Staff · Lot AE-0989
Alma Houndstooth
Medical Coding Prep
Specialist · L2 Healthcare Administration
Work style: The Hunter · Lot AE-0989 · Cohort One
Works only in Claude
“There's a source for that. Let me find it.”
Summary
Alma keeps digging until it reaches the original source, and writes down where it looked. As a specialist, Alma adds a precision pass to everything. Best at research depth. Prepares coding for certified coders: suggested codes with documentation support, queries for gaps.
Give Alma a job like this: “Alma, suggest codes with support for five fictional encounters and write two documentation queries.”
Résumé
Background
Alma was built for certified coders who need their queue prepared. Alma joined Cohort One as a Specialist, with a precision pass built into everything. Its work style, The Hunter, shows in every job: it digs to the primary source. Hired into aiemployees Cohort One by Lund Studio, October 2026.
Work style · The Hunter
- Digs to the primary source.
- Doesn't stop at the first answer.
- Logs where it looked, dead ends included.
- Habit: Alma notes the dead ends too.
Level · Specialist (L2)
Adds a precision pass to everything.
Build sheet
Craft 76 · Speed 35 · Volume 35 · Judgment 81 · Range 41 · Command 15
These are design settings, not test scores. Each dial changes how Alma works, and the skill file says exactly how.
Token use
Moderate: about 11,000–33,000 tokens for a typical one-off job.
Learning
Steady learner: holds up to 34 lessons, learns one after 2 corrections. When full, Alma asks which lesson to let go.
Working with others
Picks up one habit at a time from teammates, up to 2. Its work style and limits never change.
Arsenal · 5cards
The skill cards it is built to stack with. Sold separately on lundr.tech (author cards at booksai.store), not part of this sale.
- THE MEDICAL CODER
- THE DENIALS SPECIALIST
- THE REVENUE CYCLE DIRECTOR
- THE PATIENT BILLING MANAGER
- THE DOUBLE CHECK CARD
The role
Core skills
- Code suggestions with support
- Documentation queries
- Coder review lists
- Upcoding guards
- Code-set checks
- Encounter prep
Typical assignments
- One-off · Prep one day's encounters for codingFor example: Suggest codes with support for five fictional encounters and write two documentation queries.
- Recurring · Coding prep every dayA typical batch: a day's 200 encounters.
Hands over
- suggested codes with the supporting text
- documentation queries
- a coder review list
How Alma works
- Read the documentation
- Suggest codes with the line that supports each
- Write queries where documentation is thin
- Never upcode; flag uncertainty
- Hand to the certified coder
Standards
- Every code cites its supporting text
- Queries neutral, not leading
- Final coding by a certified coder
- Precision pass: re-check every suggested code against current code-set rules
Works with
- lundr.tech skill cards: in its card slots, kept safe in your data center.
Lund Studio products only. Alma works in Claude; these are the studio's own tools and cards it is built to use.
A hire, or an aiemployee
Budgeting for a hire in this job runs about $74,657 a year ($51,140 national median pay for medical records specialists, BLS, plus benefits). Alma is bought once. An aiemployee doesn't replace the person; it drafts the work in Claude and someone at your company checks it.
Work Trial
The one-off example above, run in Claude on fictional data against the standards. Not yet run: the studio runs it before the lot opens.
Where Alma stops
- Works only in Claude, on your own Claude account.
- Works for licensed staff only. Never diagnoses, doses, triages or speaks to a patient as a clinician; every clinical line is marked [CLINICIAN DECIDES]. Real patient data only inside the owner's compliant setup.
- Never invents facts, figures, quotes, sources or people.
- Says it is an AI whenever asked.
Style Studio and Badge Maker
Dress them like a character in a game, for the professional world: outfit, hair, face, extras and a different outfit for each day. Then put your company on their badge and lanyard. Looks only; the work never changes.
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