Physician-founded workforce platform Saile App Inc. today announced it has raised $2.2 million in new funding to ease the mountains of paperwork for healthcare workers moving between healthcare organizations.

Saile is simultaneously launching with more than 5,000 physicians on the platform and a growing roster of healthcare facility partners across telemedicine, temporary, walk-in locations and consulting.

Healthcare suffers from an interesting problem when it comes to staffing professionals. For specialists, hospitals can spend thousands of dollars locating the perfect candidate, with the appropriate credentials, across the country and then fly them in, even when an equally capable candidate lives mere miles away. The blocker? A pile of paperwork.

Verification, background checks and licensing are often handed off to entirely separate entities, triggering a months-long back-and-forth among staffing agencies, credentialing firms and internal admin teams before a doctor can see a single patient. The frequency of this problem means doctors and facilities must build portfolios of practice documents and partnerships with vendors just to operate.

Even as air travel and telemedicine have made it possible to make doctors accessible quickly, and the internet has made it possible to examine documents rapidly, the bureaucracy of verification hasn’t kept up.

“Most people assume the issue in healthcare staffing is a lack of doctors, but what we’ve seen is something different,” said Marc Ayoub, founder of Saile and neurocritical care physician at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine. “There’s a large, underutilized workforce that simply can’t move between systems efficiently.”

Cutting through the credentialing bottleneck

To resolve this, Saile has developed an AI-driven solution that breaks down these barriers by giving doctors what it calls a “universal credential passport.” The passport can be continuously updated with their credentials, so they don’t need to go through the same onboarding gauntlet every time they move to a new opportunity.

The platform involves five different artificial intelligence agents that automate what currently takes months of paperwork: recruiting, onboarding, credentialing, staffing and compliance.

Although the company uses AI under the hood, it isn’t the main course of the presentation, so users don’t interact with it directly. It runs the show, but it doesn’t dominate the experience.

Saile allows facilities to look through a marketplace of available clinicians who have been pre-vetted, without the need for recruiter middlemen, agency markups or redundant onboarding, and just get to work. It also handles the compliance needed across different states regarding licensing.

The platform also handles the dirty work of payment consolidation for clinicians, allowing physicians to receive compensation across shifts and different contract types. That means a single doctor could work at a walk-in clinic one day, take a temporary shift at a hospital the next, and handle a telemedicine gig for the rest of the week, with all of the payments flowing through the same back end.

Saile said it currently handles a wide variety of staffing opportunities for healthcare environments, including ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics, telemedicine platforms, AI training labs and acute care hospitals.

Matchstick Ventures led the pre-seed round, with participation from Headwater Ventures. The company said it will use the funding to expand its use of AI agent infrastructure to handle more complex cases, grow its marketplace capabilities and deepen its integrations with healthcare technology platforms to better suit the needs of healthcare professionals and organizations.

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