ASTRID

The problem: Health questions do not wait for office hours. A parent needs answers at 2am for a feverish child. A traveler needs guidance in a language their doctor does not speak. A pet owner needs to know if a symptom is an emergency. A patient discharged from urgent care has follow-up questions with nowhere to ask them. Search engines return generic results. Symptom checkers use static flowcharts. Gen AI chatbots aren't built for healthcare. Telehealth visits cost money and require scheduling. Language barriers block millions of people from clear health guidance. Health literacy gaps leave people confused by their own diagnoses. The result: delayed care, unnecessary ER visits, and health decisions made without trusted guidance. How ASTRID works: ASTRID is AI Health Intelligence. Free, both in voice and text. Available at myastrid.ai, ASTRID answers medical, dental, and veterinary questions through natural conversation. Users speak or type in English or Spanish, with more languages coming soon. ASTRID responds instantly. No appointment needed. The team: Samir Qamar, MD, founded ASTRID. He is a board-certified family medicine physician with 25+ years of clinical experience across three continents. Healthcare executive Samantha Rivera co-founded ASTRID and serves as Chief Operating Officer. The company is based in USA. The team built ASTRID to fix a problem seen firsthand in clinical practice. Patients need trusted answers, and they need them now. Traction: Since launching in late February 2026, ASTRID has reached users in 90+ countries and 37,000+ interactions, with a 57% engagement rate and thousands of users. Growth has been 100% organic.