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Even generative AI critics and critics must admit that technology is great for something: transcription.
If you joined the meeting in Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Meet or other selected video connections platform at any time last year, you probably noticed an increased number of notreakers AI also joining the conference connection.
Indeed, all these platforms not only have built-in AI transcription functions, but of course there are other independent services, such as Otter AI (used by Venturebeat with Google Working Package) and models such as the up-to-date GPT-4-Transzisa GPT-4O and the older whisper of open, Afiola and many other with specific niches and roles.
One of such startups is San Fransisco based Freed AICo -founders in 2022 by former engineers on Facebook Erez Druk and Andrey Bannikov, currently its general director and CTO. The idea was elementary: give doctors and doctors a way to automatically transcribe their conversations with patients, capture precise health -specific terminology, and bring out the observations and plans to act from conversations without having to lift your finger.
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The idea worked well because the scribe medical platform recently reached a up-to-date milestone: 20,000 paying clinicians, the print shared in a recent conversation with Venturebeat, each saved 2-3 hours every day in manual transcription or organization of notes.
With almost 3 million patients’ visits per month, Freed quickly becomes a fundamental tool of documentation in miniature and medium health care conditions.
This dividend has helped augment the high degree of emotional resonance with clients, who often describe the product in terms of restored balance between professional and private life.
“Clinicians spend over 11 hours a week on documentation,” noted the print. “We built Freed to reduce this burden by listening to visits and writing a clinical note.”
Growing competition
But Free’s success attracted the intensification of the competition. Just today, Dolessy – a company dealing in networking of doctors listed on the listing – published a free AI writer available to all verified American doctors, nurses, assistants Axios AND Stat News Reported.
This movement emphasizes the change in the creation of the AI scratches on the market, where prices emerge as a distinguishing feature.
“We want to provide free access to the tools that our clients asked for,” said Axios, the main experience officer in Dolixita, Amit Phull, “and can come up with themselves whether the standard offer – or pay for something else – will work out.”
This premiere is in line with other deafening rounds of financing writers in dozens or hundreds of millions. While investors protrude visions of platforms on the EHR scale, these ambitions still depend on the proof of the invoicing value, the review of charts and compliance-not only notes.
Despite this, print and freed team think they have an advantage.
Turn the burn with the possibility
Freed was not born of technical brainstorming, but from personal pain. Print attributes this idea to the fight of his wife as a practicing family doctor, in which a constant weight of lifting notes has become a daily source of stress.
“For seven years I heard at home every day,” I have notes to do ” – more than I heard” I love you “from my wife,” he said. “This is the troublesome documentation.”
This experienced experience turned into a deliberate vision of the product: removing the load on documentation from clinicians and giving them control during and mental energy.
“The idea for Freed was: why does nobody build something that will help clinicians?” Said print. “Everyone does things to them, not for them.”
More than transcription: AI modular system built for medicine
The Free System does more than it records and transcribe conversations. The basic product is a structured, specialized engine of AI documentation, which generates clinical notes adapted to the preferences of each user.
The print explained that Free’s architecture is based on a highly modular pipeline. While the initial transcription is driven by a refined version of the Whisper OpenAI-optimized model specially for clinical vocabulary-it’s just a starting point.
The company platform lay out hundreds of targeted AI tasks to separate the structure, filter miniature conversations, adapt the terminology to medical standards and match the specifics specific to the user.
“It’s not just about transcription accuracy,” said print. “It is about building a trusting system of clinicians – one that in time becomes smarter and adapts to their flow.”
“Our engine learns from the edition of clinicians,” he added. “With time, Freed becomes your personal writer, not a general.”
Over 20 internal clinicians regularly control anonymous notes to improve the performance of the model. And when clinicians edit, the system still learns.
Prices and availability
Freed offers elementary prices:
- USD 90/month for individual clinicians
- USD 84/month for a user for 2-9 clinicists’ teams
- Custom prices for over 10 places
Each plan includes a 7-day free process, and the company offers 50% discounts to students, residents and interns. The Free Platform is also consistent with Hipa, Hitech and SOC 2 standards. Audio recordings are encrypted and deleted by default, and clinicians maintain full control over their notes all the time.
Cychi building a company worth $ 20 million
One sec Freed has recently raised $ 30 million in the A series Financing carried out by Sequoia Capital, its financial rush comes mainly from the existing customer base.
In April 2025, Printing publicly made available to x This freed exceeded $ 20 million annual repetitive revenues.
This augment reflects not only a powerful matching of the product market, but also a clear strategy of switching to the market. Instead of chasing enterprise agreements with gigantic hospital systems, Freed focused on miniature clinics and solo doctors – a segment often overlooked by health technology suppliers.
“We focus on the long tail, supporting small clinics – 40% of clinicians in private practice – to help keep them,” said print. “These clinicians do not have IT budgets worth many millions of dollars, but they need our help the most.”
Freed is currently used in over 1,000 miniature healthcare organizations, mainly in the range of 1-50 clinicians.
Printing said that he thinks that this focus is not only strategic, but with a mission-to support maintain miniature practices in connection with the consolidation of the industry.
Looking to the future: reference research and EHR integration
Printing recognized the widespread challenge on the increasingly crowded AI transcription market: it is arduous to distinguish between true performance from well -stored parity.
To solve this problem, Freed develops an internal comparative system to measuring quality and accuracy in 30 separate criteria-to create a framework in the industry to compare AI scripos.
“There are 100 AI scribes. They look the same from the outside,” the print admitted. “We want to help the market to measure what is really important.”
At the same time, the road map of the product includes smarter EHR integration. Freed has recently launched Chrome extension to handle velvety notes transfers, and the upcoming editions will contain more automation of introducing notes to common EHR systems.
Clinicist’s feedback emphasizes the personal influence
In addition to the indicators of the exploit and product function, the influence of Freed is apparently captured in the history of users. Clinics report nights, on weekends, and in some cases all their careers.
The print remembered the phone with one doctor who told him that after 10 years she was preparing to close the private practice – until she tried to free and changed her mind.
Another clinician said: “I have been practicing for 44 years – why have you not built it 30 years ago? I can enjoy my practice again.”
In a study conducted with one client of enterprises, 100% clinicians reported an improvement in the balance between professional and private life. Eighty percent said they were happier in their work, and 80% believe that it provides better patient care.
“We take the cloud that hangs over the heads of clinicians – stress related to documentation – and we remove it,” said print. “That’s how Freed is.”