Let's Get This Out of the Way
Sully AI and Tabflows get compared a lot. We get it — they both have "AI" in the pitch, they both target clinics, and they both promise to save you time. But comparing them is like comparing a dishwasher to a kitchen layout. One cleans the plates. The other makes sure you're not walking 40 feet between the sink and the fridge every time you cook.
They solve completely different problems. And honestly? Most clinics that use one would benefit from the other too.
The short version
- Sully AI is good at documentation automation, AI scribing, structured notes, and encounter support.
- Tabflows is better when the clinic needs a shared operating layer for patient context, tasks, follow-ups, messages, labs, billing, and team handoffs around the visit.
- Choose Sully AI if your main problem is notes, coding, or documentation time.
- Choose Tabflows if your clinic already creates notes, but the work around those notes still needs owners, timing, visibility, and follow-through.
- The real distinction is that Sully helps document the visit. Tabflows helps the team finish the work around the visit.
What Sully AI Actually Does
Sully is an AI scribe. A really good one. It listens to your patient encounter, generates structured notes, handles coding, and can even triage intake calls. Think of it as an AI employee who handles the documentation burden so you can actually look your patient in the eye during a visit.
Their sweet spot is documentation automation. If you're spending 2 hours every night finishing charts, Sully is built to kill that.
Pricing typically starts at $79+/provider/month. They're built for larger health systems with Epic and Oracle Health integrations, but they work in smaller settings too.
What Tabflows Actually Does
Tabflows doesn't touch your documentation. Not our thing.
What we do is organize the work around every app your clinic runs: Elation, Hint, Spruce, labs, billing, scribes, tasks, and follow-ups.
Our sweet spot is clinic follow-through. If your team keeps turning messages, notes, lab results, refills, and handoffs into work that lives in separate tabs or people's heads, that is the problem Tabflows is built to solve.
Core is free forever, and Patient Assist and Smart Clinic add AI when the team is ready for more than basic tasks and name exchange.
The Real Difference
Sully AI
- Problem it solves: Documentation takes too long
- How: AI listens and writes notes
- Where: Inside the encounter
- Setup: Weeks (white-glove onboarding)
- Price: $79+/provider/month
Tabflows
- Problem it solves: Work scattered across apps, teams, and patient context
- How: Gives the clinic one shared workflow and AI layer around its existing tools
- Where: Around the visit, before the visit, after the visit, and between the apps
- Setup: Core can start quickly without an EHR migration
- Price: Core is free forever; Patient Assist and Smart Clinic scale from there
So Which One Do You Need?
If your biggest pain is documentation — charts piling up, notes taking forever, coding headaches — Sully is your move.
If your biggest pain is follow-through — tasks, patient context, messages, labs, and handoffs scattered across the clinic day — that's us.
If both sound familiar, you're not alone. Most DPC clinics have both problems. The good news is they stack perfectly. Sully handles what happens during the visit. Tabflows handles what happens around it.
There's no conflict. They are different tools for different jobs.
The Bottom Line
We're not going to trash Sully to sell you Tabflows. They built something genuinely useful for a real problem. We just built something for a different real problem.
The question isn't which one is better. It's which problem is costing you more time right now.
If the answer is tabs, we're ready when you are.