Turns out, remembering your patients actually matters.

I built an AI tool for healthcare clinicians. What users actually value surprised me.
I'm a physiotherapist. I've spent 18 years treating patients, and the last two building AiDux — a clinical documentation tool for allied health professionals.
I started with a simple assumption: clinicians are drowning in notes, so the most valuable thing I could build was a better, faster way to write them.
I was wrong. Or at least, incomplete.

The problem I thought I was solving
Every allied health professional knows this moment: end of a long day, 5–10 clinical notes still pending, a head full of cases, and zero energy left.
AI scribes have appeared to help with this. They listen to a session and generate a note. Useful. But in practice, a patient is not a single note — they're a story across weeks or months. And when you need to write a referral letter, update a care plan, or just remember what actually changed between visit 2 and visit 7, most tools leave you starting from scratch.
So I built AiDux to do something more: not just document today's session, but build a longitudinal picture of the patient across visits — pain over time, function over time, key clinical events — always as a draft for the clinician to review, never as a decision.

What users actually told me
I'm in early pilot with a small group of clinicians. Completely free for now, because I'm still learning.
What I expected them to value: note quality, time saved writing.
What they actually said: "I can remember my patients better. I feel more organized. I walk into a session actually knowing where we left off."
That shift — from documentation tool to cognitive support — is something I didn't fully anticipate. And it's changing how I think about what AiDux really is.
Maybe it's less of a scribe and more of a clinical thinking assistant.

Why I'm posting here
I'm carrying this largely alone. I have clinical knowledge, enough technical ability to build and ship, and real users giving me real feedback.
What I don't have is perspective. I can't always see what I'm missing — in the product, in the positioning, in the path forward.
I'm not here to pitch. I'm here because I genuinely believe this solves something real, and I want to build it with people who can help me see it more clearly.
A few honest questions:

If you're a clinician (physio, OT, chiro, nurse, GP): does the "longitudinal memory" problem resonate? Is that what you'd actually pay for?
If you've built in regulated spaces: how did you stay useful without crossing into medical device territory too early?
If you've gone from solo founder to getting real traction: what was the thing that changed everything?

Happy to share more about the product, the stack, or the mess. Thanks for reading.