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actAVA is a specialized AI platform that standardizes and accelerates the creation, training, and deployment of artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare and life sciences. We are a high-speed assembly line that automates the build and deployment of highly tested, always compliant, ever-learning agentic AI. actAVA is the Healthcare AI factory.

The Kora Platform

Designed for Enterprise Agentic AI

The AI orchestration platform purpose-built for healthcare and life sciences organizations.

What is AI orchestration?

Imagine a symphony where dozens of musicians play in perfect harmony—each instrument essential, yet none capable of creating the full masterpiece alone. AI orchestration is the maestro of the digital age, conducting a complex ensemble of AI models, tools, and data pipelines to create something far greater than the sum of its parts.

At its core, AI orchestration is the art and science of coordinating multiple AI systems to work as one unified intelligence. It's what happens when chatbots, recommendation engines, predictive models, and data pipelines stop operating in isolation and start collaborating seamlessly—sharing insights, triggering actions, and adapting in real-time.

Why orchestration matters?

A single AI model is like a soloist—impressive, but limited in scope. AI orchestration transforms that solo performance into a full orchestra, where:

  • Complex problems get solved that would overwhelm any single system
  • Decisions become smarter as models learn from each other's outputs
  • Operations scale effortlessly as workflows automate across systems
  • Business value multiplies as disconnected tools become an integrated powerhouse

Think of it as the difference between having a calculator, a notepad, and a filing cabinet versus having a personal assistant who knows exactly when to use each tool, how to combine their outputs, and what to do next—automatically.

What does orchestration do?

AI orchestration doesn't just connect systems; it creates intelligence through coordination. It's the strategic layer that turns fragmented AI capabilities into a cohesive force capable of handling enterprise-scale challenges, from real-time fraud detection to personalized customer journeys that span dozens of touchpoints.

In a world where AI is everywhere, orchestration is what makes it work together, work smarter, and actually deliver on the promise of transformation.

So why choose actAVA?

Healthcare & life science organizations choose actAVA to bridge the gap between the potential of frontier models and safe, real-world implementation. With the actAVA Kora platform and our deep healthcare expertise, YOUR TEAM can build, deploy, and optimize AI solutions that scale across your enterprise—ensuring compliance, reliability, and continuous improvement from day one.

The Kora Platform

Discover the actAVA AI Factory

The AI orchestration platform purpose-built for healthcare and life sciences organizations.

Unlike generic AI tools or rigid single-purpose workflows, we provide a comprehensive "agentic nervous system" that coordinates multiple skills, tools, data sources, and AI workflows. Our actAVA KORA factory helps you quickly build your agents through a complete lifecycle. Like an AI manufacturing assembly line, each cycle produces agents that are increasingly specialized, precise, and cost-effective.

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BLUE

actAVA BLUE - Agent Building & Management Suite

Agent Building & Management Suite

KORA|BLUE is our agent factory that makes it easy for non-technical users to build, deploy, and run deep agents within their existing application workflows. Our tools run in your environment, connect to your data sources, and use the frontier models you choose. Our integrated platform transforms AI experiments into enterprise-grade copilots, with every component secure, every decision traceable, and every workflow optimized for healthcare's unique regulatory and clinical requirements. Don't just make agents, make them specific.

Build deep healthcare agents with low-code tools designed for healthcare and life science with KORA|BLUE. Transforms fragmented AI experiments into an enterprise-grade orchestration platform where every component is secure, every decision is traceable, and every workflow is optimized for healthcare's unique regulatory and clinical requirements.

Key Capabilities

Speed

Natural language UI to build deep agents with advanced reasoning.

Science

Specialized data science to enable multi-dimensional analysis agents.

Safety

Comprehensive controls to ensure AI agent compliance.

Query Response Time

<200ms

85% faster
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RED

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AI TESTING & COMPLIANCE SUITE

KORA|RED is our comprehensive AI testing and validation platform calibrated for health. Using deep trace observability and advanced analytics, we continuously evaluate agents across complex real-world scenarios. We leverage our proprietary risk engine to ensure your agents perform safely and accurately by detecting and preventing hallucinations, compliance violations, bias, toxicity, and performance degradation—before they affect your customers. Our AI agents do more than pass evals—they maintain trustworthiness. Don't just make agents, make them safe.

With continuous monitoring and instant risk detection, KORA|RED ensures your AI agents don't just pass tests once—they maintain excellence in production, catching dangerous errors in real-time and guaranteeing consistent, trustworthy results across every interaction.

Key Capabilities

Outcomes

Accuracy, safety, and clinical effectiveness.

Compliance

Regulatory adherence and ethical standards.

Costs

Operational efficiency and resource optimization.

Accuracy Improvement

94%

vs baseline
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GREEN

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REINFORCED LEARNING SUITE

KORA|GREEN is actAVA's agentic reinforcement learning platform that enables AI agents to continuously evolve and improve in live environments. Unlike static AI systems that remain frozen after deployment, GREEN creates truly adaptive intelligence that gets smarter with every patient interaction, healthcare decision, and operational workflow. Our agents adapt, evolve, and become more valuable over time, turning your operations into a self-improving intelligent system that grows alongside your organization's needs. Don't just make agents, make them smarter.

Enable agents that continuously evolve within live healthcare workflows using KORA|GREEN. Experience AI that learns from health-specific feedback and red-teaming, across multiple timescales. Don't just make agents, make them better.

Key Capabilities

Continuous

Built-in continuous improvement.

Adaptive

Controllable test-time learning.

Reinforced

Human-in-the-loop & refine-to-memory learning.

Learning Efficiency

3x

faster adaptation
THE KORA PLATFORM

Enterprise Agentic Technology

KORA is the AI platform your engineers wish they had time to build.

Enterprise-grade retrieval at scale

Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval Engine

Embed our enterprise-grade knowledge retrieval engine directly into your environment with healthcare-specific data processing, intelligent context management, and real-time information synthesis. Features multi-hop research capabilities across medical literature and clinical datasets, a hybrid retrieval architecture with healthcare guardrails, and intelligent knowledge synthesis that delivers citation-backed, actionable insights from disparate healthcare data sources.

Integrated healthcare data processing
Hybrid retrieval architecture
Citation-backed actionable insights
99.7%
Accuracy
100ms
Response
10B+
Scale
Our Mission

Why We Built Kora

We partner with healthcare organizations to deploy sophisticated AI orchestration technology without the complexity of building infrastructure from scratch. Our KORA platform provides everything needed to coordinate multiple AI agents across your apps and workflows - from creation BLUE to governance RED to continuous improvement GREEN.

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Lightning Fast Deployment

Deploy enterprise AI solutions rapidly with our pre-built infrastructure and proven frameworks.

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HIPAA Compliant by Design

Enterprise-grade security with end-to-end encryption and comprehensive audit trails.

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Self-Improving Systems

ML algorithms continuously learn from real-world data to improve patient outcomes.

About Us

Pioneering Enterprise AI for Healthcare Built by Healthcare + AI Experts

actAVA is a pioneering AI factory focused on the healthcare and life sciences markets. We were founded by industry leaders from Salesforce AI Research and the healthcare technology industry, including experts in autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, and data-driven platforms that have scaled to billions in value. Backed by strategic investors such as Factorial Funds and guided by advisors from Salesforce and Stanford, actAVA is transforming healthcare AI into a scalable, reliable, and impactful reality.

Frank Wang

Frank Wang

CTO & Co-Founder

Principal Research Engineer at Salesforce AI Research where he led breakthrough initiatives such as autonomous agent, deep research agent, agents orchestration, Agentforce advanced RAG & Reasoning Engine, and several deep-research programs that transformed cutting-edge AI into market-defining products.

He was employee #11 and a founding engineer at Vlocity(acquired by Salesforce 2020), inventor of the award-winning Salesforce OmniStudio Mobile Platform and six vertical Industry Apps.

Kevin Riley

Kevin Riley

CEO & Co-Founder

Veteran health-tech executive with 25+ years' experience launching and scaling solutions for healthcare and life sciences. He led healthcare and government business at Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce) and then went on to lead Salesforce's global Health & Life Sciences portfolio.

He also served as CEO of several successful software companies in AI, Care Management, Regulatory Science, and Provider Revenue. He created the award-winning modelH framework and was named a Top Healthcare Software Executive.

Weiran Yao

Weiran Yao

CAIO & Co-Founder

AI research leader with deep expertise in large-scale model training, reasoning engines, and multi-agent systems. Weiran led Salesforce AI Research's development of the Agentforce planning engine, CodeGenie agent, and Large Action Model (RL/SFT) pipelines, and recently spearheaded open-source releases including Enterprise Deep Research (EDR), Webscale-RL, and CoDA-1.7B.

A CMU Ph.D. in Machine Learning, he has published 70+ papers, holds 13 U.S. patents, and serves on program committees for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL

Deon Metelski

Deon Metelski

Chief Product Officer

Shaping agentic healthcare AI that feels human and interoperates everywhere. He leads remote teams to orchestrate safe, explainable AI agents across EHRs and ecosystems, translating clinical and operational needs into delightful, connected experiences.

Passionate about access, interoperability, and outcomes, he blends empathy and data to deliver tools clinicians trust and patients love.

Steve Brown

Steve Brown

Chief Customer Officer

Senior technology executive with 25+ years of experience leading global pre-sales, solution engineering, and sales enablement. Currently leading forward-deployed engineering at actAVA, he specializes in delivering agentic AI infrastructure that aligns cutting-edge technology with enterprise revenue goals. Steve is best known for scaling Vlocity's global SE team from 10 to 120 members, facilitating its $1.33B acquisition by Salesforce, where he subsequently served as SVP of Global Solution Engineering. A Computer Science graduate, he excels at verticalizing horizontal platforms and serving as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite executives.

Joon Lee

Joon Lee

Lead Forward Deploy Engineer

Lead Forward Deploy Engineer specializing in customer-facing application of AI with production-grade reasoning services. During his tenure at Salesforce (Agentforce/AI Research), he architected LLM-powered reasoning engines and orchestrated complex multi-agent workflows with a rigorous focus on enterprise reliability and security. Previously a Senior Engineer at Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce), he developed mission-critical hybrid mobile frameworks for field-service applications. At actAVA, Joon brings a unique combination of full-stack mastery and deep expertise in building intelligent, structured AI systems designed to solve large-scale enterprise challenges.

Leon Qi

Leon Qi

Lead AI Systems Engineer

Lead AI Systems Engineer at actAVA, specializing in agentic architectures, RAG pipelines, and production-grade reasoning services. At Salesforce, he served as a Senior Software Engineer across Industries Cloud, AI Research, and Agentforce — architecting LLM-powered reasoning engines, orchestrating multi-agent workflows, and delivering enterprise AI systems with strong reliability, security, and observability. Previously at Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce), he built hybrid mobile frameworks and reusable UI components for iOS and Android field-service applications. At actAVA, Leon brings full-stack expertise across web, mobile, cloud, and AI/ML systems.

Tao Xia

Tao Xia

Lead Backend Engineer & System Architect

Veteran systems architect with over 20 years of experience specializing in designing and scaling massive, distributed backend infrastructure. Currently the Lead Backend Engineer at actAVA.ai, Tao is at the forefront of AI orchestration, developing mission-critical systems that power healthcare AI workflows. His deep technical pedigree is anchored by a career of high-impact leadership, including scaling DoorDash's consumer platform from 50,000 to over 2 million daily orders and establishing the foundational architecture as a Founding Engineer at Kindred. From architecting global data ingestion systems at Yahoo to managing cross-functional engineering teams, Tao combines a mastery of high-performance systems with the strategic vision required to build and sustain modern, AI-driven enterprises.

Haolin Chen

Haolin Chen

Lead AI Researcher

Experienced AI Researcher spearheading the development of cutting-edge agentic systems and reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks. Previously a Senior Applied Scientist at Salesforce AI Research, Haolin led high-impact projects including LaTRO (foundational RL-based reasoning), Webscale-RL for massive-scale data synthesis, and the xLAM series of agentic LLMs. His technical expertise spans the entire LLM lifecycle—from pre-training to hierarchical planning—and includes the development of CoDA, a diffusion language model for coding. A prolific researcher with 15+ publications in venues like NeurIPS and ICLR, Haolin holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis, specializing in the mathematical foundations of machine learning and tensor decomposition.

Investors

Backed by Leading Venture Capital

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Factorial Funds

Factorial Funds is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that specializes in early-stage and growth equity investments within the technology sector. The firm is “purpose-built for the AI era,” focusing on transformative technologies across the artificial intelligence (AI) value chain, robotics, cloud infrastructure, and scalable software solutions. They made an early investment in actAVA because of our reputation and AI-first architecture from the outset.

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SemperVirens

SemperVirens connects portfolio companies with a network of over 1,500 HR leaders and Fortune 500 executives to accelerate go-to-market strategies. They choose to invest in actAVA because they understand our healthcare AI orchestration platform that accelerates the creation, training, and deployment of compliant, enterprise grade AI solutions. There is a need for our tools across their portfolio companies and their LPs.

Partners

Strategic Partners

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Empactful Studios

Empactful Studios is a healthcare innovation and "company building" firm based in the United States. They are builders, not consultants, focusing on co-creating human-centered technology and strategies to advance the future of healthcare.

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Trans4mative Advisors

Trans4mative Advisors is a boutique management and technology consulting firm based in Houston, Texas. They are a full-service partner that bridges the gap between high-level business strategy and technical execution.

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CWH Advisors

CWH Advisors is a management consulting firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry, offering guidance and direction to healthcare organizations at inflection points. Their senior healthcare operators advise across key segments including providers, health plans, investors, and healthcare technology organizations, with services spanning go-to-market strategy, revenue optimization, data analytics, and value-based care.

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