CareLumi founder Shai Basys presenting at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago

CareLumi founder Shai Basys (MBA '26), a 2026 Polsky Founders' Fund Fellow. Photo courtesy of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Chicago.

The short version: CareLumi founder Shai Basys (MBA '26) has been awarded the 2026 Polsky Founders' Fund Fellowship, backing the expansion of CareLumi's agentic CVO platform. By deploying trust verification infrastructure and automated CVO agents, CareLumi helps healthcare organizations safely automate credentialing, protect revenue, and maintain continuity of care.

Advancing Healthcare Trust Infrastructure

CareLumi founder Shai Basys (MBA '26) has been selected as one of eight recipients of the 2026 Polsky Founders' Fund Fellowship (PF3). Offered by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, this fellowship supports graduating founders dedicated to scaling their ventures full-time.

The fellowship provides non-dilutive investment structured as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), alongside ongoing strategic coaching from the Polsky Center. This backing reinforces CareLumi's mission to deliver grade-A compliance infrastructure for highly regulated environments.

Solving Healthcare's Highest Liability Workflows

Administrative overhead in healthcare operations continues to strain providers and health systems. Traditional primary source verification (PSV), licensing, privileging, and payer enrollment processes remain fragmented and manual. Standard credentialing timelines often stretch from 3 to 6 months (60 to 180 days), while manual credentialing all-in costs reach $3,000 to $5,000 or more per provider.

The Administrative Load

What Manual Credentialing Costs, per Provider

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3-6 months

Standard credentialing timelines commonly run 60 to 180 days from application to approval. The provider is licensed, trained, and ready to see patients for that entire window, and the organization carries the cost of employing a clinician who cannot yet be billed for.

Timeline and cost ranges reflect industry norms for manual credentialing and require sourcing confirmation before publication. Pricing reflects CareLumi's current model.

CareLumi addresses these challenges by building the trust verification infrastructure required to secure agentic AI workflows in healthcare. The agentic credentials verification organization (CVO) platform deploys autonomous CVO agents designed to execute complex operational tasks.

Our proprietary ontology layer, CARL, verifies and audits automated actions taken before, during, and after execution. This structural verification ensures strict regulatory compliance while mitigating high-liability risks. We are proving this capability in medical, dental, and pharmaceutical credentialing, healthcare's highest liability workflows.

The Ontology Layer

CARL Verifies Automated Actions at Three Points

Trust verification is what makes autonomous agents usable in a regulated workflow. Select a stage.

During execution

Is the agent doing what it said it would do?

Each automated step logged against the rule that authorized it
Confidence thresholds evaluated at every decision point
Items below threshold routed to optional expert review

Expert review is a quality-control mechanism, not a claim that a human reviews every action.

CareLumi facilitates customer-authorized workflow actions. The platform does not act as an independent agent of record and does not guarantee any third-party response, approval, or completion date.

Structural Innovation for Modern Healthcare

CareLumi's technology enables healthcare organizations to replace manual processes with trustworthy AI automation. Rather than acting as an independent agent of record, the platform facilitates customer-authorized submissions and automated status follow-up where payer channels permit.

The platform supports key operational goals:

  • Accelerating clinician onboarding while maintaining continuous compliance and audit support.
  • Protecting organizational revenue cycle stability by reducing administrative onboarding delays.
  • Maintaining continuity of care for patients and healthcare providers.
  • Offering a flat annual rate per provider with all payers included, inverting the industry's traditional cafeteria pricing model.

Accelerating Platform Growth

Securing the Polsky Founders' Fund Fellowship provides additional momentum as CareLumi expands its platform capabilities. Automated workflow steps initiate within target timelines once all required information, documents, and prerequisites are available. By combining technology with optional expert-review capabilities for quality control, CareLumi delivers operational intelligence to growing healthcare organizations.

The team remains focused on setting new standards for speed, efficiency, and compliance across healthcare's critical workflows.