Our Story
Time, Geography, Language, and Finances shouldn't limit how people can receive the healthcare they need.
The founding insight
Community health workers hold together the safety net for the most vulnerable populations — patients navigating poverty, language barriers, chronic illness, and a system that reimburses human attention by the minute. There have never been enough of them, and there never will be, if the only lever is hiring more people. There just isn't enough time or money.
Our founders challenge the status quo. What if we could add more hours to the day? What if you could be in two, three, four, hundred places at once? What if human interaction wasn't paid for by the minute? What if you could speak most languages?
Our founders — an award-winning social entrepreneur and tri-sector leader, physicians, an AI technologist, a former CMS quality director, an IBM Watson Health CMO, public health researchers — had all separately run into the same wall: good clinical judgment, delivered too rarely, to too few people, because time and funding are finite.
HumAInity is what happens when you stop asking "how do we hire or spend our way out of this" or "how can we deal with so much poverty and language barriers" and start asking "how do we eliminate the barriers of time, place, money, and language with new technologies" — without ever letting the human step back from the relationship.
Healthcare's "Iron Triangle" — access, cost, and quality — holds that you can't improve all three at once. Decades of studies bear it out. New technology is how you bend that curve, not by working the same levers harder.
From policy to platform
A social-entrepreneurship story.
HumAInity's founding philosophy is rooted in a belief that hard social problems get solved when people cross traditional boundaries and work together.
Co-founder Brian Meshkin traces his social entrepreneurship to his teenage years, when the death of a friend in a bicycle accident led him into community advocacy and public policy. That experience shaped a career spanning healthcare entrepreneurship, technology, public service, investment, and social-impact work — with one recurring lesson: meaningful change rarely comes from government, communities, or private enterprise alone.
HumAInity brings that lesson into healthcare AI — building at the intersection of social need, public mission, and private-sector innovation, using technology not as the goal but as a means of expanding human impact.
Meet the leadership team →The HumAInity tri-sector model
Society's hardest healthcare problems can't be solved by one sector alone. HumAInity's approach draws on three complementary sources of strength.
Social & civil sector
Patients, families, community health workers, and trusted local voices contribute lived experience, trust, and context.
Public sector
Federal, state, and local agencies contribute public mission, population reach, policy infrastructure, and stewardship.
Private sector
Healthcare organizations, technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors contribute innovation, capital, execution, and scale.
HumAInity connects these strengths around practical healthcare problems — building solutions that are technically scalable, economically sustainable, and grounded in human need.
What we believe
Human connection in healthcare is not a luxury feature. It's the mechanism through which trust, adherence, and outcomes actually happen.
What we build
A supervised AI extender, trained on the same curriculum a certified Community Health Worker learns — never an unsupervised stand-in for one.
What we measure
Patient satisfaction, clinician satisfaction, and net health outcomes — published alongside academic partners, not just claimed.