The setting
's gives people exercise and rehabilitation programs for pain in muscles and joints. They use an app and motion-sensing devices from anywhere, and a physical therapist directs the treatment plan.
The active protocol and the agent's retrieved guidance no longer match.
Fast exercise guidance protects member momentum, while protocol fidelity protects clinical judgment.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My renewal deck is due soon, and I need to know the guidance members see matches the care plan.”
Chiamaka Antwi · Benefits Manager · a character in this brief
Sponsors the covered rehabilitation benefit and must explain member outcomes and program reliability during renewal reviews.
What is at stake
Clinicians are rejecting exercise-progression recommendations because the agent retrieves outdated protocol content. You must weigh a fast retrieval correction against regression risk across shared deployments.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- clinical fidelity vs response latency
- shared architecture vs client-specific protocol updates
- fast containment vs durable retrieval evidence
- autonomous guidance vs clinician review
Why Sword Health
Camera-guided rehabilitation depends on exercise guidance that stays aligned with clinician-controlled treatment plans.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Sword Health. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Backend Engineer, AI Solutions (Greek-speaking) (opens in a new tab)
- Senior AI Software Engineer (opens in a new tab)
- Senior QA Analyst, AI Solutions (opens in a new tab)
- Senior ML Engineer · no longer posted
- Build agentic LLM systems: design multi-step workflows with tool use, retrieval, and orchestration, and make them reliable enough for clinical settings
- Improve model quality with whatever fits the problem: prompting, retrieval, distillation, or fine-tuning, chosen on evidence rather than habit
- Senior AI Engineer (opens in a new tab)
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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