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Axis has been accepted into the Microsoft for Startups program — bringing Azure infrastructure, security tooling, and enterprise compliance support behind every call Ava answers.
Axis, the San Francisco-based team building the digital front desk for independent dental and primary care clinics, has been accepted into the Microsoft for Startups program — bringing Azure infrastructure, security tooling, and enterprise compliance support behind every call Ava answers.
For independent practices — the 180,000 clinics in the US with fewer than fifteen providers — the front desk is usually one or two people drowning in phone calls, intake paperwork, and insurance portals. When they can't keep up, patients go elsewhere and revenue leaks. Axis is the system that handles the phone, the schedule, the intake, and the insurance — so the humans at the practice can focus on the patients standing in front of them.
Joining the Microsoft for Startups program gives Axis access to the Azure platform that already powers a meaningful share of US healthcare infrastructure, alongside Microsoft's security engineering resources and go-to-market support. For Axis customers, this means the same product they use today — strengthened by enterprise-grade scaffolding from day one.
01What changes for clinics.
Ava already answers every inbound call around the clock — in each practice's voice, inside its BAA perimeter, live in two weeks. The Microsoft for Startups partnership doesn't change what Ava does. It changes what's behind her.
Axis writes into existing practice management systems — Open Dental, Dentrix, athenahealth, and others — so no patient database leaves the clinic. Azure infrastructure adds enterprise availability, automated failover, and global compliance scaffolding that independent practices typically can't afford to build themselves.
Axis is the operating layer for the front desk of independent outpatient clinics. Our V1 product, Ava, handles inbound calls, scheduling, intake, insurance verification, recall, and no-show follow-up — voice and SMS in one place, HIPAA compliant, deployed in two weeks. Axis is based in San Francisco.
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