I built CureWise because my life depended on it

When the Palisades fire destroyed our home in January 2025, I thought that was the worst thing that could happen to us. I was wrong. The fire saved my life.

For months, I'd been telling my doctors something wasn't right. At 60, I'd lost weight, felt drained, had no appetite. I pushed for every test imaginable: full body scans, colonoscopy, endoscopy, cardiac function tests. The gastroenterologist found nothing serious. The cardiologist called it a fishing expedition and suggested stress. They all missed what was silently killing me.

Then came that steak dinner in Palm Desert, where we'd fled after the fire. The severe pain that followed landed me in an emergency room with doctors who didn't know me, had no preconceptions, and ordered fresh tests. Within days, they found what everyone else had missed: an aggressive blood cancer in my bone marrow. The fire's displacement had given me the fresh eyes that caught my cancer while it was still treatable.

The builder becomes the patient

I've spent my career as a technology pioneer. Two decades ago, I founded Health Hero Network and helped invent remote patient monitoring. I've been granted over 200 patents in health technology and AI. But lying in that hospital bed for nine days of tests and biopsies, I became something else: another cancer patient navigating a system overwhelmed by complexity.

I was lucky the fresh eyes of new doctors caught my cancer early enough to treat. But I couldn't stop wondering: why had my earlier doctors missed it when I'd had so many tests? What would AI have discovered given the same data?

So I did what builders do. I created an AI medical agent and fed it the exact same data all those doctors had seen weeks earlier: my complete history, labs, imaging, and notes. Within moments it flagged what everyone had missed, and recommended specific tests no human had suggested. AI saw in minutes what months of appointments had missed.

From one AI agent to a personal medical team

Diagnosis was just the beginning. The real power of AI revealed itself in treatment decisions. When I analyzed the DNA fingerprint of my cancer cells with my AI agents, we discovered I had genetic variants that would likely make the standard treatment less effective for me, and that other options better matched my specific mutations.

Armed with those insights, I advocated for alternative therapies. The results validated everything: these AI-informed treatments are proving far more effective for my specific cancer than the initial standard of care would have been.

The N-of-1 revolution

We practice medicine designed for populations, not people. We have standards of care based on median outcomes. But when it's your life on the line, you don't care about the median. You care about you. Your unique cancer. Your specific mutations. You are an N of 1.

Last year alone, 1.3 million new papers were published in PubMed, over 3,500 every day. No doctor can keep up. But AI can process all of it, and when that knowledge is applied to your individual case, it becomes precision medicine that sees you, not a statistic.

Building the tool I desperately needed

CureWise is the manifestation of everything I learned as both a technology pioneer and a cancer patient. We're building the AI system I desperately needed, one that ensures no one else has to build their own swarm of agents while fighting for their life. Our multi-agent architecture mirrors what I built for myself, trained on thousands of patient journeys.

We're not replacing doctors. We're amplifying human wisdom with machine intelligence, democratizing the ability to understand your unique cancer fingerprint and match it to the treatments most likely to work for you specifically, not for the average patient in a clinical trial.

Because I've lived the difference between population medicine and precision medicine, I know that precision oncology powered by AI is the key to curing cancer. This isn't just another healthtech startup. This is personal. This is necessary. This is how we cure cancer, one unique patient at a time.