ANESTHESIOLOGIST-FOUNDED. WORKFLOW-FOCUSED.

From scheduled to ready.

An AI-powered end-to-end pre-op workflow built around how anesthesia actually works.

An AI-powered end-to-end pre-op workflow built around how anesthesia actually works.

Chuvo assembles the chart and patient story, applies anesthesia-specific decision support, drafts the work, routes the case, and surfaces only what needs human judgment—then keeps readiness current as surgery approaches.

  1. Case scheduled

Accelerated by

Built from inside the pre-op clinic.

Founded by an anesthesiologist who has led a hospital-wide preoperative clinic.

01 / THE READINESS GAP

Scheduled is a date. Ready is a clinical state.

The record changes. The patient changes. Requirements get completed—or don’t. Preoperative care requires identifying what matters, acting on it early, and knowing what still stands between a scheduled case and a prepared patient.

Chart

Medications

Labs & testing

Outside records

ONE SCHEDULED CASE

READINESS UNKNOWN

Patient questionnaire

Functional capacity

Interval symptoms

One case. Many sources. A changing clinical picture.

02 / SPECIALTY-SPECIFIC EXECUTION

AI should do the searching. Clinicians should do the deciding.

Chuvo handles the routine pre-op work in the background, then surfaces the decisions, exceptions, and evaluations that require clinical judgment.

CHUVO HANDLES

Chart + patient synthesis

Medication + testing recommendations

Risk assessment + anesthesia triage

Draft documentation + patient instructions

Open-item tracking + reassessment

CLINICIANS DECIDE

Conflicts + exceptions

Approve / modify recommendations

Full pre-op evaluation

Final clinical judgment

03 / FROM INFORMATION TO ACTION

A workflow that stays with the case.

From a scheduled procedure to a prepared patient—with clinical judgment at the consequential steps.

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A case enters the workflow.

The date is set. Readiness is still to be established.

SCHEDULED

Maya R. · 62

Left total knee replacement · Nov 10

Owner · Pre-op team

ProcedureScheduled
ChartConnected
Pre-surgery questionnairePatient information

ILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW · SYNTHETIC PATIENT · NOT CLINICAL ADVICE

Scroll to follow the case, or select a stage.

04 / PREPARED, NOT JUST FLAGGED

The work should be waiting for you.

Chuvo does not merely surface alerts. It prepares usable clinical work for review, documentation, and personalized patient preparation.

Pre-anesthesia draft

DRAFT READY

01

Current history synthesized

Current history synthesized

02

Risks + optimization surfaced

Risks + optimization surfaced

03

Meds/tests carried forward

Meds/tests carried forward

04

Open questions highlighted

Open questions highlighted

Pre-op team summary

REVIEW READY

01

What’s already satisfied

What’s already satisfied

02

What still needs action

What still needs action

03

Who owns next action

Who owns next action

04

Current readiness

Current readiness

Patient instructions

READY TO RELEASE

01

Medications to take / hold

Medications to take / hold

02

Eating + drinking instructions

Eating + drinking instructions

03

Remaining preparation

Remaining preparation

04

Before-arrival checklist

Before-arrival checklist

05 / OPEN THE REASONING

Don’t ask the AI. Open the answer.

Every recommendation stays connected to the patient information and clinical guidance behind it, so clinicians can understand what was found, why it matters, and where judgment is still required.

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SOURCE-AWARE. AUDITABLE. CLINICIAN-CONTROLLED.

06 / PERIOPERATIVE LEADER VIEW

See the system, not just the patient.

Chuvo is being designed to give perioperative leaders visibility into readiness, unresolved work, clinical review burden, and workflow performance.

Illustrative operational view · synthetic data

DEMO VALUES · NOT MEASURED CHUVO OUTCOMES

74%

Ready ≥7 days before surgery

12 min

Median human pre-op time per case

9

Unresolved cases within 72 hours

1.8%

Day-of-surgery cancellation rate

Readiness by days before surgery

Cases reaching Ready at each lead-time checkpoint

T−14

28%

T−7

74%

T−3

89%

T−1

96%

Cases by level of human involvement

Day-of-surgery only · 46%

Quick sign-off · 31%

Full pre-op evaluation · 15%

More information needed · 8%

Early cancellation / backfill opportunities · 6 cases identified ≥7 days ahead

07 / BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE

Designed in the pre-op clinic, not around it.

Eric Knight, DO

Eric Knight, DO

Founder & CEO, Chuvo

Founder & CEO, Chuvo

Practicing anesthesiologist · preoperative clinic leadership

Chuvo grew from seeing skilled clinicians spend too much time reconstructing fragmented information while preventable issues surfaced too late. The goal is to move that work upstream and reserve specialist attention for decisions that truly need it.

Why Chuvo?

Chuvo is inspired by the Polish verb czuwać—to watch over or remain vigilant. The name reflects a platform designed to maintain vigilance over each case as information changes and the patient moves toward surgery.

Advisors

Through the

Through the

Incubator

Incubator

Tomasz Rudolf ↗

Tomasz Rudolf ↗

Tomasz Rudolf ↗

Senior Advisor, Startup Physicians

Venture building · growth strategy

Kimberly Sharp ↗

Kimberly Sharp ↗

Kimberly Sharp ↗

Senior Advisor, Startup Physicians

Chief Capital Officer · Thinkhat Venture Studio

08 / LET’S TALK

Make readiness visible before the day of surgery.

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