Introduction
Corti is a Copenhagen-based healthcare AI company founded in 2016 by Andreas Cleve and Lars Maaløe. Cleve serves as chief executive officer and co-founder, a role he holds in Corti’s February 2026 Agentic Framework launch announcement and across the company’s newsroom materials. Corti builds specialized AI for clinical and administrative healthcare applications — foundation models, speech recognition, ambient documentation, and agentic orchestration — deployed through EHR vendors, virtual care platforms, and life-sciences partners.
Corti states its platform serves more than one hundred million patients annually across health systems including the NHS, positioning it among the higher-scale clinical AI infrastructure vendors in Europe and the United States. Buyers rarely encounter Corti branding directly; they encounter it embedded inside partner products that white-label speech and agent capabilities.
What the company does
Corti develops healthcare-specific AI models and APIs rather than adapting general-purpose large language models. Its Symphony speech-to-text product targets clinical-grade transcription across multilingual environments; Corti Assistant provides ambient documentation and real-time clinical feedback. The February 2026 Corti Agentic Framework adds production-grade multi-agent execution with deterministic guardrails, end-to-end audit trails, and pre-execution validation designed to prevent error cascades in clinical agent deployments.
Corti’s Agent Library ships pre-built clinical agents — documentation, triage support, coding assistance — that partners configure within guardrail templates rather than prompting raw LLMs per deployment. Cleve has framed this as reducing the integration burden for EHR vendors that cannot staff in-house clinical AI safety teams at NHS or large U.S. health-system scale.
Who it serves
Corti sells to healthcare software vendors embedding AI into their products — EHR companies, virtual care platforms, practice management systems — rather than marketing directly to every hospital. This B2B2C model lets Corti reach NHS-scale deployments through platform partners while maintaining a specialized healthcare training corpus drawn from more than one hundred million patient interactions cited in company materials. Life-sciences organizations also use Corti APIs for documentation and workflow automation.
European health services procurement teams increasingly require ISO-aligned AI management evidence — Corti’s governance communications address buyers who cannot accept vendor hand-waving on audit trails when agents touch clinical records.
Company background
Cleve and Maaløe founded Corti in 2016, initially focusing on emergency medicine and high-acuity care settings where documentation quality and speed affect outcomes. The company expanded to Copenhagen, New York, and London offices while raising venture funding referenced in its newsroom boilerplate. Cleve has advocated for vertically integrated, sovereign healthcare AI infrastructure — including European deployments requiring strict data residency — rather than wrapping third-party cloud models without clinical governance.
Corti’s early emergency-medicine training corpus shaped models that handle noisy audio and high-stakes triage language — a harder starting point than elective clinic transcription, but one that produced robust speech models when deployed to broader workflows.
Product and AI capabilities
Corti’s Agentic Framework validates every agent action before execution using deterministic guardrails at the orchestration layer, maintaining audit trails required for regulated production deployment. Cleve summarized the design philosophy in Corti’s launch release: healthcare needs safer autonomy, not merely smarter agents. Separately, Symphony for Speech-to-text addresses a foundational input problem — if clinical speech is misrecognized, downstream agents fail — by training on healthcare-specific audio across multilingual clinical settings.
Partners embedding Corti APIs typically white-label Assistant and Symphony capabilities inside existing clinician workflows — a distribution model that scales reach without Corti operating a direct-to-hospital sales force in every market.
Key developments
2016: Corti founded in Copenhagen by Andreas Cleve and Lars Maaløe. February 3, 2026: Corti Agentic Framework and Agent Library launched (official newsroom). 2025: Corti reported ISO 42001 alignment for AI management systems in company governance communications.
Symphony speech-to-text and Assistant product lines continued shipping alongside the Agentic Framework — Corti’s 2026 roadmap treats speech, documentation, and governed agents as one vertically integrated stack rather than disconnected SKUs.
Why it matters
Corti matters because 2026 healthcare AI discourse shifted from demo quality to deployability — and deployability requires governance infrastructure most vendors lack. Cleve’s Agentic Framework is an explicit product response to safety spirals that block hospital agent rollouts. Corti also parallels ambient documentation vendors such as Suki AI but differentiates through platform APIs and agent orchestration sold to software vendors rather than direct health-system SaaS alone.
Software vendors embedding Corti should document agent action boundaries in their own risk registers — platform guardrails do not remove the integrator’s responsibility for clinical workflow design.
Sector context
Corti belongs in Brel’s AI in healthcare coverage under digital health infrastructure and clinical AI governance, related to ambient documentation and health-system AI agent strategies exemplified by partners like K Health. Buyers embedding third-party AI should verify whether vendors offer auditable agent guardrails or only model accuracy benchmarks.
EU AI Act and ISO 42001 alignment increasingly appear in hospital RFP language — infrastructure vendors like Corti market compliance readiness as a deployment accelerator versus general LLM wrappers.
Sources and references
Corti Agentic Framework newsroom release (February 3, 2026) and About page.
- Corti — Agentic Framework launch (corti.ai, February 3, 2026)
- Corti — About (corti.ai)
Reviewed July 10, 2026. Andreas Cleve is CEO and co-founder.