ORBrain delivers surgeon-specific, procedure-specific clinical intelligence to every nurse and scrub tech before the case starts. Instant answers mid-setup. Every instrument, every suture, every preference. Exactly when your team needs it.
ORBrain is not a static database. It's a living intelligence platform that gets smarter with every case and meets the new OR workforce where they already are: on their phone, learning on demand, before the patient is even in the room.
Deep, AI-generated preference cards for every surgeon: gloves, bovie, sutures, cannulation, positioning, retractors, and more. Structured by procedure. Ask anything in plain language. Complete answer in under 10 seconds.
Ask any question mid-setup: "What cannula does this surgeon use?" "Does she prefer bone wax?" Get a precise, cited answer from the surgeon intelligence system in real time. No scrolling. No binders. No guessing.
When ORBrain launches at a new hospital with no existing data, it doesn't show a blank screen. It conducts a structured AI interview, asking a senior nurse or scrub tech the right clinical questions, and builds the card automatically from their answers.
For hospitals that integrate their supply and inventory data, every item on a preference card becomes a link — tap it to see a photo, its location in the department, and current stock. Requires hospital-side data upload and optional integration with existing inventory systems.
Every OR nurse and scrub tech knows what it feels like to walk into a case underprepared. Not because they aren't good at their job. Because the information they need has never had a reliable home.
Before a case, an OR nurse and scrub tech need glove size, bovie settings, suture preferences, cannulation details, instrument trays, and dozens of surgeon-specific rules. That information is scattered across binders, sticky notes, and the memory of the most senior person in the room.
When that senior nurse retires, that knowledge leaves with them. There is no system designed to capture surgical intelligence at the depth and specificity that actually runs the room. Hospitals lose it every day and rebuild it from scratch every time.
The gap between a less experienced OR nurse or scrub tech and a more experienced one is significant and real. It shows up in case delays, wasted supplies, and friction at the field. That gap is not a training problem. It is an information access problem.
Over 90% of new nursing graduates use digital tools and apps as their primary method of accessing clinical knowledge. The OR workforce is already digital-first. The information systems they are handed when they get to the OR are not. That disconnect affects performance and confidence across the board.
These numbers come from peer-reviewed research and industry studies on surgical preference cards across U.S. hospitals. They describe what OR teams are working with right now.
Sources: Medline National Surgeon Survey, OpFlow 2020, JAMA Surgery 2025, PwC Healthcare, Sage Digital Health 2025, JMIR Systematic Review 2025
Other platforms ask nurses to write notes. ORBrain structures clinical knowledge through AI, so the card is built before anyone types a word, and it answers questions no binder can.
| Capability | Notes-based platforms | ORBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge source | Human-written notes | AI-structured from professional knowledge |
| Card building | Manual, blank slate | AI-guided interview, auto-populated |
| Real-time Q&A | ✕ Search only | ✓ Ask anything in plain language |
| Item visual lookup | ✕ None | ✓ Photo + location + stock (enterprise, with hospital data integration) |
| Tray recipe cards | ✕ None | ✓ Full instrument tray database |
| Built by an active OR nurse | ✕ Enterprise only | ✓ Free to all clinicians, forever |
| Built by | Administrators & engineers | Active OR nurse |
ORBrain is free to every OR clinician, always. It doesn't replace experience. It makes experience accessible to everyone in the room from day one.
Pull up any surgeon's preferences in seconds. Ask questions mid-case without breaking concentration. ORBrain puts years of accumulated clinical knowledge in every nurse's pocket, regardless of where they are in their career.
Walking into an unfamiliar service or a surgeon you've never scrubbed with is one of the hardest parts of the job. ORBrain bridges the experience gap instantly, so you can focus on the case instead of the unknown.
Preserve institutional knowledge when senior staff retire. Reduce the gap between your most and least experienced nurses. Enterprise contracts include admin tools, audit logs, and EHR integration.
"The clinical knowledge that takes years to accumulate in the OR has never had a home. ORBrain is that home, built by someone who still scrubs in."
Founder, ORBrain · Active OR Nurse
ORBrain is currently in pilot deployment across cardiac and neurosurgery. We're expanding to select partner hospitals now. We encode your surgeons' preferences with no IT integration and no disruption to your OR.