Pitch Deck · Vol. 247 Building Beta
2026 · 05 · 06

— a native iOS pitch, for stakeholders —

Vet·Talk

Turning the language wall between Korean veterinarians and foreign pet owners into a live, on-device, two-way conversation.

Sam Lee · FounderiOS 26+ · Native SwiftBundle · com.sam.vettalk
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§ 01 — The Wall
Problem

The 13-minute consult, lost in translation.

A third of every cross-language consult is spent typing into Papago, miming, or pulling a colleague in to interpret.

Notes get written twice. Follow-up instructions get misremembered. The clinic keeps no auditable record. And cloud transcription is off the table — under PIPA, medical conversations cannot leave the device.

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§ 02 — Why Now
Three pillars

The platform finally allows it — on-device, in Korean, in real time.

i.

SpeechAnalyzer ships ko_KR

iOS 26 makes Korean a first-class on-device locale. No cloud STT, no PIPA exposure — the audio never leaves the phone.

ii.

WhisperKit as a fallback

Apple Neural Engine + Whisper large-v3 dual-track. If SpeechAnalyzer drifts on clinical terms, Whisper catches it. We A/B both engines.

iii.

Hardened Gemini proxy

Translation only — no audio, no PHI. Vercel proxy holds the key server-side, X-App-Key auth, model whitelist. Apple Translation as offline fallback.

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§ 03 — What it is
Product

A bilingual dictation & translation companion, built for the consult room.

One big button. Korean in, English back, in under a second.

Patient context auto-loads from the vet's Calendar event. The vet talks; the owner reads. When the consult ends, a clean clinical recap lands in the clinic's chart channel.

VetTalk live consult view
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§ 04 — How it works
Three steps

A consult, end to end, in three on-device steps.

STEP I

Calendar context

The vet opens the Calendar event for the next visit. VetTalk pre-fills the patient name, breed, and history — no typing.

Patient detail
Source · Google Calendar event
STEP II

On-device speech

SpeechAnalyzer (primary) runs Korean STT on the Neural Engine. WhisperKit large-v3 is the fallback. Translation goes through the hardened proxy.

Live consult view
Engine · SpeechAnalyzer + Whisper · A/B
STEP III

Recap to webhook

One tap composes a clinical summary in Korean and posts it to Slack, Telegram, or any webhook the clinic owns. Plus a printable PDF for the chart.

Recap output
Target · ≥ 99.5% delivery, offline retry
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§ 05 — Two-way mode
Face-to-face

Meridian dock · phone flat between vet and owner

Each party reads their own language, right-side-up.

Lay the phone flat on the consult-room table. The screen splits along a meridian — the vet's pane faces the vet, the owner's pane faces the owner. One big record button keeps the conversation going without fuss.

No headphones. No passing devices. No awkward leaning. The pet stays the focus of the room.

Split mode + Face-to-face mode
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§ 06 — Targets
Success metrics

Four numbers we live or die by. Drift two weeks → re-scope.

Metric
Target
How we measure
Korean STT character error rate
≤ 10% CER
Held-out clinical phrase set, manually scored weekly. SpeechAnalyzer vs WhisperKit large-v3, dual-track.
Time to first transcribed word
≤ 1.2 s
Instrumented in-app from tap-to-record to first rendered token. On-device path only.
Recap delivery success
≥ 99.5%
Webhook 2xx on first try, or offline retry queue drained within 24h. Failure dashboard in the proxy.
Vet retention, week 4
≥ 60%
Of beta vets onboarded in week 1, share running ≥ 1 consult/week by week 4.
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§ 07 — Roadmap
Four phases · through 2026·07·31

Eight weeks to public. If a phase slips, we cut scope — not the date.

i · Done
Foundation
Through 2026·04·30
  • iOS shell, signing, devicectl flow
  • WhisperKit integration
  • Gemini proxy live
  • Recap webhook v1
ii · This sprint
Refined UI + 2-way
By 2026·05·20
  • Refined design system applied
  • Face-to-face meridian dock
  • SpeechAnalyzer dual-engine A/B
  • Patient detail screen
iii · Next
Clinic Beta
By 2026·06·15
  • 3 partner clinics on TestFlight
  • Korean STT ≤ 10% CER
  • PDF chart export
  • Offline recap retry queue
iv · Later
Public + Android
By 2026·07·31
  • App Store submission
  • Sherpa-ONNX Android sibling
  • RU & ZH locales
  • Glossary import
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§ 08 — Why we win
Defensible posture

Native, on-device, Korean-first.

— i —

Native iOS, not cross-platform

SwiftUI all the way down. We get SpeechAnalyzer, the Neural Engine, Apple Translation, and Calendar integration day-one — without a React Native shim eating the latency budget.

— ii —

On-device speech, no cloud audio

Audio never leaves the phone. PIPA-friendly by construction. Cloud-STT competitors can't make this claim — and Korean clinics ask about it on the first call.

— iii —

Korean-first, not Korean-also

Built around Korean clinical vocabulary, glossary boost on long-tail terms, and held-out weekly scoring. Foreign-resident owners are the second-class citizen the market ignores.

— iv —

Workflow over platform

We don't replace the EMR. We post a recap to the channel the clinic already owns, and stop. Less scope, faster adoption, no procurement cycle.

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§ 09 — Risks & mitigation
What could go wrong

Four risks. Each has a stop-loss already wired in.

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Korean clinical accuracy under-shoots 90% on long-tail terms (drug names, breed-specific conditions).
MitigationGlossary boost + WhisperKit large-v3 fallback engine; weekly held-out scoring catches drift before clinics see it.
◆
Gemini proxy outage or rate-limit kills translation mid-consult.
MitigationApple Translation as offline KO ↔ EN fallback; recap still composes from local STT even if translation degrades.
◆
PIPA / medical-data compliance review blocks clinic adoption.
MitigationNo audio leaves device; recap is opt-in to clinic-owned channels only. Legal review scheduled before public launch.
◆
iOS 26 adoption is still climbing — addressable base smaller than headline iOS share.
MitigationBeta clinics hand-picked on supported hardware; Android sibling (Sherpa-ONNX, 9.91% CER on KO) covers the long tail.
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§ 10 — Asks
Specific, honest

Three concrete things that move us forward.

i.

Three beta clinics

Small-animal practices in Seoul that already see foreign-resident owners. We onboard, install, and instrument for free — they keep the recaps. Six-week TestFlight commitment.

ii.

Two intros

One intro to a Korean veterinary association (KVMA / KAHA) for the clinical glossary review. One intro to a PIPA-savvy healthcare lawyer for the consent-flow review.

iii.

Advisor time

Two hours a month from someone who has shipped a Korean clinical SaaS through procurement and won. Equity terms negotiable; the clock starts when the first beta clinic signs.

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— end of deck —
2026 · 05 · 06
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Thank you.

Let's give Korean vets and foreign pet owners a conversation that actually lands — and a chart entry that survives the day.

Sam LeeFounder · VetTalk
truleesamuel@gmail.comDirect
iOS 26 · Native Swiftcom.sam.vettalk
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