Healthcare software · Dental practice revenue
10x
An AI calling and texting agent that works a dental practice's overdue recall list, books the confirmed appointment, and writes it straight into the practice's scheduling software. Y Combinator Winter 2025, live commercially in San Francisco.
The list nobody works
Every dental practice has one: a few hundred names of people who are overdue for a cleaning, or who were told they needed a filling and never came back to schedule it. The front desk means to call them. Between checking patients in, answering the phone that is already ringing, and filing insurance claims, it rarely happens.
“That list - the patients who drifted off, the treatment plans that were diagnosed but never scheduled - is where the money goes to die,” a YesPress writeup of the company put it in July 2026.
10x connects to a practice's existing patient database, identifies three kinds of missed revenue, hygiene recalls, lapsed patients, and unscheduled treatment, and then calls and texts those patients until one of two things happens: they book, or they say no. When they book, the appointment writes back into the practice management system on its own, with no manual re-entry.
The problem it is chasing
“It's 2026 and dentists STILL aren't making enough money,” the company said in its Y Combinator launch post, arguing that millions of dollars in opportunity already sit in a practice's own database and simply never turn into booked appointments.
The underlying cause, per the YesPress account, is arithmetic rather than neglect: a front desk that is already handling live calls and check-ins cannot also dial hundreds of overdue patients a day, work through each person's scheduling excuse, and log the result. Practices report that hiring and keeping front-desk staff has gotten harder, which only widens the gap. A skipped recall does not announce itself the way a broken chair does. It just shows up months later as empty slots on the calendar.
10x's answer is to treat that specific task, high volume, repetitive, and easy to script, as work for an AI rather than a person. “We build AI employees for dental practices,” Max Bohun wrote in a hiring post for the company, adding, “We're live in the largest privately owned dental group in Chicago.”
Founders
Max Bohun and Aman Madhav Garg are the company's two co-founders, and 10x is not their first attempt at this thesis. Bohun had worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant and course assistant at Cornell University, according to a February 2025 article in The American Bazaar. Garg had worked as a software and machine learning engineer and was a co-founder at a company called decodeLabs before joining Bohun.
Their LinkedIn profiles describe Bohun as Cornell class of 2025 and Garg as Cornell class of 2026, both listing 10x and its Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.
From grading papers to dental chairs
10x began as GradeWiz, an AI teaching assistant that graded student coursework and gave next-day feedback, also part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch. “9 out of 10 educators would rather lose a kidney than grade another assignment,” the company said in its GradeWiz launch post, claiming the tool had graded more than 30,000 submissions at Penn State, Cornell, Hunter, Cal Poly and Syracuse. The American Bazaar covered the launch independently in February 2025, confirming the founder names, the university list, and Garg's prior role at decodeLabs.
Within the same YC cycle, the founders wound GradeWiz down and rebuilt around a different market: dental practice revenue recovery. The thesis carried over unchanged. Take a repetitive, human-bottlenecked task and let AI do it at volume, a TA doing the work of ten becomes a front-desk caller doing the work of many. The company's name survived the pivot; the product did not.
What is proven, and what is still claimed
| Evidence | What the record shows | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Y Combinator batch | Listed as founded 2025, Winter 2025 batch, team size 3, primary partner Tom Blomfield, based in San Francisco. | YC data |
| Prior company, GradeWiz | Same founders, same YC Winter 2025 batch. Launched February 2025, reported grading more than 30,000 submissions at five named universities. Independently covered by The American Bazaar, which confirmed founder names and Garg's role at decodeLabs. | Independent reporting |
| Reported production recovered | Company says a Miami practice generates more than $30,000 a month in incremental revenue and a Los Angeles practice brought back 94 lapsed patients in one month. Neither practice is named. | Company-stated |
| Conversion rate claim | Company says human front desks convert about 3% of overdue recall lists and its AI converts about 16%, a figure it calls 5.3 times higher. No independent measurement found. | Company-stated |
| Named customers | Company says it is live in the largest and second-largest privately owned dental groups in Chicago and one of the largest in Sacramento, plus dozens more practices. None of these groups is named. | Not named |
| Integrations | Company lists direct integration with Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, Curve, Dentrix Ascend, CareStack, Denticon, iDentalSoft, Archy and Oryx, writing confirmed appointments back automatically. | Company-stated |
| HIPAA and security claim | Company says patient data is encrypted in transit and at rest and that it signs a Business Associate Agreement to support a practice's HIPAA obligations. No independent security certification, such as a SOC 2 report, was found. | Not independently verified |
| SEC filings | No Form D found on EDGAR under 10x, 10x Dental, GradeWiz, or either founder's name, as of September 24, 2026. | Public record |
Read plainly: 10x has a working product with real practice management integrations and a clear, cheap thesis. The revenue and conversion numbers, the customer names, and the security claims all come from the company itself. Nothing filed with the SEC and no named customer confirms any of it from the outside yet.
What to watch
- Whether the company names any of the dental groups it says it works with.
- A Form D or other SEC filing that would confirm capital raised under the 10x or GradeWiz name.
- Independent measurement of the 16% conversion figure, rather than the company's own reporting.
- Whether the founding engineer and go to market hires the company was recruiting for in 2026 pan out, and how fast the practice count grows past the Chicago and Sacramento groups it names.
In their words
“It's 2026 and dentists STILL aren't making enough money.”
10x, Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company release
“10x (YC W25) is a revenue engine for dental practices.”
10x, Y Combinator company page · Company release
“We build AI employees for dental practices.”
Max Bohun, co-founder and CEO, Y Combinator job posting, 2026 · Company-stated
“We're live in the largest privately owned dental group in Chicago.”
Max Bohun, co-founder and CEO, Y Combinator job posting, 2026 · Company-stated
“10x books 5.3× more of your overdue patients.”
10x, company website, accessed September 24, 2026 · Company-stated
“That list - the patients who drifted off, the treatment plans that were diagnosed but never scheduled - is where the money goes to die.”
YesPress, independent writeup, July 31, 2026 · Independent
“9 out of 10 educators would rather lose a kidney than grade another assignment.”
GradeWiz, Y Combinator launch post, February 2025 · Company release
Related companies
Sources
- YC data10x: AI Sales Teams for Dental Practices
- YC dataLaunch YC: 10x, AI sales teams for dental practices
- YC dataFounding Engineer at 10x Dental (YC W25) job posting
- YC dataGradeWiz: AI Grading for Teachers
- YC dataLaunch YC: GradeWiz, AI Teaching Assistant
- Independent10x Dental: The AI That Works the Phone Every Dental Office Forgets
- IndependentIvy League courses made easy with AI teaching assistant from GradeWiz
- IndependentGradeWiz company profile
- Independent10x startup profile
- Independent10x Dental AI Recall product listing
- Company10x Dental website
- Public recordSEC EDGAR company search, filer name containing “10x”, Form D
Profile researched and written by Healthcare Discovery. Last updated September 29, 2026.
