Scheduling Wizard

Roadmap & Position in Healthcare Operations

Automates physician scheduling for academic medical centers with proprietary optimization.

Company Overview

Builds logistics infrastructure to automate physician scheduling and care coordination for academic medical centers using a proprietary Optimization Programming Language.

What They're Building

The company's public product roadmap & what they're committed to building.

Scheduling Wizard has publicly confirmed expansion from automated block/call/clinic scheduling into broader care coordination tools, including patient triaging and provider management, working with partner departments at UCSF and other leading institutions. They have 19 departments across 14 hospitals including contracts with Mass General, Johns Hopkins, UT Southwestern, LA General, and UCF. Their proprietary Optimization Programming Language is central to their public product narrative, with a stated goal of eliminating hundreds of hours of manual scheduling per program.

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Founder and Key Execs

Samuel Oberly, Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO

Abdelrahman Hamimi, Co-Founder & CTO

Co-Founder & CTO

Zachary Dermody, Co-Founder & COO

Co-Founder & COO

Founder Force Multiplier

The founding team uniquely combines Samuel Oberly's academic-grade mathematical optimization expertise (Johns Hopkins MS in Applied Mathematics, Cambridge-trained, published mathematician with a civilian service medal for logistics algorithm development), Abdelrahman Hamimi's.

Funding History

2024 | Samuel Oberly, Abdelrahman Hamimi, and Zachary Dermody graduate from Johns Hopkins University and co-found Scheduling Wizard.
2025 | Accepted into Y Combinator; receives ~$500K standard YC investment.
2025 | Secures contracts with Mass General, Johns Hopkins, UT Southwestern, LA General, UCF.
2026 | 19 departments across 14 hospitals. Expanding into patient triaging and provider management at UCSF.

Competitors

Legacy Scheduling

QGenda (physician scheduling market leader), Amion, ShiftAdmin, MedHub (residency management), Lightning Bolt.

EHR-Embedded Scheduling

Epic Cadence, Cerner/Oracle Health scheduling modules.

AI-Native Healthcare Ops

Qventus (AI-driven hospital operations), LeanTaaS (OR and infusion center optimization), Olive AI (healthcare automation, pivoted).

General Workforce Scheduling

Deputy, When I Work (not healthcare-specific).

Scheduling Wizard

's Moat:

Proprietary Optimization Programming Language for physician scheduling encodes constraint logic that legacy tools like QGenda handle with generic rules engines. 19 departments across 14 hospitals (Mass General, Johns Hopkins, UT Southwestern) validates the approach at the most complex end of the market. Academic medical center scheduling is a narrow, high-pain niche.

How They're Leveraging AI

Constraint Optimization Scheduling

Automated multi-constraint physician schedule generation using proprietary optimization algorithms to eliminate hundreds of hours of manual scheduling per program.

ML-Driven Care Routing

Intelligent patient triaging and provider-matching engine that uses ML to route patients to the optimal provider based on acuity, specialty, availability, and historical outcomes.

Predictive Staffing Analytics

Predictive demand forecasting and staffing optimization that anticipates clinical coverage gaps before they occur, enabling proactive resource allocation.

AI Use Overview:

Using constraint optimization for complex scheduling, ML-driven care routing, and predictive staffing analytics.

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