◆Embedded Services
Your team. Our engineers and PM.
One roadmap.
The service layer for our services practice, running on the Cara platform. A forward deployed engineer plus a project manager, embedded with your team. Cara employees on Cara payroll. Fractional or full-time. Months or years, not a six-week project that leaves at the end.
Where Embedded shows up
The delivery layer for three cornerstones.
An Embedded engagement is how a services practice engagement actually ships. Same people who scoped the work, sitting with you until the work is in production.
What we send
Ours. Sitting with you.
Cara hires for healthcare-specific senior engineering and project management. The people who scope the work are the people who ship it. The same people stay on your account for the life of the engagement.
Forward deployed engineer
A senior Cara engineer, hired for healthcare, embedded with your team. They write code against your data, in your environment, with your people. Not a consultant. Not a contractor. A Cara employee with a long-term stake in your outcome.
Project manager
A Cara PM who runs the engagement. Weekly demo cadence, monthly business review against the KPIs you set, quarterly on-site planning. A written decision log and status, every week. The PM is how the work stays accountable.
Optional fractional marketer
For customers running an MSO ramp or a DTC growth motion. A Cara marketing operator who works with your team on the front-door experience, content engine, and acquisition workflows that the FDE and PM are building against.
How we work
A cadence, not a calendar.
Two weeks of embedded observation
We sit with your team. Front desk, MA, biller, physician, ops lead. We map the workflow in situ before we propose anything. Daily written notes shared with your leadership.
Weekly demo cadence
Every week we ship something and show it. To clinical and executive stakeholders. No slide decks pretending to be progress. Pull requests, deployed environments, real workflows.
Monthly business review
Against the KPIs you agreed to. Conversion, no-show rate, days to therapy, denial rate, intake throughput, whatever the work moves. We measure what you measure.
Quarterly on-site planning
We come to you. We replan the next quarter together. We say what we did, what we missed, and what we want to do next. In writing, then on the wall.
What you can ship together
The long tail your roadmap will never reach.
Inside an Embedded engagement, the FDE and PM use Cara Creator with your team to ship the work that never makes it onto a real engineering backlog.
Intake variants
Condition-specific intake. Program-specific intake. Employer-specific intake. The variations a generic platform cannot ship in your operating cadence.
Employer microsites
Branded front doors for employer partners and DTC programs. Eligibility, enrollment, scheduling, payments wired in. Live in days.
Internal admin tools
Care-team dashboards, provider tools, ops cockpits. Built in your compliance envelope. PHI handled correctly from line one.
Automation glue
The integrations and workflows your engineering backlog will never get to. Prior auth follow-up. Insurance checks. Referral routing. Reactivation. The long tail.
Proof
Two engagements. Two patterns.
Hy-Vee Health Exemplar Care
DPC, Iowa
Cara's embedded FDE drove rollout across patient acquisition, scheduling, onboarding, and clinical workflows. Same person, on the ground, for the life of the engagement. The platform is the substrate. The outcome is what the engagement is paid for.
Thrive Medical
MSO ramp, Austin
Cara FDE plus PM, embedded in Austin for the Texas MSO build. Five clinics today, scaling to a 100-clinician CIN. AdvancedMD stack. The work spans front door, intake, scheduling, and the operational layer underneath. (Engagement in flight.)
“A partner who shows up. On our payroll. On your floor. For as long as the work warrants.”
Common questions
What people ask before
they get on the call.
- Who are the people we get?
- Cara forward deployed engineers and project managers, healthcare-specific senior staff. Cara employees on Cara payroll. Same people for the life of the engagement. No staff augmentation. No offshore hand-off.
- Fractional or full-time?
- Both. Most engagements start fractional, then scale to full-time as the work grows. A common shape is one FDE plus one PM, embedded with your team, sized to the workload.
- Do your people work onsite or remote?
- Both, depending on the engagement. We colocate with customers during ramp, then run a mixed onsite and embedded-remote cadence afterwards. We travel to you when the work requires it. Our anchor customers today are in Iowa and Texas.
- How is Embedded different from a consulting firm or a staff-aug shop?
- Consulting firms ship decks, then leave. Staff-aug shops ship a body, with no context, no IP transfer, no shared incentive. Embedded is Cara employees who know healthcare, sit with your people, ship production software, and stay accountable to the outcome.
- How is Embedded different from the Enterprise Enablement Sprint?
- The Sprint is the start. It is a defined six-to-twelve-week engagement that ends with a working system and a transfer. Embedded is what most partners ask for after the Sprint: the same FDE plus PM, kept in place, working alongside your team for as long as the work warrants. Sprints end. Embedded does not.
- Do we own what gets built?
- Yes. Everything an Embedded team ships is yours. Source code, documentation, runbooks, model weights where relevant. No platform lock-in. No retainer required to keep what you already paid for.
- What does Cara use as the builder inside an Embedded engagement?
- Cara Creator. Our healthcare-trained agentic builder with FHIR, EHR, and compliance baked in. It is how an Embedded pod ships the long tail of work your roadmap will never reach, intake variants, employer microsites, dashboards, internal admin tools, automation glue.