About GatherWare
Empowering visionary healthcare systems and AEC firms with data-driven solutions
GatherWare is a planning software company whose platform, Orion, aligns capital, facilities, and real estate decisions with strategic goals for health systems and the A&E firms that serve them.
Our story
Built by the people who kept hitting the same wall.
Founded in 2021 in Davidson, North Carolina, GatherWare was created by co-founders Nicolas Bracco and Owen Bezick to address the limitations of traditional master planning approaches within healthcare.
Master plans were arriving as static decks and spreadsheets that were out of date before the ink dried. Orion started as the answer to a simple question: what if the plan were a living system your whole organization could work from?
2021
GatherWare founded
Nicolas Bracco and Owen Bezick start the company in Davidson, North Carolina.
December 2025
Partnership with Synergy Consulting Engineers
GatherWare and Synergy Consulting Engineers begin building Orion's Infrastructure module together.
July 2026
Orion V3.0 ships
A full redesign of the platform, plus the new Infrastructure module.
What we do
What GatherWare does
Orion is one platform with three modules. Each answers a different planning question, and they share a single source of truth.
Capital
The Capital module replaces spreadsheets and static decks with living multi-year capital forecasts, side-by-side scenarios, and prioritization across the full project portfolio. Planning, finance, and facilities work from one roadmap instead of three versions of one.
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The Infrastructure module holds every piece of equipment in one lifecycle registry and forecasts its replacement. Deferred maintenance stops being a lump sum in a report and becomes dated work that rolls straight into the capital plan.
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The Real Estate module tracks leases, critical dates, and cost per square foot across owned and leased sites. Renewals and dispositions get decided against the plan rather than against a calendar reminder.
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Who uses GatherWare
Orion is built for the people who decide what gets built, replaced, renewed, or sold, and for the firms who advise them.
- Health system strategy and planning teams, running long-range and facility master plans
- Health system finance and capital planning teams, sizing and defending the multi-year capital budget
- Facilities, engineering, and real estate teams, managing assets, leases, and critical dates
- Architecture, engineering, and construction firms delivering planning work for health system clients
- MEP and infrastructure engineering partners running condition assessments and lifecycle forecasting
Our values
How we work
Customer focused
The plan belongs to the client. Everything we build serves the decision they need to make.
Respectful collaboration
Planning, finance, and facilities each know something the others don't. Good software respects all three.
Get the job done, right
Ship it, and ship it in a state you'd be glad to inherit.
Directionally correct
A defensible estimate today beats a perfect number after the decision is made.
Authenticity
We say what the product does and what it doesn't. No roadmap theatre.
Data driven
Opinions are welcome. Data settles it.
Leadership
The team behind Orion
Nicolas Bracco
Capital
With over 25 years of experience in healthcare consulting, Nicolas brings a deep understanding of the industry's challenges and opportunities, and two decades spent translating strategic clinical goals into facility master plans.
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Owen Bezick
Product
Owen's background in data analytics and software development drives the company's focus on cutting-edge technology, and the engineering behind the Orion platform.
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Hans Nelson
Infrastructure
Hans founded Synergy Consulting Engineers in 2005 and has spent two decades leading MEP and infrastructure engineering for healthcare facilities across the country. A licensed PE in seven states, he brought that expertise to Orion's Infrastructure module.
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Koty Nelson
Operations
Koty has been with Synergy Consulting Engineers since 2014, growing from BIM and commissioning work into leading its finance and data operations. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
LinkedIn profile for Koty Nelson (opens in a new tab)Commitment to innovation
The product keeps moving because the work keeps changing.
Our dedicated R&D team continuously explores emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure that our solutions remain at the forefront of healthcare planning innovation. What sets us apart is a relentless focus on empowering our clients to make smarter, data-driven decisions in a complex environment.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What people ask before the first conversation. Product and implementation questions live on the Resources page.
What is GatherWare?
How is Orion different from a traditional master plan?
How does GatherWare work with architecture and engineering firms?
How do I get started with GatherWare?
Join our journey
Whether you're a health system, an A&E firm, or someone who wants to build this with us — we'd like to hear from you.