Practice
Blending policy, research, and product craft to keep complex systems steerable.
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About Kanav Jain
Product and systems leader focused on regulatory risk containment and execution reliability in high-stakes software.
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Perspective
Neurodiversity-informed design that protects operators and end users alike.
Leadership
Collaborative partner to founders, civic teams, and health orgs shipping accountable experiences.
About Kanav
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Focus
Healthcare AI safety, alignment-to-product translation, and safety cases that survive audits.
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Current work
Advising teams on clinical evals, incident review, overrides, appeals, and escalation paths that hold under load.
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Investing
Backing early-stage teams and pushing for operator-first product cultures that can scale.
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Based
Chicago · working with distributed teams.
I’ve worked inside systems that spoke fluently about safety, ethics, and care—while relying on procedures that made harm nobody’s job to stop. Over time, it became clear that values language without binding mechanisms doesn’t prevent damage; it just distributes it quietly.
I don’t trust principles unless they are backed by constraints that force decisions, log authority, and make deferral expensive. Bindingness is simply when a system makes decisions stick—for example, an escalation clock that auto-routes after 48 hours instead of letting a request sit “in review.” My practice exists to close that gap.
Now
Partnering with post-PMF health and AI teams to reduce operational burden and make workflow ownership explicit.
Then
Built products inside clinical systems and founder-led companies, including Doximity Dialer (100M+ patient–clinician connections) and Andwise.
Why it matters
Lived neurodiversity and patient safety work keep my focus on humane defaults and accountability that sticks.
How I work
Translate risk into observable signals, design escalation paths, and keep every workflow auditable and accessible.
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I'm a product and operations leader who works where healthcare workflows, escalation pressure, and clinical reality collide.
I left med school to join the early team at Doximity and led Doximity Dialer, now enabling 100M+ patient–clinician connections. I later co-founded Andwise with Dr. Varun Verma and served as CEO, building a mission-driven company for physician financial wellness with a 60-member medical advisory board—experience that keeps me grounded in what it takes to make patient safety, privacy, and reliability real in production.
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I received my autism diagnosis in 2024, and my advocacy for neurodiversity and cognitive justice shows up in how I design: clear defaults, explicit escalation, and systems that don't require charm or stamina to be treated fairly.
Accessibility is part of safety: screen reader checks, reduced motion, and plain-language summaries.
Outside of work, I married Aditi Mukund in 2025 (you can find her at ad1ti.com) and we spend most evenings being supervised by our cats, Selene and Apollo.
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Milestones
How key moments map to this journey.
Guiding principles
Designing for a less coercive future
I translate research on neurodiversity, patient safety, and market dynamics into actionable product moves.
Care as default
Build flows that reduce cognitive load, respect consent, and widen participation instead of gatekeeping it.
Evidence over lore
Pair qualitative fieldwork with quantitative telemetry to replace harmful heuristics with measurable care outcomes.
Trustworthy automation
Keep humans in the loop with explainable AI, handoffs that feel human, and quality guardrails for sensitive decisions.
Research
Selected investigations
Research highlights
Patterns from pairing fieldwork, policy, and product experiments to keep systems corrigible.
Community leadership
Mutual aid & mentorship
Community leadership
Spaces where I practice shared stewardship and build infrastructure for neighbors and peers.
Education
Foundations
Education
Grounding in biomedical engineering and systems-minded business leadership.
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MBA · NYU Stern School of Business
Finance and technology focus, paired with product leadership in regulated markets and accountable governance.
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B.S. Biomedical Engineering (with honors) · Georgia Institute of Technology
Human-centered clinical systems, pairing biomechanics and design research to make care safer and more accessible.
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<li>Primary descriptor: Product and operations leader helping post-PMF healthcare teams stabilize execution under load.</li>
<li>Current focus: Partnering with post-PMF health and AI teams to make high-stakes systems easier to run and faster to recover.</li>
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