circleOS vs. Doc-Cirrus

Doc-Cirrus stitches partners. circleOS ships one product.

Doc-Cirrus is a 2012 platform that reaches modern features through outside-vendor integrations. circleOS is what an all-in-one looks like when it's built AI-native from day one — Plans, Charge, briefings, notes and a real Patient Portal, all from one understanding of the patient.

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circleOS dashboard — appointments this week, latest bookings, latest comments

One product, not a stack of partners.

Doc-Cirrus reaches modern features by integrating outside vendors — AI scribe from one company, digital anamnesis from another, on top of the practice software itself. Three roadmaps, three contracts, and a stitched seam wherever they meet. Circle Intelligenceis one model that sees the schedule, the visit, the plan and the invoice — so a note already knows what plan it relates to, and a briefing already knows what's outstanding.

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circleOS dashboard — one product, one model of the patient

Recurring care, properly priced.

Doc-Cirrus tracks appointments — one at a time, like every PMS built in the 2010s. Plans price six visits across three providers as one thing the patient bought, and Chargereconciles each appointment against it. No spreadsheet to track who's on session four of six.

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Plans creator — multi-session care priced as one journey

Briefings before the visit, not just notes after.

A scribe joins when the consult starts. Tomorrow's twenty patients are already on tomorrow's calendar — and circleOS has already prepared a briefing for each of them. Last visit, plan progress, outstanding items, relevant history. Live Mode shows the day with a briefing on every appointment, ready when the clinician opens it at 8am.

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Live Mode with Circle Intelligence briefings on every appointment

An app patients open. Not a portal they email about.

Doc-Cirrus' patient touchpoint is a web portal bolted onto the practice software. Patients reach the front desk by phone or email first; the portal second. The Patient Portalflips that: bookings, plans, invoices and documents on the patient's phone, with notifications. The front desk inbox shrinks accordingly.

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Patient Portal — bookings, plans, invoices and documents on iPhone

Software that ships weekly, not on a 2014 cadence.

KBV and TÜV are table stakes — both products clear them. The difference shows up in the small things: how many clicks to book a recurring appointment, how the keyboard shortcuts work, how fast new AI capabilities reach your clinic. Doc-Cirrus ships modules on top of a 2012 base. circleOS ships an operating system that gets meaningfully better every quarter.

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Live Mode — the modern operational view of the clinic day

Honest, side-by-side

How circleOS compares to Doc-Cirrus.

Doc-Cirrus covers the German regulatory bases by stitching outside vendors onto a 2012 platform. circleOS is what an all-in-one looks like when it's one product, designed AI-native from day one — not a partnership stack.

Capability
circleOSOperating system
Doc-CirrusLegacy KBV-cert PMS
Eterno CloudAll-in-one cloud + GenAI
NellyIntake + AI docs + payments
Tandem HealthAI scribe + EMR connectors
Heidi HealthAI ambient scribe
Online patient bookingPatient-facing self-scheduling.
Supported
Supported
Supported
Not supportedActivates after booking elsewhere
Not supported
Not supported
Multi-disciplinary schedulingRosters across providers, rooms and locations.
Supported
SupportedResource planning
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Recurring care plansMulti-session care priced & tracked as one object.
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
PartialAI Treatment Plan Agent
Not supported
Not supported
AI-assisted clinical notesAmbient/voice → structured documentation.
Supported
Via integrationviaVia Tandem partnership
Supported
Supported
SupportedTheir core product
SupportedTheir core product
AI pre-visit briefingsPer-patient context generated before the consult.
Supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Not supported
Digital intake formsPatient-completed anamnesis, multi-language.
Supported
Via integrationviaVia Nelly Connect
Supported
Supported50+ languages — their core
Not supported
PartialForm-fill, not patient-facing
Invoicing & paymentsVisit → invoice → paid.
Supported
SupportedEBM/GOÄ/HzV
Supported
SupportedPlus patient financing
PartialSuggests codes only
Not supported
Real patient appPatients manage bookings, plans, invoices, documents.
Supported
PartialWeb portal
PartialPatient files / portal
PartialWeb portal, intake-led
Not supported
Not supported
Multi-location & rolesSites, teams, role-based permissions.
Supported
Supported
Supported
Supported700+ Colosseum Dental sites
Partial
Partial
AI-native architectureBuilt around AI from day one, not retrofitted.
Supported
Not supportedAI bolted onto 2012 platform
Partial
Partial
Supported
Supported
GDPR + DE/EU residencyPatient data resident in the EU.
Supported
SupportedDE, ISO 27001
SupportedCertified DE cloud
SupportedAWS Frankfurt, TÜV
SupportedEU data centres
PartialAU HQ, global hosting
Webhooks & public APIBuild on top of the platform.
Supported
Not supportedPartner integrations only
Not supportedNot publicly documented
PartialPMS Connector
Partial100+ EHR integrations
SupportedPublic roadmap

Comparison reflects publicly documented capabilities as of May 2026. Competitor products evolve fast — corrections welcome at peter@circle.health.

Built for clinics that have grown

Multi-location, multi-role, multi-everything.

Sites in three cities, a finance team that needs a real reporting layer, a developer team that wants webhooks. circleOS scales with you.

  • Multiple Locations

    Beta

    Offer services at multiple locations.

  • Roles & Permissions

    v0.0.9

    Granular permissions to control who accesses what.

  • Rich Analytics

    v0.1.5

    circleOS integrates with Metabase to enable you to build custom reports on top of your data.

  • Webhooks

    Beta

    circleOS emits events such as `booking.created` → use them.

We didn't reinvent these

Powered by industry-leading tech.

Stripe handles money. InSuite handles clinical billing. Fillout handles forms. circleOS is the layer that ties them to a patient.

  • InSuite logo
    InSuiteLaunched

    Invoice sync, status refresh, and checkout handoff for billing.

  • Front logo
    FrontLaunched

    Create patients from conversations and open the linked profile in context.

  • Fillout logo
    Filloutv0.1.2

    Build forms via Fillout & have them show up in circleOS.

  • Metabase logo
    Metabasev0.0.1

    Configure dashboards via Metabase & view them in circleOS.

  • Slack logo
    Slackv0.0.1

    Notifications for key events in Slack.

  • Knock logo
    Knockv0.0.1

    Powerful notification infrastructure.

  • Typesense logo
    Typesensev0.0.9

    Typo-tolerant global search engine.

  • Medusa logo
    Medusav0.1.2

    Commerce & inventory features.

  • Langdock logo
    Langdockv0.0.1

    Powers Circle Intelligence & other AI features.

  • Stripe logo
    Stripev0.0.9

    Use Stripe as a payment provider for online checkout.

  • Mixpanel logo
    Mixpanelv0.0.1

    Server-side, event-driven analytics.

  • Supabase logo
    Supabasev0.0.1

    Database and authentication.

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