The AI Billing Stack for Healthcare

Key moments

The parts the AI thinks are worth your time, chosen from the creator's chapters. Click to jump.

1. 9:14Finding Candid’s WedgeShows how they entered a hard market with a narrow, defensible starting point.
2. 11:00Winning the First CustomerPractical go-to-market details from landing the first real customer.
3. 15:33Automating RCM With Software and AIExplains how they moved from manual review to automation in practice.
4. 27:24Where AI Agents Matter MostDirectly relevant to AI-native product thinking and where agents add value.

Chapters

From the creator's chapter list. Click to jump.

1. What Candid Health Does
2. 0:26Why Medical Billing Is So Complicated
3. 2:13How Medical Claims Actually Work
4. 7:27The $300B Medical Billing Market
5. 9:14Finding Candid’s Wedge
6. 11:00Winning the First Customer
7. 13:00Doing Things That Don’t Scale
8. 15:33Automating RCM With Software and AI
9. 17:55From Palantir to Candid Health
10. 19:25The Moment They Hit Product-Market Fit
11. 20:44Building the Team and Culture
12. 23:39From the First 10 Customers to Scale
13. 27:24Where AI Agents Matter Most
14. 30:14Raising a Series D and What Comes Next
15. 37:33The Startup Lesson Nick Wishes He Knew

About this video

Candid Health is rebuilding the medical billing stack for healthcare providers, automating the work required to get claims submitted correctly and providers paid. Medical billing is a $200–300 billion market, and much of it still runs on decades-old software and manual processes. Today, Candid serves more than 200 healthcare organizations, processes about $7 billion in claims each year, and recently raised a $120 million Series D to keep expanding into the broader healthcare market. In this Founder Fireside, co-founder and CEO Nick Perry joins YC's Gustaf Alströmer to share how Candid went