#280: NYU Incubator Winner: Clairdoc - Agentic Billing | with Bakhtawer Baloch
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Hosts David Millili and Steve Carran interview Bakhtawer Baloch about her journey as an entrepreneur and the development of Clairdoc, an AI-driven platform for healthcare billing.
In this episode, hosts David Millili and Steve Carran sit down with 2026 NYU SPS Incubator winner and founder of Clairdoc, Bakhtawer Baloch, for a wide-ranging conversation on entrepreneurship, resilience, and building scalable AI solutions in complex industries. From her early entrepreneurial spark selling stickers as a child in Pakistan to studying and building companies in New York, Bakhtawer shares how her journey across consulting, tech, and startups led her to identify a major inefficiency in healthcare billing: insurance claim denials. That insight became the foundation of Clairdoc, an AI-driven platform aimed at reducing administrative friction and improving revenue outcomes for clinics. In this episode, you’ll learn about: How Bakhtawer Baloch went from selling stickers as a child in Pakistan to building a tech startup in New York The inspiration behind Clairdoc and the problem it solves in healthcare billing and insurance claim denials Winning the 2026 NYU SPS Incubator and how mentorship shaped her pitch and growth strategy Why she transitioned from service-based businesses to scalable AI product development What’s next for Clairdoc as it expands across healthcare…
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