2 ideas are worth a look.
For occupational therapy clinics, selling to occupational therapists and clinic owners. We explored 6 ideas and searched for each one. 4 already exist.
Already exists, so we dropped them
- School OT IEP Goal TrackerAbleSpace already does IEP goal tracking and data collection for school-based special ed professionals. ablespace.io
- OT Mentor MatchCAOT already runs a mentor matching platform, and several individual OT mentorship programs already sell one-on-one sessions. caot.ca
- Pediatric OT Home Program BuilderPedsTherapyHEP already builds and customizes pediatric OT home exercise programs. pedstherapyhep.com
- OT Prior Auth Note HelperEstablished prior authorization platforms already serve PT and OT clinics directly, so this is category X. verifytx.com
OT Home Safety Photo Report
An app for occupational therapists doing home safety assessments to capture photos, mark hazards, and generate a branded PDF report for families and case managers in minutes.
- Who pays
- OT clinic owner who pays for team licenses, or individual OT paying monthly
- The problem
- An OT walks a home, spots hazards, and then has to write it all up later. The write-up time is unpaid and the family gets a plain document with no photos of their own stairs or bathroom.
- The gap
- The results show assessment checklists, paper tools and general AI scribes, but nothing that combines photo capture, hazard marking and a branded family-facing PDF built for home safety visits.
- Already out there
- MedicalScribe.app medicalscribe.app
AI scribe that records sessions and drafts notes, including home safety assessments, but produces clinical notes, not a photo-based report for families.
- Home Safety Self-Assessment Tool sralab.org
A 74 item paper checklist taking about 30 minutes. No photos, no branding, no report output.
- VGM white paper vgm.com
States that many self-help checklists, guides and apps exist for home safety education, but notes the lack of a best practice model and industry standards.
- MedicalScribe.app medicalscribe.app
- People asking for it
- OT fall prevention article occupationaltherapy.com
Describes time constraints during evaluation forcing the OT to document what they could not assess, like the yard.
- Home assessment walkthrough myotspot.com
Describes the OT visiting the home, taking note of hazards and accessibility, which is the manual capture step this app replaces.
- Threshold Therapeutic checklist thresholdot.com
OTs produce a list of recommendations after the visit, the deliverable this app would generate.
- OT fall prevention article occupationaltherapy.com
- The big assumption
- That OTs will pay per seat for report generation rather than keep using photos on their phone plus a Word template.
- Test it this week
- Ask five OTs in your network to send you their last home safety report and time how long it took them to write. Offer to produce three branded PDFs by hand from their photos this week.
OT Equipment Loan Closet Manager
A lightweight system for clinics that lend adaptive equipment to track who has what, due dates, and condition, replacing the notebook or spreadsheet.
- Who pays
- OT clinic owner
- The problem
- Clinics lend walkers and shower chairs on a notebook or spreadsheet and lose track of what went out and when it is due back. Staff spend time chasing returns and equipment quietly disappears.
- The gap
- The results show loan closet programs and directories, plus generic inventory complaints, but no product built for small clinic lending with borrower, due date and condition tracking.
- Already out there
- Iowa Compass loan closet tip sheet iowacompass.org
A directory and explainer of loan closet programs. No software.
- Alpha One Adaptive Equipment Loan Program alphaonenow.org
A lending program listing equipment types. It is a service, not a tracking tool.
- Howard County Loan Closet howardcountymd.gov
A county DME reuse program. Shows the lending model exists at scale but describes no tracking software.
- Iowa Compass loan closet tip sheet iowacompass.org
- People asking for it
- Loan equipment tracking thread reddit.com
Someone asking for a tool to track loan equipment sent to clients, listing ID, status, location, ship and return dates.
- Medical equipment inventory thread reddit.com
Hospital staff say their medical equipment inventory is managed in Excel sheets, which makes it hard to keep updated.
- Spreadsheet asset tracking thread reddit.com
People looking for simple asset management that only does what they want and stays flexible.
- Loan equipment tracking thread reddit.com
- The big assumption
- That clinic owners feel enough pain from lost equipment to pay monthly, rather than accepting the loss as a cost of doing business.
- Test it this week
- Call five clinic owners you know and ask how many items went missing last year and what that cost. If nobody can answer, the pain is not tracked and likely not felt.