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25th Sep 2025

S3 | E25 | Physician-Led, AI-First: Counsel’s Vision for Accessible Care with Rishi Khakhkhar

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Rishi Kerkar, Chief Medical Officer at Counsel Health, a physician-led, AI-first platform making care faster and more accessible through messaging and automation.

We dig into how AI can expand healthcare capacity, why training AI is a lot like training medical students, and the lessons learned from building a modern, physician-led practice.

Top Talking Points

  • Counsel’s mission and the problems they’re solving in healthcare
  • The original vision for AI-powered, messaging-based care
  • How AI can shift capacity from scarcity to abundance
  • Training AI like medical students: what that means in practice
  • Lessons from the first year of building an AI-first, physician-led platform
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ThinkData Podcast
The Growth Playbook: Data & AI
The Growth Playbook brings you inside the minds of the leaders shaping Data and AI. Each episode, we sit down with some of the most interesting voices in the industry, from startup founders to seasoned execs, to hear their stories, lessons learned, and the real strategies behind growing great businesses.

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Alex Hutchings

I’m the Co-Founder of the Dataworks Group, a specialist talent partner in the world of Data and Artificial Intelligence.

I’ve spent the last 15+ years working at the heart of this space, helping some of the most exciting companies on the planet build world-class Data and AI teams.

Through our roundtables, live events, and right here on the ThinkData Podcast, my goal is simple: to bring you real insights from the fastest-growing talent market in the world.

Whether you’re building, hiring, or just curious about what’s next, you’ll hear straight from the founders and senior leaders shaping the future of work.