Connor Sweeney

Building @BabaHQ

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Today, @BabaHQ raised a $40M Series A.

We give each Medicare member and their family a dedicated team of advocates and behavioral health experts to keep every part of their care moving forward.

In a world obsessed with AI personal assistants, it’s never been more important to have expert humans in the loop to go the last mile, particularly in healthcare.

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@lennysan @harmonic_ai Thanks for the feature! Hiring engineers and ops swiss army knives :) https://t.co/A3LpFoFXRj

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@nextplayso @matsiiako @adijayaprakash @DakotahBlueRice @_bschmidtchen @ivanburazin @agilemofo @ddmskr https://t.co/A3LpFoGvGR

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@TonyNames so silly

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Growing up fast 🥹

Baba dot com

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@DomainMaster love that

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@rob @snagged 🤝 thank you sir

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@nikillinit have you seen anyone be successful in sharing savings with patients along the ACO route before?

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I feel bad for people who chronically interview at top companies as a form of mental masturbation.

They’re smart enough to be taken seriously, it feels good to get offers, but they never want to commit to anything with high stakes (because committing means they might fail).

Imagine being so scared of failure that you spend your entire 20s hedging.

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Just closed two of the most talented candidates in their respective domains I've ever met. And closed an acquisition we've been chasing for months.

Not sure what I did in a past life to deserve this one, but god life is electric.

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@adelwu_ @reductoai oh i'm aware! have been told several times this week by your sales team 🥲

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We saved one client’s Christmas (in her own words!) by preventing her electricity from being turned off in the dead of winter in the Midwest.

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@lillysharples that's the miami influence that stuck around

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I like to hire from cold places.

One of the most underdiscussed things about startups is that, post PMF, they are battles of attrition. 99% of the work on any given day is tedious and mundane.

There's a reason Stanford startups feel very culturally different than MIT/CMU ones.

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@parkercardwell Epic run! excited to see what's next

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@BabaHQ is a story of redemption.

The American healthcare system is actually the most generous in the world & doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

AI will finally make it possible to prove ROI and undermine all the arguments that the system is past repair.

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@teflonblondie Thank you!

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Super proud of the team on this - our first work towards agentic care coordination, informed by our team of human clinicians.

[Baba @BabaHQ]

Everyone’s chatbot can book a doctor’s appointment.

The real test is whether you can earn the trust of a Spanish-speaking diabetic woman, walk her through a Medicaid application while finding her secure housing, and coach her into choosing a 12oz (instead of 16oz) soda along the way.

Today we’re sharing BabaBench, a benchmark measuring how frontier models perform the real work of healthcare coordination. Our synthetic worlds are built from annotations by Baba’s in-house team of hundreds of expert doctors, therapists, nurses, and social workers.

Turns out, AI alone isn’t ready to replace human care coordination.

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Went deep w @jordihays and @johncoogan on why we prioritized humans-in-the-loop instead of another AI personal assistant.

We spent months measuring where AI fails on care coordination tasks, and turned our results into a benchmark at https://t.co/NC1IQq1zxV.

Lots more RL work ahead. If you’re an engineer and this sounds interesting, shoot me a note at [email protected].

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@amosk1120 @BabaHQ appreciate you

[Connor Sweeney @_ConnorSweeney]

Today, @BabaHQ raised a $40M Series A.

We give each Medicare member and their family a dedicated team of advocates and behavioral health experts to keep every part of their care moving forward.

In a world obsessed with AI personal assistants, it’s never been more important to have expert humans in the loop to go the last mile, particularly in healthcare.

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@codysmin @generalcatalyst @BabaHQ had a great director :)