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This article "Altman-backed startup Verifiable rolls out AI agent to automate credentialing" originally appeared in Fierce Healthcare on Feb 26, 2026.
Verifiable, a healthcare credentialing and monitoring startup, is rolling out an autonomous AI agent for end-to-end credentialing.
The tool is a first for the industry, the company claims. CredAgent can automate every part of the credentialing process, from verifying data to confirming applications to documenting tasks, all while keeping a human in the loop. Full transparency will be provided into AI credentialing actions, data sources and decision rationale. The tool can deliver up to 10x productivity compared to human specialists, the company said based on early pilot data.
Credentialing is necessary for providers to practice and be enrolled in health plan networks. It requires gathering extensive data from the practitioner and confirming their licenses, certifications and work history with primary sources. A continuous state of compliance is also required for employed or enrolled providers. For most of the industry, credentialing remains a largely antiquated, manual process, Verifiable executives said.
“This is a mission-critical process to any organization that has providers seeing patients,” Nick Macario, CEO of Verifiable, told Fierce Healthcare. “It’s just a very manual process across the industry.”
A single credentialing specialist would only be able to credential a single provider at once, Macario explained. Now, CredAgent gives them a team of AI agents that can each credential dozens of providers at once. If an AI agent gets stuck on a task, it will wait for human validation before moving on. Initial provider types available will include M.D.s, nurse practitioners, clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, dentists and dietitians, with more rolling out soon.
Because the mainstream credentialing approach is so hands-on, it requires a lot of staff, per Macario. Therefore, many healthcare organizations outsource credentialing to third parties. Larger organizations, like the kind Verifiable works with, can afford to have their own credentialing staff in-house. There are many benefits to doing so, Macario said. Those that outsource may lose visibility into where a provider is in the process, might face longer turnaround times and may suffer from poor quality control.
It benefits the provider when the process goes smoothly and quickly, too.
“There’s a meaningful amount of provider abrasion in this process if they need to be credentialed,” Macario said. “The less friction we apply to the provider, the less time they’re going to spend on administrative work and the more time they’re going to spend with patients.”
To date, Verifiable has helped healthcare and life sciences organizations automate parts of the credentialing process with its software and API products, driving efficiency gains. But CredAgent will be a major step up, per Macario.
Verifiable, which launched in 2020 after participating in Y Combinator, serves over 200 clients. It has raised $47 million to date and is backed by brothers Sam and Jack Altman, Craft Ventures and Highland Capital Partners.
“As an early investor in Verifiable, I’ve always been drawn to the company’s technical, software-driven approach to credentialing,” Jack Altman said in a press release. “CredAgent builds on that foundation and uniquely positions Verifiable to lead autonomous credentialing in a way that will be difficult for competitors to replicate.”
