A physician who finds the real clinical problem — and then builds the fix.

Clinical experience turned into accurate product requirements, the regulatory and clinical-safety path worked out before it becomes rework, and the product built against both — end to end, or the one part you’re missing. Flanders Forest also runs a venture studio and fractional CTO/CPO practice for health-tech teams that need senior technical leadership before they can hire it.

Two ways we build

The Studio

We build companies we own a piece of.

We incubate health-tech ideas — some originated in-house, some co-founded with the person who brought them to us — contributing founding technical leadership, a team that ships, and capital where it fits the venture.

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The Practice

We build companies you own.

Fractional CTO/CPO leadership and hands-on 0→1 execution for health-tech companies from pre-seed to Series C — including the regulated-AI, AI-operations, and compliance work most teams can’t staff for.

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Teams we’ve built for and with

  • Andwise
  • AthenaLabs
  • BrainKey
  • Canvas
  • CareQuest
  • ClosedLoop
  • Evva
  • Foodsmart
  • Henry Schein
  • Modality
  • Omada
  • OraLiva
  • Primum
  • Rock Health
  • SpatioMetrics

Case studies - Where the clinical judgment and the code are the same judgment

A sample of the regulated AI systems, compliance-grade architecture, and 0→1 execution behind real health-tech engagements.

Metabolic Health Platform

Deciding Where AI Supports a Clinician — and Where It Doesn’t

Clinical decision support for clinicians, education for members, and no unsupervised AI judgment in between — a deliberate line drawn feature by feature, and built into the architecture rather than left to policy.

Clinical Decision Support & Regulatory Design

Metabolic Health Platform

Building a Clinical Product Inside the EHR, Not Around It

A clinician workspace, member app and AI layer built on top of Healthie — with the EHR kept as the system of record, configured so the two never fight, and its quirks found before they became duplicate patients and lost labs.

EHR Build & Integration

Beacon Health

A Pre-Op Tool That Opens From Inside the Patient’s Epic Chart

A SMART on FHIR app that launches from a patient’s chart in Epic with that patient already loaded — and flags the medications most likely to cancel their surgery — with a second EMR connected through the same clinical layer.

EHR Integration (SMART on FHIR)

The Studio - Sometimes the right move is to build the company ourselves.

Consulting isn’t always the right shape for a good idea. When it isn’t, we take equity instead of a fee and build alongside the founder — or become the founder.

  • Originated in-house. We generate the idea, resolve the riskiest assumption before committing engineering to it, and staff the build from our own team.
  • Co-founded with you. You bring the idea, the clinical insight, or the customer relationship. We come in as the technical co-founder — for founding equity, and capital where it fits.

The Practice - Fractional CTO/CPO leadership, and the execution to back it up.

For health-tech companies from pre-seed to Series C — from a founder who raised on an idea and needs it built, to a later-stage team making a targeted bet it doesn’t have the capacity to run alone.

  • Fractional CTO / CPO / CMO Retainer. Embedded, part-time technical and product leadership for as long as it's useful — most engagements run around a year.
  • 0→1 Build Engagement. Dedicated, hands-on execution to ship a real first version — working code, not advice from the sidelines.
  • Technical Audit / De-risking Spike. A short, scoped engagement to answer the one question a bigger bet depends on, before committing a team's budget to it.

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Our offices

  • Portland
    220 NW 8th Ave
    97209, Portland, Oregon