Avelis Health

We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.

Summer 2025

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We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: • Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. Healthcare is the 2nd largest company expense after payroll. • Manual audits are slow and partial: Reviewers focus only on high-dollar claims, letting millions more slip through unnoticed. • Existing audit software is static: Decades-old rule engines can’t keep pace with evolving codes, contracts, or billing tactics. • Incentives are misaligned: Third-party administrators are paid to process claims, not to police them, so accuracy checks are minimal. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Our models audit medical claims before and after payments have been issued. We catch nuanced billing, coding, and contract errors to save 3-7% on annual claims spend. We work with self-insured employers and health plans. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬: Angel Onuoha (CEO) and Ahmad Shehu (CTO) have worked together for 4 years. Before Avelis Health they built Zuvy, a Lagos-based fintech company that provided invoice factoring to small businesses. Zuvy was acquired by The BAS Group in 2025.

Active Founders

Angel Onuoha

Founder

Angel is a 3x founder, Harvard alum, and previous PM @ Google. He is currently building AI agents to audit medical claims for self-insured employers.

Angel Onuoha

Founder

Angel is a 3x founder, Harvard alum, and previous PM @ Google. He is currently building AI agents to audit medical claims for self-insured employers.

Ahmad Shehu

Founder

Cofounder and CTO @ Avelis Ahmad is a product-minded engineer running on curiosity, and a questionable number of browser tabs. He is a firm believer that small fixes can lead to big changes.

Ahmad Shehu

Founder

Cofounder and CTO @ Avelis Ahmad is a product-minded engineer running on curiosity, and a questionable number of browser tabs. He is a firm believer that small fixes can lead to big changes.

Company Launches

Avelis Health ⚔️ Preventing overpayments on medical claims

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TL;DR: We build AI agents to audit medical claims and identify errors due to coding, billing, and contract violations. Our voice agents automate the process of requesting medical records and recovering overpaid claims from providers.

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The Problem

Self-insured employers and health plans lose $100B+ annually to overpayments on medical claims
Legacy audit systems only sample high-dollar claims, missing systematic errors
Patients pay the price with higher premiums, reduced coverage, and larger out-of-pocket expenses

The Solution

Machine Learning: Our models review 100% of claims to identify errors and patterns over time
Voice AI: We automate the process of medical record retrieval with voice agents
Clinical validation with LLMs: Our AI agents review medical records to validate what was actually billed
Prevention & Recovery: We integrate into existing claim systems to prevent wrongful payments and recover funds already lost

Why we're building this
Over the past 9 years, Angel had three knee surgeries and fought down $250k in inflated hospital bills. We first built a consumer tool that saved $300k for 60 patients in a few months. Then we realized the bigger impact comes from fixing the problem at its source, before the bill ever reaches the patient.

Backgrounds:

Angel studied CS/Econ at Harvard and is a 3x founder. He scaled his first company to 60+ enterprise partnerships with financial institutions (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bank of America). In 2021, he and Ahmad founded Zuvy, a fintech company based in Nigeria, which was acquired by a PE firm in 2025. Earlier, Ahmad built healthcare data platforms for the Nigerian government, serving 20M+ people.

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Founding Engineer - AI/ML Infrastructure

San Francisco, CA, US / Remote

$150K - $200K

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3+ years

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