Makalu Health offers an AI‑powered recruiter and provider intelligence platform that automatically sources, enriches, and engages over 1.6 million healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Their AI assistant, AMY, runs in the background, reaching candidates via SMS, email, and voice calls, delivering real‑time availability signals and conversation transcripts so recruiting teams can fill roles faster with less manual effort.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Healthcare staffing teams spend extensive time manually searching for, contacting, and qualifying physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, leading to long time‑to‑fill metrics and inefficient use of recruiter resources.
Solution
Makalu Health provides an AI‑driven recruiter and provider intelligence platform that continuously aggregates and enriches data on over 1.6 million clinicians. The AI assistant, AMY, automatically scans multiple sourcing channels, reaches out to candidates via SMS, email, and voice calls, and captures interaction transcripts. Enriched profiles and real‑time availability signals are delivered to recruiters along with recommended next steps, allowing teams to keep pipelines warm and act only when candidates are ready. The system integrates with existing ATS/CRM and scheduling tools, giving recruiters control over outreach rules while reducing manual effort and shortening average time‑to‑fill by about 21 days.
Target Audience
Primary customers are healthcare staffing agencies and internal recruitment teams at hospitals or health systems that need to source and place physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants at scale.
Features
- Continuously updated graph of 1.6 M+ physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with enriched contact details and availability signals
- AI recruiter AMY conducts multi‑channel outreach (SMS, email, voice) using natural‑language messaging
- Automatic extraction of key candidate insights and full conversation transcripts for recruiter review
- Warm‑lead management that engages new, warm, and dormant candidates and notifies recruiters of next‑step recommendations
- Recruiter‑in‑the‑loop controls for approving messages, pausing outreach, and setting engagement rules per provider or organization
- Seamless integration with ATS/CRM, scheduling software, and communication tools to enrich talent data and streamline workflow