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Curative's AI agent 'Gwen' increased provider network contracting volume from about 100 contracts a week (done by a human team) to about 100 contracts a day, doing 3,500 in eight weeks versus 2,300 for the entire prior year with people.

Curative's autonomous negotiation agent, Gwen, took provider contracting from ~100 deals a week to ~100 a day, doing 3,500 contracts in eight weeks versus a full team's 2,300 in the prior year, at roughly $70 per contract versus $1,500-2,000 for humans. ✦ AI generated

Fred Turner · 20VC · 2026-07-18 · original ↗

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This has taken us from doing about a 100 contracts a week to about 100 contracts a day. And the last year as an entire team we did 2,300 contracts. So far in about the last 8 weeks the agent alone has done 3500.

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53:47a Word document, they're great at it. Great hack. Um, and then sign the agreement. And so she now signs the agreements with my signature. She'll open up the docyign link and then click the button and it's my signature on that agreement. And so this has taken us from doing about a 100 contracts a week to about 100 contracts a day. And the last year as an entire team we

54:10did 2,300 contracts. So far in about the last 8 weeks the agent alone has done 3500. And so what this is letting us do is like that team doesn't go to zero. We've refocused that team to work on these bigger contracts, right? Because some of these deals we can do entirely over email. This agent is email only. And some of these providers will work completely over email to enter into an

54:35agreement. And actually, how many of them will do the whole thing over email surprised me. There's a lot of millennials I guess on the other end that don't want to get on the phone um and would rather do the whole negotiation completely electronically, which is fantastic because the model is great at that. [snorts] But some of them, the bigger hospital systems, the bigger doctors uh doctor groups, they

54:54want to have a phone call. They want to meet in person. They want to learn who we are. And the team now get to spend their time going and having those inerson meetings, going and developing those relationships, working with those bigger groups. And then even when it gets to the paperwork, handing the paperwork off to the model and then all of the smaller the individual PCP over

55:13here, the small behavioral health provider here, the therapist over here, the agent just gets it done and can sign a contract end to end in a few hours where you wouldn't be able to do that volume with people. Given the transformational nature of what you're describing, if Anthropic doubled their price, would it impact your usage? When we look at a lot of the financials of these core businesses today,

55:38>> yeah, >> they are challenged businesses in their current infrastructure and pricing. >> If they double pricing, would it stay the same? >> If I say yes, I don't want our anthropic rep to double our pricing. [laughter] >> But it would >> it would work. It would be fine. Yeah. So, it costs with people, it cost us about $1,500 to $2,000 on average to do a contract. Um, the average with Gwen

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