How to build an AI-Native Health Company — Dan Feng, Maven Clinic
Aug 19, 2026 · 17:19
Dan Feng of Maven Clinic says becoming AI-native means rewiring hiring, planning, code review, and reliability, not just adding tools. Maven hires engineers who solve ambiguous problems independently, keeps a one-year vision only directional, commits to two-to-four-week sprints, and treats three-to-six-month plans as unplannable because models change too fast. Engineers now write thousands of lines daily, so PRs are capped at 500 lines, engineers can self-certify simple changes but stay accountable, and rubber-stamp approvals are false confidence. Reliability is tiered: a scheduling failure one out of 1,000 times is tolerable because users retry, but reimbursement claims require multiple models to agree on the same receipt and integration tests to pass repeatedly.
