About Us

The Spark: A Kitchen Table Realization

CliniQuill started at a kitchen table, not in a boardroom. Our CEO, a physician, watched his wife, a home care occupational therapist who was practicing in three First Nations, spend her evenings hunched over a laptop, charting the day’s client visits and filling out requests for medical equipment and home modifications. After a full day of caring for others, she spent her nights on hours of documentation. He saw the toll it took—not just the lost time, but the mental fatigue and the "after-hours relationship" with her electronic medical record. This is a common reality for thousands of community-based healthcare providers. We built CliniQuill to give hours (and joy) back to these caregivers.

20 Years of Listening to the Front Lines

We aren’t newcomers to healthcare. For over two decades, our team has been on the ground working with First Nations, home care, diabetes care, and community health teams. We see a common theme:

Healthcare providers must choose between the quality of their charting and the quality of their care.

We want "nursing by heart" to replace "nursing by forms." While medical doctors get the most attention and the newest tools, community-based allied health teams, especially those working in Indigenous, rural and remote communities, are usually left behind.

Our Pillars

Nursing & Allied Health Focus

CliniQuill was meticulously developed by a team of community-based healthcare professionals. We understand the workflow of those on the road, in a home, or on a phone.

Indigenous Commitment

We are the first AI documentation solution explicitly designed to meet the needs of Indigenous communities in Canada. We respect the rights to self-determination and data governance (OCAP® principles).

Trust

Your data stays in Canada, subject to rigorous information privacy and security requirements. We provide data governance you can trust, so you can focus on your clients, not your concerns.

Our Goal: Restoring the Human Connection

At CliniQuill, we want to improve care and bring joy back to work, to reduce the burnout that causes caring professionals to leave their fields. When you aren’t worried about forgetting a detail for a form, you can look your client in the eye. When CliniQuill takes care of your notes while driving to your next home visit, you can actually go home when your shift ends.

Meet the Team

Salim Samanani

CEO and Medical Director

Beth Woytas

Registered Nurse and Director of Product

Sikin Samanani

Occupational Therapist and Product Support

Wei Tam

Director of Software

Derek Fearnley

Director of IT

Thomas Truong

Product Engineering Co-Lead

Tanya Joon

Product Engineering Co-Lead

Duncan Kirby

Software and AI Engineer

Fahd Hussain

Software and AI Engineer

Weiting Li

Software and AI Engineer

Jim Kagereki

Data Engineer

Connor London

Business Intelligence Developer

Aqil Dhanani

Marketing Coordinator

Mohit Dhiman

Cloud Engineer

John Bugo

Senior Software Developer