About vitalvoice.ai
Built by someone who lived the problem.
A healthcare provider and an engineer, building with first responders instead of for them. Every feature in vitalvoice.ai exists because someone in the field asked for it.
How it started
It was 3 PM on a Tuesday. An elderly woman sat in front of Kory, clutching her chest, eyes wide with fear. She spoke only Mandarin. He spoke none.
He dialed the interpreter line. Four minutes of hold music while she watched him wait. When the interpreter finally connected: background noise, static, "can you repeat that?" — twice.
“I watched her trust evaporate. And I knew I had to fix this.”
Kory brought the domain expertise. Ishan brought years of building real-time, low-latency AI systems. They built the first version, showed it to firefighters, and listened: can it work offline? Can it auto-detect language? Can it write the chart? So they rebuilt it from scratch. That's not a marketing line — it's how the product was made.
The People
Two founders, one mission
Kory Kindle
CEO & Co-founder
DPT, Doctor of Physical Therapy
A healthcare provider who lived the problem. After years of watching patients fall through the cracks of phone interpreters and end-of-shift charting, Kory decided to build the tool he needed — and found the engineer who could.
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Ishan Ahuja
CTO & Co-founder
Real-time streaming & AI infrastructure
Before vitalvoice.ai, Ishan built low-latency livestreaming infrastructure at scale. He built the first version of vitalvoice.ai, took it to firefighters, and then rebuilt it around what they actually asked for: offline, auto-detect, and charts in each department's exact template.
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Guided by people who've run the calls
Eric Tade
Fire & EMS Operations Advisor
Assistant Chief & former Chief, Denver Fire Department
Chief Tade keeps vitalvoice.ai honest about what crews actually need on a call. He works directly with the agencies running our pilots — shaping implementation, training, and what we build next.
Dr. Gregory Gilbert
EMS Medical Advisor
EMS Medical Director, San Mateo County · Board-Certified in EMS & Emergency Medicine
Dr. Gilbert pressure-tests vitalvoice.ai against the realities of EMS — field workflows, documentation requirements, and patient care — so it fits the way crews already work.
Traction
Word spread fast
Colorado takes notice
Adams County Fire Rescue and Brighton Fire Rescue become the first pilot partners — putting vitalvoice.ai in the hands of real crews on real calls.
California calls
Fairfield Fire Department joins — proof the need isn't regional.
Colorado goes all-in
Word travels between departments. Four more Colorado agencies put vitalvoice.ai on their rigs.
California grows
South San Joaquin (Tracy Fire) joins Fairfield — one crew telling the next.