We ran ASC facilities. Then we built the system we always needed.
ASCIQ started inside an ASC management company overseeing 12 ambulatory surgical centers. Credential tracking lived in Google Sheets. The cap table was an Excel file that got emailed around with manual edits. Survey prep started from scratch before every AAAHC visit.
We didn't go looking for a platform to fix this. We looked — and nothing existed. No single system treated the ASC facility as the operational unit it actually is.
So we built one.
Where we started
Things you learn after managing a dozen facilities.
Credentialing is never done.
It's not a project with a start and end date. It's a continuous state that either holds or it doesn't — and you find out which one at the worst possible time.
The facility is the unit of operations.
Not the physician. Not the organization. The facility. Everything else — people, credentials, ownership, governance, vendors — connects to it.
Every management company reinvents the same infrastructure.
New spreadsheets. New shared drives. New processes that depend on the person who set them up. The same operational scaffolding built from scratch at company after company.
Survey readiness is a system property, not a human effort.
If staying survey-ready depends on someone remembering to check a spreadsheet, it's not a system — it's a hope. The system should enforce readiness by design.
One platform for everything management companies track across their facilities.
ASCIQ is the system of record for ASC operations: facilities, people, credentials, ownership, compliance, governance, vendors, and pipeline. 76 capabilities across 8 operational categories — structured, connected, and always current.
We built it for the buyer we know best: the operations leader at a management company who's responsible for everything and equipped with nothing purpose-built to do it.