For the people who
keep them alive.
EMTs, paramedics, combat medics, flight nurses. The job is judgment under noise — in a dark room, on a roadside, at a casualty collection point. We’re building a machine that runs the protocol so you can run the patient.
You don’t need a chatbot. You need a partner that knows the protocol.
The medic we’re designing for is on a porch at 2am, in a Black Hawk at altitude, or under a tarp at a collection point with three patients and one set of hands. You’re running TCCC, NAEMT, or your local ALS protocol in your head — while you triage, while you talk to family, while you call the trauma room.
The cognitive cost is huge. Drugs, doses, contraindications, pediatric weight calculations, OLMC permissions. The protocol is the answer, but the protocol is also the bottleneck.
Vertex builds for the moment your hands are on the patient and the right next step is six sub-decisions deep in your training.
- Sepsis recognition delay. The 1-hour bundle assumes you knew it was sepsis at minute zero. You usually don’t.
- Pediatric dose math. Weight estimation, mg/kg conversion, and rate calc — under stress, with a screaming room.
- Multi-casualty triage on scene. START, SALT, JumpSTART — the algorithm is simple. Holding it across nine patients while one is decompensating is not.
- Drug-drug and allergy contraindications. A patient on warfarin, on a beta-blocker, allergic to morphine. You’re going to remember. You shouldn’t have to.
- Hemorrhage control in TCCC. The first two minutes of MARCH decide outcome. Time spent on the wrong limb is time the right one keeps bleeding.
- Documentation lag. The ePCR you write three hours later from memory is the legal record of care. Memory degrades.
Vertex’s medic-mode policy is trained on published clinical doctrine — the same way our ICU-stewardship scenarios in Colosseum are graded against IDSA SSC and CDC HICPAC. It runs the protocol. You run the patient.
medic_call overrides any time.Every protocol step the policy proposes cites a real, published clinical source. Same schema as our reconnaissance rules — the only thing that changes is the citation file.
This is what the mission log actually looks like — sensor values, the action, and the cited doctrine line under every step. From the live demo, verbatim:
We don’t build for medics. We build with them. Field days bring the team to partner EMS agencies for ride-alongs, sim-lab integration, and protocol reviews. We bring engineers; you bring the rig.
If your agency runs high-acuity calls and wants a longer conversation about field-medicine co-design, tell us.
Run the protocol with us.
Sim-lab integration, ride-alongs, ePCR co-design, and the long-term model-card collaboration on prehospital decisions.