Scripto founder and occupational therapist Julian Corvin will make her entrepreneurial debut in the startup arena at Digital Health Festival 2025 this week, saying she wants her technology to be liberating for other OTs.
Scripto is her innovative solution to support allied health professionals to meet their documentation obligations and reporting standards for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The future looks bright for the AI-assisted report writing tool, but Ms Corvin says for now, occupational therapists are the target.
“Therapists spend a considerable amount of time on reporting and it is very time intensive which takes you away from practical patient care,” she said.
“So, I developed a template that was using AI and to be Microsoft Word friendly that I could safely use to speed up the reporting process.”
“It’s a template for a report called a functional capacity assessment report. And that’s the most common report within my field.”
“Basically, I made it for myself and then I thought, well, if I can help other therapists with this, that’s what I would like to do.”
“AI is great for reducing errors and streamlining the time clinicians spend synthesising and formatting reports—it’s incredibly helpful for those manual, time-intensive tasks.”
Ms Corvin said in the past few months she has noticed a changing tide in clinicians’ attitudes towards artificial intelligence. “Even a few months ago, there was hesitancy. Now, many say, ‘I need this, or I’ll be left behind’.”
She was recently selected for the Advance Queensland Backing Female Founders Investment Readiness programme, which supports innovative women-led startups to gain the skills and resources to be investment ready.
“We’re now moving into the next iteration of the platform, which is being custom built by our Chief Technology Officer Kyle Tully. It will have valuable time-saving features for other report writing contexts, such as medicolegal reporting and will serve other types of clinicians.
“It took me a year and a half to find a CTO I connected with, and that came through an AI-focused accelerator run by Advance Queensland. That ecosystem has been invaluable.”
“Being a founder can be incredibly isolating, which is why connecting with others in accelerators and founder groups has been so important.
“We’ve processed over 500 reports with our system and now have more than 100 paying users. We’ve got a 60/40 user split—more solo practitioners than group practices—and we’re learning how to support both with tools that meet their unique needs.”
“Our ethos is about building something local—for Australian occupational therapists, by Australian occupational therapists. We’re not chasing unicorn status; we’re solving a specific problem for our clinical community.
“We’re committed to keeping pricing affordable, especially for solo practitioners, because I know what they can and can’t afford.
“I built this so someone like me, who wanted to go independent, could achieve it by having tools that make running their own practice viable.
“Technology should be liberating—it should help clinicians to reclaim time, improve their working conditions, and take control of their careers,” Ms Corvin said.
*Scripto is an exhibitor in the StartUp Arena at Digital Health Festival in Melbourne May 13-14.
