Our story
It started with fourteen clinic letters.
Docyment was not planned as a system for a whole clinic. It began in 2025 with a consultant who was tired of writing clinic letters in the evening. It grew because another clinician saw what the rest of the clinic needed.
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Shady NafieConsultant Urologist and co-founder of DocymentKettering General Hospital
A founder's own account, not a customer testimonial.
The origin
Two decades of the same letters.
One Thursday evening I sat down with fourteen clinic letters still to dictate. The patients had been seen and the decisions made. What was left was the writing, and I had been doing that same writing every week for more than two decades.
Leave a clinic letter until the evening and you are rebuilding the consultation from your notes. I had tried dictation software and a transcription service. Both still left me to structure, format and check the letter myself.
I had accepted this the way you accept the weather. In July 2025 I stopped.
How it started
One question from a developer.
In August 2025 I took the idea to two people: Sherif Darwish, a consultant psychiatrist, and my cousin Sherif Nafie, a software developer.
I described what I wanted. I see the patient, I capture the findings, and something produces the finished letter for me to review. Sherif Nafie asked me one question.
“Can you describe the letter format precisely enough that a machine could write it?”
The answer was yes. A clinic letter follows a predictable structure. What changes is the clinical content.
Sherif Nafie built the first version, and I set the direction. It was rough. It wrote urology outpatient letters and nothing else, the template was rigid, and every draft needed heavy editing. But the idea held. Keep the clinical content separate from the structure of the letter, and a system that understands both can write the draft.
Sherif DarwishConsultant Psychiatrist and co-founder of DocymentCEO, Recovery Center
A co-founder whose hospital is a Docyment client. Not an independent testimonial.
From letters to the clinic day
Beyond urology. Then beyond the letter.
Shady brought me the idea in August 2025, and I have been part of Docyment since, at first mostly on the business side. My own letters were also the test. Psychiatric letters look nothing like Shady's: longer histories, different language, and a GP who expects different things. The idea held outside urology.
But a letter is one part of a clinic. Recovery Center, the psychiatric hospital I run in Alexandria, has around ninety staff. Reception books the patient, clinicians see them, and managers need to know what happened. Everyone is working around the same patient. I pushed for Docyment to grow beyond the letter and serve that whole team.
Shady took that on and led the development of a second version of Docyment: a clinic platform, with booking, team roles and patient messaging around one patient record. We are bringing our hospital onto it step by step.
Where we are going
The whole clinic day, around the patient.
Docyment now connects the clinic day. Bookings, the patient record, conversations with the patient and clinical documents sit together, because they all concern the same person.
We want every clinic, from a consultant working alone to a full team, to run its day in one system built around the patient, with the clinician in control of every document.
AI drafts and checks. A clinician reviews and approves before a document is used. That will not change.
Docyment is shaped and directed by two practising clinicians. We still run clinics, so we meet the same problems as the colleagues we build for.
There is more of the clinic day still to bring in, and we will build it the same way.
Milestones
The story so far.
- The idea for Docyment takes shape.
- Shady takes the idea to Sherif Nafie and Sherif Darwish. Sherif Nafie starts development.
- Docyment Ltd is incorporated in England and Wales.
- Work begins on the clinic platform, built for whole teams as well as single clinicians.
- Docyment for iPhone goes live on the App Store.
- Docyment for Android is published on Google Play.
The founders
The clinicians behind Docyment.
- Shady NafieConsultant Urologist and co-founder of DocymentKettering General HospitalLinkedIn
- Sherif DarwishConsultant Psychiatrist and co-founder of DocymentCEO, Recovery CenterFacebook
Docyment has three co-founders. Shady Nafie and Sherif Darwish, both practising consultants, shape and direct it. Sherif Nafie, Shady's cousin and a software developer, built the first version.
Clinical information. Clinician control.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not use patient data to train AI models. A clinician reviews and approves each document before it is used.
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