Kairos Health calls the dental patients a busy front desk misses

Kairos Health is going after the appointments already hiding in a dental practice’s records. Its software finds patients overdue for care, calls or texts them, and books them into the practice’s schedule, taking on outreach that a busy receptionist may never get to.

The startup says it is live in 16 U.S. locations, including a large independent dental group in Manhattan. Alongside outbound calls, its AI front desk handles inbound calls around the clock and verifies insurance benefits. The product connects to the software a practice already uses instead of asking staff to maintain a separate appointment book.

In its launch announcement, Kairos reports an average of 179 missed calls answered and 46 hygiene and treatment appointments booked each month for participating practices. Those are company-reported results. The announcement does not describe a controlled comparison or provide a breakdown by practice, so they should not be read as a guaranteed outcome for a new customer.

The workflow starts with patient data rather than a generic reminder campaign. Kairos looks for people who should return, including those overdue for cleanings or with unscheduled treatment. It then uses personalized outreach to try to turn that outstanding work into a booked visit. Insurance verification addresses another front-desk task that can hold up scheduling and consume staff time.

Watch Kairos Health’s original product demonstration.

That combination gives the company two ways into a practice’s day. It can pick up a call while staff are checking in another patient, or initiate a conversation that otherwise would not happen. For a small office, those are different problems with the same constraint: the person who knows which patients need attention is often already occupied.

Kairos’s website lists integrations with dental systems including Dentrix, Open Dental, Eaglesoft and Denticon. It also shows an inbound-call example in which an appointment is placed directly into the schedule. The launch describes insurance checks as taking seconds, although it does not publish an accuracy benchmark or detail which cases require staff intervention.

Co-founder Adhira Tippur grew up helping at her mother’s dental practices, an experience the team credits with inspiring the product. She later worked at ClearView Healthcare Partners and venture firm The Collectiv. Her co-founder Sanjana Kavula studied computational neuroscience at Rice University and worked on AI models at the Icahn School of Medicine, according to their public biographies.

The other founders, Aditya Jain and Tanush Chintala, studied computer science at Georgia Tech. Jain worked on data pipelines at the New York Stock Exchange, while Chintala built infrastructure at AWS GuardDuty and call-routing systems at Nimbus Health. Kairos is part of Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 batch.

The company is asking for introductions to dentists, office managers and dental service organizations. Its initial rollout gives it a concrete setting in which to test the proposition: whether software can reliably connect patient records, phone conversations, insurance checks and the appointment calendar while the front desk keeps the office moving.