Healthcare AI Insights

Expert insights on implementing AI in healthcare workflows, industry trends, and best practices from our team of healthcare AI specialists.

A paper raven stationmaster holds a Hold paddle beside a stationary train.
2026-12-02
9 min read

Nothing was promoted to bounded automation, and that was the result

Where each class of claim-resolution automation landed after the July 2026 experiments - report-only, human-gated, or not promotable, and why.

human reviewrelease boundaries
Jake Butler
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A paper raven cartographer draws a copper boundary where observations end on a partly completed map.
2026-11-18
8 min read

The 80 labels behind our release boundary

What do you do once a pipeline can propose an answer for every row, but you have no idea how often it is right?

human labelsevaluation
Jake Butler
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A paper raven botanist examines a leaf between an orderly greenhouse and a varied wild field.
2026-11-04
9 min read

Production samples changed the story

Our constructed pilots looked encouraging. Then we pointed the same ideas at real ledger data, read-only, and learned what the pilots couldn't show us.

evaluationproduction samples
Jake Butler
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A paper raven watchmaker works on an open clock with separate mechanisms mounted inside a rigid frame.
2026-10-21
8 min read

The safer answer was not one model call

In July 2026 we ran three small pilots on claim review.

claim validationsystem design
Jake Butler
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A photographic hand holds a copper landscape image beside an empty image slot in a paper newspaper.
2026-10-14
9 min read

What Corvo Labs learned building an AI editorial workflow

Where should the hard decisions in an AI editorial workflow go, if the writing turns out not to be the hard part?

editorial workflowshuman review
Jake Butler
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A paper chair bears an Approved tag, but one leg ends above the floor.
2026-10-07
9 min read

Approved didn't mean supported

In May 2026, we found that a claim ledger can look reviewed while its evidence is thin.

claim validationevaluation
Jake Butler
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An ornate paper house facade is revealed from the side as a thin stage flat held up by a copper brace.
2026-09-30
8 min read

The digest that won our blind review was built on sources covering 17% of our gold list

How the lower dB weekly digest went from three competing pipelines to one, and why the email that won had a thin pool of sources behind it.

source selectionevaluation
Jake Butler
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A document rests in an open protective case beside a blue award ribbon.
2026-09-09
8 min read

The final artifact was an editorial standard

The most durable thing we built for the lower dB weekly digest wasn't a model or a screen. It was a short document that says what a publishable digest is.

editorial standardshuman review
Jake Butler
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A paper raven reads at a desk while a cropped paper hand holds a copper stopwatch beside it.
2026-08-26
9 min read

Two timed human reviews of a weekly digest, and what they checked

Two timed reviews of our weekly digest took 12.5 and 10.19 minutes.

human revieweditorial workflows
Jake Butler
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A paper award dispenser gives one pastry a rosette while a raven diner tastes the other pastry.
2026-08-19
9 min read

The judge loved it. The human did not.

Three blind review rounds, one LLM judge that never changed its mind, and what the gap taught us about editorial standards.

evaluationhuman review
Jake Butler
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A paper evidence board connects charts, maps, and documents to a central report above a desk.
2026-08-12
8 min read

We stopped drafting first

Why the lower dB weekly digest rebuild starts with a set of sources and story candidates, and only then gets any prose.

editorial workflowssource selection
Jake Butler
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A paper raven carpenter points to a bowed straightedge resting on a straight plank.
2026-08-05
7 min read

When the gate was wrong

What do you do when the check that's supposed to catch the mistake is the thing making it?

evaluationeditorial workflows
Jake Butler
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Paper news cards pass through labeled sieves and conveyors into a collection bucket.
2026-07-29
9 min read

Search APIs are not an editorial strategy

We ran Brave, Firecrawl, and LangSearch against one week of GLP-1 news for the lower dB digest.

searcheditorial workflows
Jake Butler
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You need to measure performance if you want to be confident in your work.
2026-07-22
9 min read

The eval pipeline is a product

We rewrote a set of GLP-1 articles with a second-generation pipeline and never let it publish a word.

evaluationeditorial workflows
Jake Butler
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Even with all the right equipment, sometimes you still miss the mark.
2026-07-15
8 min read

The digest was cited and still wrong

Our weekly digest passed its fact-check and still missed the stories readers needed. Grounded and useful turned out to be two different tests.

editorial workflowsevaluation
Jake Butler
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Flowchart of the 79-asset generation workflow, from content audit through constraint-setting, first-article iteration, scaled generation, and final review
2026-04-20
5 min read

3 Hours to Create 79 Assets. Go.

How one team generated 79 reviewed visual assets across 20 articles in a single session—using structured prep, style constraints, and programmatic chart generation.

AI workflowcontent operations
Jake Butler
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Illustration of a redundant team of editorial agents working alongside a human reviewer, representing the 13-stage editorial AI pipeline
2026-04-11
5 min read

Building a Robust, Redundant Editorial Agent Team

How we built a 13-stage editorial AI pipeline and why the biggest gains came from narrowing boundaries, not writing better prompts.

editorial AIAI workflow design
Jake Butler
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Before-and-after Polaroid-style illustration of an otter mascot in a Next.js shirt: weary with a ball and chain versus sprinting in sunlight, symbolizing shedding accidental work for a faster app.
2026-04-08
10 min read

Feel-Fast Next.js: Making a Next.js App Feel Fast by Deleting Accidental Work

We had a production app that should have felt quick — straightforward frontend, Convex-backed state, ordinary routes — yet it felt slower than it had any right to feel. That gap between expectation and experience turned out to be the whole story: measurement first, then stripping accidental work from list views, auth, prefetch, and even our benchmarks.

PerformanceWeb App
Jake Butler
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Geometric Mondrian-style graphic for the lower dB: emerald green, mustard yellow, and off-white blocks with the lower dB and tagline about GLP-1 news, research, and access.
2026-04-03
6 min read

Introducing the lower dB: Why We Built an Intelligence Desk for the GLP-1 Landscape

If you search for information about GLP-1 medications right now, you will find a lot of content. The problem is what kind of content you find—and why we built an independent patient-first desk.

Health TechGLP-1
Jake Butler
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A confused groundhog standing at a forked path, surrounded by contradictory signs — a metaphor for an AI agent lost without persistent context
2026-03-09
9 min read

The Context Problem: What Manus and OpenAI Got Right — And What You Can Do Today

If you've built anything with AI agents, you've hit the wall. The real culprit isn't model limitations or rate limits — it's a memory problem. Here's how Manus and OpenAI diagnosed it, and what any builder can do about it today.

Context EngineeringAI Agents
Jake Butler
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Playful finish-line illustration of three characters racing to the end, symbolizing Kinisi's speed gains from minutes to seconds
2026-02-26
12 min read

From 4 Minutes to 4 Seconds: How We Rebuilt Kinisi's LLM Program Generation Pipeline

Five rounds of optimization on Kinisi's 12-week fitness program pipeline, from multi-minute waits to a 4-second median time to first actionable week.

LLM WorkflowsContext Engineering
Jake Butler
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When User Feedback Meets Real-Time Prototyping
2026-02-10
8 min read

When User Feedback Meets Real-Time Prototyping

At the OpenAI Codex hackathon, I built Miralo to turn live interview feedback into demo-ready prototype changes in minutes.

OpenAI CodexHackathon
Jake Butler
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Why Corvo Labs? Our Founding Story
2026-02-01
5 min read

Why Corvo Labs? Our Founding Story

Most teams don't fail from lack of talent. They fail from learning too slowly. This is the core problem Corvo Labs exists to solve.

Corvo LabsCompany Story
Jake Butler
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Why Video Generation Needs Context Engineering (Not Just Better Prompts)
2025-12-24
6 min read

Why Video Generation Needs Context Engineering (Not Just Better Prompts)

AI video generation has quickly shifted from an academic curiosity to a practical tool. But anyone who’s played with these tools knows something isn’t quite there yet. The missing ingredient isn't prompt engineering—it's context engineering.

AI VideoContext Engineering
Jake Butler, co-authored with Primal Marc
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