Built by a COTA for skilled-nursing therapy teams.
Deshaun Dabon — Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant, 10 years in skilled nursing. SMEG is built from the documentation pressures therapy teams face in the field.
Why SMEG exists.
For 10 years I documented therapy in skilled nursing. PT, OT, SLP — I worked beside every discipline. I saw how small documentation gaps can become big operational questions when records are pulled for review.
The thing nobody on the outside understands: documentation risk is not the same as therapists doing bad work. They are good clinicians, doing real care, who got too busy at 4:30 PM and shipped a note that was true but not supportable. A missing frequency line. A plan-of-care reference that did not name the active POC. A threshold or modifier detail that needs a second look before billing or review.
Those are the kinds of issues a structured pre-submission or pre-review screen can surface. But the scale of the problem — hundreds of notes a week per facility — makes comprehensive manual review difficult. So either teams review only small samples, miss patterns, or build expensive QA capacity.
I built SMEG to add a practical review layer between therapy documentation and leadership decision-making. Consistent screening. Clinician-led review. Clearer follow-up. Not because therapists are doing bad work — because the system asks clinicians to be perfect at documentation while also being perfect at care, and that is hard to scale manually.
The thing every other compliance vendor in this category gets wrong: many tools are built far away from the daily therapy-documentation workflow. SMEG is built by a clinician who lived inside those documentation expectations for 10 years. The active rules are implemented, tested, and written to surface reviewable risk — not to replace compliance, billing, legal, or payer-specific judgment. When your team has a question, you should be able to talk to someone who understands therapy documentation in the real world.
That is the practical advantage SMEG is trying to bring to the market: clinician context first, software second. The product should feel like it was built by someone who knows why therapy notes become hard to defend under real operational pressure.
The next decade of therapy teams deserves clearer documentation-risk visibility before small gaps become big review problems.
No fluff. No fabrications.
Skilled-nursing therapy experience in the post-acute setting.
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant background; licensure details available upon request.
Built documentation-risk review logic across PT, OT, and SLP examples.
Talk to Deshaun.
Founder-led conversations. If you have a question about documentation-risk review, pilot scope, or whether SMEG fits your workflow, we can talk directly.