Left to right: Fady, Co-Founder and CEO, and Joe, Co-Founder and CTO.
We started in 2023
From the beginning we set out to solve one problem: the work in dentistry that is not the patient is draining the teams who do it. Looking things up, writing the same note twice, chasing a record across three systems. None of it is care, and all of it lands on the people who should be with the patient.
We gave that research a name, iolokis, and one direction. Our approach was rooted in natural language from the first day, aiming at a single end goal: a dentist should be able to simply speak to their machine.
May 2023: a robot in the operatory
We started with hardware. The first prototypes were assistive robots, built to support dentists during procedures.
The work moved from physical robotics to an intelligent tool storage system with a data layer built into it. The arm was the part people noticed. The data underneath it was the part that mattered.
January 2025: SOFIA
Our first real priority became voice: hands-free access to data for a dentist who is gloved up and cannot touch a keyboard. That became SOFIA, a voice-activated dental assistant.
It worked, and it taught us something uncomfortable. Building another dental system was not going to lift the burden our users actually carry.
April 2025: Scribe
Next came Scribe, which transcribes the conversation in the room in real time and turns it into immediate actions, with a retrieval layer that brings up the patient data that matters in that moment.
It worked too. But our goal was never to build one more co-pilot, and one more co-pilot would not get dentistry where we believed it had to go.
Then we stopped
We paused. We went back to the people we were building for, sat with them again, and asked ourselves what problem we were actually here to solve.
What we kept
We believe the clinics of the future will run on an intelligent brain: one that takes care of the operations around care and brings a human in only when it truly needs one.
Whatever systems a clinic already uses, it needs a partner that understands the team and takes the weight off it. Not another tool. A co-worker. That is what three years of iolokis research left us with.
Written with heart, Fady and Joe.