Healthcare Executive (United States)

Sagara Health has built NexCM, an AI platform purpose-built for care management and value-based care.

NexCM helps care-management teams turn conversations and healthcare data into structured documentation, prioritized actions and follow-up, reducing administrative work while helping organisations operate more effectively.

The opportunity extends beyond transcription. Care managers sit at the centre of member engagement, care coordination, care-gap closure, referrals and value-based care performance, yet much of that work still remains fragmented across conversations, payer files, spreadsheets and legacy systems.

Sagara was founded by an experienced healthcare leadership team with more than 70 years of combined experience across managed care, health-plan operations, healthcare technology, care management and value-based care.

The team has previously built and scaled health plans, provider networks, healthcare operations and technology programs across the U.S. healthcare market.

NexCM is built, early customer traction is established, and Sagara is now moving into its next stage of commercial growth.

As the company enters this next phase, Sagara is selectively engaging senior healthcare executives who can contribute both strategic perspective and long-term alignment.

Sagara is looking to build relationships with experienced healthcare leaders who understand the operational challenges facing care-management organisations. We are particularly interested in individuals who can contribute through:

• Healthcare strategy and commercial growth
• Health-plan and payer relationships
• Medicare Advantage and Medicaid
• Care management and population health
• Value-based care
• ACO and at-risk provider operations
• Healthcare technology and AI
• Enterprise healthcare sales
• Strategic partnerships
• Scaling healthcare businesses
• Capital strategy and long-term company development

Engagement is strategic rather than operational.

Care managers play an important role in improving outcomes, coordinating care, closing gaps, and supporting members. Yet a significant proportion of their time is still spent documenting conversations, entering information into systems, and completing administrative follow-up. 

NexCM is designed specifically around that workflow. The platform can support the journey from: Care-management conversation → transcription → structured information extraction → care-manager review → structured documentation → follow-up actions → existing care-management systems. 

Rather than applying general-purpose AI to healthcare, Sagara is focused on a specific workflow the founding team understands deeply.

Sagara is moving from product development into real-world commercial validation. The company is approaching initial pilot deployment and is building the foundation for broader enterprise adoption. The next stage is focused on:

• Demonstrating measurable time savings
• Improving care-manager capacity
• Validating customer ROI
• Converting pilots into enterprise relationships
• Expanding across additional healthcare organisations
• Building a repeatable commercial model

This creates an opportunity for experienced healthcare executives to engage with the company at an important stage of development.

We are seeking senior executives, founders and operators with backgrounds across one or more of the following:

• Medicare Advantage
• Medicaid managed care
• Health plans and payer organisations
• Care management
• Population health
• Value-based care
• ACOs and risk-bearing providers
• Healthcare services
• Healthcare technology
• Enterprise SaaS
• Artificial intelligence
• Healthcare data
• Clinical and operational workflows
• Provider operations
• Enterprise healthcare commercialisation

We are particularly interested in individuals who:

• Have held senior leadership positions in healthcare
• Have built, scaled, or operated healthcare organisations
• Understand payer or provider operating environments
• Bring meaningful industry relationships
• Can contribute strategic perspective alongside capital
• Take a long-term approach to company involvement
  

Most ambient AI has been built around the physician. Sagara is focused on the care-management workforce. The opportunity is not simply transcription. It is turning an unstructured healthcare conversation into structured information that can support documentation, care gaps, follow-up, referrals, and the broader care-management workflow. Sagara sits at the intersection of: AI + care management + workflow automation + managed-care expertise.