Current Portfolio
Innovations we're moving into state government right now.
Maternal Health
Lōvu Health
Community Care
Pair Team
Rural Health
Springboard
Trauma Recovery
TandemStride
Surgical Care
Goldfinch Health
GovTech
Connect is a government affairs and market access consultancy. Political, governmental, and corporate insiders — a national network built to move health-tech and govtech into state government.
The Dunning–Kruger Effect in 3D — the curve everyone knows, and almost no one has read.
Tap any highlighted state to see how Connect is engaged there — from rural health transformation to statewide procurement.
It starts with the decision-maker. Governors' offices, state agencies, health systems — leaders who know exactly what problem they need solved and have the authority to solve it. Connect was founded for them.
West McKee has spent two decades in political and governmental affairs — 46 campaigns' worth of hard-won relationships across statehouses, governors' offices, and agencies nationwide. He now applies that network to a single mission: getting carefully vetted innovation adopted by the people with the authority to adopt it.
Connect's model pairs a national affiliate network of political and government insiders with a portfolio of proven health-tech and govtech innovations — creating mutually beneficial partnerships between builders and the decision-makers who need them.
"Innovation is not valuable to society until it can be adopted by decision-makers. This process is not glamorous, but it is vital. My professional fulfillment is found in standing with the decision-makers to create the process that allows them to adopt innovation."
Based in Austin, Texas. Working nationwide.