicians daily and touches millions of patients monthly. The company raised a $30 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital in March 2025, and Sacra estimated $19 million in annual recurring revenue as of March 2025, although that revenue figure is a third-party estimate rather than an audited company disclosure.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross
Sequoia Capital
Recent News
A July 2026 review describes Freed AI as an ambient medical scribe designed to automate clinical documentation.
Freed reported securing $30 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital to expand its AI clinician assistant and reduce burnout. The page also references a March 17, 2025 wire concerning the funding.
Freed launched Front Desk, an AI-powered receptionist for clinic calls. The announcement highlights a 90% reduction in hold times, no voicemails, and no IT setup requirement.
Freed outlined its approach to EHR workflows, including automatically generated patient instructions and clinical letters, one-click pushing of notes and ICD-10 codes, and no required IT setup or system changes.
Freed described its security-first AI scribe as designed around HIPAA compliance, clinician control, and patient-data protection.
Freed described a 24-hour hackathon in which AI was used to balance skillsets and form cross-functional groups spanning frontend and backend engineering, clinical specialists, and data engineering.
Sequoia Capital’s company profile described Freed as an AI clinician assistant automating visit preparation, documentation, EHR interactions, and other burdensome clinical tasks.
CB Insights named Freed one of the 50 most promising digital health startups of 2025 for advancing clinician-first AI documentation.
Freed introduced EHR Push, a single-button feature that maps and transfers AI-generated notes into any browser-based EHR. The product is positioned as a way to move notes into charts without complex integrations.
Freed’s Jane-focused resource highlighted direct copy-and-paste note transfer, with notes formatted for Jane’s fields, as a way to move documentation into the platform.
Active Roles
4Business Model
Freed sells subscription-based AI clinical documentation and workflow software. Individual plans start at $39 per month, with higher-priced tiers and custom group pricing; its broader product offering also includes Freed Front Desk starting at $149 per month.
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Key Investors
Sequoia Capital, Scale Venture Partners