Built for clinical operations
From Facility Protocol to Bedside Execution.
A 5-minute pre-shift brief to align your team, paired with an interactive bedside assistant to answer any protocol question instantly on the floor.
Dr. John Mattison, Chief Medical Officer
Former CMIO, Kaiser Permanente · UC San Diego Scholar in Residence for Responsible AI
The Evidence Behind Karibu
The peer-reviewed research behind every design principle.
Works on your existing devices
No install required. No new hardware.
Zero IT Footprint
Runs in a standard browser on nursing station computers, workstations on wheels (WOWs), or shared unit tablets. No install required.
No Password Friction
Staff click a tokenized link at shift change. No enterprise accounts to manage or software to install.
From signoff to proof
Your policies are written. Your nurses signed off. Now prove they can use them.
Policies buried in a binder, an intranet, or an agency manual do not protect a shift. Karibu turns them into a daily five-minute layer nurses complete before the floor and recall at the bedside.
What DONs ask us
“Are they actually reading it, or just signing that they acknowledge?”
What the binder costs you
Audits & Revenue Clawbacks
Charting gaps on change-in-condition or skilled-care minutes can become clawbacks at audit.
Wasted Leadership Hours
Callbacks, repeat counseling, and cleaning up yesterday’s 24-hour report steal hours from today.
Deficiency Paper Trails
A signature proves acknowledgement, not who reviewed which SOP, when, or whether they could apply it.
Karibu prioritizes the protocols your last survey cited and the ones your DON keeps having to reteach. Every completion is tracked per nurse, per protocol, per shift — so when a surveyor asks who reviewed F-689 and when, you have the answer in a click.
The two moments that replace the binder
Five-minute protocol checks
New hires, float staff, and agency nurses get a short, facility-specific check pulled from your SOPs before they start. You track completion and comprehension, not just attendance.
Bedside answers from your SOPs
When a nurse is unsure, Karibu gives an instant voice or text answer grounded in your facility policy, available where care happens, not back at the nurses’ station.
Why This Matters in Clinical Operations
Karibu is built to move the dials clinical leaders watch every morning: reducing agency DNR rates, protecting permanent staff from burnout, and slashing the time it takes to deploy critical survey corrections.
What goes into every pre-shift briefing
Before each shift, every nurse gets a 5-minute personalized briefing. It pulls from four sources specific to your facility:
Facility SOPs
The relevant policies for this nurse, on this unit, in plain language they can act on.
Survey Corrections
Last survey's cited issues, built in so staff correct them daily rather than repeat them.
DON Directives
Today's instructions delivered to every incoming nurse. No manual handoff required.
Personal Shift Gap
Every directive dropped since this specific nurse was last on the clock.
SHIFT-LEVEL OUTCOMES
Reclaimed Charge Nurse Hours
Increase in available clinical hours for core floor leaders.
Verbal shift handoffs tax your core team's bandwidth. Permanent staff are forced to hand-hold incoming nurses through basic logistics.
Pre-shift acclimation moves to a self-serve layer. Core staff focus entirely on patient care.
Telschow et al., Journal of Advanced Nursing 2025;81(8):5112
First-Shift Success Rates
Increase in successful placements and reduction in Do Not Return mandates.
Most first-shift failures stem from missing facility-specific knowledge: layout nuances, charting workflows, building rules. The result is a costly DNR mandate.
Nurses arrive fully aligned with your building rules. They walk on the floor prepared, protecting your staffing pipelines and agency relationships.
Protocol Deployment Velocity
24-hour alignment window from policy update to full-floor deployment.
Traditional systems take weeks to build, assign, and track. Urgent changes leave the facility legally and clinically exposed.
A policy uploaded Tuesday becomes a mandatory pre-shift brief for every nurse arriving Wednesday.
Montes Muñoz et al., Nursing Reports 2025. n=200.
Audit-Ready Survey Protection
Continuous compliance with a real-time, timestamped audit trail for state inspectors.
High turnover means your compliance baseline resets constantly. Veteran staff face protocol drift; new staff remain unaware of recent citations.
Survey correction plans are injected directly into the pre-shift routine. Administrators get a live audit trail to prove active compliance in a single click.
Gandhi, Yu & Grabowski. Health Aff 2021;40(3):384-391.
No procurement gauntlet
The 30-Day Evaluation.
Three steps. One unit. Measured outcomes you agree on before we start.
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Floor Walkthrough
We walk your floor, meet your DON, and see exactly how your protocols reach nurses today.
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Single-Unit Launch
Your SOPs go in. We soft-launch on one unit, tune in real time, and confirm nurses are never blocked.
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30-Day Evaluation
You set the baseline: documentation compliance, recurring QA corrections, reclaimed leadership hours. We run 30 days and review together.
Karibu Pilot Blueprint & Clinical Framework
peer-reviewed evidence, core design principles, and your 30-day unit blueprint
Built for what your administrator will ask about.
HIPAA, surveys, and data ownership.
HIPAA-aligned
BAA signed before go-live. Built to align with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.
Audit-ready for surveys
Every nurse interaction is timestamped and exportable for state survey documentation.
Your data, your boundaries
Isolated per facility. No AI provider retains or trains on your prompts or documentation.
Stop losing surveys, shifts,and Medicare dollars.
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Last updated: May 31, 2026.