about iatroX

Founder

Why iatroX exists

Before medicine, I built and scaled digital products to millions of users — learning how to ship fast, iterate with discipline, and think in systems. That engineering foundation sits behind every part of iatroX today.

I have dyspraxia and dyslexia. For most of my education that meant fighting the system rather than using it — information scattered across dozens of tabs, dense guideline documents that punish non-linear readers, and search interfaces that return noise when you need signal. Every unnecessary retrieval step burns cognitive power that could be spent on clinical reasoning, pattern recognition, or simply being present with a patient. That cost isn't abstract to me; I feel it every working day.

Qualifying at King's College London and completing GP training in London, I saw that this isn't just a neurodivergent problem — it's a universal one. Cognitive overload at the point of care affects every clinician: the time pressure, the knowledge fragmentation, the friction of searching five different sources to confirm a single prescribing decision. The research in cognitive science and information retrieval is clear — working memory is finite, and every avoidable retrieval step degrades the quality of the decisions that follow. Yet most clinical tools are still built as if attention were unlimited.

iatroX is the tool I needed to exist: a single, regulated platform that eliminates retrieval friction, surfaces authoritative guidance in seconds, and helps clinicians and students retain what they learn — grounded in cognitive science rather than intuition. If it preserves even a fraction of the cognitive power that clinicians currently waste on searching, navigating, and re-finding — it will have been worth building.

What iatroX is

iatroX is a UKCA-marked, MHRA-registered Class I medical device. It brings together four capabilities in one platform: an AI clinical reference tool grounded in UK guidelines and international sources, an adaptive examination engine covering UK, US, Canadian and Australian boards and specialist diplomas, a Socratic Tutor that turns missed questions into guided reasoning sessions, and integrated CPD tracking for UK clinicians.

The learning engine is built on peer-reviewed methods: active recall, spaced repetition, and adaptive sequencing. These are not buzzwords — they are the learning mechanisms with the strongest evidence base for long-term retention, and iatroX applies them automatically so clinicians and students don't just find information, they retain it.

Whether you are a GP, a specialist trainee preparing for a diploma, an international medical graduate adapting to a new system, or a pharmacy student sitting the GPhC CRA — iatroX is designed to close the gap between knowledge and action.

How iatroX teaches

The Socratic Tutor extends the same cognitive-load philosophy into exam preparation. Instead of giving students yet another passive explanation, it asks them to retrieve, reason, and articulate their thinking first — then identifies the misconception and teaches from the validated sources for that exam.

This matters because exam performance is not simply about recognising an explanation when you see it. It is about retrieving the right concept under pressure, applying it to a clinical stem, and correcting the reasoning pattern that produced the wrong answer. iatroX combines active recall, spaced repetition, adaptive sequencing and Socratic questioning so a missed question becomes a durable learning event.

Where iatroX is going

The goal is broad adoption across healthcare systems worldwide — to make evidence-based guidance second nature at the point of care rather than a time-consuming barrier. The roadmap extends from UK specialist diplomas and the GPhC pharmacy vertical into deeper clinical reference, CPD, and institutional deployments for NHS Trusts, deaneries and medical schools.