Hospitals love data until it’s coming at them from ten directions in the middle of an OR, when a preference card from three years ago still says to pull twenty items for a procedure that only needs seven. That’s not efficiency. That’s a supply chain bleeding out on the table while the CFO’s blood pressure spikes. DOCSI walked into that chaos in 2020 with the calm precision of a surgeon and the hustle of a startup that actually understands where the bodies, read: wasted supplies, are buried.
Founded by Dr. L. Pearce McCarty III, MD, MBA, an orthopedic surgeon who spent over a decade with Allina Health and thirteen years as team physician for the Minnesota Twins, and Andrew DeLeeuw IV, MBA, a Duke Fuqua alum with a knack for scaling emerging technologies, DOCSI was built for one thing: turning surgical supply chain from a cost sink into a competitive edge. It is surgeon-founded for a reason. McCarty didn’t just see inefficiency, he saw up to 90% of supplies returning unused to shelves, while hospitals swallowed the loss.
The DOCSI Surgical Preference Dashboard is mobile-first, built to engage physicians rather than dictate to them, with 80% surgeon engagement rates and over 90% approval on recommended optimizations. The numbers aren’t window dressing. One health system partner, Allina Health, cut $2.4 million in annual waste using DOCSI, with a 12% average cost reduction per surgical specialty. That’s what happens when machine learning meets the operating room and the data flows without choking IT bandwidth.
The latest, undisclosed round led by iGan Partners, joining early backers like Groove Capital, is fuel to scale that impact. DOCSI already runs in ORs and cath labs, but the expansion target is clear: interventional radiology, GI labs, anywhere a tray of supplies risks becoming a museum exhibit before it’s used. Co-Founders Joshua Peine, Director of Product, and Derek Sheeler, Director of Customer Experience, keep the platform evolving while the lean team pushes a vision to kill $5 billion in unnecessary healthcare spend.
No complex integrations. No endless training manuals. Just a one-tap dashboard that digests utilization, cost, and case volume data, then serves real-time, evidence-backed edits to the people who can actually make the call. This is not about shaving pennies, it is about re-engineering the decision loop between data and action in healthcare’s most expensive rooms.
The market is massive, $1.59 billion today for surgical waste management, heading toward $3.32 billion by 2034, and DOCSI is carving a lane built on clinical trust and operational clarity. Hospitals don’t need another vendor telling them what’s wrong. They need a partner showing them where the waste is hiding, how to cut it, and how to keep it from coming back. That is exactly what DOCSI is doing, one optimized card at a time.
