Not a scribe. Not a library. Not a seat.
Where three tools you already pay for stop, and where Kaido starts
Kaido isn’t trying to replace any of these outright — it does a specific job none of them do: hold a plan at its threshold until the numbers say move it. Here’s where each one's job actually ends.
An AI scribe
Turns a consultation into a structured note — a real job, done well; Kaido drafts from a spoken note too. But the note is where it ends: nothing decides whether this week’s numbers earned the next one.
An exercise library
A searchable catalogue sent as a home programme — and every patient with the same diagnosis gets the same sheet. Nothing in a catalogue knows an LSI is 78% rather than 92%; a criteria engine does.
A per-seat clinical platform
Case management priced per clinician logged in — headcount, not outcomes. Kaido is priced per active plan, the number that tracks the work, and it imports from and pushes into Cliniko rather than asking you to leave it.
The same jobs, side by side
Scored by category — the named tools are examples of each, not individually audited. If we’ve got a category wrong for a tool you run, tell us and we’ll correct it.
| Kaido | Exercise-prescription tools e.g. Physitrack, Rehab My Patient |
AI scribes e.g. Heidi |
PMS-bundled HEP e.g. Cliniko’s own |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criteria-gated progression | Yes — the plan holds until the numbers clear | No — protocol or calendar-based | No | No |
| Patient app | Yes — logging, pain grading, swaps, flares | Typically yes | No | Varies |
| PMS write-back | Cliniko — import patients, push the note | Varies by tool | The note, into the PMS | Native to the PMS |
| Pricing unit | Per clinic, sized by active plans | Per practitioner | Per user | Part of the PMS seat |
| Criteria editable per clinic | Yes — the clinic standard, set once, applied consistently | No — protocols, not thresholds | No | No |
| Patient can swap, with reason | Yes — approved alternatives, reason attached | Varies | No | No |
| Append-only audit | Yes — who approved what, when | No | No | The PMS’s own |
What Kaido isn’t: a replacement for your notes, diary or billing — or an exercise library you send and forget.
None of this is a reason to drop what you already use. It’s the reason those tools and Kaido aren’t actually competing for the same job. See how Kaido works, or start a 30-day trial — no card, no sales call.