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AESOP

Taipei, US · Founded 2019 · 10 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors

AESOP develops clinical decision intelligence, a class of medical AI systems that reconstruct and analyze clinical decision-making across diagnosis, treatment, medication management, and medical coding to support physicians and improve patient safety. Spun off from Taipei Medical University research in 2019, it draws on a database of over 3.2 billion medical records to provide explainable decision support for healthcare providers.

Also known as AESOP AI · AESOP Technology · Aesop Technology Inc.

Founders & leadership

AESOP was founded in 2019 by Jeremiah Scholl, Yu-Chuan Li, and An-Jim Long.

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Jeremiah SchollCo-founder
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Yu-Chuan LiFounder
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An-Jim LongCo-founder
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Jim Long

Investors · 3

Also in the syndicate · 1

BE Capital

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

AESOP Technology develops the AESOP Clinical Deep Reasoning Engine, described by the company as a clinical decision intelligence system that reconstructs, models and analyzes how clinical decisions are made in real-world care settings. Rather than limiting itself to outcome prediction, the engine aims to capture the logic, context and evidence relationships behind decisions in diagnosis, treatment, medication management and medical coding, and to make that reasoning explainable and traceable. The company states the engine draws on 3.2 billion real-world health records, integrates multiple medical knowledge graphs, and processes both structured and unstructured clinical data including diagnoses, medications, laboratory tests, examinations, procedures, imaging reports and narrative documentation. From these records AESOP says it has extracted more than 5 million clinical decision logic pathways.

The product line includes DxPrime, an AI solution for diagnostic accuracy that performs real-time integrity analysis, tailors insights by specialty, gender and clinical context, automatically translates diagnoses into medical codes, supports surgical coding, and detects left-right laterality mismatches. RxPrime (previously named MedGuard) targets wrong-drug errors, including look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medication confusions. Medigator, embedded directly into hospital electronic health records, loads U.S. National Comprehensive Cancer Network cancer-treatment guidelines, cross-checks them against patient data, and continuously scans journals and clinical-trial databases to surface relevant published evidence, with recommendations updated within hours of new findings. AESOP also offers analytics that assess how closely hospitals adhere to international guidelines and where real-world outcomes diverge, for use by tumor boards and research partners.

Founding story

AESOP originated in a long-term research project at Taipei Medical University led by Professor Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li, begun as a research project in 2011 with the goal of making medication safer. An early attempt to analyze the interaction of diseases and medications using 12 years of health insurance data covering roughly 7,000 diseases and 1,400 ICD-9-CM medications was estimated to require over 100 years of computation on National Center for High-Performance Computing resources; the team instead analyzed each dimension separately before cross-linking diseases and medications. To move the research into clinical products, Li recruited Dr. An-Jim (Jim) Long, a former student who became CIO of a TMU-affiliated hospital, and Dr. Jeremiah Scholl, a former TMU visiting assistant professor.

Business model

AESOP sells clinical decision support and coding software to healthcare providers, delivered through integration into hospital electronic health record workflows and distributed via platform marketplaces including the Epic App Market and Mayo Clinic Platform.

Software supplied to hospitals and health systems; the company reports that early hospital users of DxPrime saw a 5% increase in reimbursement per inpatient and fewer insurer denials, positioning the products around both clinical safety and revenue-cycle outcomes.

Traction

The company reports 3.2 billion medical records integrated from Taiwan's National Health Insurance data, U.S. Medicare, the Mayo Clinic and DARTNet, and over 5 million extracted clinical decision logic pathways. DxPrime is reported to have reached 100% user adoption in deployments, with early hospital users seeing a 5% increase in reimbursement per inpatient. Published evaluations covered 438,558 prescriptions from 44 physicians across 23 specialties and 125,000 patients at a regional teaching hospital (MedGuard alert rate 2.28%, diagnostic recommendation acceptance 56.55%), and a separate two-year study of 1,206,895 prescriptions with a 2.36% alert rate. DxPrime's qualification on Mayo Clinic Platform is described as making it available to support over 52,000 physicians across the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

Latest developments

In October 2025 DxPrime was announced as a qualified solution on Mayo Clinic Platform. In December 2025 the company announced ISO 27001 certification and completion of a SOC 2 examination. Scheduled activities include ViVE in Los Angeles (February 2026), a Rapid Innovation Pitch at PharmStars' Pharmatech Innovation Summit in Boston (May 2026), a research poster on automated identification of high-risk inflammatory bowel disease patients using multimodal EMR data at the Mayo Clinic 2026 AI Research Summit, and sessions at PlatforMed in June 2026.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies

Market position

AESOP positions its engine as a clinical decision intelligence capability distinct from prediction-only medical AI models, and is presented as a Taiwan-origin AI healthcare company whose products are distributed through the Epic App Market and Mayo Clinic Platform, where qualification makes DxPrime available to support physicians across the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

The company emphasizes reasoning over prediction: modeling how and why clinical decisions are made, with explainable, traceable and context-aware output rather than outcome forecasts. Its models are described as generalizable across error types and transferable between domains, as demonstrated by adapting a medication-disease association model to detect procedure-diagnosis laterality mismatches, where it outperformed rule-based methods. Published studies report clinically relevant alerting with low alert rates and measurable acceptance and error-interception rates.

Technology

The Clinical Deep Reasoning Engine (also referred to as the Clinical Deep Reasoning Network Model) combines machine learning trained on large claims and EHR datasets with multiple integrated medical knowledge graphs, operating on 3.2 billion real-world health records from which over 5 million clinical decision logic pathways have been extracted. An Association Outlier Pattern (AOP) machine learning model identifies uncommon procedure-diagnosis combinations and was adapted from medication-disease association detection to surgical laterality verification using the CMS Limited Data Set. The systems perform real-time analysis at the point of decision to flag gaps and produce recommendations, and are designed for explainability and traceability across structured and unstructured clinical data.

Go-to-market

Distribution through EHR and platform marketplaces (two apps in the Epic App Market; DxPrime qualified on Mayo Clinic Platform via Solutions Studio after Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate in 2022), supported by peer-reviewed clinical publications, participation in accelerator programs such as PharmStars, and presence at industry events including ViVE, PlatforMed, and the Mayo Clinic AI Research Summit.

Hospitals, health systems and physicians, including outpatient departments, regional teaching hospitals, tumor boards, surgical and orthopedic care settings, and research partners; the company also engages the pharmatech sector.

Geography

Taiwan origin with U.S. operations; headquarters moved to San Francisco, with a California address at 2261 Market Street Suite 4132, San Francisco, and websites at aesoptek.com and aesoptek.tw. Data sources and deployments span Taiwan's National Health Insurance system and U.S. datasets including Medicare/CMS, Mayo Clinic and DARTNet.

History

The underlying research began at Taipei Medical University in 2011, initially focused on detecting prescription errors in Taiwan's National Health Insurance database, and produced the RxPrime/MedGuard product for wrong-drug errors. AESOP spun off as a standalone company in 2019 and was established in the United States in 2020 during the pandemic by Li, Long and Scholl. A second product, DxPrime, adapted the model to diagnosis errors. The company moved its headquarters to San Francisco, launched two applications in the Epic App Market, published a paper with Harvard University on the portability of its model at U.S. hospitals, and was accepted into Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate in 2022. It raised a $2.95 million pre-A round in September 2022 led by Taiwania Capital. DxPrime became a qualified solution on Mayo Clinic Platform in October 2025, and the company announced ISO 27001 certification and completion of a SOC 2 examination in December 2025.

Risks & controversies

AESOP has posted a fraud warning stating that a website was misusing its company name and information to mislead the public, and that neither the company nor its official sites are affiliated with unauthorized sites or entities; users are directed to verify the aesoptek.com and aesoptek.tw domains. Published studies also note wide variability in clinician acceptance of its recommendations by specialty, with acceptance rates ranging from 96.59% in ophthalmology to 0% in rheumatology and surgery, indicating a need to align alerts with specialty-specific workflows.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Clinical decision logic pathways extractedJan 20265,000,000 pathways
Diagnostic recommendation acceptance rate (prospective outpatient study)Jan 202556.6%
Drug error interception rate (two-year CDSS study)Jan 20251.6%
DxPrime user adoptionSep 2022100% user adoption reported
Increase in reimbursement per inpatient at early DxPrime hospitalsSep 20225%
MedGuard alert rate (prospective outpatient study)Jan 20252.3%
MedGuard alert rate (two-year CDSS study)Jan 20252.4%
Physicians reachable via Mayo Clinic Care NetworkOct 202552,000 physicians
Prescriptions analyzed in prospective outpatient studyJan 2025438,558 prescriptions
Real-world health records in databaseJan 20263,200,000,000 records

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 7

launches, deals, and filings
Dec 2025
AESOP Technology completes SOC 2 examination

The company announced completion of a SOC 2 examination validating security, confidentiality and availability controls.

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Dec 2025
AESOP Technology achieves ISO 27001 certification

The company announced ISO 27001 certification for its information security management practices.

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Oct 2025
DxPrime becomes a qualified solution on Mayo Clinic Platform

AESOP Technology announced that DxPrime, its AI solution for diagnostic accuracy and automated code translation, is available as a qualified solution on Mayo Clinic Platform following evaluation through Mayo Clinic Platform_Solutions Studio.

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Sep 2022
AESOP raises $2.95M series pre-A round led by Taiwania Capital

Digital health startup AESOP Technology raised a $2.95 million series pre-A round led by Taiwania Capital, with participation from Colopl Next, 500 Startups and BE Capital, to fund its push into the US market and strengthen its technical team.

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Jan 2022
Headquarters moved to San Francisco and apps launched in Epic App Market

Ahead of its pre-A round, AESOP moved its headquarters to San Francisco, launched two apps in the Epic App Market, and published a paper with Harvard University on the portability of its model at US hospitals.

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Jan 2022
Participation in Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate

AESOP participated in the Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate program in 2022 and subsequently continued refining the core model behind DxPrime.

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Jan 2020
DxPrime launched for diagnosis errors

After establishing the company in the US, the team adapted the RxPrime model to create DxPrime, a product focused on diagnosis errors that displays plausible diagnoses to physicians and flags missing ones.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does AESOP do?
AESOP Technology builds clinical decision intelligence AI that models physician reasoning across diagnosis, treatment, medication and coding.
Who founded AESOP?
AESOP was founded by Jeremiah Scholl, Yu-Chuan Li, An-Jim Long in 2019.
Who are AESOP's investors?
AESOP's investors include 500 Global, Colopl Next.
Where is AESOP headquartered?
AESOP is headquartered in Taipei, US.