Privacy Membrane
Doximity DialerI built a call-forwarding shield so patients never see a clinician's real number. Care teams can return calls without leaking identity.
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Kanav Jain
I help teams ship trustworthy high-stakes software.
Rapid risk checks & accountable controls
Ship trustworthy high-stakes software.
I help teams ship software that spots risky behavior quickly and keeps decision-makers accountable when the stakes are high. Let's make your safeguards unskippable together. Start a project →
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PATTERN
Everyone knows the harm, but nothing ever actually stops
Controls exist on paper, but not in the product surface.
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PATTERN
Safety or compliance exists as documentation, not leverage
Policies can be cited, but not enforced.
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PATTERN
Leadership can override controls without leaving a trace
Risky actions are invisible—or unaccountable—in the audit log.
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PATTERN
Appeals exist, but can’t change outcomes
Review paths route to polite dead ends instead of authority.
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PATTERN
Good people are quietly compensating for broken design
Operators and frontline staff are absorbing the risk personally.
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PATTERN
The system “works,” but only because someone keeps staying late
Fragility is masked by heroics instead of designed resilience.
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RECON
Reading incident reports, escalations, and near-misses
Finding where the system lies under stress.
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FIELDWORK
Interviewing operators, not just owners
Listening for where design is making policy impossible.
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MAPS
Mapping override paths, exception flows, and dead ends
Tracing how constraint erodes when pressure rises.
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SIGNALS
Identifying where harm is logged but not actionable
Surfacing where telemetry exists without levers.
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OUTPUT
Constraint map as the first artifact
A clear view of what the system can do, shouldn’t do, and where design is carrying the risk.
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TIME
2–3 weeks
Short, focused audit to expose where you rely on discretion or conscience over design.
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INPUT
Workflows, incidents, operators
Access to the moments when your system bends or breaks.
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OUTPUT
Failure modes, override paths, and design changes
A written map of what to bind, refuse, rollback, or pause—plus where to start.
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CONTACT
Let’s talk
If that’s useful, we can decide what comes next.
Experience (outcome-shaped)
Human-readable snapshots of shipped systems.
Market Balance
Talent FinderI published real salary data so clinicians could negotiate fairly with hospitals instead of guessing their worth.
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Risk Detection
Andwise NLPI made software that reads job contracts and points out the traps—like sneaky non-competes—before you sign.
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Adaptive Systems
Georgia Tech / NASAI studied how cells ignore bad signals. That research now guides how I help software ignore harmful inputs.
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System Hardening
Infrastructure AuditI led a full safety review of our healthcare platform—checking code, policies, and office security—to keep patient data safe.
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Social Mycelium
Bread SFI promoted Bread.fm parties around San Francisco—booking lineups, shaping the brand with friends, and keeping the dance floor welcoming.
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Operational Log
2024 – Present
Product Safety Architect
Self-Directed
Designing safety rails for AI, health, and civic stacks.
2022 – 2024
Co-founder & CPO
Andwise
Built fiduciary-safe planning tools for clinicians; paired NLP review with human governance.
2021 – 2022
Product Lead, Care Navigation
Transcarent
Aligned clinicians and benefits teams around completed care plans instead of engagement vanity metrics.
2019 – 2021
Director of Product
City of Hope / CancerCompass
Shipped oncology navigation that translated clinical protocols into clear guidance for patients and caregivers.
2018 – 2019
Advisor & EIR
Rough Draft / Red Sea
Built coaching rhythms and governance templates for early-stage founders shipping regulated products.
2018 – 2019
Fellow
GC Venture Fellows
Evaluated early-stage teams with diligence templates surfacing safety, governance, and traction signals together.
2017 – 2019
MBA Associate
Red Sea Ventures
Supported seed investments and portfolio rituals that kept founder health, mission fit, and growth aligned.
2013 – 2017
Product Lead
Doximity
Led Dialer and clinician communication tools that safeguarded patient identity at telehealth scale.
2012 – 2013
Implementation
Epic
Launched EHR workflows that reduced alert fatigue while keeping patient safety checks intact.
2011 – 2015
Research Assistant
Georgia Tech / NASA
Modeled adaptive bio-systems for resilience and signal fidelity.
Writing
Essays, notes, and audits on building trustworthy systems.
Toothless Ethics: Why Principles Don’t Stop Machines
A guide to the difference between moral language and structural constraint
Read Toothless Ethics: Why Principles Don’t Stop MachinesAssume Maximum Awareness
Stop assuming leadership is ignorant. "Tragic Institutionalism" argues that institutional harm is priced in, and your burnout is the fuel.
Read Assume Maximum AwarenessThe Worldview with a Gun
From Chicago to Gaza, AI is turning "threat scores" into self-fulfilling prophecies. A critique of epistemic laundering and the automation of state violence. AI systems like Palantir and Axon don't just predict risk, they manufacture killability.
Read The Worldview with a GunInstitutional Apoptosis
We build institutions for every crisis, then forget to give them an off-switch. This piece argues for “institutional apoptosis”: designing governments, programs, and platforms that know how to die before they devour the people inside them.
Read Institutional ApoptosisThe Capture of “Maintenance”
We must reclaim the maintenance that keeps people alive rather than the one that keeps systems standing.
Read The Capture of “Maintenance”Temporal Capture: The Arbitrage of Human Duration
A theory of Primitive Accumulation applied to time. Just as capitalism once enclosed land to create value where there was none, it is now enclosing intervals (waiting, boredom, sleep) to capitalize assets that were previously outside the economy.
Read Temporal Capture: The Arbitrage of Human Duration