Penciled

Penciled

AI front office assistant for physical therapy

San Francisco
2 employees
Seed · $500K

About Penciled

Penciled (W24) is an AI front office assistant for physical therapy. Penciled's AI assistant schedules out plans of care, sends reminders and processes last-minute cancellations, and fills openings with an automated waitlist. Penciled books thousands of appointments for physical therapists each month and integrates directly into EHRs like WebPT.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
Initialized Capital

Founders

Shawn Shivdat

Shawn Shivdat

CEO & Co-founder of Penciled. Studied Computational Neuroscience at Harvard. Previously built patient outcome prediction software at MGH, built and launched a jobs board product at a health tech startup, and founded a global nonprofit organization.

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Deniz Sert

Deniz Sert

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Penciled. Previously a software engineering intern at Apple Maps.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.