Tell

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Tell Health operates an AI-powered health expertise platform connecting U.S. consumers with verified physicians via a HIPAA-compliant social app and paid small-group live Q&A webinars, while licensing de-identified medical Q&A datasets to healthcare organizations for AI training and patient education.

Company typePrivate
Founded2023
HeadquartersChicago, United States
Headcount11–50
GTM typeB2C
OfferingSoftware

What Tell does

Tell Health, Inc. operates an AI-powered health expertise platform that connects general consumers with verified physicians from leading U.S. academic institutions. The platform is anchored by the Tell Social Media App (iOS, Android, and web at app.tell.health), where licensed physicians post health content and engage with patients through HIPAA-compliant secure messaging. A credential verification system gates physician participation, and a medical advisory board drawn from Columbia University Medical Center, Northwestern Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Rush Medical Center, and Stanford provides clinical oversight. The core monetization product is a Live Q&A Webinar offering: small-group, 45-minute interactive sessions capped at 20 seats and priced at $100 per session (with limited-time promotional pricing at $25 and select free sessions). Tell also packages its captured Q&A content as de-identified, rights-cleared datasets licensed to healthcare organizations for patient education and AI development.

Underlying technology combines a verified-physician content graph with OpenAI's GPT integration, enabling physicians to simplify medical jargon, generate hashtags, and create AI images for consumer-facing posts. The business model is a freemium consumer app with paid webinar sessions as the primary revenue stream, augmented by an emerging B2B data licensing line. The company is incorporated in the United States, headquartered in Chicago, IL, and operates exclusively in the U.S. market. Co-founders are Dr. Alan Gaffney, MD (Chief Medical Officer, former Associate Medical Director of the Cardiothoracic ICU at Columbia) and Nikola Nestorov (CEO, IT engineer and IEEE Senior Member); the executive team also includes Akash Patel, MD/MBA as Chief Business Officer. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional funding rounds, suggesting it is currently bootstrapped or self-funded, and maintains compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.

Tell firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Tell
Legal name: Tell Health, Inc.
Website: https://tell.health
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2023
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 11–50 employees
Short description: Tell Health operates an AI-powered health expertise platform connecting U.S. consumers with verified physicians via a HIPAA-compliant social app and paid small-group live Q&A webinars, while licensing de-identified medical Q&A datasets to healthcare organizations for AI training and patient education.
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Tell industry classification

Industry

Product category: Healthcare Social Media Platform
NAICS: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
SIC: Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
akta.pro primary industry: Second Opinion & Expert Matching Platforms (HLALALAC)
akta.pro secondary industries: Care Team Collaboration, Secure Messaging & Clinical Communication within EHR (HLACAAAK), Patient Education, Content & Personalized Journey Orchestration (HLACAEAE), Healthcare & Wellness Personalization (HDAAAGAI)

Keywords

Health social platform
Telehealth webinars
Physician verification
Patient engagement software
Medical data licensing

Where Tell is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Chicago
HQ country: United States
HQ region: North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

Tell business model

Business model

GTM type: B2C
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

Live Webinar Sessions: Paid access to live, small-group Q&A webinars with top physicians. Standard pricing at $100 per 45-minute session with limited-time promotional pricing at $25 and free offerings for select webinars.
Free App Platform: Free app for general users and individual healthcare providers with core messaging and content features. Premium webinar access generates revenue.
Data Licensing: Tell captures live, moderated Q&A sessions with top physicians and transforms them into de-identified, rights-cleared datasets licensed to healthcare organizations for patient education and AI development.

Pricing tiers

Model	Billing	Price
Freemium	Pay-as-you-go	General User - Free access to core platform features
Freemium	Monthly	Healthcare Provider - Free professional account with verification
Unit Pricing	Pay-as-you-go	Live Webinar Session - 45-minute expert Q&A

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Tell product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Tell operates an AI-powered health expertise platform that connects general consumers with verified, credentialed physicians through a HIPAA-compliant social media app and paid live small-group Q&A webinars. The platform uses OpenAI's GPT model to help physicians simplify medical jargon, generate content, and create AI images, while transforming live Q&A sessions into de-identified datasets licensed to healthcare organizations for patient education and AI development.

Product overview

Tell® is an AI-Powered Health Expertise Hub comprising a unified platform with multiple integrated offerings: the core Tell™ Social Media App (health-focused social media with OpenAI GPT integration for verified physicians), the Tell™ Live Q&A Webinars service (small-group interactive sessions with top physicians), Tell™ for Clinicians (professional social media tools for healthcare providers), Tell™ Insights Blog (educational content on health topics), and a De-identified Medical Dataset Licensing service (data licensing for healthcare organizations and AI development). The platform connects patients and general users with verified medical experts while transforming live Q&A sessions into licensed datasets for responsible AI development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

Tell Social Media App Health-focused social media platform available on iOS, Android, and web that requires physician credential verification, features an Ivy League-affiliated medical advisory panel, and integrates OpenAI GPT to help verified physicians simplify medical jargon, generate hashtags, and create AI images for general audiences.
Tell Live Q&A Webinars Live, small-group, interactive 45-minute webinars capped at 20 participants in which consumers ask top physicians from institutions such as Columbia, Northwestern, Yale, and Rush specific health questions through real-time Q&A, upvoting, and post-session recordings; priced at $100 standard with limited-time $25 promotional and select free sessions.
Tell for Clinicians Professional social media workspace for verified healthcare providers featuring public posting, content recommendation, comment moderation for medical accuracy, audience targeting between general public and clinicians-only, and HIPAA-compliant secure messaging with patients and families, with BAA agreements available.
De-identified Medical Dataset Licensing Licensed dataset product in which Tell transforms its live, moderated Q&A sessions with top physicians into de-identified, rights-cleared datasets and licenses them to healthcare organizations for patient education programs and responsible AI development.

Quantifiable outcome

Small group sessions limited to 20 participants per webinar
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Companies that use Tell

Customer profile

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Tell technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Tell partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

OpenAIcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2023Tell integrated OpenAI's GPT model into its social media platform to help verified physicians generate engaging health content. The generative AI feature enables clinicians to simplify medical jargon and make content more accessible to general users while empowering patients with equitable access to understandable medical information.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights6 records

Tell competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

Doximity: Largest verified-physician professional network in the U.S. Tell competes for the same physician mindshare and engagement time, with Doximity's broader workflow tools and larger network representing the most direct scale competitor.
Sermo: Physician-only social network with crowdsourced medical opinions and expert access. Comparable to Tell in being a verified-clinician community, though Tell's emphasis on AI-assisted content and live expert webinars to consumers is a key differentiator.
HealthTap: Platform offering direct access to verified physicians for consumer Q&A and virtual visits. Closest functional peer to Tell's paid live expert Q&A webinars, though Tell differentiates on academic-institution physicians and AI-enhanced content.

Emerging players

Figure 1: Healthcare social platform for verified clinicians to share cases and images. Smaller and more case-focused than Tell, but overlapping in the verified-professional health social media category.
K Health: AI-driven consumer health platform combining symptom assessment with clinician access. Comparable in using AI to make medical information more accessible to consumers, with a different monetization model (insurance/clinical services).
Maven Clinic: Digital health platform providing specialty care (notably women's and family health) via expert clinicians. One of Tell's named physician affiliates (Janelle Duah, Obesity Medicine) sits in Maven's ecosystem, indicating thematic overlap in expert-led specialty health access.

Broad incumbents

Medscape: Established physician information and education platform from WebMD. Comparable to Tell as a destination for clinicians to consume content and engage professionally, though Medscope's footprint is education-led rather than consumer Q&A-led.
WebMD: Established consumer health information destination. Overlaps with Tell's patient-education mission and general consumer health-information target audience, though WebMD is content-led rather than expert-Q&A-led.
Teladoc Health: Large incumbent in telehealth with broad virtual care delivery. Overlaps with Tell on the consumer-facing expert-access use case but competes across a far wider clinical service portfolio and with substantially more capital.
Hims & Hers Health: Large direct-to-consumer digital health brand combining telehealth with consumer health content and products. Comparable to Tell on consumer-facing health engagement, with a much larger marketing and capital base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Tell compliance and trust

Trust signal

Compliance4 records

Tell financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Tell leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Tell funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Tell M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

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Frequently asked questions about Tell

What does Tell do?

Is Tell a public or private company?

Tell is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was Tell founded?

Tell was founded in 2023. It employs 11 to 50 people.

Where is Tell based?

Tell is headquartered in Chicago, United States, in the North America region.

How does Tell make money?

Three revenue lines are on record. Live Webinar Sessions are the primary driver. The others are free App Platform and data Licensing.

Who are Tell's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are Doximity, Sermo and HealthTap. Emerging players are Figure 1, K Health and Maven Clinic. Broad incumbents are Medscape, WebMD, Teladoc Health and Hims & Hers Health.

Does Tell have an API?

No public API is recorded for Tell.

What industry is Tell in?

Tell's product category is Healthcare Social Media Platform. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HLALALAC, Second Opinion & Expert Matching Platforms, with a secondary code of HLACAAAK, Care Team Collaboration, Secure Messaging & Clinical Communication within EHR. Its NAICS code is 51821 and its SIC code is 8000.