Most AI is built to be everything to everyone. This one is built based on one person — just for you. A primary-care doctor who spent two decades inside hospitals, startups, payors, and boardrooms, watching the same problems show up wearing different costumes, and the same handful of fixes work more often than they should. Schutzduck is where that pattern-matching lives now.
The human behind it
Andrew Schutzbank, MD, MPH. Employee #3 at Iora Health, where across a decade he designed the clinical model, built the software, saw patients, ran markets, and led technology and security. Chief Product Officer at Cricket Health through the raise and the exit to Interwell/Fresenius. Operating Partner at SCAN. Harvard Medical School faculty for over ten years.
In 2025 he built Schutzduck so the next hundred companies could get the conversation without waiting on his calendar. It's trained on his writing, his advisory work, and a corpus of anonymized executive conversations — not a chatbot wrapper. Concentrated, not limited. Narrowness is the feature.
What people actually bring it
- Help me decide my next big move.
- Pressure-test my strategy.
- Get me through this conversation.
- Help me ask for what I'm worth.
Four things people bring the Duck. All the same job: think it through with someone who won't blow smoke. You come here when ChatGPT-level breadth is the wrong tool — prepping for a board meeting, a payer pitch, an IC memo, a conversation you've rewritten four times. When you want a thinking partner that will tell you you're wrong.
"I appreciate that the Schutzduck is the only LLM that will tell you you're wrong."
— Founder & CEO · Healthcare Consumer Technology
Hard-truth therapy, plus the tactical part
One user called it "directive mild abuse." Another said it's "50% tactical, 50% therapy." Both are about right. Every other AI is trained to keep you talking. This one will tell you "that's good enough — go to bed."
