About Us

Building the menopause intelligence layer healthcare deserves.

The night sweats, the brain fog, the anxiety that arrived without a reason — and no one connecting the dots. For too many women in midlife, perimenopause and menopause are met with dismissal or misdiagnosis, and the wait for an answer can stretch for years. It doesn't have to.

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.

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, evaluated against evidence, and designed for real workflows — can compress that journey from years to weeks.

What we value

Clinically grounded

Every recommendation must be defensible, explainable, and traceable to established menopause clinical evidence.

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

Portrait of Maggie C. Hu, Founder of Pause-Health.AI.

Maggie C. Hu

Founder

Maggie leads product, vision, and provider partnerships at Pause-Health.AI. She brings strong and deep professional experience across enterprise software, with the last decade spent in solution-engineering and enterprise-architecture roles at the platform companies this prototype talks to every day — currently Principal, Agentic Builder — TMT Agentic Builders & Forward Deploy Engineers at Salesforce (Dec 2025–), with earlier stints as Principal Integration Architect at First American, Sr Staff Solution Engineer at VMware Tanzu, Principal Platform Solution Engineer at MuleSoft, ISV Technical Evangelist at Salesforce, and Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat. Healthcare-domain context from a Sr Technical Consultant tour at TriZetto on the Facets / NetworX claims platform.

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. Currently a USC Marshall Executive MBA candidate (May 2027) and completed UC Berkeley Haas' Executive Program in AI and Digital Strategy (June 2026); MS Software Engineering from Kansas State, BS Computer Science from UMKC.

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Verify it's the right profile: the LinkedIn headline reads “Executive Tech Leader | Agentic Builder | Solution Architect | AI & Digital Strategy | Technical Evangelist | USC Marshall | UC Berkeley HaaS | Pause-Health.AI” and lists Irvine, California as the location.

Open roles we're hiring for

Not filled yet

The founding roles that round out the team after the founder. Each card describes the role we're hiring for, not a person already on staff. If one of these resonates, please reach out via /careers or /contact.

Open role

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. Owns clinical safety + advisory-board curation.

Open role

Head of AI

Models, evaluation, and safety

Applied ML leader with a track record of shipping production AI in regulated healthcare environments. Owns Care Router policy + evaluation harness.

Open role

Head of Clinical Design

Workflow and patient experience

Nurse-informaticist designing intake, triage, and care navigation flows that feel humane and clear. Owns clinician + patient research and the design partner program.

Milestones

Done so far vs. planned. The 2026 milestones below are pilled so a reader at any point in time can tell what shipped from what's still on the roadmap.

Done

Planned

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