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In today’s edition:
💡 An idea inspired by a hospital visit
🛠 How to get started with Notion Agents
🔋 Turning a tiny repair shop into a $1.9B acquisition + more
🔍 OpenAI acquisition, Intercom raise, trillions of agents + more
🍻 An idea that’s a breath of fresh air
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🏥 AudMed.ai: Granola for Medical Care
Warding off forgetfulness
Source: The Half Baked Team
The Problem: Last week was not a fun one. I went to the Doctor on Monday with a stomach ache, and less than 24 hours later I was in surgery getting my appendix out. Funny how life goes sometimes, eh? And over those few days in hospital I spoke to a dozen different healthcare professionals, was poked and prodded countless times and lost count of all the different medicines I was given over the few days in there. Trying to keep on top of everything was pretty tricky (so much so it led to some confusion over whether I was given blood thinners or not at one stage…oops). Since this was all for a pretty straight-forward diagnosis and procedure I can only imagine how tricky this is for anyone with a complex, chronic condition. Trying to keep track of everything your Doctor says and what you need to do is a minefield. It’s time to fix that. Here's what we're thinking.
The Solution:
💡 The Idea: An ambient AI app that turns medical conversations into your personal health record.
🛠️ Product:
Open the app before any appointment or hospital interaction and it runs silently in the background, capturing everything your doctor, nurse, or specialist says in plain English - no medical jargon, no confusion.
After each visit, it generates a personal health summary: medications prescribed, dosages, follow-up instructions, and flags any potential drug interactions with your existing prescriptions.
Your entire medical history - every visit, every diagnosis, every drug - lives in one place and travels with you, so the next time a doctor asks "are you on any blood thinners?", you actually know the answer.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Try the demo | Get the demo prompt
💼 Business Model: Free tier for basic visit summaries and medication tracking. Premium at $9.99/month unlocks full history, drug interaction alerts, specialist sharing, and family accounts (think one subscription covering the whole household).
⭐ End Goal: Acquired by a health insurer (United, Aetna), a consumer health platform (Apple Health, Whoop), or a pharmacy giant (CVS, Walgreens) looking to own the patient relationship end-to-end. 8-15x revenue multiple.
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🤖 How to Get Started with Notion Agents
The Context: Notion launched Custom Agents in early 2026 and they're free to try through May 3. Instead of building complex Zapier workflows or hiring a dev, you can now create AI automations that live directly inside your workspace, trigger on database changes, and handle the repetitive ops work that eats your mornings.
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Create your first Notion database to act as your agent's data source - a Task Tracker, Investor CRM, or Content Pipeline all work great.
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🔋 Founder Fuel
🤑 Money Shot: This guy turned a tiny repair shop into a $1.9B Acquisition. Here's how.
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🔍 Founder Finds
📰 OpenAI just acquired Promptfoo to secure its AI agents.
💰 Intercom just raised $250M of debt to build the Customer Agent of the future.
🤖 Aaron Levie’s piece “Building for trillions of agents" is a must-read right now.
💰 This founder sold his SaaS for $6M after talking to 30 buyers. Here's what actually mattered in the deal.
📈 Brian Armstrong's #1 advice for pre-PMF startups, borrowed from Paul Graham's sharks metaphor, is great advice for any early stage founder.
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