What Aire Innovate does

Aire Innovate Limited is a UK-based digital health technology company that builds and licenses the AireBlocks platform, a low-code/no-code digital health platform designed to fill workflow gaps inside existing NHS Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems rather than replace them. The platform is composed of four modular foundation blocks: AireForms (digital forms, including an AI-powered document-to-form conversion capability launched February 2026), AireFrame (electronic health records), AireGlu (integration and interoperability engine), and AireFlow (workflow management), alongside security and management tooling marketed under the AireSuite umbrella. Domain-specific modules extend the platform into medication optimisation (AireMOS), mental health referral management (AireBridge), and configurable clinical pathway solutions such as pre-operative assessment, PROMs, health needs assessments, and discharge-to-assess. The product is hosted on AWS eu-west-2 (London) in multiple availability zones, holds DCB 0129/0160 clinical safety certifications, DSPT 'Standards Exceeded', Cyber Essentials Plus, and ISO 14001.

Aire Innovate serves NHS trusts, integrated care boards and systems, community health providers, mental health providers, and UK local authorities. Named customers include Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (processing approximately 40 million AireForms submissions per year), Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (140,000+ monthly submissions), Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Northpoint, NHS England Genomic Medicine Service, Greater Manchester ICB, and councils including Leeds, Birmingham, and Oldham. Co-development partnerships with The Lancaster Model and Cogniss extend the platform's reach into community public health nursing and neighbourhood health pathway digitisation.

The company operates an enterprise-direct go-to-market with annual subscription licensing, custom-quoted enterprise contracts, and sales cycles aligned to NHS procurement frameworks. Distribution is enabled through the NHS Shared Business Services Framework listing held by sister company Aire Logic Limited, which also provides implementation consultancy and professional services. Aire Innovate is privately held and employee-owned, reporting it is not part of any group, with Aire Logic operating as a separate but related consultancy entity sharing a Leeds headquarters and a combined specialist workforce of 253 people across UK and USA offices.

Name

Aire Innovate

Legal name

Aire Innovate Limited

Website

https://aireinnovate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Aire Innovate is a UK-based digital health company that builds the AireBlocks low-code platform, providing modular digital forms, EHR, workflow, and integration tools that fill workflow gaps inside NHS EPR systems for trusts, ICBs, and local councils.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health Platform Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Clinical Documentation, eForms & Consent (telehealth workflow) (HLALAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interoperability Standards, Profiles & Implementation (HL7/FHIR/IHE) (HLACABAA)

Keywords

• Digital health platform
• Healthcare interoperability software
• Clinical workflow automation
• Electronic patient forms
• NHS digital transformation

Headquarters

HQ city

Leeds

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. AireBlocks Platform Licensing: The core AireBlocks digital health platform is licensed to NHS trusts, ICSs, and healthcare providers. Customers deploy individual or bundled platform blocks (forms, EHR, workflow, integration) either separately or together. The modular architecture allows organisations to start with one pathway and expand organisation-wide, implying a land-and-expand subscription model with contract values scaling with scope and deployment breadth.
2. Professional Services and Consulting: Sister company Aire Logic provides consultancy services alongside the Aire Innovate platform, including implementation, configuration, and system integration. The Modern Slavery Statement references 'Aire Innovate Limited as well as in conjunction with key partner organisations' for service delivery, indicating a blended model of direct product delivery and consulting-adjacent professional services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Aire Innovate sells the AireBlocks digital health platform, a modular, low-code/no-code system built on AWS that enables NHS trusts, integrated care systems and local government organisations to digitise paper-based forms, build or enhance electronic health records, automate clinical/administrative workflows, and integrate legacy and modern systems. Customers can license the four foundation blocks (AireForms, AireFrame, AireGlu, AireFlow) separately or bundled, alongside security tooling and a portfolio of pre-configured clinical pathway solutions (pre-operative assessment, PROMs, health needs assessment, digital front door, controlled drugs register, virtual consultation, referral/triage/case management, discharge to assess, situational reporting, online booking, AireMOS medication optimisation, and AireBridge mental health referrals).

Product overview

Aire Innovate offers a platform-plus-modules product architecture built around AireBlocks, its modern digital health platform. AireBlocks comprises four foundation blocks — AireForms (digital forms), AireFrame (electronic health records), AireGlu (integration and interoperability engine), and AireFlow (workflow management) — that can be used separately or together. These are complemented by security and management tools (Application Testing, Secure Access, Audit Logging) within the AireSuite umbrella, which also incorporates legacy product names (forms4health, AireConsult). Above the platform layer, Aire Innovate provides a portfolio of configurable solution products addressing specific clinical and operational pathways: Pre-operative Assessment, PROMs/ePROMs, Health Needs Assessment, Referral/Triage/Case Management, Controlled Drugs Register, Virtual Consultation, Digital Front Door, Discharge to Assess, Situational Reporting, and Online Booking. Additional modules include AireMOS (Medication Optimisation), AireBridge (mental health referral management), and the AireForms AI Assistant. All products share a common low-code architecture, are hosted on UK-based AWS infrastructure, and are designed for rapid deployment in weeks rather than years.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AireBlocks: Modern digital health platform featuring modular blocks designed to enhance existing systems and address system pain points.
• AireSuite
• AireForms
• AireFlow
• AireGlu
• AireFrame
• AireBridge
• AireMOS

Products and services

• AireBlocks Digital Health Platform Modular, low-code digital health platform comprising four foundation blocks (AireForms digital forms, AireFrame EHR, AireGlu integration engine, AireFlow workflow management) plus security/management tooling, hosted on AWS eu-west-2. Sold separately or bundled to NHS trusts, ICSs and local government.
• AireForms (Digital Forms) Low-code digital form builder that digitises and customises paper-based forms, supporting skip logic, photo capture, multi-language support, clinical scoring algorithms and integration with EHR/EPR/PDS systems. Deployed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Portsmouth Hospitals and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
• AireFrame (Electronic Health Record) Electronic health record block that allows organisations to build or enhance their EHR to meet changing clinical and operational needs, integrating with Meditech EPR and other systems. Used to deliver custom digital PROMs, clinical records and patient-facing forms.
• AireGlu (Integration Engine) Integration and interoperability engine that connects legacy and modern systems and applications across the NHS estate, enabling data sharing while maintaining security and control. Used to feed data into EPRs and connect clinical systems using NHS interoperability standards.
• AireFlow (Workflow Management System) Workflow management system that streamlines and automates clinical and administrative processes including referral triage, case management and appointment scheduling, with routing, automated communications and RAG-status prioritisation across multidisciplinary teams.
• AireMOS (Medication Optimisation System) Digital medication ordering and optimisation system providing patients with 24/7 online access to request prescriptions, with proxy access for caregivers. Reduces medicines waste, integrates with GP clinical systems and is NHS login enabled.
• AireBridge (Mental Health Referral Solution) Digital Single Point of Contact (SPoC) solution for mental health referral management featuring redesigned self-referral and parent/carer forms, integrated triage checks, streamlined consent visibility and automated patient communications.
• Pre-operative Assessment Solution Configurable clinical pathway solution that enables NHS trusts to digitise pre-operative assessment, improving patient experience, process efficiency and clinical quality. Available via the AireBlocks platform with integration into in-house EPRs such as PPM+ and Minestrone.
• Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs / ePROMs) Digital solution for collecting patient-reported outcome measures integrated into EPR systems. Used by Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust to collect CHAQ assessments via SMS, lifting patient response rates from 32% to 70%.
• Health Needs Assessment Digital universal health needs assessments for children, young people and communities, delivered jointly with The Lancaster Model. Used by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (50,000 children annually) and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (~300,000 children across 600 schools) to triage safeguarding and health needs with instant RAG-status alerts.
• Referral, Triage and Case Management Digital referral, triage and case management solution that automates routing, streamlines workflows and reduces administrative burden. At Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust it cut waiting times from 12 weeks to zero and automated ~50% of administration.
• Controlled Drugs Register Digital solution for managing controlled drugs registers, supporting compliance and audit requirements in hospital and community care settings.
• Virtual Consultation and Observation Solution supporting virtual consultations and remote patient observation, enabling health and care organisations to deliver care at a distance while maintaining clinical data flow into EPR systems.
• Digital Front Door Secure, low-code digital portal enabling appointment management, pathway navigation and patient interaction. Reduces inbound calls and administrative workload while improving patient access; available via the NHS SBS framework listing.
• Discharge to Assess (D2A) Digital Discharge to Assess solution integrating with Azure Active Directory, Northern Care Alliance's Patient Administration System (PAS) and Oldham's Azure environment, enabling multi-organisation MDT collaboration across health and care boundaries.
• Situational Reporting Real-time response and reporting tool for Integrated Care Systems, capturing staff availability, PPE stock levels and service OPEL status across hospitals, community care, mental health trusts, GP practices, dental, pharmacy and care homes.
• Online Booking System Configurable online booking platform for managing appointment slots, queues and cancellations. Deployed at Birmingham City Council's Household Recycling Centres and extended to Residential Van Booking with real-time availability and cancellations.
• AireForms AI Assistant AI-powered document-understanding assistant within AireForms that converts paper photographs, Word, PDF, image and spreadsheet NHS documents into fully functional digital forms in seconds. Analyses content, structure and context to automatically generate a complete digital form with fields and logic applied; subsequent customisation includes photo capture, auto-populating demographics, clinical scoring algorithms, multi-language support and EPR/PDS integration.

Quantifiable outcome

• Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust reduced referral waiting times from 12 weeks to zero
• +13 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CognisscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership formed following NHS Kent & Medway ICB-led work to accelerate neighbourhood health delivery. Joint initiative 'Digitise Your Pathway in a Day' enables patients, communities, and frontline services to co-design and digitise care pathways in a single day. Combines Cogniss' patient engagement technology with Aire Innovate's workflow automation and interoperability platform. The partnership targets Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INTs) and is designed to place citizens at the centre of pathway design through a hackathon model.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS partnership explicitly displayed in navigation and confirmed in the patient privacy policy: 'All of our data processing takes place within Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the eu-west-2 region (London) in multiple availability zones.' AWS EKS/RDS Delivery Partner logo is displayed, indicating a formal partner relationship for cloud-native healthcare platform delivery.
• NHS Shared Business Services (SBS)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSister company Aire Logic is listed on the NHS SBS Patient/Citizen Communication, Engagement and Hybrid Mail Solutions Framework, enabling public sector organisations to procure Aire Innovate's communication and engagement solutions through a compliant, streamlined procurement route. Solutions listed include Digital Front Door, Automated Appointment Communications, Digital-First Correspondence, and Low-Code Workflow & Engagement Solutions.
• Lancaster Model (TLM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Lancaster Model (TLM) is a structured approach to school nursing service transformation combined with a digital solution. TLM and Aire Innovate jointly deliver the digital Health Needs Assessment platform used by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (50,000 children annually) and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (~300,000 children across 600 schools). CEO Kath Lancaster (Registered Nurse & Specialist Community Public Health Nurse) provides clinical transformation expertise alongside the Aire Innovate technology platform.
• SME Consortium (AUG Data, Bluesmith, Burendo, Digital Detox, Hive IT, Think Tribal, UX Connections)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAire Innovate works with a consortium of SMEs who share its values, providing unrivalled expertise across healthtech. The consortium includes AUG Data, Bluesmith, Burendo, Digital Detox, Hive IT, Think Tribal, and UX Connections. Partners are audited against recognised approaches including SMETA and B-Corp standards and share the same ethos supporting community-led initiatives.
• Kent Community Health NHS Foundation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust partnered with The Lancaster Model and Aire Innovate to develop a digital Health Needs Assessment covering ~300,000 children across 600 schools. Implementation ran over a three-year period with co-development of the 'Whole School Approach' during COVID. Trust employees provided product feedback that shaped the solution's evolution.
• Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDerbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Derby City School Nursing Team partnered with TLM and Aire Innovate to transform from a safeguarding-focused service to proactive, needs-based care for 50,000 children. The trust's clinical lead (Susie Scales) was involved in co-design, and the solution aggregates public health data for commissioners and schools.
• Code Your FutureminorOthersAire Innovate supports refugees and people from disadvantaged backgrounds to build a career in software development by partnering with Code Your Future, a coding bootcamp and support network for underrepresented groups in tech.
• Digital Access West YorkshireminorOthersAire Innovate refurbishes and distributes devices to children and their families through Digital Access West Yorkshire, addressing digital inequalities and the digital divide in the local community.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• System C Healthcare: System C (part of NEC Software Solutions) provides digital health platforms and EPR-adjacent solutions across UK NHS trusts, including patient administration, electronic patient record, and workflow tools. Directly comparable to Aire Innovate as an NHS-specialist vendor selling modular, EPR-enhancing software into the same trust buyer base.
• Nervecentre Software: Nervecentre provides an EPR and patient-flow platform used extensively in NHS acute trusts, with mobile clinical workflows and eForms-style capabilities. Comparable as a UK-headquartered, NHS-focused vendor competing for the same 'last mile' digital workflow budget alongside incumbent EPRs.
• Black Pear Software: Black Pear builds modular, interoperable clinical applications integrated with UK primary-care and EPR systems, with strong emphasis on FHIR/HL7 standards and form/workflow tools for clinicians. Highly comparable to Aire Innovate's AireForms/AireGlu stack in its low-code, NHS-only positioning.

Broad incumbents

• InterSystems: InterSystems supplies the HealthShare interoperability platform and TrakCare EPR widely used across the NHS. Comparable as a broader incumbent providing the integration engine tier (similar to AireGlu) and EPR functionality that Aire Innovate's modules complement or substitute for.
• Orion Health: Orion Health sells an interoperability and population-health platform used in UK and international health systems. Comparable to Aire Innovate's AireGlu integration engine and data-sharing capabilities, but as a larger, broader incumbent rather than a niche specialist.
• MEDITECH: MEDITECH is an established EPR vendor with significant NHS trust deployments (e.g., Alder Hey, referenced in Aire Innovate's customer list). Aire Innovate explicitly integrates with MEDITECH EPR via AireGlu and AireFrame, positioning as a complementary workflow layer on top of a MEDITECH foundation.
• TPP (The Phoenix Partnership): TPP's SystmOne is one of the dominant primary-care and shared-care EPRs in the NHS. Relevant as a broad incumbent whose footprint Aire Innovate's primary-care-adjacent modules (e.g., AireMOS for GP prescription management) integrate with and partially displace.
• Civica: Civica provides software across UK local government and health, including workflow and case-management tools. Comparable to Aire Innovate's UK local government and Discharge to Assess solutions, and as a broader incumbent selling modular workflow software into the same public-sector buyers.

Emerging players

• Cogniss: Cogniss is a no-code patient-engagement and care-pathway platform that is already a strategic co-development partner of Aire Innovate. Comparable as a partner/adjacent player in the no-code NHS pathway digitisation space that Aire Innovate itself targets.
• Patients Know Best: Patients Know Best provides a personal health record and digital front-door platform adopted by multiple NHS trusts. Comparable to Aire Innovate's Digital Front Door and patient-facing solutions, sharing an NHS-only B2B GTM motion and similar target buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks1 record

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance6 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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