The whole practice, working as one.
Tessa runs the whole practice on one simple screen, from the front desk to the consulting room. Reception, billing and clinical work, finally on the same page.
Two kinds of expertise. One practice.
A practice runs on two kinds of expertise: the care in the consulting room, and the administration that carries it through.
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Neither matters more than the other. What matters is what they achieve together, and that is what we built for.
One screen for the whole day
Bookings, billing, medical-aid claims and follow-ups in one place, laid out the way the rooms team already works. Clear, quick, and built for the pace of a real day.
One-click notes, one-click claims
The clinical record and the claim are captured in the same moment. Nothing waits for the next morning, and nothing is left unbilled.
Every piece of the practice, in its place.
Tessa takes her name from the tessera, the single tile in a mosaic. On its own, a tile is a small piece. Set in its place, it becomes part of a whole picture.
That is what Tessa does for a practice. The booking, the consultation, the claim, the result and the follow-up are each set exactly where they belong, so the whole picture comes together.
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Look at the mark and you will see the same idea: a ring, and a single multicoloured dot settled into its place, like a ball rolling into the pocket.
Every decision carries an administrative half.
The moment a call is made in the consulting room, a second set of tasks begins: the coding, the claim, the authorisation, the follow-up.
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On generic software that half waits, gets chased, and drifts. We close it in the same moment.
Decision and admin pull apart
The call happens in seconds. The work it creates lands hours later, out of context, and the thread comes undone.
Time and billing leak away
Reception time goes to chasing claims. Billing that should be captured at the point of care quietly slips.
One flow, start to finish
From booking to reconciled record, every step is held open until it closes, so the day ends with nothing left hanging.
One standard. Five specialities.
Like a chameleon, the dot on the mark takes on the colour of each speciality it serves, without ever changing what it is.
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Obstetrics and gynaecology is live now, and four more specialities are on the way.
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Live nowAnaesthesiology
Coming soonPhysician
Coming soonOrthopaedics
Coming soonOphthalmology
Coming soonSimple enough to use on day one.
One-click buttons, a clear flow, nothing to decode. Here is what the team sees.
Results arrive at the point of care and file in one tap.
The whole day at a glance, from booking to reconciled.
One sign-in for the whole team, and a clear way in for new practices.
Four steps, and the practice closes itself.
The patient is booked
Reception books, confirms and reminds in a few taps. The patient arrives expected, not chased.
The decision is made
The clinician records the consultation in the flow of the visit, in the structure of the speciality.
The claim is prepared
In the same moment, coding and billing are ready to submit. No re-keying, no next-morning catch-up.
The record reconciles
Results, authorisations and follow-ups are held open until each one closes. The day ends clean.
We don't replace what works. We connect it.
The tools you already trust keep working. The platform catalyses them into one practice ecosystem, so what works for the individual works for the whole practice.
AI scribe notes
The AI scribe many clinicians already use keeps doing what it does. We carry its notes into the claim, the record and the follow-up, so one clinician's tool becomes the whole practice's flow.
PlannedPathology results
Pathology results arriving at the point of care, ready to file in one tap.
PlannedLaboratory results
Lab results flowing straight into the record, with no re-keying and no paper chase.
PlannedScanning & sonar
Obstetric ultrasound connected through the global standard for medical imaging, so images and measurements land in the file.
PlannedPrenatal screening
Prenatal screening and cord blood banking for obstetric practices, with results and referrals linked to the patient record.
PlannedIntegrated calendars
Bookings sync with the calendars the rooms team already lives in.
PlannedAnd more as the ecosystem grows. We add the connections practices actually ask for: if it works for your speciality, we make it work for your whole practice. See the platform →
Planned integrations.
Your practice, housed where it belongs.
Practice digitisation, powered by Satchel and Boot, takes the practice off paper and houses its data in the Engine Room, on infrastructure built for South African practice.
For full practice management, we house your data securely with world-class cybersecurity and POPIA-aligned protocols. Fully local, fully compliant, because it is built in South Africa, for South African practitioners.
Sovereign hosting
Your data housed on a fully local, compliant server, with world-class cybersecurity behind it. Monthly, no capital outlay.
Digitisation
We get your practice off paper and housed where it belongs. Scoped to your rooms, by consultation and quotation.
Catalyse, don't replace
The platform is the natural home. The add-ons are there when you want a fully managed, secure practice ecosystem.
Simple pricing, for the whole practice.
All prices include VAT.
- The full Tessa platform, tuned to your speciality
- Access for your reception and admin team
- Dedicated on-site onboarding
- Diary, records, results, scripts and documents in one place
- Not included: Medical aid benefit checks and claims through a switching house
- The full Tessa platform, tuned to your speciality
- Access for your reception and admin team
- Dedicated on-site onboarding
- Diary, records, results, scripts and documents in one place
- Medical aid benefit checks and claims through a switching house Coming soon
- Your practice off paper
- Secure archive, priced per terabyte, per month
- Sovereign hosting, priced per tier, per month
- Housed in the Engine Room
The claims add-on (coming soon) is for practices that bill medical aids, so no practice pays for work it does not do. Practice digitisation is scoped by consultation and quotation.
The work of the practice should close itself.
Built by clinicians, for clinicians, with the business and technology specialists who make a practice run. Built from inside real rooms, not designed at a distance.
See it running in your rooms.
Book a demo and we will walk your whole team through it, from the front desk to the consulting chair.