Protecting what professionals spend a lifetime building.
Dolos was born from a hard lesson. One that cost a lifetime of work.
A close family friend, a dentist who had spent decades building a respected and thriving practice, was finally ready to retire. The plan was simple: sell the practice to a younger dentist, pass the torch, and enjoy the future he had earned.
But during due diligence, everything unraveled.
The buyer's accountant flagged discrepancies in the books. Revenue did not line up. Expenses did not make sense. When the seller learned this, he turned, naturally, to the person he trusted most: his office manager of over thirty years. She was not just an employee. She was family.
The deal collapsed.
A forensic accountant was brought in to answer one question: what happened? The dentist asked them to look back just three years. He did not want to know more than that.
What they found was devastating. In just those three years, over $1.4 million had been stolen. The truth was undeniable. Charges were pressed. The office manager went to prison. Of the stolen money, only about $250,000 was ever recovered.
But the real loss went far beyond the theft.
Because the practice was valued on a multiple of earnings, the missing $1.4 million cut millions off the sale price, and then the sale itself died.
A lifetime of effort, discipline, and trust, permanently diminished. That moment exposed a dangerous gap.
Dentists and practice owners spend their lives mastering their craft. They care deeply about their patients and their teams. But they are not trained to detect financial manipulation, subtle fraud, or internal abuse of trust. By the time problems surface, it is often too late.
At the same time, our founder was working inside one of the world's leading big-tech companies, in an environment where data integrity, anomaly detection, and risk mitigation are mission critical. There, he saw how pattern detection at massive scale can identify what humans miss, surface risks early, and protect systems worth billions.
It became clear that the tools used to safeguard billion-dollar enterprises were simply not accessible to the professionals with the most to lose. That insight became Dolos.
The deliverable is simple: every dollar moving through your practice, reconciled every day, with anything unusual flagged while the trail is fresh. What that buys is the thing money cannot: knowing.
Dolos is not about suspicion. It is about protection. It does not replace trust. It reinforces it. We exist to safeguard futures, preserve value, and make sure no one loses a lifetime of work because the warning signs came too late.
That is our story. And that is our mission.
Who we are
Thomas McDermott
Founder and CEO
Joe Jackson
Chief Revenue Officer