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Tony Stoyanov

Co-founder & CTO, EliseAI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Stoyan "Tony" Stoyanov co-founded EliseAI to build conversational AI platforms automating operations in residential housing and healthcare. A University of Cambridge computer science graduate, he serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer.

8statements → 7claims → 4claims resolved → 75%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.88/5average debate potential →

3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Tony argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Stoyanov: Healthcare administrative costs have grown significantly faster than clinical care costs
“And I think the costs on the admin side have really skyrocketed. Way faster than anything on the clinical side.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 34:12 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Tony Stoyanov on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Tony Stoyanov said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Stoyanov: Minneapolis zoning reform kept rents flat while US rents rose 31%
“Minneapolis is a great example. They did a big housing reform. Part of that was actually ending single family zoning rules there. And that happened back in two, 20,019. And I think ever since that we've seen like supply has grown three times faster than the na…”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 7:02 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Aug 2030
Stoyanov: Banning technology in an industry never leads to lower consumer costs
“I cannot think of a single example where, you know, technology was banned and then costs went down. I think that just never happens.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 27:20 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stoyanov: Voice AI built for housing translated directly to healthcare administration
“We developed our voice technology over the housing space and that has translated really, really well in the healthcare space. And the same thing with a lot of the scheduling optimizations we've been doing have translated quite, quite well.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 32:34 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Insight
Stoyanov: Healthcare and housing share nearly identical administrative operational structures
“So they kind of feel very, very different, but from admin organizational operations perspective We, we've barely been surprised by anything by transitioning to healthcare.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 32:53 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Assertion Supported
Stoyanov: Healthcare administrative costs have grown significantly faster than clinical care costs
“And I think the costs on the admin side have really skyrocketed. Way faster than anything on the clinical side.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 34:12 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Assertion Supported
Stoyanov: San Francisco's residential housing vacancy rate is approximately 3.5%
“SF vacancy rate is at about three and a half percent today”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 9:45 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stoyanov: Multi-building AI maintenance sharing will unlock dramatic efficiency gains
“But for something like maintenance, we expect to see a lot more dramatic gains once you go on the ecosystem level.”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 18:03 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Assertion Supported
Stoyanov: A large proportion of current property maintenance technicians are over 50
“A lot of the maintenance technicians today are actually over 50 years old”
Tony Stoyanov Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 20:12 Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability? Aug 21, 2025 9m
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