At S7 Lab, we build for the side that was never supposed to win.
The United States spends $5.3 trillion a year on healthcare. $14,885 per person, more than any country on Earth.The seven largest insurance companies collected $1.7 trillion in 2025 and banked $71.3 billion in profit. UnitedHealth alone generated more revenue than the GDP of 90% of the world's countries.
But you probably already know this.
What you might not know is that Americans die 4 years sooner than their peers in comparable countries. Life expectancy in the US currently sits at 49th in the world, behind Costa Rica, Chile, Slovenia, Cuba, and Estonia.
By 2050, the US is projected to fall to 66th in life expectancy and to 108th in healthy life expectancy, the number of years people actually live in good health.
Meanwhile, 100 million Americans carry medical debt. Medical bills are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the richest country on Earth. And more than one in three adults skip or delay care because they simply cannot afford it.
So, where do we even start?
You follow the money. And when you do, you find that 25% of American Healthcare spend is wasted and never reaches a patient (almost $1 trillion every year)
And the single largest drain is everything that happens between a doctor treating a patient and getting paid for it.
That's where we're starting
Every dollar a doctor earns and a patient owes passes through this layer.
Insurance companies have spent billions building AI systems that can review and deny a claim in seconds, operating with the infrastructure of a Fortune 10 tech company.
On the other side, the people fighting to get those claims paid are doing it largely by hand, waiting on hold for 2 hours to dispute a denial that an algorithm generated in 1.2 seconds.
This sophistication gap is growing every day.
But what really shocked us is that 85% of claim denials are preventable, and nearly half never even get appealed, because there aren't enough hours in the day. Money simply disappears.
That's why we're building Altair, the AI that works for the billing teams, giving them the speed, the knowledge, and the precision that the other side has had for years.
the dysfunction runs through every layer of healthcare operations. As long as one in three Americans can't afford to see a doctor, there's work to do.
Altair is our first product. It won't be our last.
