The story behind Atlas
The planning brain for allied health
Atlas exists because we have seen first-hand how broken scheduling is in allied health, especially in mobile and NDIS work.
Our story
My wife has spent years working as a mobile clinician. Her job was not just seeing patients.
The day-to-day reality
- Planning routes
- Juggling cancellations
- Reshuffling days
- Fitting people into impossible weeks
- Staying on top of admin
It took her years to become good at managing a complex mobile caseload. Even then, she still needed months of 1-on-1 support from a manager to learn how to forecast her capacity, shape her weeks, and avoid burning out.
What struck us most was the system everyone relies on to run their clinic is just a calendar. It records what you decided. It does not help you decide.
That is why Atlas exists: to turn scheduling into a real planning system.
The cost of getting it wrong
- Longer days
- More stress
- Less energy for patient care
- A constant feeling of being behind
The planning problem
Meanwhile, clinics are dealing with:
- Geography
- Travel time
- Human constraints
- Different services
- Changing availability
- Constant unpredictability
That is not a diary problem. That is a planning problem.
Our philosophy
Watching this up close changed how we think about clinic software. Today's practice management systems are systems of record. They store what happened. They store what you decided.
But the hardest part of running a clinic is not recording the past. It is deciding the future.
Every week, clinic owners and practice managers are doing complex planning work in their heads:
- Balancing people, places, and time
- Reducing travel and dead gaps
- Reshuffling days when something breaks
- Protecting clinicians from overload
- Growing without everything becoming chaos
The best clinics do not succeed because they have better software. They succeed because someone is carrying an enormous amount of experience, intuition, and mental load.
We think that is backwards.
We believe
- Software should carry the complexity, not people
- Systems should help you think, not just help you record
- Planning should be strategic, not reactive
- Growth should come from better orchestration, not just more staff
Atlas is built on one simple idea
The most important system in a clinic should be the one that helps you decide what to do next, not just the one that stores what you already did.
Our mission
Our mission is to build the planning and operations brain for allied health.
We are taking everything that great clinic operators learn over years, all the invisible rules, heuristics, and hard-won experience, and turning it into a system that works with you every day.
So clinics can
- Use their capacity properly
- Grow without burning out their teams
- Let clinicians focus on care, not coordination
Ready to get your time back?
Atlas helps you reclaim capacity without sacrificing care. Join the early access cohort and see your schedule do more.