Flashlight 3D · Digital Health · San Diego, CA
Flashlight 3D · Digital Health · San Diego, CA

Your data, intelligently connected. Your data, intelligently connected.

Flashlight builds retrieval systems for personal medical records and whole-genome data, turning overwhelming files into structured, source-grounded information you can understand and discuss with qualified professionals.

Flashlight 3D's products are currently in development and do not provide medical advice or diagnosis.

The flashlight idea

A flashlight makes buried information visible

Millions of rows, pages, and raw sequencing lines sit in the dark, scattered across portals, PDFs, and files no one has time to read end to end. Flashlight's systems curate the relevant sources first, then let AI explain what they mean, rather than asking AI to recall an answer from memory.

Unstructured pile
Curated database
Grounded, cited answer
Three products, one system

One retrieval architecture, three surfaces

Medical Records, the Genomic Sequencing Pipeline, and Chippy all move the same way: an unstructured pile is curated into a database, and AI explains what's there instead of guessing.

In development · test phase

Genomic Sequencing Pipeline

A whole-genome VCF holds about five million variants. The pipeline curates the ones with available evidence and produces a report that explains their significance in relation to specific genes.

Input · VCF
Curation · ClinVar, OMIM, ACMG
Output · Variant report
See the flagship report →
In development

Medical Records

Fragmented PDFs, portal exports, labs, and visit summaries become one longitudinal, source-grounded record you can query and share with your care team.

Input · Authorized records
Curation · Extract, QC, consolidate
Output · Longitudinal record
See how it works →
In development · private testing

Chippy

Built first for Flashlight's own team: an internal agent that answers questions from our working documents, proving out the same architecture at a smaller scale.

Input · Internal docs
Curation · Curated corpus
Output · Cited answers
Why we built it →
Who's building this

Built by people learning the problem together

A founder, a core team, and a six-person Summer 2026 intern cohort from UC San Diego, Case Western Reserve, and other schools, working across genomic data processing, sequence annotation, AI, application development, user experience, and responsible product design.

6 interns
3 products
1 shared architecture
The Flashlight 3D founder and six-person summer intern cohort seated together around a conference table in San Diego. The Flashlight 3D founder and the Summer 2026 intern cohort gathered together in San Diego. A whiteboard sketch of the genomic variant-annotation pipeline, drawn during a team working session.