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• Daily Idea - Project-Managed Health

• Startup Funeral

Your Body’s New Chief of Staff

The One Liner

Your health, finally project-managed.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Ever wish your body came with an ops team? This service sends a human health-PM to run your care like a startup, meetings, doctors, metrics, all handled.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem

If you’ve ever tried to manage your own health, you know the pain.
It’s like juggling flaming chainsaws while reading Latin.

You’ve got five specialists who don’t talk to each other, each with their own portal, password, and plan.
Your bloodwork’s on one site, your MRI is on a CD (??), and your doctor’s note says “come back in 6 months.” For what? Nobody knows.

The system’s a mess.
The sickest people have to do the most paperwork.
And families? They’re burning out trying to hold it all together.

You don’t need another app.
You need a Chief of Staff for your body.

Problem

Meet your Health Project Manager.
They join your doctor calls. They track your meds like Jira tickets.
They chase specialists, schedule follow-ups, make sure the “urgent referral” actually happens before you die of old age.

They speak fluent doctor and human.
They research treatments, find top specialists, and even check your insurance coverage for you.

And here’s the killer twist, they get paid on outcomes.
You get better? They win.
It’s like having your own health startup and you’re the only investor that matters.

How We’d Build It

🧰 Stage 1 — The Solo Operator Hack
Start scrappy. Find nurses, PAs, or med-school dropouts who love solving puzzles.
Use Tana or Mem.ai to organize case notes like a CRM.
Hook it up to Scribe to record visits (with consent).
Use Notion + Superhuman + OpenPhone for pro comms.
Sell it like a personal concierge — $500–$1K/month for “peace of mind as a service.”

GTM move? Tap Facebook groups for rare conditions, they’ll love you.

⚙️ Stage 2 — SaaS With a Soul
Now productize it.
Use Redox or Elation Health API to sync with EHRs.
Layer on Glass AI or Hippocratic for AI visit summaries.
Spin up a WeWeb + Supabase portal so families see progress in real-time.
Partner with concierge doctors and elder-care orgs who already serve high-touch patients.

Every patient = case study → every case study = marketing.

 🚀 Stage 3 — The Movement
Train an army of health-PMs.
Certify them via Truework and match them to patients like “Airbnb for medical advocates.”
Add AI matchmaking for specialty + personality fit.
Then roll it out as a corporate benefit, companies pay $X per employee for “health ops.”
Imagine the LinkedIn post:

“Our employees get a project manager for their health. Productivity up 12%, stress down 90%.”

You’ve just built the Uber for medical sanity.

Why It Needs to Exist

Because right now, being sick is a full-time job and you don’t even get paid for it.
This flips the script. You outsource the chaos to someone who actually knows how the system works.

High empathy. High leverage. High ROI.
It’s therapy for your healthcare system.

How to Find the Real Pain Online

A Message From Our Partner

Before you build this health project manager idea, go hang out where the pain lives, Reddit, Facebook groups, patient forums. That’s where people are raw, unfiltered, and begging for help.

Here’s the hack: use GummySearch. It’s like having a truffle pig for startup ideas. You type in “rare disease,” “chronic illness,” or “doctor communication,” and boom it surfaces every real conversation happening across Reddit. No surveys, no guesswork. Just real people yelling into the internet about exactly what’s broken.

1. Find unmet pain. Search “frustrated with doctors” or “misdiagnosed for years.” You’ll uncover hundreds of posts where people describe the exact chaos your idea fixes. Those threads are your roadmap.

2. Validate your pitch. Want to know if “health project manager” sounds too corporate? Drop in phrases like “medical advocate,” “care coordinator,” or “patient navigator” and see which ones people actually use. Copy their language, it converts better than anything you’d invent.

3. Discover your first customer segments. GummySearch can show you which communities are obsessed with solving this: autism parents, long-COVID groups, autoimmune warriors, elder-care children. Each is a goldmine for tailored outreach.

4. Steal insights for any idea. Even if healthcare’s not your jam, this is the move for every founder: find pain → study language → test offer. GummySearch just makes the detective work feel like cheating.

So before you spin up an MVP, spend an afternoon in GummySearch. The internet’s already told you what to build, you just have to listen.

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The Startup Funeral: “Here Lies HealthOps”

It’s 2028. A jazz trio plays “Stayin’ Alive” ironically in a WeWork conference room turned memorial.
Black turtlenecks everywhere. Cold brew, cold takes. The company’s name, HealthOps glows faintly on a dying neon sign.

Someone steps up to the mic.

Investor #1 (Tech bro energy):
“HealthOps was supposed to be the Uber for healthcare chaos. A personal project manager for your body. Instead, it became a $12 million reminder that HIPAA is undefeated.
We thought we were building a SaaS. Turns out we built a therapy group with worse margins. Godspeed.”

murmurs of agreement. someone coughs in venture capital.

Nurse turned early employee:
“Y’all kept saying ‘we’ll automate care coordination with AI.’
I said, ‘AI doesn’t hold your hand in the waiting room.’
But no one listened, too busy designing dashboards for empathy.”

She sips her LaCroix and adds, “We had one client who thought their HealthOps manager was their doctor. HR got involved. So did the FDA. Same week.”

Patient (ex-customer):
“I loved my advocate. She showed up to every appointment, kept my meds organized, even reminded me to hydrate.
Then one day, I got an email saying my advocate had been replaced… by ChatGPT Health Edition.
The new one texted me, ‘how are we feeling today?’ and I said ‘lonely.’ It replied, ‘updating your insurance info.’”

Crowd: painful laughter.

Founder’s mom:
“He was so passionate. He said, ‘Mom, I’m fixing healthcare!’
I said, ‘Honey, have you tried fixing your sleep schedule first?’”

VC (arms crossed, voice dripping irony):
“We loved the vision. A project manager for your health? Genius.
But they tried to sell it to hospitals. Then to patients. Then to employers.
It’s like watching someone pivot through grief stages in real time.”

He takes a long pause. “If only they’d pivoted to corporate wellness sooner…”

Lights flicker.
A faint notification sound echoes through the room.
The projector flickers to life, it’s the founder, live-streaming from Bali.

Founder (smiling, annoyingly tan):
“Appreciate the turnout, folks. But uh… I’ve got some news.”

Crowd shifts.

“HealthOps isn’t dead. We pivoted. It’s now BodySync, the corporate benefit that gives every employee a personal health PM.
We ditched consumers. Signed our first Fortune 500.
Turns out, employers love paying to keep people alive longer, who knew?”

He grins. “So yeah… the reports of our death have been slightly exaggerated.”

Investor #2 (perks up):
“You’re saying… B2B SaaS with recurring revenue?”

Founder:
“Exactly. Same idea, less crying.”

Nurse (claps slowly):
“Congrats. You’ve reinvented care management — again.”

VC:
“I take back everything I said. Can I get in on the next round?”

Patient:
“Do employees get a discount? Asking for my immune system.”

The band switches to “Eye of the Tiger.”
Someone refills their kombucha. The neon sign flickers back to life — barely.

The founder’s livestream freezes mid-smirk.
Someone mutters, “Appropriate.”

And just like that, the funeral becomes a funding round.

Because in startups and healthcare, the line between dead and alive is just one good pivot away.

Moral:
Every great startup gets declared dead at least once.
Sometimes the funeral’s just product-market fit in disguise.

The Future You Files

There are three versions of you:

1️⃣ The One Still Scrolling.
You love the ideas. You tell your friends. You say, “I could totally build that.”
But you don’t. You scroll past your future like it’s an ad.

2️⃣ The One Who Built Something Small But Real.
You picked one NTE Pro idea, maybe the AI that books your meetings before people ghost you, or the platform that helps retirees sell their old expertise like NFTs for knowledge and shipped a weekend MVP.
It’s small, weird, profitable. Your friends say “wait, you made that?”
You smile. Because yeah, you did.

3️⃣ The One Who Went All In.
You found the idea, the app that automates finding your next Airbnb arbitrage, or the tool that turns local Reddit posts into side-hustle alerts.
Now you’re running it full-time. You’ve got a Stripe account that pings like a heartbeat.
You didn’t wait for permission. You found your unfair advantage in the database, hit “go,” and the rest is founder lore.

We can’t tell you which one you’ll become but we can show you the map.

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