Built by a physician who runs the clinic it’s built for
Oben exists because the software available to independent cash-pay clinics is a patchwork: an EHR that ignores growth, a CRM that ignores care, and staff stitching the two together by hand. We are building the system that runs the whole practice — governed, safe, and AI-native from the kernel up.
Patrick Oben, MD — Founder, Oben · Wellform MD
Patrick Oben, MD
Patrick is a practicing physician and the owner of Wellform MD, a cash-pay weight-loss and wellness clinic. He has lived both sides of the problem Oben solves: delivering GLP-1 care to real patients, and running the front desk, the follow-ups, the marketing, and the books that keep a clinic alive.
Rather than buying another tool for the pile, he is building the operating system his own clinic needed — and proving it there first. Wellform MD is Oben’s client zero: every workflow is exercised against a real practice before it reaches another clinic.
Oben is developed AI-natively — with AI agents doing the heavy lifting under explicit human direction and review — the same discipline of governed autonomy the product itself delivers to clinics.
Principles we build by
Humans keep the pen
AI drafts; a human approves. No clinical, patient-facing, or financial action happens without a visible, deliberate human decision.
One source of truth
The record, the schedule, the money, and the pipeline belong in one governed system — because a clinic is one business, not four.
Operator-grade, not marketing-grade
Clinics can smell software built by people who never ran a front desk. Density, speed, and real workflows beat gloss.
Trust is designed, not declared
Audit trails, source-linked AI, minimum-necessary access, and wrong-patient guards are product features — not compliance paperwork.
Talk to us
Whether you run a clinic, invest in health tech, or want to follow the build — we’d love to hear from you.
pilot@oben.care