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.
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Kory spent years working in acute healthcare and saw how much time providers spent documenting patient encounters. Friends in Fire & EMS were facing the same problem, often relying on generic dictation tools, non-HIPAA-compliant workarounds, or documentation technology never designed for the field.
And every department documents differently.
A BLS transport doesn’t read like an ALS call. An ALS call doesn’t read like a fire investigation. Each department has its own templates, terminology, QA requirements, and expectations for how the story of a call should be documented.
That became the foundation for vitalvoice.
Instead of building another generic transcription tool, we built around the narratives Fire & EMS crews actually need to complete.
“We didn’t want to give first responders another generic tool. We wanted to build documentation specifically around the way they work.”
We continue to ride along, spend time in stations, review narratives with crews, and listen to what departments need.
Built with intention. Built for Fire & EMS documentation.
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.