Phoenixckk is a husband-and-wife studio. Jack spent two decades building healthcare software, the kind hospitals and clinics quietly run on. Glenda is a spoonie living with multiple sclerosis and has a history of breast cancer. Our first app exists because the tools she needed, as a patient managing complex daily care, didn’t exist. The same care now goes into the software we build for other small businesses.
Jack spent two decades building healthcare software, the systems hospitals and clinics depend on every day. The work taught him a strange lesson: the systems clinicians rely on were mostly built decades ago, by people who never met the patient. And the data the hospital collects barely overlaps with the data the patient actually lives with.
Then it got personal. Glenda was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She already had a history of breast cancer behind her. Suddenly the gap between the software clinicians use and the tools a patient needs at home wasn’t an abstract problem, it was something we were navigating at our own kitchen table.
Phoenixckk exists to close that gap. We build small, focused apps that help patients walk into the room with what happened, when it changed, and the questions they do not want to forget. We’re a studio, not a startup. We don’t scale headcount, we don’t chase rounds, and we don’t ship features we wouldn’t use ourselves.
The same habits now go into software for other small businesses. Our first client build is a scheduling, timesheet and invoicing portal for a home-care agency in Maine, made the way we make our own apps: phone-first, private by default, and tested like it matters.Read how it went.
A software engineer with two decades of building healthcare technology. Jack has written the code behind the systems hospitals and clinics rely on every day, wrangling messy data, and sweating the privacy and reliability that healthcare demands. He started Phoenixckk to point all of that experience at the person who usually gets left out: the patient.
Thirty years in healthcare, twenty of them in healthcare IT, and the patient our flagship app was designed for. Lives with multiple sclerosis and has a history of breast cancer, so she brings both deep professional knowledge and the lived experience no spec doc could capture. Every design decision routes through her, because the tools she needed didn’t exist.
Healthcare software fails patients when it ships unfinished. We take longer than feels comfortable, and we say no to features that don’t earn their place.
A person's story should stay close. Valeska looks across entries on the device, keeps synced records encrypted, and shares only when the person chooses.
Our tools help people see what changed. They do not diagnose, name a cause, or tell someone what treatment to take. Care stays human.
We build for users, not for an exit. Independent funding means we get to make the long-term call when it matters.
We take on a few projects a year so each one gets our full attention. Send a note about what your business runs on today, and what hurts about it.
info@phoenixckk.com