The night shift nobody filled.
A founder saw a structural gap nobody had touched. We came in before there was a product, a name, or a roadmap. Now there is Nachtly.
Innovation
ZMK – Nachtly
Healthcare Robotics
The Mess
Germany has 37,423 dental practices. Every single one has the same unsolved problem.
- Trained specialists spend significant time restocking rooms, fetching supplies and working through checklists
- Dental assistants are becoming scarcer, more expensive and more frustrated
- No product exists anywhere in the world that solves this
- Just a structural pain that returns every night when the practice empties out and waits
Action
We entered at the moment when the problem was clearer than the solution.
- Shaped Nachtly: a humanoid robot that operates exclusively at night
- Checks and restocks every treatment room, leaves a report by 7am
- Team arrives to a fully prepared practice — no manual steps needed
- Structured as Robot-as-a-Service at €2,500 per month, no hardware investment for the client
- Built the prototype directly inside real practices — real rooms, real workflows, real feedback. Not in a lab. In the field.
Outcome
Nachtly is being built with its first pilot practices in Hesse — not for them, but with them.
- Practice owners define the checklists and test the workflows
- Every morning they see exactly what the robot did
- The result is not a generic product but a system shaped around the real workflow of a dental practice
- Addressable market in Germany: 70,000+ healthcare SMB units
- Nachtly has form. And is growing.
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