Arun Kalaiselvan is the co-founder and CTO of Arya Health, a workforce management platform for in-home healthcare. Arya handles scheduling agents, employee onboarding, credentials and compliance: the work office managers do that nobody thinks about. Arun joined us with Arya's principal architect Anand Chandrasekaran in Episode 24 (December 12, 2025).
Arya's foot in the door is scheduling. Arun's example at 20:23: an agency manages 100 nurses and one calls in sick. Someone has to find that nurse's shifts, then find people who are available, nearby, current on credentials and a fit for the patient. That can take two to three hours per shift.
Arya already knows all of that. Its AI phones eligible caregivers, tells them a patient's shift opened up, offers a bonus and fills it on the spot. Arun said this has meant close to a 10% average increase in revenue for existing customers. One customer's CEO told them Arya filled about 12 pediatric shifts over a weekend that would otherwise have gone unfilled.
Our last bill was about six x for what we would expect it to be because there was a change in Anthropic and how much time it took our Lambda to actually have that connection open with Anthropic.
— Arun Kalaiselvan, Episode 24
So we've stopped talking about shifts. We're talking about people now.
— Arun Kalaiselvan, Episode 24
That reframing changes scheduling itself. Instead of grabbing an open shift, a caregiver can take a patient every Monday for the rest of their care period. Arun said Arya is now building care teams rather than filling shifts.
Sam built an AI start-of-care packet generator with Arya in mind. It turns an unstructured hospital discharge summary into a care plan, a four-week schedule by discipline, matched clinicians and drafted outreach. He got a PRD from ChatGPT, pasted it into Google AI Studio with Gemini Pro and had it working in about 30 minutes.
Arun said it got the disciplines right: skilled nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and home health aide. Anand said it already captured something planned for Arya's fourth version; the gap was that the real process is not real time.
In the news segment, Arun said Arya ran a six-month enterprise pilot with Cursor about two years earlier. It introduced more issues into their code base than it solved, so they switched to Copilot; Anand added that Cursor is much more mature now. Arun also called Google "the silent killer," saying Arya is all in on the Gemini team. More from the show on this topic: AI in healthcare.
Arun Kalaiselvan is the co-founder and CTO of Arya Health. He met Arya's principal architect Anand Chandrasekaran at NYU, they worked at the same companies for years, and he previously worked in blockchain.
Arya Health is a workforce management platform for in-home healthcare. It covers AI scheduling agents, employee onboarding, and credential and compliance management, so office managers can focus on revenue-generating work.
Arun says Arya only uses AI through its cloud providers under contract: Anthropic models through AWS Bedrock and Gemini through Google Vertex AI. About 70% of its infrastructure is self-hosted and each customer's data is kept separate.
When a caregiver calls out, Arya already knows who is available, nearby and credentialed. It ranks eligible caregivers in tiers and has AI phone them, sometimes with a bonus offer, to fill the shift right away.
