Evidence-to-Buyer Strategy · Health & Bio-AI

Your evidence is real. It isn't the evidence they need.

Health systems don't stall because your model underperforms. They stall because the person who has to sign hasn't been handed the specific proof their seat requires — and nobody on your team has ever mapped which proof that is.

The diagnostic core

Evidence gap analysis: what you have, against what they require.

The first section of the document is a straight accounting. Everything you've generated on one side. Everything the buyer needs before they can defend a yes on the other. The distance between those columns is the reason your pipeline isn't converting — and it's usually not the distance founders expect.

What you have
  • Publications and preprintsOften strong on model performance, silent on deployed outcomes.
  • Pilots and design partnersReal usage, rarely instrumented to produce citable proof.
  • Case studiesCompelling to you; frequently not in a form a committee can act on.
  • Internal performance dataAUROC, sensitivity, benchmark results against retrospective sets.
What the buyer requires
  • Clinical validationProspective, in a setting that resembles theirs, with named investigators.
  • Economic and ROI proofA number the finance office can put in a model and defend.
  • Safety, security, regulatoryThe documentation compliance needs before it reaches committee.
  • Peer credibilityEvidence that an institution like theirs already made this call.

Nobody rejects you. They just never get the thing they'd need in order to say yes.

Buyer evidence requirements map

Different seats need different proof. Most teams bring one deck to all of them.

Clinical data does not move a CFO. An ROI model does not move a clinician. The second section lays out what each stakeholder in your buying committee requires, so your team stops sending the right evidence to the wrong person.

Clinical champion
CMO · CMIO · Service line chief
  • Prospective validation in a comparable setting
  • Peer-reviewed publication with credible authorship
  • Effect on outcomes clinicians recognize as meaningful
  • Evidence it survives contact with real workflow
Where teams lose themLeading with benchmark performance instead of clinical consequence, or with results from a population that isn't theirs.
Economic buyer
CFO · VP Finance · Value analysis
  • A defensible ROI model with stated assumptions
  • Cost avoided, throughput gained, or reimbursement captured
  • Payback period and a realistic time-to-value
  • What happens to the incumbent contract and its spend
Where teams lose themHanding a Nature-caliber result to someone who needs it translated into a line in a budget model — and never doing the translation.
Risk and technical
Compliance · Security · IT · Legal
  • Regulatory posture, clearly stated and documented
  • Security review artifacts and data handling terms
  • Model monitoring, drift, and failure-mode plans
  • Integration burden on a team already at capacity
Where teams lose themTreating this seat as paperwork at the end, when it is the seat most able to stop a deal quietly and indefinitely.

This map is built for your product, your category, and the institutions you're actually selling into — not a generic buying-committee diagram.

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10–15 page strategy document · 60–90 minute readout · $2,500
What you get

A written strategy document, and a call where we walk it.

Ten to fifteen pages, specific to your company, delivered as an asset your team keeps. Four analytical sections, then a clear statement of what executing it takes.

01

Evidence gap analysis

Your current evidence base — publications, pilots, case studies, performance data — set against what your buyer requires to say yes, with the gap named precisely rather than described in general terms.

02

Buyer evidence requirements map

Which proof each stakeholder in the buying committee needs, segmented by seat. The section that stops clinical data going to the CFO and ROI decks going to the clinician.

03

Prioritized evidence roadmap

The ranked list of evidence to generate, with the how: which studies and analyses to run, what data to collect, publication versus white paper versus case study, realistic timelines and rough effort. Four specific things, in this order, this way.

04

Commercial positioning of the evidence

How to wield it once you have it — how to sequence proof in the sales motion, which points to lead with for which buyer, and how to translate a Nature-caliber result into a CFO-legible ROI story.

Why me

Generating clinical evidence and selling it are two different skills. This work needs both.

I've published the clinical research, deployed the models in live hospital settings, and then carried that evidence into buying committees against installed competition. The buyer-requirements map and the commercial positioning sections are hard to produce without having done both sides.

Nathan Klarer
Founder & Principal

A commercial operator and company builder with a technical foundation — bioengineering and AI by training, commercial leadership by trade. Nathan has built and deployed clinical AI in live hospital settings, published the research behind it, and sold it into health systems against installed competition.

  • Evidence
    Lead company published in Nature & NEJM AISepsis-prediction and hospital-quality AI, generated and published from real deployments.
  • Deployment
    Clinical AI live at major US academic health systemsBuilt, validated, and put into clinical workflow — not pilots that stopped at a poster.
  • Commercial
    Won an account held by an embedded vendorTop-tier academic medical center, incumbent already in the clinical workflow.
  • Exits
    Two realized exitsFounding-team participation in a NASDAQ IPO (Core Scientific); acquisition of Bridgecrest Medical.
The details

One fixed fee, delivered in under a week.

We start with a working session and access to what you've already generated. You get the document, then a 60–90 minute readout where we walk it together and answer whatever it raises.

Turnaround. Three to five business days from the intake session to the delivered document.

$2,500
Fixed fee, scoped before we begin
10–15 pp.
Strategy document plus a 60–90 minute readout call
Where this goes next

The diagnostic is the map. Executing it is a separate decision.

The document ends by stating plainly what running the roadmap requires — the work, the sequence, and who has to own it. Some teams take it from there. For the ones who'd rather not, there are two ways I stay involved.

If the gap is evidence

Fractional commercial leadership

An ongoing retainer to build the evidence-generation program and the commercial motion around it — running the roadmap rather than handing it over. Typically the first three items on your list.

How I work with companies →
If the gap is inertia

Sell The Gap Sprint

Sometimes the evidence is adequate and the real problem is an incumbent nobody wants to rip out. That's a displacement sale, and it runs on a different arc — a focused three-week sprint across your live opportunities.

See the displacement sprint →
Start a diagnostic

Tell me what you've built and who you're trying to sell it to.

A sentence or two on your product, your evidence so far, and where deals are getting stuck. I'll respond directly.

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