What I’m building now
Averyn Care
I spent more than a decade building insurance-paid and provider-paid chronic care management programs—so I understood the workflows, incentives, and where coordination breaks down. When my parents’ health changed, I experienced the real failure point firsthand: not the medicine, the logistics—records, portals, referrals, home services, and the constant follow-through no one is accountable for.
Averyn is a family-directed, private-pay, non-clinical administrative coordination service for households managing ongoing care. We organize records, coordinate providers and home services, and keep the whole family on the same page—so the plan keeps moving without one person carrying it alone. We start with a Record Vault, then run ongoing follow-through at the cadence a household needs.
I’ve built and operated the first version end-to-end—product, operations, legal, technology, marketing—while living inside the problem, which is why the company is execution-first, not theory-first. Currently onboarding first clients and partners.
Administrative coordination and follow-through—not medical advice, not clinical monitoring, not emergency response.
Signal Forge Labs (limited)
I maintain a limited advisory practice through Signal Forge Labs—selective operator advisory for investors, founders, and boards. Diligence, strategic counsel, and AI operating architecture. SFL engagements are capped to protect my primary commitment to Averyn Care.
Why this problem
Healthcare has many providers but no operator for the patient. Care today spans multiple independent systems—providers, hospitals, insurers, pharmacies, portals, and caregivers. Each organization optimizes its own piece, but no one owns the administrative follow-through across them.
Fragmentation is the default. Every appointment, referral, record transfer, and authorization becomes a coordination task. No single entity keeps the whole picture aligned.
Institutions optimize for their own workflows. Hospitals focus on clinical delivery, insurers on utilization management, providers on visits. The administrative burden that connects those systems is implicitly pushed to the patient or family.
Families become the de facto operators. When a situation becomes complex, someone in the household ends up managing logistics—scheduling, records, referrals, insurance questions, keeping family informed. It becomes a second job, without tools, training, or authority.
Averyn sits in that gap—applying lean, AI-augmented workflows to handle administrative coordination at the family’s direction. Not replacing clinicians, but removing the operational friction that lands on the people coordinating the care.
How I build
I build organizations that can ship, learn, and scale without depending on any single person—including me. That starts with people, not technology.
- People first. Coach managers into leaders. Set clear decision rights, roles, and incentives so the team operates with autonomy and accountability.
- Operating cadence. Translate strategy into models and metrics the team can actually run—outcomes over activity, clarity over chaos.
- Product + delivery alignment. Connect what we build to what customers value. Manage cost discipline and innovation from the same seat.
- Hands-on when it clears the path. Architecture reviews, production incidents, pricing models, vendor diligence, compliance—I go where the bottleneck is.
At Cosán I took that approach from founding architect through COO—scaling the team, running clinical operations alongside product and engineering, closing a Series E, and launching a near-shore subsidiary. At Averyn I wrote the first codebase, designed the service tiers, built the compliance framework, and now run day-to-day operations and client delivery.
Tech-enabled operations
Averyn is a tech-enabled services company. I’m building a deep application and AI layer to operate and scale the business: navigator workflow tools, Record Vault infrastructure, automated follow-through pipelines, and AI-assisted coordination—all designed to lift quality, throughput, and the family experience without adding headcount linearly.
I bridge product, engineering, and operations, turning real problems into processes and technology that streamline and empower people. AI-native by default—agents, copilots, data pipelines—with governance, continuous evaluation, and human-in-the-loop safety. We solve the real problem fast, then build the system to solve it repeatedly.
Focus areas
- Family operations & care transitions
- Administrative coordination
- Executive leadership & operational scale
- Product + engineering + ops alignment
- AI-native workflows & governance
- Human-in-the-loop execution
- Operating models & unit economics
- Capital planning & diligence
- Team scaling & leadership cadence
- Vendor ecosystems
- Business model innovation
- Investor diligence
Contact
Investors: if you’re exploring the care coordination space or evaluating Averyn Care, I’d welcome the conversation—reach out via my Contact Form or dan@dzina.com.
I’m also interested in growth and referral partnerships, design-partner pilots, thoughtful introductions, and adjacent operators working in aging, caregiving, home-based support, discharge, and care logistics.
For limited advisory or fractional work, start the conversation via Signal Forge Labs.
For background and career history, LinkedIn is the best source.
Averyn Care
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