Built by the field
Designed by a working Firefighter/Paramedic. Domain truth from real shifts on the engine and the box — built from inside the job.
Founded
2026 · Illinois
Software & data management for first responders, agencies & hospitals
Software and data management for the people who run toward the call — and the agencies and hospitals behind them.
Wexford Studios provides cutting-edge field software and sovereign data services for first responders and the systems that support them — AI integrated, and your data stays on your own hardware. Founded by a working Firefighter/Paramedic; our first product is live on real calls today.
We provide
Software + data mgmt
AI
Integrated, on-prem
First product
● Live on real calls
01 — Approach
What we stand for
We don't guess at the work. We've done it.
Wexford Studios is built from inside the work. Our founder runs calls as a Firefighter/Paramedic — so every tool starts on the apparatus and at the bedside, shaped by real shifts and held to one standard: it has to hold up when the call comes in.
Hardened for the field
We build products hardened for the realities of field work — robust under pressure and fully capable offline, so they keep working where the job actually happens, with or without a signal.
Private by design
Sensitive data stays in-house. Where we can, our tools are designed to never receive PHI at all; where data must be handled, it's processed only on infrastructure you control — never a third-party cloud.
Sovereign
The agency should own its data and its infrastructure. Nothing we build creates a surprise cloud dependency or locks you in.
02 — Capabilities
What we provide
Software and data management for the field and the systems behind it — both on your hardware.
We provide cutting-edge software and data-management services, with AI integrated throughout — and we run it on infrastructure you control, not a third-party cloud. The obvious move (pipe everything to a cloud AI) quietly ships sensitive data off the truck or out of the station. We refuse that trade: your data stays yours.
Software solutions
Cutting-edge field software for first responders — offline-first, built around your system's own protocols, fast with gloves on and no signal. AI integrated for the field: voice search and real-time language interpretation, running on-prem.
Shipping todayLive example: Medic Field Guide — in use with a fire department on real calls.
Data management services
Turn the data you already collect into answers you can act on. We stand up on-prem systems that organize and analyze your run-report and operational data — surfacing the trends, gaps, and quality signals across all of it, not just a spot-check sample. The work runs on your hardware; the insight is yours.
On-prem · building towardYour data, your building: analyzed in-house, never shipped out.
AI that works for you
We put modern AI to work for your benefit — woven into the tools your people already use, not bolted on as a buzzword. It takes on the busywork and surfaces what matters, tuned to the job instead of a generic chatbot, so your team spends its time on what only people can do.
What sets us apartCutting-edge, made practical: AI that earns its keep — not a gimmick.
03 — Who We Serve
The people we build for
For the field — and the agencies and hospitals behind it.
We build for the responders making split-second calls — and for the agencies, systems, and hospitals that stand behind them. A tool only earns its keep when it works for both ends of the radio.
First responders
The medics, firefighters, and crews who answer the call — the people every tool has to hold up for, gloves on and under pressure.
The agencies & systems that run them
The chiefs, medical directors, and coordinators — and the EMS systems, agencies, and health systems they run — accountable for the protocols their crews carry, the operations behind them, and the data they hold.
04 — Work
Proof, on real calls
Our first product is live in the field.
A studio is judged by what it ships. Our first product is in a live field-test pilot with real crews today — the proof that the principles above hold up when the call comes in.
Medic Field Guide
First Product · Live in the field
An EMS system's complete protocol set and a deterministic drug calculator — in the medic's pocket, signal or not.
Flagship · live proof
The offline EMS field reference, proven on real calls.
Built around an EMS system's own protocols, fully usable in airplane mode, with optional on-prem AI: a navigator that points the way without seeing the patient, and a live field interpreter that breaks language barriers without sending a word to the cloud. In live use with a fire department on real calls since 2026.
More tools for first responders are in development. Same principles — built in the field, reliable offline, private by design — and the same slot in this section when they ship.
05 — The Studio
Why Wexford
A Firefighter/Paramedic, building the tools he wished he had.
Wexford Studios is a small, bootstrapped Illinois studio, founded in 2026 by a working Firefighter/Paramedic — someone who carries the bag and rides the rig, on shift, on real calls, and knows firsthand what a field tool has to do.
Bootstrapped · Illinois
Founded 2026
Built by a Firefighter/Paramedic
"I'm dedicated to building strong, reliable tools that hold up in any situation, under any circumstance — proven the hard way, through rigorous field testing and analysis. First responders and the agencies behind them deserve software they can trust when it matters most."
Chris Elliott — Founder · Firefighter/Paramedic
Let's talk
Talk to us.
If you run or advise a first-responder agency or EMS system — or you're a medic with an idea for a tool that should exist — we'd like to hear from you. No pressure, no sales script.
Prefer email? info@wexfordstudios.com