We're excited to announce the launch of Cline Cohort #1.
Five doctors, five specialties, five cities across the United States. One shared mission: to prove that doctors can build the technology they need without waiting for permission from tech companies, hospital administrators, or EHR vendors.
Cohort #1 consists of self-employed doctors running their own practices and employed doctors working within larger health systems, what we call frontline healthcare workers. Over the next few weeks, each doctor will be vibe-coding their own custom app, agent, or EHR interface for their medical practice or patients. They're not learning to code. They're not hiring developers. They're simply describing what they need, and Cline is making it real.
These aren't beta testers. They're trailblazers. The foundation they're establishing will redefine clinical practice for millions of doctors all over the world.
Why This Matters
For decades, doctors have been stuck as consumers of healthcare technology. Someone else decides what features your EHR has. Someone else determines how your patient portal works. Someone else builds the tools you use every single day, and you adapt your workflows to fit their vision of how medicine should be practiced.
Cohort #1 is flipping that model. These doctors are becoming builders. They're designing technology that works the way they work, treats patients the way they want to treat them, and solves problems only they truly understand. This isn't about replacing existing systems overnight. It's about giving doctors the ability to customize, extend, and improve the technology they use without needing a computer science degree or a six-figure budget.
Recent data shows the shift is already happening. Over 65% of software developers now use AI coding assistants, and non-technical users represent the fastest-growing segment of AI-assisted development. In healthcare specifically, 89% of physicians believe they should receive funding for AI tools, yet 71% have little to no influence on which tools their organizations adopt. Doctors want control. They want to build. And now, for the first time, they can.
Meet Cohort #1 (All currently in stealth. Names will be announced when products are launched)
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Obesity Medicine Specialist. Austin, Texas. Building a local direct care obesity medicine medical practice.
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Precision Medicine. Houston, Texas. Building a custom precision medicine mobile app for tracking biomarkers, labs, and wearables with data pulled directly from the patient portal.
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Family Medicine. Los Angeles, California. Building agents to help manage patient care management plans and follow ups using ambient scribe data generated from visits.
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Allergist Specialist. Brooklyn, New York. Building an AI-native EHR interface with embedded client CRM for allergists.
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Ophthalmologist Specialist. San Francisco, California. Building an AI-native EHR interface for ophthalmology practice.
What They're Building
The projects these doctors are working on range from custom patient intake systems to automated clinical workflows to entirely new ways of documenting care. Some are building tools for their private practices. Others are creating solutions they'll use within their hospital systems. All of them are solving real problems they face every single day.
This diversity matters. Cohort #1 isn't a homogeneous group of tech-forward concierge doctors in Silicon Valley. They represent the full spectrum of American medicine: different specialties, different practice models, different patient populations, different cities. If these doctors can build with Cline, any doctor can.
The Ripple Effect
What happens when doctors become builders? When they stop waiting for vendors to add features and start creating solutions themselves? When they can test an idea on Monday and deploy it to patients on Tuesday?
We're about to find out. The technology these five doctors create over the next few weeks won't just benefit their practices. It will become templates, starting points, and inspiration for the thousands of doctors who come after them. One doctor builds a better intake form for their pediatric practice. Another doctor in a different state adapts it for their family medicine clinic. A third doctor takes that concept and applies it to longevity medicine. The network effects compound quickly.
This is how innovation actually spreads in medicine. Not top-down from administrators or tech companies, but doctor to doctor, practice to practice, specialty to specialty. Cohort #1 is lighting the match.
What Makes Cline Different
Consumer vibe-coding platforms like Lovable and Replit have shown that non-technical users can build impressive applications. But they're not designed for healthcare, they're not HIPAA compliant by default, and they don't integrate with EHRs. They can't access patient data securely. And they certainly can't deploy into production clinical workflows without extensive additional work.
Cline is different because it's EHR-native from the ground up. When doctors in Cohort #1 build something, they're building inside a secure, compliant healthcare environment. Their apps and agents have direct access to patient data, clinical workflows, and medical records because they're part of the EHR infrastructure, not external tools trying to integrate with it. What they build today can be used in production tomorrow.
Join the Vibe
Cohort #1 is just the beginning. We're proving that doctors don't need to be software engineers to build the technology they need. They don't need venture capital to fund development teams. They don't need to wait years for vendors to maybe add the features they're asking for.
They just need the right tools and the willingness to imagine something better. These five doctors have both. Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing their progress, their challenges, their breakthroughs, and the solutions they create. Follow along as they build the future of medicine, one custom app at a time. Because the best person to design healthcare technology isn't a product manager, designer, or engineer who's never seen a patient. It's a doctor who lives with these problems every single day