Twenty seven years of closing the gap between a system and the person stuck using it.
ttak is built by Russ Haskett. He has spent twenty seven years running technology inside healthcare companies. Most recently he was senior vice president of IT for a 65-clinic veterinary group. Before that he was vice president of IT for a 33-facility behavioral health provider, through a private equity exit. Before that he ran infrastructure and support across more than two hundred behavioral health facilities.
He started there in 1999, when it was a startup, and led the technology integrations that carried it to 110 facilities before Universal Health Services acquired it.
The first version of what became Daily, ttak’s college assistant, was not a product. Russ built it as an assistant for a client, under a deadline, on a job that had to go right. It worked, and the first thought afterward was not that it could be a company. It was “I want this.”
The second thought was the one that mattered. For some people the gap between how a tool behaves and how they think is not an inconvenience. It decides whether the work gets finished at all, and nobody was building for them on purpose.
So ttak builds one thing: the tool that fits the person in front of it. Daily is the first one. Russ builds it with the people it is for, not at them, and when one of them says a feature adds friction, the feature changes.
Senior vice president of IT, 65-clinic veterinary group.
Vice president of IT, 33-facility behavioral health provider, through a private equity exit.
Senior director at Universal Health Services, 200+ behavioral health facilities.
Joined it as a startup in 1999 and ran the integrations that carried it to 110 facilities.
Led two ransomware recoveries with patient care never interrupted.
A place to work, not only a product to use.
ttak is being built to be a company where neurodiverse people work, not only one that builds for them. Nobody is hired yet. When ttak does hire, the interview and the workplace get designed the same way Daily is: fit the person, then get out of the way.
The interview
Most hiring processes measure how well a candidate performs while a stranger evaluates them. That is almost never the job. ttak will build an interview a person can do well in without performing, and will run it on itself before offering it to anyone else.
The work
Neurodiverse developers are not a hiring target here, they are how the products come out right. The people who live the problem build the tool for it, and everyone shares in what the company earns.