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Surgical care is leaking value at scale. In cataract surgery alone – the world's most frequently performed operation, with nearly 30 million procedures annually – avoidable operating room time waste and complication-related rework cost a single mid-sized hospital over one million dollars per year, roughly 7–10% of cataract-related revenue. The root causes are structural inefficiencies across the surgical care pathway: resource-intensive training, fragmented pre-operative planning, and incomplete post-operative documentation – compounded by the fact that the surgical data needed to address them, particularly video, remains largely unstructured and unused.
SurgExplore is an AI-powered medical intelligence platform that turns surgical video and clinical data into patient- and surgeon-specific insights across the entire care pathway. It enables high-fidelity surgical simulation for training, risk-aware patient-specific pre-operative planning, and automated post-operative reporting – bringing intelligence to every stage of surgical care. As a first step toward optimizing the surgical care pathway, we begin with training, where the path to market is fastest, and the clinical need is most pressing. Today's surgical training does not scale: most simulators require expert supervision, leaving junior surgeons with limited opportunity for independent, deliberate practice. The consequences – reduced precision, lower confidence, and avoidable variability in patient outcomes – follow trainees into the operating room. SurgExplore changes this. The platform delivers realistic simulations with AI-guided, expert-level feedback, allowing surgeons to train safely, rehearse procedures, and refine their plan before they ever enter the OR. What sets it apart is its dual personalization: simulations adapt to the individual surgeon's skill level, and to each patient's specific anatomy and pathology. The result is training that is not only more accessible but also measurably more relevant to the cases surgeons will perform.
SurgExplore is designed for scalable adoption across hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and surgical training institutions – delivering measurable impact from day one. Under conservative assumptions, the platform offers hospitals a return on investment of at least five times the annual license cost, driven by more efficient operating room time management, lower training and operational costs, and a projected reduction of complications by up to 30%. These improvements translate directly into better patient outcomes and reduced costs for patients, hospitals, and insurers alike. Beyond economics, SurgExplore makes surgical skill acquisition faster, more scalable, and more accessible globally, enabling junior surgeons to train safely and independently while supporting experienced surgeons in refining their practice. The result is a platform that delivers value across the entire surgical ecosystem – from trainees and surgical teams to hospitals, healthcare systems, and ultimately the patients they serve.

The project is currently progressing through iterative product development cycles, cooperative AI models integration, and clinical collaboration, with pilot deployment preparation underway together with hospitals and surgical training institutions in Switzerland and internationally. Implementation activities currently include platform validation, development of clinical partnerships, and integration of SurgExplore SaMD.
The next project phases focus on expanding simulation fidelity, integrating surgeon-specific training workflows, and validating the platform in real clinical environments for surgical training. The project addresses a major gap in surgical education and clinical practice by enabling realistic, expert-guided surgical simulation that can be accessed independently by junior surgeons and scaled globally. In parallel, SurgExplore is expanding collaborations with clinical experts, research institutions, and industry partners to accelerate adoption and support future surgical training needs.
The project has already secured strong external validation through a series of competitive non-dilutive funding awards, including BRIDGE Proof of Concept, Venture Kick Stage I & II, Innosuisse Coaching, and InnoBooster. This support has been instrumental in advancing SurgExplore's mission to optimize the surgical care pathway – improving surgical efficiency, training quality, and patient outcomes at scale.