# Why the man who built Practo to find doctors is now using AI to find disease first

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Podcast: [Daybreak](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daybreak-5886514)
Published: 2026-04-17T01:42:22+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/ab6ade8e
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Duration seconds: 693

## Resource

India's life expectancy has doubled since 1950. But 65% of deaths are still from diseases caught too late. Cent, the new startup from Practo's founder, thinks it has an answer: full-body AI scans that find risks before they become diagnoses. At Rs 20,000–30,000 a scan, it's already found critical findings in hundreds of patients — with zero false positives, it claims. But Cent doesn't diagnose. It doesn't refer. And it has no proprietary technology. So what exactly are you paying for — and what happens after it finds something? Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.

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