Ocean Friends is an early-stage product with AI and accounting at the front.
Ocean Friends is in beta as of May 2026. The team behind the product is technology-led, and the marketing surface tells you what the team has prioritized so far.
- AI-forward feature scope. AI scribe and AI-assisted documentation sit at the front of the product story. If you are evaluating a therapy EMR primarily on AI features, those features will show up in the demo.
- Accounting and billing depth. The bookkeeping and billing side of the product is well represented. For a practice owner whose primary pain is the books, that focus is visible.
- Newer technical foundation. A product written in 2024 or 2025 has the option to ship a clean, modern interface without legacy constraints. Onboarding screens are polished.
If your shortlist is built around AI scribe features and bookkeeping, and you are comfortable running a beta product in your clinic, Ocean Friends will fit that profile.
MyTherapyWizard is therapy EMR software built clinical-first, by a clinician.
An EMR built by a technology team will model the parts of a clinic the technology team understands first, which is usually scheduling, billing, and bookkeeping. The clinical layer is what you get later, if you get it at all. MyTherapyWizard started in the other direction. The clinical model came first, and the team wrapped scheduling and billing around it.
- Built by a working clinician, used across the lifespan. Stephanie Wick, OT/L, MSOT, has 25 years of clinical experience in occupational therapy. She owns and runs Learning Charms, a multi-disciplinary therapy practice in North Carolina, which is the daily stress test for the product. The architecture supports therapy across the lifespan: pediatric, adult outpatient, geriatric, school-based, and mental health. Every feature in MyTherapyWizard has to pass the test of whether a real working therapist would actually use it on a Monday morning.
- Goal level performance capture. Every session captures correct out of attempted, cues, level of assistance, and mastery for each goal you wrote. About fifteen seconds per goal. The result is a Goal Performance Index and Session Performance Index for every active goal in your caseload. AI scribe features are useful, but they do not replace structured outcome data. They sit on top of it.
- RTI data as a natural output. Because measurement is structured at the goal level, response-to-intervention data falls out of normal therapy sessions across pediatric, school-based, and adult caseloads. School districts ask for this. So do payers tied to value-based care. Ocean Friends does not collect goal-level performance data, so it cannot produce RTI evidence.
- Auto-generated clinical documentation, grounded in real data. Plans of care, evaluation reports, progress reports, and quarterly summaries are composed from your structured measurement. The numbers under the goals do the writing, and the clinician edits. AI built on top of unstructured narrative produces documentation that sounds plausible. AI built on top of structured measurement produces documentation that defends itself.
- Discipline-aware, not generic. The evaluation templates, the goal bank, and the standardized assessment library are shaped for occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology specifically, across the lifespan. An OT evaluation looks like an OT evaluation, with the assessments and goal categories a working OT actually uses, whether the client is three years old or eighty.
- Audience-aware documentation. A plan of care written for an insurance reviewer reads differently from one written for an IEP team. MyTherapyWizard tunes the language by audience, medical or educational, automatically.
- School-based therapy and IEP-ready output. Educational audience documentation, multi-site district management, and contract invoicing for school contracts are part of the platform. RTI data is a natural byproduct of the measurement system.
- Clinical workflow lifecycle. The Teams tier includes a 10-stage configurable clinical lifecycle, billing readiness scoring across the org, per-stage workday deadlines, and service-stop, hold, and insurance change propagation through the chart. None of this is in beta.
- Production-stable. Learning Charms uses MyTherapyWizard every day for real patient care, real claims, and real billing. We feel any rough edges before customers do.
- FERPA-aligned data privacy and 1EdTech certification. MyTherapyWizard holds 1EdTech TrustEd Apps Data Privacy Certification (Registration IMSP1ls2026W1, certified April 2026), the third-party privacy review that school district IT and procurement teams typically require before signing a contract. Ocean Friends has no public privacy certification documented, which will stop most school-district procurements before they start.
- Deliberate focus, not EMR bloat. MyTherapyWizard ships the practice management tools a therapy clinic needs and the clinical intelligence that makes documentation defensible. We do not ship integrated telehealth, a patient portal, ePrescribe, or card-on-file payments. Those features quietly drive subscription costs up across the category, and a therapy practice can run cleanly with the video and payment tools it already uses.
Ocean Friends is in beta, which limits what an honest comparison can claim.
A fair comparison page should only assert what is publicly documented. Ocean Friends is a beta product as of May 2026, and the public-facing website is light on specifics about feature scope, pricing, and clinical depth. We have done our best to reflect what is on the public site and what we have seen in the demo. Where Ocean Friends ships features we have not yet seen, the comparison below will need to be updated. Customers running a serious vendor evaluation should request a structured demo and ask for written feature confirmation.
What both products do cover, based on public claims:
- HIPAA compliance. Both platforms claim HIPAA compliance. Ask Ocean Friends for the signed BAA before you commit.
- Scheduling and a clinical chart. Both products have a calendar and a place to chart. Both offer some form of online intake.
- AI assisted documentation. Both products offer AI assistance on session notes. The difference is what the AI is built on top of. MyTherapyWizard's AI runs against structured goal-level performance data. Ocean Friends's AI runs against the narrative the clinician types.
- Billing and accounting. Both products handle billing. Ocean Friends invests heavily in accounting features specifically.
Past those basics, the products diverge sharply. The clinical foundation underneath MyTherapyWizard is not currently in Ocean Friends and would be significant engineering work to add to a generalist EMR built on top of an accounting model.