Basys AI

Basys AI (basys.ai) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based healthcare AI company building an agentic AI platform that automates prior authorization, utilization management, and clinical audits for health plans and providers. Founded in early 2022 by Amber Nigam and Jie Sun — who met in Harvard's health data science program — the company uses generative AI and interpretable machine learning to reduce the administrative burden of healthcare prior authorization, a process that delays patient care and costs the industry billions annually. The platform handles the full prior authorization lifecycle: intake, clinical review, determination, and appeals, using AI agents trained on clinical guidelines and payer policies to make instant, auditable decisions. Basys AI also addresses fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) detection and recently expanded into broader utilization management. The company has raised $2.4M in seed funding (backed by Mayo Clinic) and has 9,000+ LinkedIn followers. Its advisors include former Tufts Health Plan President James Roosevelt Jr., Oracle Chief AI Scientist Dan Roth, and senior executives from Kaiser, BCBS, and SCAN. The CEO Amber Nigam has been named a Rock Health Top 50 in Digital Health and holds a Harvard health data science degree.