Clinically grounded
Every recommendation must be defensible, explainable, and traceable to established menopause clinical evidence.
About Us
Building the menopause intelligence layer healthcare deserves.
Pause-Health.ai is on a mission to bring precision, empathy, and clinical rigor to the 50M+ women in the United States navigating perimenopause and menopause. We combine deep clinical informatics, modern AI, and human-centered design to support care teams and the women they serve.
- Founded2026
- HeadquartersIrvine, CA
- FocusProvider-first AI for menopause care
- StageEarly prototype with design partners
Mission
Help every woman in midlife receive the right care, sooner.
Menopause is one of the most under-served transitions in modern medicine. Misdiagnosis rates remain high, and the average path to accurate care can stretch for years. We believe a thoughtful AI layer — built with clinicians, validated against evidence, and designed for real workflows — can compress that journey from years to weeks.
What we value
Designed with empathy
Women in midlife deserve care that listens. Our product is shaped with patients, nurses, and physicians in the room.
Provider-first
We build for the care teams who do the hardest work — fitting into existing workflows, not adding to their load.
Privacy as a default
Patient trust is non-negotiable. Data minimization, encryption, and audit logging are foundational, not optional.
Founder
Maggie C. Hu
Founder & CEO
Maggie leads product, vision, and provider partnerships at Pause-Health.ai. Her background spans health-tech product leadership and applied AI, with a focus on building clinical software that care teams actually want to use.
She founded Pause-Health.ai to bring the same standard of precision, rigor, and empathy to menopause care that other transitions in modern medicine already enjoy.
Team we're building
A small, mission-driven team across product, clinical, AI, and design. These are the founding roles we're actively hiring for; detailed bios and headshots will land here as the team grows.
Chief Medical Officer
Clinical strategy and evidence
Board-certified OB/GYN with deep experience in midlife women's health, menopause hormone therapy, and clinical guidelines.
Head of AI
Models, evaluation, and safety
Applied ML leader with a track record of shipping production AI in regulated healthcare environments.
Head of Clinical Design
Workflow and patient experience
Nurse-informaticist designing intake, triage, and care navigation flows that feel humane and clear.
Milestones
- Pause-Health.ai founded with provider-first AI thesis2026
- Clinical advisory board formed across OB/GYN, endocrinology, and primary care2026
- First prototype released to design partners2026
- Pilot deployments with provider organizations2027