PilotAmbuRide is piloting in Lagos & Ibadan

The first hour decides everything.

Catalysed Labs builds emergency care infrastructure for Africa. Our flagship, AmbuRide, connects anyone in an emergency to the nearest ambulance, the right hospital and an available operating theatre, tracked live from request to handover.

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hospitals mapped
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The problem

An emergency shouldn’t start with a guessing game.

In most African cities, the tools exist: ambulances, hospitals, skilled surgeons. What's missing is the layer that connects them in real time. Every gap below costs minutes that patients don't have.

01

Where is the nearest ambulance?

Families call around, flag down a car or drive the patient themselves, because nobody can see which ambulances are free and close by.

02

Which hospital can take them?

Bed and theatre availability is invisible from the outside, so patients reach facilities that can't treat them and have to move again.

03

Does anyone know they're coming?

Emergency teams often learn about a critical patient at the door, with no time to assemble staff or prepare a theatre.

04

Where does the system break?

Without response data, no one can see where coverage fails, how long people wait, or where the next ambulance should be stationed.

AmbuRide

One emergency. Three connected views.

AmbuRide puts the patient, the dispatcher and the receiving hospital on the same live record, so everyone sees the same status at the same moment.

Patient app

Patients · families · bystanders

Request help in seconds. Your location is captured automatically, you confirm the pin, tell us what’s happening, and follow the ambulance on a live map.

  • Map-first pickup with GPS capture
  • Choose from the 3 nearest ambulances and hospitals
  • Live tracking with instant status alerts
  • Medical profile, allergies and emergency contacts
Pickup here
My location

What’s happening?

CardiacAccidentTraumaStrokeMaternityBreathing

How serious?

CriticalUrgentNon-urgent
Request ambulance

Dispatch console

Dispatchers · fleet operators

Every active emergency on one screen. Auto-dispatch picks the best unit; operators can override it in a click.

Active requests

Available · 12En route · 4
  • REQ-2041En route
  • REQ-2040At scene
  • REQ-2039Transporting
  • REQ-2038Pending

Hospital board

Hospital admins · surgeons · nurses

Publish theatre and bed availability, see who’s inbound, and book surgery without double-booking a room.

Theatres today

ICU beds · 3 free
  • Theatre 1 · CardiacIn use
  • Theatre 2 · OrthopaedicAvailable
  • Theatre 3 · EmergencyHeld for inbound

How it works

From tap to theatre, one continuous handoff.

Each request moves through a single, auditable status flow. The patient, the crew and the hospital always see the same truth.

  1. Step 01

    Request

    One tap captures your GPS location. Confirm the pickup pin, say what's happening and how serious it is. Add a note if you can.

    status: pending

  2. Step 02

    Match

    The dispatch engine ranks every available ambulance in range by distance, equipment and track record, and assigns the best fit.

    status: dispatched

  3. Step 03

    Track

    Follow the ambulance live on the map. Every status change reaches your phone the moment it happens, no refreshing.

    status: en_route · at_scene

  4. Step 04

    Handover

    The receiving hospital is alerted before arrival, so the emergency team, and a theatre if needed, is ready when you are.

    status: transporting · completed

The dispatch engine

The closest ambulance isn’t always the right one.

A cardiac arrest needs advanced life support, not just the nearest vehicle. AmbuRide scores every available unit in real time on what actually matters to the patient.

Proximity

Straight-line distance from the pickup pin, decaying to zero at 50 km.

Capability

Life support, ventilators and defibrillators, matched to the emergency type.

Track record

Crew rating and historical response times feed every decision.

Human override

Dispatchers can re-assign any request manually, at any moment.

Ranking candidates

REQ-2041 · Cardiac · Critical

Auto-dispatch

  1. AMB-014Assigned

    Advanced Life Support · 1.8 km · ★ 4.8

    194

  2. AMB-022

    Advanced Life Support · 3.4 km · ★ 4.9

    192

  3. AMB-007Closest

    Basic Life Support · 0.9 km · ★ 4.6

    144

ProximityRatingLife supportType match

For hospitals

The ambulance gets them there. The theatre has to be ready.

AmbuRide’s hospital layer gives emergency and surgical teams a live view of capacity, so the right patient reaches the right room without phone tag or paper diaries.

Theatre schedule

Today · 4 theatres

1 inbound
08:0009:0010:0011:0012:0013:0014:0015:0016:0017:0018:00

Theatre 1

Cardiac

CABG · confirmed
Valve repair

Theatre 2

Orthopaedic

Hip replacement
Overlap rejected
ORIF femur

Theatre 3

Emergency

Held · REQ-2041 inbound

Theatre 4

General

Lap chole
Clean
Hernia repair

Availability by specialty

General, cardiac, neuro, orthopaedic, paediatric, emergency and day-surgery theatres, searchable in one place.

Conflict-free booking

Overlapping bookings are rejected automatically, before they reach a surgeon's calendar.

The full surgical lifecycle

Requested, confirmed, checked in, in progress, completed. Reschedule or cancel with a full record.

Inbound alerts

Know a critical patient is on the way before the ambulance pulls in, and hold a theatre if needed.

Beds and ICU

Publish live counts for general, ICU and emergency beds so dispatch routes patients where there's room.

Utilisation insight

Understand theatre usage and turnaround times to unlock capacity you already have.

Coverage

Starting where we live: Lagos and Ibadan.

We've mapped 29 hospitals across both cities, with their locations, theatres and emergency capability, so dispatch can route every patient to a facility that can actually treat them.

Lagos

Pilot

15

hospitals mapped

  • Idi-Araba
  • Ikeja
  • Ebute Metta
  • Lagos Island
  • Igbobi
  • Gbagada
  • Victoria Island
  • Ikoyi
  • Lekki
  • Apapa

Ibadan

Pilot

14

hospitals mapped

  • UCH axis
  • Adeoyo
  • Ring Road
  • Jericho
  • Ibadan Central
  • Military Hospital axis
The map includesTeaching hospitalsFederal medical centresState general hospitalsSpecialist hospitalsPrivate multi-specialty

Engineering

Engineered for the moment it matters most.

Emergency software can't be fragile. AmbuRide is built on a production-grade stack designed for reliability, privacy and speed.

Role-based access

Eight distinct roles, from patient and driver to surgeon and hospital admin. Everyone sees exactly what their job needs and nothing more.

Secure by default

Token-based sessions, hashed credentials and secure on-device storage. Medical details stay with the people treating you.

Real-time core

Live location and status stream over WebSockets, with seamless fallback to polling when the network drops.

Location with consent

AmbuRide asks for your location only while the app is in use, and only to get help to you faster.

Geospatial engine

PostGIS-powered distance and radius search finds the nearest capable ambulances and hospitals in milliseconds.

Full audit trail

Every status change is timestamped, from request to completion, so response times can be measured and improved.

Roadmap

Ambulance dispatch is where we start, not where we stop.

Every request makes the network smarter. Our goal is a connected emergency care system, from the first call to recovery.

Now01

Pilot

  • Patient app for iOS and Android
  • Live ambulance tracking
  • Auto-dispatch with manual override
  • Operations console for dispatchers
  • Theatre booking and bed visibility
Next02

Scale

  • Driver and paramedic app with turn-by-turn navigation
  • SMS and push alerts for families
  • Payments, HMO and insurance integration
  • Post-trip ratings and quality reporting
Later03

Intelligence

  • Telemedicine en route: paramedics with remote physicians
  • Vital signs streamed to the receiving hospital
  • Demand forecasting and smart ambulance positioning
  • Mass-casualty and disaster response mode

Join the pilot

Help us build the response network.

AmbuRide works best when every hospital, every ambulance and every family is on it. Tell us who you are and we’ll get you set up.

Hospitals

Publish theatre and bed capacity, receive inbound alerts, and become a pilot hospital.

Ambulance operators

Plug your fleet into live dispatch and reach patients who need you, faster.

Investors & funders

Back the infrastructure layer for emergency care across African cities.

Patients & families

Get early access to the AmbuRide app in Lagos and Ibadan.

Or write to us directly at info@catalysedlabs.com