HPEC, Inc.

HPEC, Inc. is an American healthcare credentialing software company. It is the company behind Evercred, an AI-driven credentialing platform that automates primary-source verification of practitioner credentials such as NPI/NPPES records, DEA registrations, state medical licenses, and board certifications. The company was founded by Dr. Leah Houston, MD, an emergency physician and MIT-trained entrepreneur, and is described as being backed by more than 600 physician investors. HPEC's origin lies in the personal experience of its founder. After practicing emergency medicine for over a decade, Dr. Houston had her credentials stolen: a hospital used her name and certifications without her permission to bill for services she never provided. That experience led her to found HPEC, Inc. as a company built around the idea of practitioner sovereignty, and to build a decentralized-identity platform so that practitioners could own their own credential data. In 2025, with the rise of AI agents making automated primary-source verification possible, HPEC sunset its mobile app and launched Evercred, combining practitioner data ownership with agentic verification at scale. Evercred positions itself against legacy credentialing software and traditional manual processes. According to the company, the traditional credentialing process takes 90 to 120 days, while Evercred's AI agents perform the same primary-source verification in moments, reducing the overall process to weeks. The platform is marketed to medical practices and hospitals, with pricing published openly on the website — starting at $2,999 — in contrast to legacy credentialing software that the company says costs hospitals $50,000 to $1,000,000 a year. The company emphasizes that it does not require a procurement committee, a "contact sales" step, or a six-month implementation project. HPEC, Inc. is a private company. Its flagship offering is the Evercred credentialing platform, and its stated thesis is that practitioners must own their identity and that credentialing should not take 120 days.

HPEC, Inc. was founded by Dr. Leah Houston, MD, an emergency physician and MIT-trained entrepreneur. The company's origin story is rooted in Dr. Houston's own experience: after practicing emergency medicine for over a decade, she had her credentials stolen when a hospital used her name and certifications without her permission to bill for services she never provided. That experience exposed what the company describes as a deeper problem — in a system where practitioners do not own their own credential data, identity theft is not a bug but the architecture. Dr. Houston founded HPEC, Inc. as a company of practitioner sovereignty and built a decentralized-identity platform so that practitioners could finally own their own credentials. The company describes Evercred as the second act of a seven-year journey dedicated to solving healthcare's most stubborn administrative bottleneck. In 2025, with the AI agent revolution making automated primary-source verification possible, HPEC sunset its mobile app and built Evercred: an AI-driven credentialing platform that combines practitioner data ownership with agentic verification at scale. The technology evolved into powerful AI automation, but the company states that its thesis is unchanged: practitioners must own their identity, and credentialing should not take 120 days. Evercred's platform performs primary-source verification of NPI/NPPES records, DEA registrations, state medical licenses, and board certifications. According to the company, the traditional credentialing process takes 90 to 120 days, while Evercred's AI agents do the same verification in moments, taking the whole process down to weeks. The company markets the platform to medical practices and hospitals, and publishes pricing openly on its website — starting at $2,999, with per-seat prices dropping as a practice grows — in contrast to legacy credentialing software that it says costs hospitals $50,000 to $1,000,000 a year. The company also states that it is backed by more than 600 physician investors.

• Dr. Leah Houston founds HPEC, Inc. as a company of practitioner sovereignty and builds a decentralized-identity platform for practitioners to own their credentials.

• In 2025, with the AI agent revolution enabling automated primary-source verification, HPEC sunsets its mobile app and builds Evercred, an AI-driven credentialing platform.

AI-driven credentialing platform that automates primary-source verification, positioned against legacy credentialing software and manual processes with transparent, low-entry pricing.

• Evercred

  AI-driven credentialing platform that automates primary-source verification of NPI/NPPES records, DEA registrations, state medical licenses, and board certifications, reducing the credentialing process from 90–120 days to weeks.

1. 1Evercred: Credential practitioners in moments, not monthsevercred.com
2. 2About Evercred: Built by a physician who lived the problemevercred.com
3. 3HPEC, Inc. - Wikidatawikidata.org