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OUR STORY

Nightingale &
Sentinel

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Moving healthcare from guesswork to ground truth.

Born from years of frontline experience in Emergency Medicine, Nightingale & Sentinel was created to permanently eradicate the 'Clinical Black Box'. We saw firsthand the massive emotional and financial cost of defensive, post-fall guesswork.

That frustration fueled a single, uncompromising conviction: objective evidence must be a fundamental standard in healthcare, not a luxury. Today, we are transforming passive environments into proactive safety nets—giving clinicians absolute clarity and ensuring the most critical moments of human injury are never left to chance.

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CHAPTER ONE

Our Mission

"Every adverse event deserves a witness. Every fall,
every stroke, every medical incident deserves to be
recorded with clinical precision — because evidence
saves lives."

FOUNDING PRINCIPLE

Nightingale & Sentinel was founded by frontline emergency clinicians who were tired of watching critical events go undocumented.

Too many medical decisions are driven by post-fall guesswork, leaving vulnerable patients without the vital evidence they need. By transforming passive environments into proactive safety nets, we are eliminating the 'Clinical Black Box' and ensuring no patient is ever left without a witness.

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CHAPTER TWO

The Origin

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The blueprint for Nightingale & Sentinel was engineered in 2024. While building detection models for a pioneering Generative AI course at Medical AI, the breakthrough became obvious: we could train machines to capture the critical diagnostic evidence that human eyes were consistently missing.

The foundational mantra of clinical training is "SEE ONE, DO ONE, TEACH ONE." To permanently eradicate Diagnostic Blindness, we added a necessary final step: "BUILD ONE."

We united frontline clinicians with elite AI researchers to turn this concept into reality. The result is our proprietary Medical Brain—a multi-agent AI system capable of detecting adverse events the instant they occur and translating them into objective, medical-grade clinical reports.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

COMPUTER VISION

CLINICAL AI

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CHAPTER THREE

The Journey

15 AUG. 2025

Founded

Nightingale & Sentinel was founded in Epsom, UK, by a multidisciplinary team of frontline emergency physicians and AI researchers.

20 Sep. 2025

Proof of Concept

First computer vision adverse event detection model successfully validated in controlled settings alongside a team of prehospital clinical experts.

10 Oct 2025

Innovate UK Business Growth and Surrey Business 

Secured strategic trust and support from Innovate UK Business Growth and Surrey Business, formally validating our innovative technical approach and commercial viability

30 Jan 2026

Google for Startups

Successfully vetted and accepted into the Google for Startups program, securing world-class cloud infrastructure, technical mentorship, and a powerful scaling ecosystem to accelerate our AI development.

18 Feb 2026

IP & Patent Foundation

Completed a comprehensive IP and Patent Audit with Innovate UK Business Growth, formally establishing a highly defensible IP foundation for our core technology as we prepare to enter our live commercial pilot phase.

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CHAPTER FOUR

The People

Solving 'Diagnostic Blindness' required expertise that no single discipline possessed. We realised early on that brilliant code isn't enough without frontline clinical context. That is why we assembled a rare, cross-functional powerhouse: emergency clinicians who understand the reality of trauma, engineers who teach machines to see, care operators who know the human cost of unseen falls, and researchers building an AI capable of true medical reasoning. This unique synergy is our greatest asset.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dr. Alexandru-Atila Morlocan

FOUNDER / CTO

Bridging the gap between clinical reality and advanced edge computing. Leveraging years of frontline Emergency Medicine experience to lead the engineering, architecture, and technical execution of the world's first Medical AI Virtual Witness.

Dr Dimitrios Kalogiannidis

CO-FOUNDER / CEO

Former Medical Director at Chelsea FC. Bringing elite clinical governance to the executive level to ensure our Medical AI Virtual Witness is clinically unassailable and ready for systemic healthcare adoption.

Mr Oliver Dexter-Tissington

CO-FOUNDER / DATA & OPERATIONS

Building the robust infrastructure required to scale our Edge AI and curating our proprietary 'Ground Truth' data silo—transforming unwitnessed medical events into a highly lucrative, monetizable asset class for AI training and clinical research.

Miss Lana King

FINANCIAL EXPERT

Driving our financial and commercial roadmap. Architecting the highly capital-efficient business models required to transition smoothly from advanced R&D into national commercial deployment."

Mr Carl West

HEAD OF SELLS AND MARKETING

Driving the commercial engine of Nightingale & Sentinel. Leveraging his deep expertise in market expansion to spearhead our B2B go-to-market strategy, secure high-value care partnerships, and establish our technology as the definitive standard in patient safety.

Miss Rosa Schmidt

VOICE & BRANDING EXPERT

Driving our brand strategy and corporate narrative. Ensuring every touchpoint—from investor communications to clinical rollout—speaks with the clarity, empathy, and clinical authority required to scale across the healthcare ecosystem.

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CHAPTER FIVE

Our Advisors

Our Advisory Board brings strategic guidance from every corner of the care ecosystem. With deep expertise across financial strategy, social care education, leading family advocacy, and startup scaling, they ensure our technology is not only commercially viable but profoundly impactful and trusted by providers, patients, and their families

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Mr Yosoon (Joseph) Choi

FINANCIAL STRATEGY 

ADVISOR

Driving the financial strategy behind our AI safety net. Translating our commercial ambition into sustainable growth, ensuring our transition from advanced R&D into national deployment is financially bulletproof.

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Mrs Lisa West

SOCIAL CARE & EDUCATION

ADVISOR

Decades of expertise bridging the gap between social care operations and education. Leading our approach to staff training and frontline adoption, ensuring our technology actively empowers carers and elevates safeguarding standards.

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Mrs. Jayne Connery

FAMILY SUOOPRT & ADVOCACY

ADVISOR

Championing patient dignity and family trust. Bridging the gap between technological innovation and compassionate care, ensuring our AI Virtual Witness becomes the gold standard for ethical, transparent safeguarding.

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Dr. Jay Govender

EMERGENCY & PREHOSPITAL MEDICAL ADVISOR

Bringing elite frontline authority to our AI architecture. Leveraging extensive experience in the Emergency Department and prehospital care to ensure our system delivers the exact 'ground truth' data paramedics and physicians need to make immediate, life-saving decisions.

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CHAPTER SIX

What We Believe

Patient-Centred

Every decision we make prioritises patient safety, dignity, and care
quality above all else. The people we protect are never abstract —
they are someone's parent, partner, child.

Relentless Innovation

We built something the world had never seen before. That mindset
doesn't stop at launch — we continuously push boundaries
because the standard of care demands it.

Clinical Excellence

Medical-grade isn't a marketing term for us — it's a standard we
hold ourselves to in every algorithm, every report, every
deployment. No shortcuts.

Multidisciplinary by Design

The best outcomes emerge when clinicians, engineers, and care
professionals work as equals. Our culture is built on shared
purpose, not hierarchy.

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