I had plans. I had big plans.  I was a few years into setting up my first business, loving the California lifestyle and kicking some major goals.  I was expanding my career which had already planted deep roots in music with the likes of Aerosmith, Rockapella, Lucinda Williams and more. I was reaching into film, television, technology, and fashion in full production on my most ambitious project featuring icons Lenny Kravitz and Tony Hawk leading a cast of young hitmakers influencing fashion, touring their music and spinning the “Love Revolution.”  Man, did I ever have plans… and then, yes, a lot of life happened.

03 April 2007

My daughter's unexpected birth, early and fighting a significant infection, brought a hurricane of emotions – fear, joy, and a tidal wave of information overload. The NICU became my new reality, a maze of beeping machines and frantic activity - life and death every day for years. The nurses and doctors were incredible, but the system itself felt broken and the demands on my family were crippling.  Standing beside our tiny warrior, all I wanted was to understand the problems and to find the solutions while praying for the Hollywood miracle.

Yet, navigating the healthcare system felt like deciphering long division in a foreign language. Fragmented records scattered across different offices, confusing jargon, and limited access to information all created enormous stress, anxiety and fear. Explaining her condition and huge volume of issues ad nauseam, managing care schedules, and advocating for her needs was beyond exhausting and more than a full-time job - actually devastatingly consuming. But, you can’t admit it or say it outloud, it’s your child. You isolate and you soldier forward.

Fast Forward >> 2024

Bowie is now thriving as a seventeen year old young woman and taking more control over her health, her team and her records.  She has a lot to contend with, as many in her community do.  Every appointment has critical information for her care.  Every appointment has information required from other doctors, clinics, or therapists that she needs to act on daily or weekly.  Every appointment requires information from her past to be recalled.  But for all of the technology in the hands of the doctors, hospitals and clinics, the primary source of this information is Bowie or the family and the carers.  Yet that information is either written by hand, paper in a folder or recalled from memory.  Various inconsistent sources that are unorganised and static.  

Nabu was created because it is too important for patients and families not to have this information on hand and working with insights, Med-LM ai features and communication support for better daily care.  When combined with workflow management tools for generating communications, updating records, obtaining referrals and signatures, keeping care organised and on track, Nabu is a powerful advocate at the convergence of artificial and official intelligence improving the lives of the people struggling the most.  Now one person doesn’t carry the burden of care and those frustrating conversations of he-said, she-said, they said, or what was said, are a thing of the past.

I’m very proud of the product being developed and the team and I are excited to see Nabu come to life.  Sign up for more information and the opportunity to join our beta program coming in September 2024.

The long and winding road has been a grand adventure I am very proud to share.  I appreciate you coming this far and wish you the very best of life.

Steve Lewis

Founder, Nabu.ai