Programme · 2026
Forty facilities. Ten of each.
Twelve months. Zero invoice.
The Vedge Design Partner programme. A twelve-month free deployment for forty African healthcare facilities — ten hospitals, ten clinics, ten laboratories, ten pharmacies — willing to build the product with us, on camera, on the ward, on the record.
- Partners
- 40
- Duration
- 12 mo
- Cost
- ₵0
- Ask
- 30 min/wk
Ten each across hospitals, clinics, labs, and pharmacies.
Full access starting the day your data is migrated.
All modules, all users, all branches, migration included.
A weekly feedback session plus one case study at month twelve.
What you get
Five benefits.
All in writing.
Everything here is written into your design partner agreement before you sign. Nothing is implied and nothing is conditional.
- 01
- Your facility runs on Vedge for a full year at zero cost. Every module, every seat, every branch. When the year ends you choose whether to continue — no auto-renewals, no surprises.
- 02
- A dedicated Slack channel, a shared document library, and weekly thirty-minute calls with the engineers who actually write the code. You ask; we build; you test.
- 03
- Design partner requests go to the top of the queue. If you need something that isn’t in the product yet, we either build it or tell you why we won’t — before the quarter ends.
- 04
- New modules land in your facility first. You break them, we fix them, everyone else gets the stable version six weeks later.
- 05
- At month twelve we publish a joint case study — the problems you started with, the numbers you moved, the lessons we both learned. Your choice whether to use your real name.
What we ask
Four things.
No fine print.
A design partnership is a two-way contract. Here is the full list of what we need from you, in exchange for everything on the previous page.
- i.
- One thirty-minute session on a day that suits you. Cancel freely when the wards are under pressure; we’ll reschedule without drama.
- ii.
- If Vedge is slow, broken, ugly, or wrong for your workflow — we need to know first, not last. We’re here to fix it, not to defend it.
- iii.
- A 60-minute interview, a few screenshots, and your permission to publish the result. That’s the entire marketing ask.
- iv.
- Permission to list your facility as a design partner on this website. Anonymised if you prefer — we won’t push back.
Who we need
The shape of the ideal forty.
Design partners aren’t first-come, first-served. We want a deliberate mix that gives us signal across verticals, facility sizes, and ownership models.
Hospitals
10A deliberate mix: district hospitals, private groups, mission-run, teaching, and speciality centres (women’s, paediatric, oncology). Ideally at least one of each archetype.
Clinics
10Out-patient clinics with at least two clinicians — one of whom is willing to run the digital chart themselves. Urban and rural, public and private.
Laboratories
10A blend of standalone diagnostic labs and hospital-attached reference labs. At least half should be running automated analysers, and QC workflows must be real, not theoretical.
Pharmacies
10Single-counter community pharmacies, growing 2-3 counter operators, and at least two chains of five or more branches. Mix of urban, peri-urban, and rural.
Apply
Tell us about your facility.
Forty slots — ten per vertical. Rolling basis. We read every application within two working days and reply to every applicant — yes or no — before the end of the same week.
If you’ve been in touch with the Vedge team, mention the name of who you spoke to in the “what you want to solve” field so we can stitch your application into the conversation.