Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI

For Dr. , a neurocritical care physician born into a family of doctors, the path to entrepreneurship was a necessity born of frustration.聽

As Ayoub describes it, while the medical profession was sold to him as a lucrative and stable career, the reality of modern healthcare hit home during a gap between his fellowship and his full-time role at . Living in New York City and unable to afford rent, he attempted to pick up extra shifts at a local urgent care. Despite a clear workforce shortage and his own need for income, he was told he couldn’t start for 90 to 120 days.

The culprit? A fragmented, manual credentialing process that acts as the industry’s primary bottleneck.

Dr. Marc Ayoub, co-founder of Saile. [courtesy photo]

鈥淭he bottleneck is not the number of doctors, but the fragmented infrastructure connecting them to where they are needed,鈥� said Ayoub, who also serves as an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine. 鈥淢ost people assume the issue in healthcare staffing is a lack of doctors, but what we鈥檝e seen is something different.聽

There鈥檚 a large, underutilized workforce that simply can鈥檛 move between systems efficiently,

So in early 2025, Ayoub and began pondering a solution. Their initial ideas eventually turned into , a startup with an AI-powered platform designed to serve as an “automated Dropbox” for physicians.聽

Today, the New York City-based startup is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in a pre-seed round led by , 小蓝视频色情网页版 News reports exclusively. also participated in the round.

AI-driven healthcare takes off

AI-related healthcare has seen a significant rise in venture funding globally, 小蓝视频色情网页版 shows. Investors put an estimated $14.9 billion into seed- through growth-stage funding to companies in AI-powered health tech categories in 2025, per 小蓝视频色情网页版 data. That鈥檚 up significantly compared to the $8.6 billion raised in all of 2024.

Many of the recently funded healthcare startups are AI-centric, and, like Saile, are focused on streamlining dated processes.聽

In the current system, every time a doctor wants to work at a new facility 鈥� whether it be a hospital, a surgery center, or a telemedicine platform 鈥� he or she must manually resubmit a CV, licenses, and board certifications via email. In applying to an urgent care facility, Ayoub realized that while staffing agencies act as gatekeepers, the underlying infrastructure was broken.聽

There was no centralized way for a doctor to maintain a compliant status and share it instantly across different job verticals.

Saile aims to solve that problem by storing and tracking all a doctor鈥檚 credentials in one place and providing alerts before documents expire so that a physician can always be compliant. It goes one step further by providing access to a shift marketplace. In a nutshell, the startup serves as a portable credential passport for physicians to be identified and assigned patients at various hospitals.聽

The company鈥檚 five modular AI agents automate what currently takes months of manual coordination across recruiting, onboarding, credentialing, staffing and compliance.聽

By combining credentialing and staffing into a single infrastructure layer, Ayoub says Saile has shortened the onboarding timeline by roughly 45 days, from about 90 to 120 days, and reduced administrative tasks for healthcare facilities by an estimated 40%.

鈥淥ther solutions either focus on one piece of the problem or offer staffing tied to a single job type,鈥� Ayoub said in an interview. 鈥淪aile owns the entire journey鈥nd facilities get direct access to a pre-vetted pool of local and regional physicians without juggling multiple vendors or paying for the friction in between.鈥�

Investing in the 鈥榠nfrastructure layer鈥�

What began as a bootstrapped project fueled by word-of-mouth in a tight-knit clinician community has quickly gained momentum. The app has grown to nearly 5,000 active user physicians nationwide. Operating with a lean core team of four, the company plans to use its new capital to expand its AI agent infrastructure, grow its marketplace capabilities, and deepen integrations with facility credentialing systems.

Saile has four core revenue streams, with a primary focus on a per-seat SaaS model for facilities. The approach is to offer facilities access to the pool of physicians, and then charge on a per-seat usage basis for the workflow and credentialing infrastructure that supports it.

, founder and partner at Matchstick Ventures, said his firm was drawn to the founder market fit it saw in Saile.

鈥淢arc had felt the pain of this problem and actually had built this more or less for himself out the gate,鈥� Brosher said in an interview with 小蓝视频色情网页版 News. 鈥淲e love those combos where founders aren鈥檛 just randomly seeking out a solution to make a buck. This was very much a personal thing for him in the problem that he was solving.鈥�

The firm also saw a 鈥渂ig鈥� market opportunity in offering an 鈥渁ll-in-one鈥� solution for doctors looking to pick up side jobs.

鈥淧eople have tried to go after this a few different ways. They’ve either gone after credentialing, or they are a staffing agency,鈥� Brosher added. 鈥淎nd when we look at this market, we feel like there needs to be disruption here鈥ltimately, Saile is building the infrastructure layer beneath staffing. We feel like having that all-in-one infrastructure layer is actually where the real value is to be had.鈥�

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