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How we build Headway

Engineering deep dives, systems, and the infrastructure behind a mental healthcare platform that everyone can access.

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How Headway built multi-agent systems that shipped over 250 PRs in eight weeks

At Headway, we're building a mental healthcare system that everyone can access, and moving quickly is part of how we get there. Over eight weeks, our engineering team shipped more than 250 pull requests with the help of Eddy, the AI agent we built in-house. Here's the story of the multi-agent systems behind it.

Arav Misra&Will Anderson· Jun 22, 2026 · 11 min read

De-Bug-T: an AI copilot for dbt debugging

At Headway, the faster our teams can work, the more time we can spend expanding access to mental health care. One recent step was handing off a tedious part of our data work, debugging dbt pipeline failures, to an AI copilot. Here's how we built it and what we learned.

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Trpti Sanghvi · May 7, 2026

From spreadsheets to durable systems: how Headway rebuilt credentialing with Temporal

At Headway, credentialing providers quickly and accurately is one of the most important ways we expand access to care. We recently rebuilt that system from the ground up, moving from spreadsheets to a durable platform powered by Temporal that now supports more than a dozen teams and tens of thousands of providers.

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Stephen Leicht · Apr 22, 2026

Why Headway built its own healthcare-safe AI agents

At Headway, we handle sensitive patient information every day, so every tool we use has to meet a high bar for safety. That's why we built Eddy, our own healthcare-safe AI platform, in just two months. Today it's changing how the majority of our team works.

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Arnaud Ferreri · Apr 13, 2026

Headway expands its free, insurance-native EHR

Today, Headway is announcing the expansion of our Electronic Health Record (EHR) system: a now AI-assisted platform built specifically to empower mental health providers who accept insurance.

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Headway · Sep 9, 2025