DEPLOYED · 2026 · Dental hardware
Denticta
A chairside device that turns spoken dental charting into a structured clinical note. Running in a working operatory.
formerly DentaLog
2026.__.__ · DEPLOYED · Denticta · live in a working operatory
Parameters
- HARDWARE
- custom ESP32-S3 board, KiCad, JLCPCB
- PIPELINE
- operatory audio, Whisper, GPT-4, structured note
- RECORD
- writes into the practice's chart software
- ENTITY
- shipped under Impetus AI LLC
- STATE
- deployed, in daily use
What it was
Charting is the part of an exam that a dentist does twice: once out loud to the assistant, once again into the software afterwards. Denticta removes the second pass. The device sits chairside, captures the operatory, and produces a structured note in the format the practice's chart software already expects.
The hardware is a custom ESP32-S3 board I laid out in KiCad and had assembled at JLCPCB. The transcription and charting pipeline runs on Whisper and GPT-4. The software half is a HIPAA-shaped web app — field-level encryption, an audit trail, and connectors into the practice management system — so the note lands where the clinician already works instead of in another tab.
It ships under Impetus AI LLC, alongside Texto, an SMS appointment reminder system running at the same practice, and TextPay for solo tradespeople. Denticta is the one I would show first: it is the only thing I have built that is used daily by someone who is not me.