Our story

Most of what happens to your health happens when no one's looking.

From our founder

Why I started Welby

I spent years inside the big payers, Blue Cross, Aetna, and CVS. The whole system is built around the 12-minute office visit and almost nothing for what happens after the patient goes home. You can get a car to your door in an hour, but you still can't reach your own doctor without a phone call and a fax.

That gap isn't abstract for me. This past year I watched my mom go through cancer. My dad was with her the whole way, about as capable and dedicated as they come, and he could still barely keep up with her medications and the coordination between every appointment. If it was that hard for our family, I know what it looks like for the ones without someone like him.

The space between visits is where outcomes actually get decided, and it's the part nobody is built to own. So we built Welby to own it. Your patients stay yours. We run the care between the visits, so the things that used to fall through the cracks don't.

We're not here to bill another code. We're here to change what care looks like after the visit ends.

Seth Merritt
Founder and CEO, Welby

What we built

Welby is the clinical team and the technology that owns the care between visits. We run the whole thing end to end. Nurses, care coordination, remote monitoring, the social stuff that gets in the way of getting better, behavioral health support. It's funded through Medicare and payer reimbursement, so it never shows up as a new bill on the practice.

We're a partner, not a vendor. You own the relationship. We own the care between visits. No new workflow, no new budget, not a minute of your physicians' time. And we only get paid when it works.

How I built the team

The hardest part was never the market. It was learning to stop doing everything myself. These days my job comes down to three things: people, culture, and numbers.

We build everything in-house. The nurses, the medical assistants, the care coordinators, the technology, the outreach, the billing. I've been burned enough by outsourced promises to know the work only holds up when it belongs to us. The AI agents we've built handle a lot of the reaching out, but they never make a clinical call. That always goes to a licensed human, every time.

We run on ten values we call the Care Plan, and one sets the tone for the rest: effort is assumed, what matters is impact.

Our care philosophy

We're a clinical company. The technology serves the care.

Physicians are overwhelmed, and a fifteen-minute visit a couple of times a year was never built to carry everything we ask of it. It doesn't move the needle the way it needs to, or the way it used to.

So our job is simple to say and hard to do. Help people get the care they actually need to live healthier lives, and leave the system a little better than we found it. We use technology where it genuinely helps and stay out of the way where it doesn't. And we build every role so people practice at the top of their license instead of drowning in the work beneath it. The medical assistant, the nurse, the physician, each doing what only they can do.

That's the line between a clinical partner and a logistics vendor. We started with the care.

How we operate

The Care Plan

We run the company on ten values we call the Care Plan. It's how we show up for each other, and how we partner with the people who trust us with their patients.

01Every Patient, Every Day
02One Team
03Grow Together
04Never Settle
05Move With Purpose
06Work Smarter
07Metrics Matter
08Own the Outcome
09Empathy in Action
10Balance the Hustle
Effort is assumed. What matters is impact.