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Knowtex

knowtex.ai

Knowtex uses ambient voice AI to automate clinical documentation, coding, and healthcare workflow tasks.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
5 active roles
Jobs checked 3d ago
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Business
Software Applications
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Speech
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Healthcare
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Enterprises, Governments
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Hosted Software
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About

Knowtex builds an ambient clinical-intelligence platform that converts clinician-patient conversations into clinical notes, coding suggestions, and workflow outputs for clinicians and healthcare organizations. Its differentiation is specialty-specific, enterprise-grade AI designed to integrate with healthcare workflows and reduce documentation burden while improving coding accuracy and reimbursement.

Market

Knowtex competes in the ambient clinical intelligence and AI medical-scribe market, using voice AI to transform clinician-patient conversations into structured notes, codes, and orders. Its positioning emphasizes an EHR-agnostic, specialty-specific, workflow-integrated platform that extends beyond transcription into coding and ordering, competing with larger vendors such as Microsoft/Nuance and Abridge as well as focused players including Ambience Healthcare, Suki, DeepScribe, and Nabla.

Target Customers

Knowtex targets healthcare providers and organizations, including specialty practices and larger health systems, whose clinicians spend significant time on documentation. Likely buyers include clinical leadership, practice or health-system operations, and health IT teams seeking to reduce documentation burden and improve workflow efficiency.

At a Glance

Problem

Knowtex addresses the administrative burden created by modern clinical documentation. Manual note-taking, coding complexity, and fragmented EHR data consume hours of clinicians’ time, contribute to burnout and fatigue, and pull providers away from patients. The economic pain is not only lost clinician capacity and higher attrition, but also revenue leakage when busy providers miss accurate ICD-10 and evaluation-and-management coding opportunities.

The core use case is an ambient clinical workflow for a patient visit: capture the natural doctor–patient conversation and turn it into usable documentation without requiring the clinician to type, click, or dictate separately. This is especially valuable in data-intensive specialties such as oncology, where documentation, coding, ordering, and treatment planning compete directly with patient care.

Product / Service

Knowtex is an enterprise voice-AI and ambient clinical-intelligence platform. It listens to clinician–patient conversations, identifies relevant medical information, and generates a structured note with coding suggestions for clinician review and sign-off. Its platform can also generate or support orders, automate repetitive documentation and coordination tasks, and provide workflow monitoring and operational visibility.

The product is designed to be EHR-agnostic, specialty-specific, and deeply integrated into clinical workflows rather than functioning as a generic dictation tool. Knowtex says it supports specialty-specific models and enterprise-grade security, allowing health systems to standardize documentation while preserving clinician oversight. The intended benefits are shorter documentation time, better coding and reimbursement accuracy, less burnout, and more time for direct patient care.

Market

Knowtex competes in the ambient clinical intelligence or AI medical-scribe market, with an expanding position in broader clinical-workflow automation. Abridge is the clearest named competitor: the Department of Veterans Affairs selected both Abridge and Knowtex for cloud-based ambient-scribe deployments that transcribe encounters and generate notes integrated with the VA’s EHR. Nuance is another relevant incumbent in the category, having been considered for the VA’s AI-scribe pilots before Knowtex replaced it in the final contracting process.

Knowtex has meaningful commercial traction rather than appearing purely pre-revenue. Its strongest disclosed validation is a reported $15 million U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contract, alongside partnerships with oncology provider cCARE and Integrated Oncology Network and an integrated-workflow partnership with 4D EMR. Knowtex’s website also claims support for more than 1,000 clinicians across 200-plus specialties and more than 100 million automated workflows; these are company-reported operating metrics, while an independent company profile says that no public revenue figure has been confirmed. Overall, the evidence points to an actively commercializing enterprise healthcare-AI company, but not to publicly disclosed revenue or profitability.

Founders & Leadership

Caroline ZhangFounder
Founder and CEO
Jocelyn KangFounder
Founder and CTO

Funding History

2022-08
Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-09-25customer_win
Knowtex named a prime awardee on the VA’s ambient scribe contract

Knowtex announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selected it as a prime awardee on the VA’s five-year Ambient Scribe Enterprise IDIQ contract. The contract has a shared maximum ceiling of $775.72 million across all awardees; that is not a Knowtex-only award amount.

2026-09-15product_launch
Knowtex launches Frontier AI Lab for Healthcare

Knowtex announced the launch of its Frontier AI Lab for Healthcare, focused on developing and evaluating clinical AI against real-world standards for accuracy, auditability, and clinician trust. Its platform generates clinical notes, codes, orders, summaries, and real-time intelligence, and was already deployed across the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and more than 300 other organizations.

2026-03-18partnership
Knowtex Selected by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to Deploy Ambient Clinical AI

Knowtex announced that it had been awarded a $15 million contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deploy its ambient clinical documentation platform across the VA health system. The platform generates clinical notes, codes, and orders in real time.

2026-01-16exec_change
Knowtex’s CEO Believes Ambient AI Is Healthcare’s Next Operating System—Here’s Why

Techy Surgeon profiled CEO Caroline Zhang and Knowtex’s strategy for making ambient clinical AI a broader operating system for healthcare workflows. The article highlighted Knowtex’s $15 million VA contract, selection alongside Abridge, and integration with the VA’s CPRS electronic health record.

2026-01-01funding
Knowtex

Forbes’ updated Knowtex profile reported that Caroline Zhang and Jocelyn Kang founded the company in 2022, took it through Y Combinator, and raised $3.5 million from investors. The profile describes Knowtex as a company automating clinical workflows from medical conversations.

2025-10-21partnership
Knowtex Selected by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to Deploy Ambient Clinical AI

Knowtex announced a $15 million contract with the VA and plans to deploy its AI-powered documentation platform across the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system. The announcement described the partnership as a federal-scale deployment of secure, specialty-specific ambient clinical intelligence.

Active Roles

5
Hybrid - San Francisco/Engineering/4d ago
Hybrid - San Francisco/Engineering/12d ago
Hybrid - San Francisco/Product/13d ago
Remote - United States/Implementation Engineer/28d ago
Remote - United States/HR & Recruiting/79d ago

Business Model

Knowtex appears to monetize through enterprise software deployments and institutional contracts with healthcare organizations rather than publicly listed self-serve pricing. Its $15 million U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contract is clear evidence of contract-based enterprise revenue, while standardized subscription or per-provider pricing has not been disclosed.

Products

Ambient clinical AI documentation platformVoice AI for automated medical note-takingAutomated clinical coding and reimbursement-code suggestionsClinical order generation and workflow automationSpecialty-specific clinical workflow solutions

Customers

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Health Administration)Cornerstone Specialty Network

Tech Stack

Voice AIAmbient clinical intelligenceNatural-language clinical information extractionEHR integrationsAutomated clinical coding and order generation

Competitors

Microsoft/Nuance Dragon Copilot
Abridge
Ambience Healthcare
Suki
DeepScribe
Nabla