Clear ownership. Shared buy-in. Calm escalations. Decisions that hold under pressure.

I help health-tech and AI teams make accountable decisions when stakes are high.

Kanav Jain

As teams scale, ambiguity quietly becomes operational risk.

I clarify who decides, who escalates, and who resolves issues when systems are under strain.

  • Every decision has a named owner
  • Every change has an adoption path
  • Every escalation has a clock
  • Every failure has a repair path

How I work: I design clear operating rhythms so teams can align quickly, absorb change safely, and resolve issues before they compound.

Portrait of Kanav Jain
Clinician-in-the-loop review A clinician and model co-review moment showing human judgment staying in control.
Human oversight Clinician-in-the-loop review

What engagement looks like

From diagnosis to install

Most scaling failures are custody failures.

Many teams only see this clearly after their first meaningful stress test.

  1. 01

    Scope the pressure point

    Choose one workflow, one risk class, and one owner to anchor the work.

  2. 02

    Trace custody

    Map who can decide, override, freeze, and escalate in that path.

  3. 03

    Install controls

    Ship the first decision-rights updates, reversal SLAs, and escalation timing rules.

  4. 04

    Rehearse incidents

    Run tabletop scenarios so leadership and operators practice the same sequence.

  5. 05

    Lock operating rhythm

    Set 30/60/90-day review cadences with explicit owners and measurable signals.

Specimen: custody table excerpt

Sample decision custody table
Decision Owner Reversal SLA Escalates to
Pause model-generated outreach Clinical operations lead 15 minutes On-call risk lead
Approve high-risk override Licensed reviewer 30 minutes Medical director
Rollback workflow release Product owner + SRE 60 minutes Incident commander
Reopen blocked case path Care navigation manager 4 hours Head of care ops
  • These system gaps affect real people first: patients, users, and frontline teams.
  • I'm most useful when informal coordination has stopped being safe.
  • When governance is explicit, enterprise trust grows faster, board communication gets clearer, political drag drops, and teams decide with more confidence under stress.

Evidence

Selected outcomes and delivery evidence

Selected outcome Doximity Dialer: 100M+ patient–clinician connections with HIPAA-conscious trust design See how it worked in practice →
Selected evidence and operating credentials
Scale in regulated environments 100M+ patient–clinician connections with trust controls in production
Selected organizations Georgia Tech BME · NYU Stern MBA · Epic · Doximity · Transcarent
Operating focus Director-level care ops and compliance-aware product leadership

Pick the path that matches your team

Start with the context closest to your current pressure point.

Tools

How I work

The practical tools I use with teams.

Practical patterns that help teams scale safely without slowing delivery.

  • Week 1: Interview leadership and review frontline workflows
  • Week 2: Map decision ownership, escalation friction, and override points
  • Week 3: Deliver risk map plus specific structural and adoption changes
See full deliverable details →
  • Week 4: Coach owners through rollout sequencing, feedback loops, and handoff rituals
  • Optional: Board-ready memo for investors and executive teams

Use clinical-risk evidence, not checkbox compliance. Every recommendation is tied to an owner, a workflow change, an adoption mechanism, and a measurable risk reduction target.

Clinical risk ladder A severity-by-autonomy matrix that maps control strength to patient harm potential.
Risk tiering Clinical risk ladder
Eval coverage map Failure modes linked to evals and mitigations so safety plans trace cleanly from risk to control.
Failure modes → controls Eval coverage map
Ethotechnics bridge diagram A minimalist bridge arch connecting two dots, representing steady decision pathways.

Case studies + operating notes

How these engagements run in practice

Review examples →

Writing

Latest writing

Plain-language essays and operator notes from shipping healthcare workflows under load.

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