AI for insurance verification & billing at dental clinics
We’re Toothy.ai. We’re building AI agents for dental practices that handle everything related to patient insurance. The average dental clinic spends over 160 hours a month on insurance tasks like verifying patient policies, billing, and claims processing. Our AI agents automate this entire workflow—including making insurance calls with voice AI—saving clinics time, reducing costs, and ensuring faster reimbursements.
Active Founders
Johnny Chen, Founder
2nd time founder now automating back office functions for dental clinics. Built one of the first AI B2B cold email solutions (backed by SoftBank) to $1m in ARR using GPT-J. Background in full stack engineering, operations management, and B2B marketing. Previously worked at Ford Motor’s R&D lab as a software engineer.
Matt Kerrigan, Founder
2nd time technical founder at Toothy AI, where I'm working on automating back office operations for dental clinics. First journey ended in Salezilla, a LLM-based cold email campaign tool that launched before ChatGPT, it is still operating today. Before that I was in a ML role at a startup that was acquired by Nordstrom.
Jobs at Toothy AI
San Francisco, CA, US / Chicago, IL, US / Remote (US)
$100K - $200K
0.50% - 2.00%
3+ years
Founded:2024
Batch:Winter 2025
Team Size:7
Status:Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Jared Friedman
Company Launches
🦷 Toothy.ai: Automating insurance verification & claims for dental clinics
See original launch postTl;dr
- Toothy.ai is building HIPAA-compliant AI agents that automate all the back office functions in a dental practice. Our first two agents automate the entire revenue cycle, so dental practices can sit back and watch the insurance payments roll in 😎
- Our AI handles everything from insurance verification, claim creation, claim submission, denial correction, claim resubmission, and payment posting.
- We're already seeing early customers cutting their back office teams by 50-75% within weeks of implementing Toothy.
Launch video
❌ The problem
- Dental practices waste 800 million hours and $13.2 billion per year on time-consuming and repetitive back-office tasks. On top of that, dental practices are facing an unprecedented labor shortage and 90% of them find it extremely or very challenging to fill vacant positions.
- The largest, most time-consuming, and error-prone part of a dental practice’s back office is revenue cycle management (RCM)—the process of getting paid. 80% of dental practices face financial concerns due to RCM challenges. Tasks like insurance verification, claim submission, and payment posting are labor-intensive and prone to errors. Frequent policy changes make it difficult to verify coverage, leading to billing discrepancies and delayed payments.
✅ The solution
- Toothy’s AI agents automate the entire RCM process, saving practices 160+ hours per month and increasing revenue by 5-10%. Our AI agents handle everything from insurance verification to payment posting, eliminating the largest source of administrative burden.
- How do our agents work?
- ☎️ Verify Insurance – Calls payers and check online portals to confirm coverage.
- 📝 Input data - Fills out and uploads a comprehensive breakdown form with 50+ codes into your practice management system.
- 📬 Create and submit claims - Accesses imaging software, clinical remarks, and plan details to create & submit comprehensive claims.
- 🛠️ Correct denials - Understands denial reasons, updates the claim, and resubmits to payers. Can even draft appeal letters.
- 💰 Payment posting - Collects, scans, and deposits insurance checks into your bank account.
- Toothy becomes your full-time RCM team, reducing staff workload and ensuring faster, higher reimbursements.
🙏 Our Ask
- Toothy is already working with dozens of forward-thinking dental practices who never want to deal with insurance again. If that sounds like you, we'd love to talk:
- For other inquiries, please email founders@toothy.ai