The Praxis Cohort · Praxis & Ratio

I · The Format

One workflow, all the way through.

Every company picks one real workflow in the first session and carries it through all four. Each session moves it one stage forward, from choosing it, to making it safe, to making it reliable, to proving it on real work. Between sessions, we review every company's progress so nobody reaches the last session having built the wrong thing.

Bring the teammate who does that work by hand today. A workflow built by the founder alone tends to stop running the week the founder gets busy. Every session is worked on your own real workflow.

II · The Sessions

Four sessions. Two hours each.

Live and virtual. No session falls in Thanksgiving week, and the last one ends before the holidays. Plan on two to three hours of work between sessions.

Session 1Tue, Nov 17

Choose

Pick the work, and define done before you build.

Every company scores the work it repeats each week and picks one workflow to take off someone's plate. Some of that work wants plain automation and no AI model at all. Some needs AI with a person checking. Some needs a person, with AI preparing the page. You name two candidates on the application and leave this session with one confirmed, its shape, and a written definition of what working means before anything is built.

Session 2Tue, Dec 1

Make it safe

Health information, who can see it, and the first build.

You map where every piece of data in your workflow goes. You list every service that touches it, the company that runs that service, the people on your team who use it, and whether a business associate agreement is signed. We cover what counts as protected health information, which vendors will sign that agreement, where an AI model can run, and what real companies paid when this went wrong. The second half is hands-on, and you leave with a first version running on safe data.

Session 3Tue, Dec 8

Make it reliable

How often it is wrong, who catches it, and what it costs.

You score your workflow against real past examples with known right answers. The steps that must always come out the same move into plain code. You decide which outputs a person checks every time and which can run alone, and you price the whole thing per month against the hours it saves.

Session 4Mon, Dec 14

Prove it

Demos, numbers, and the handoff.

Each company shows its workflow running on a week of real work, with the time it took by hand beside the time it takes now. The workflow gets a named owner and a one-page runbook, and you pick the next workflow to take on in the 90 days after.

III · What You Leave With

A workflow that runs: on your own work, with a named owner on your team and a one-page runbook for when it goes wrong.
Before and after numbers: meaning the hours the work took by hand, the hours it takes now, how often it is wrong, and what it costs to run each month.
A data map and an AI use policy: showing where your data goes and which tools may see it. Buyers and investors increasingly ask for both.
The next 90 days: with your next workflow already chosen, a private office hour, and a cohort group that stays open after the last session.

IV · Who It Is For

Cohort I is for early-stage healthcare companies, from pre-seed through Series B. A seat is one company, meaning a founder plus the teammate who will run the workflow after the cohort ends. Investors and institutional executives are welcome to apply, and those applications are held for the cohorts that follow.

A seat can be paid for by the founder or by the fund or accelerator that backs them. If a fund is sponsoring you, name it on the application and we will invoice them directly.

You do not need to write code. Everyone builds inside an AI product the company has approved for its data. It is not a lecture, either. Sessions are worked, not watched.

V · Seats

$2,500: per company, covering a founder and one teammate, due on acceptance
Eight: companies in Cohort I
Four: live sessions, virtual, two hours each

Sponsoring seats. Funds and accelerators can buy seats for the companies they back. Emmeline Ventures portfolio companies apply at a partner rate, and Emmeline receives no compensation from the cohort.

VI · Apply

Apply for Cohort I

We read every application ourselves and reply within five business days. Applications close Monday, November 9.

Full Name

Email

Company

Your Role

Which describes you best

Where the company is

Teammate joining you. Optional.

Their role. Optional.

The sentence closest to how you use them

I ask it questions the way I would use a search engine.I have custom instructions, projects, or a saved voice set up.I have repeatable prompts or workflows that my team also uses.It is wired into our systems through connectors, automations, or our own tooling.

Where AI already sits in your work

Product and engineeringClinical or regulatory workCustomer support and operationsWriting, meaning updates, decks, and documentationInvestor reporting and fundraisingResearch and competitive analysisEmail, scheduling, and adminNowhere systematic yet

Your posture on data

No particular concern.I would like to understand the tradeoffs before I go further.Hard line. We handle protected health information, and some data cannot leave our control.

The work you would hand over

Name two pieces of work your team repeats every week. The first is the one you most want gone. The second is a real alternative, with no health information in it, that takes the first one's place if the first turns out not to fit four weeks. Score each on the five questions below. We read every answer before the first session.

Does your first choice touch health information about people?

No. It has no health information about people in it.Yes. It touches health information about people.

Has your company signed a business associate agreement (BAA) with the AI tool you would use?

A business associate agreement is the contract that makes an outside vendor legally responsible for protecting health information under HIPAA. Without one, health information may not go into that tool. If your work has no health information in it, answer anyway. It tells us where you stand.

Yes, signed and in place.No, not yet.I am not sure what we have.

The question you keep asking that nobody has answered. Optional.

How you heard about the cohort. Optional.

The fund or accelerator sponsoring your company. Optional.

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