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02 / WHY WE BUILT THIS
It started with
our own future.
A founder’s story about finding a way forward when the usual paths weren’t working.
My partner did his residency on a J-1 visa, but spent only his final year in the U.S. That left him very little time, and almost no local network, to find a job here.
A waiver position would shape everything: our relationship, where we’d live, where we’d start our family, and our future together. It was the most stressful stretch of our lives.
For months, we checked PracticeMatch and 3RNET every day. We applied to openings, spoke with recruiters, and joined every online community we could find. But we wanted to live in a major city, ideally in California or Washington, near family and friends. For a specialist, those opportunities rarely appeared on the boards.
Eventually, we stopped waiting for the same listings and calls. We learned how to find shortage-designated areas inside the cities where we wanted to live. We cross-checked government websites, spoke with immigration lawyers, and made hundreds of calls to clinics and hospital systems. Along the way, we developed a framework for finding opportunities and starting conversations about potential roles.
Within eight weeks of taking this approach, he signed with a clinic in the heart of San Francisco — our first choice.
We also received three offers in the Bay Area and Seattle, each within an hour’s commute. That was our experience, not a promise of anyone else’s outcome. But it showed us that there was another way to search.
Now we’re turning that experience into an AI-assisted agent and a guide to the framework, so more physicians can explore a future in a place they actually want to live.
Built from a search that changed our lives.