Two kinds of work, one way of thinking.
I help healthcare and health-tech teams build products with AI — and I write and speak on faith, work, and meaning. A pharmacist and four-time founder by training; a servant by vocation.
Consulting & building
Health-tech product and AI leadership — from clinical insight to shipped software. Fractional leadership, advisory, and a studio that bids on and builds products.
Explore consulting →Writing & podcast
Essays on faith, work, and the long view — and the Orthodox Forge podcast. Both launching soon; subscribe to be there at episode one.
Read & listen →What I'm working on.
A few of the ventures and projects in motion right now.
HappiestLion
Faith-based products, toys, educational tools, and media for children of God of all ages — including the Kingdom Heroes line.
Orthodox Forge
An Orthodox Christian podcast — faith, tradition, and life lived with intention.
PHAROS
A private, AI-built “mission control” dashboard for running my ventures — secure login, live data.
More in the works.
Clinician, product leader, and AI builder — in one person.
Most teams have to choose between someone who understands healthcare and someone who can ship software. I'm both: a PharmD who has founded and built four health-tech products. I turn clinical and operational complexity into products that work.
Build studio
Have an idea or a project to scope? My studio bids on and builds products end-to-end — strategy, design, and delivery — with AI where it earns its place.
Fractional product & AI leadership
Part-time head of product / AI advisor for health-tech teams — roadmap, prioritization, and shipping, backed by four ventures and CSM + Google PM discipline.
AI-in-healthcare advisory
For healthcare orgs adopting AI: where it's real, where it isn't, and how to deploy it safely inside clinical and operational workflows.
Speaking & scientific communication
Talks and clinical/scientific communication that make complex technical and medical ideas land — drawn from 25+ years of teaching diverse audiences.
Selected results
Visipill
Founder & product lead. A Windows-IoT medical device on Azure; cut feature-delivery timelines 35% with Agile/Scrum.
RxConsultant
SaaS for consultant pharmacists across long-term care and surgical centers; improved documentation efficiency 95%.
KloudMD
Co-founder & product lead. A telemedicine platform supporting clinical workflows for tens of thousands of patients monthly.
Visipill · RxConsultant · KloudMD · Precision Pharmacy Management — four health-tech ventures since 2012.
Faith, work, and the long view.
A newsletter and the Orthodox Forge podcast — both launching soon — plus speaking and teaching for parishes and faith-based events.
The newsletter
Short essays on faith, building, judgment, and the long view — on Substack. Subscribe now and you'll get the first one.
Orthodox Forge
An Orthodox Christian podcast — conversations on faith, tradition, and life lived with intention. Coming to Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. Be there for episode one.
Faith-based speaking
Talks and teaching for parishes, retreats, conferences, and faith-based events — drawn from 25+ years of catechesis and service.
A pharmacist who learned to build — and never stopped serving.
I'm Andrew Assad. I started as a Doctor of Pharmacy, then spent a decade founding and building health-tech products — medication management, telemedicine, clinical SaaS — and earned an MBA in Business Technology & AI along the way. The thread is always the same: take something complex and make it clear, useful, and real.
Service isn't a separate compartment for me — it runs through the work, not beside it. For 25+ years I've taught and served in the Coptic Orthodox Church as a catechist and Sunday-school servant, and I'm a subdeacon. I help oversee and write devotionals read by a global audience, have served on parish boards, and serve with SALT, a diocese-wide homeless-outreach ministry. Faith and work aren't separate rooms; they're the same pursuit of meaning, judgment, and care.