98% automation rate achieved
Lassie has reached 98% automation on its core billing and insurance claims workflows for dental practices.
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The Market Size: 160,000 Practices, $200K Each in Labor
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Steijn Pelle brings the abstract thesis down to numbers. There are approximately 160,000 dental practices in the United States. Each spends around $200,000 annually on administrative labor [1] — Steijn Pelle "160,000 dental practices in the US: There are approximately 160,000 dental practices in the US, each spending roughly $200,000 a year on ad…" 24:12 . Much of that labor is either impossible to hire or performed by the doctor themselves after hours — Dr. Kwon at midnight, Dr. Sloop until he quit. Multiplied out, that is over $1 billion in recurring revenue for just the dental segment, before expanding to physical therapy, primary care, or any other healthcare vertical. Lassie's pricing reflects the value equation directly: the company already charges five figures for its first agent, which currently automates roughly 30 hours of the available 200 monthly labor hours. The framing Pelle uses is telling: customers don't see Lassie as software they subscribe to. They see it as someone who comes in and runs the practice for them. That shift in perception — from SaaS product to autonomous operator — is what commands five-figure contracts from small businesses that would balk at that price for traditional software.
160,000 dental practices in the US
There are approximately 160,000 dental practices in the US, each spending roughly $200,000 a year on administrative labor costs.
$200K/year admin costs per practice
Each dental practice spends approximately $200,000 per year on administrative labor that Lassie's AI agents can replace.
5-figure price for first agent (30 hrs labor/mo)
Lassie charges five figures for its first agent, which currently automates 30 hours of labor per month, out of 200 total hours available.
Lassie growth mostly word-of-mouth between dentists
The majority of Lassie's customer growth comes from dentists recommending the product to other dentists in study clubs and professional networks.
We Became the Humans in the Loop First
Before writing a line of automating code, Lassie's founders sat in dental offices doing the billing work by hand. They automated away their own jobs — and that ground-level experience is why their product works at 98% accuracy when other AI tools fall short.
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