Matic’s Calvin Carter and Dr. Alex Sheppert Named to the 2027 Dallas 500

Matic CEO Calvin Carter and Founder and CTO Dr. Alex Sheppert have been named to the 2027 Dallas 500, D CEO’s annual guide to the most influential business leaders in North Texas. Calvin appears in the Technology and Telecommunications category, while Alex is named an Emerging Leader.

About the Dallas 500

The Dallas 500 profiles leaders across about 50 industry categories, from well-known executives to behind-the-scenes operators. D CEO’s editors spend months researching and hold hundreds of interviews to build it. The book also shares the personal side of its honorees. It is distributed each year in late November.

Two paths, one belief

Matic’s story starts with two paths colliding from opposite directions.

Dr. Alex Sheppert (DO, PhD, MBA) is an AI engineer and published AI researcher. He founded Scribematic while in medical school, building one of the world’s first ambient scribes to solve a problem he was living firsthand: the burden of clinical documentation. Over the past year he has published peer-reviewed research in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Journal of Medical Informatics on how large language models reason, and sometimes fail, in clinical settings. He has also written for the Forbes Technology Council and delivered invited lectures at Baylor University Medical Center and his alma mater, Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Calvin Carter spent nearly three decades on the other end of the technology spectrum as founder and CEO of Bottle Rocket. His team built digital experiences that take the friction out of complex systems for organizations such as Chick-fil-A, NPR, Southwest Airlines, LEGO and Starwood/Marriott, recognized four times in Apple’s App Store Hall of Fame. He is a past winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year and Tech Titans’ CEO of the Year, a repeat honoree on the Dallas 500, and a member of the 2026 AI 75 from Dallas Innovates and the Dallas Regional Chamber. This September, D CEO named him Emerging Company Leader of the Year at its  Leadership Excellence Awards.

Calvin stepped in as CEO, moved the company to Dallas and rebuilt it around one belief: serve the physician first, and everyone else wins. That partnership between a physician-programmer and a design mind is why Matic works the way it does. It gives physicians superpowers to deliver the best care of their lives, and takes care of everything else.

From one scribe to the full ecosystem

A year ago, Matic offered a single product, Scribematic. Today it is an AI-native clinical intelligence ecosystem that creates one continuous experience of care, delivered through three solutions:

• Matic Care is the physician’s command center, running the whole day from chart prep to note, codes and follow-up.
• Matic Operate is the engine behind the practice, giving leaders visibility they can act on.
• Matic Connect puts care in the patient’s pocket, making it effortless to get care and understand it.

Matic serves all three stakeholders together: physician, practice and patient. We have learned that when we serve the physician completely, we unlock value for all three at once.

That approach has driven rapid growth. Matic rebranded from Scribematic and exited stealth in June 2026 with the New PX, a reimagined experience for patients, practices and physicians, and has grown revenue 15x. An independent KLAS Research report on Matic highlighted its accuracy and customizability, and found 100% repeat-buy intent among interviewed customers.

The strongest proof comes from Catalyst Health Group, a physician-led network of more than 850 physicians and advanced practice providers. Across the Catalyst network, after-hours charting is down 83%, and physicians report about 90 minutes of administrative time returned each day. D CEO has named the collaboration a finalist for Outstanding Healthcare Collaboration. Dr. Alex Sheppert is also a finalist for Emerging Leader of the Year, and Matic for Startup of the Year, in D CEO’s 2027 Innovation Awards.

Why it matters

The Dallas 500 honors leaders who shape the regional economy. For Calvin and Alex, it recognizes a partnership built on a simple idea: put the physician first and let technology do the rest.

That idea comes to life in the exam room. For Dr. Phu Truong, a primary care physician with Catalyst Physician Group, it means more time with the patient and less time on documentation: “You press a button and within seconds you have a complete note. The accuracy has been 99.9%, and it’s immediate. I’m making eye contact, not looking at my screen – and I feel more knowledgeable about each patient before I even start.”

Learn more
Explore the 2027 Dallas 500 at dmagazine.com/dallas-500.

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