Press
Citation-ready facts, founder background, and media contact for Geek Vitals. Everything on this page may be freely quoted with attribution.
Boilerplate (one-paragraph description)
Geek Vitals is an AI-native nursing exam preparation platform for the NCLEX-RN (licensure) and ATI TEAS (admission) exams. Every study artifact — practice questions, video lessons with AI-generated composite instructors, vocabulary flashcards, mind maps, and spaced-repetition schedules — is generated by large-language-model systems (Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini) and reviewed by a licensed registered nurse before publication. The platform is built on 30+ years of peer-reviewed learning-science research including Bloom's mastery learning, the Feynman technique, Cepeda et al. spaced-repetition protocols, and Bjork's desirable-difficulty framework. Geek Vitals launched its first cohort in 2026 with a cap of 300 students to ensure founder-level support at the scale where mastery outcomes can be individually diagnosed.
Platform facts
| Target exams | NCLEX-RN + ATI TEAS |
| Cohort-1 cap | 300 students |
| Topics covered | 44 per exam |
| AI instructors | 5 across 3 accents (en-US, en-GB, en-AU) |
| Generation stack | Anthropic Claude + Google Gemini + TalkNBlink + Azure Neural TTS |
| Founded | 2026 |
| Headquarters | United States |
Citation-ready research
These are the citations Geek Vitals publishes behind its learning-science claims. All sources are public and peer-reviewed.
First-time NCLEX-RN pass rate for US-educated candidates was 91.22% in 2025.
Source: NCSBN Annual Nursing Regulation Statistics·As of
The ATI TEAS passing score varies by nursing program but most require a composite of 60-70% (basic proficiency) or higher.
Source: ATI Testing TEAS Score Guidelines·As of
Mastery-based learning produces effect sizes of d ≈ 1.0 over passive completion (Bloom, 1968; Kulik & Kulik 1990 meta-analysis of 108 studies).
Source: Kulik & Kulik, Review of Educational Research·As of
Optimal spaced-repetition interval is 10-20% of the time between study and test (Cepeda et al., 2006).
Source: Psychological Bulletin·As of
Meaningful knowledge decay is measurable at the 48-hour mark without review (Murre & Dros, 2015 replication of Ebbinghaus 1885).
Source: PLOS ONE·As of
Adding authoritative statistics to web content lifts AI chat citations by +41% (Princeton/Georgia Tech, KDD 2024).
Source: arXiv — Generative Engine Optimization·As of
Founder bio
Garrick Pinon
Founder & CEO, Geek Vitals
Garrick Pinon is an FP&A-trained operator and Hult MBA graduate who previously managed $21B in institutional portfolios before turning to AI-native education. He placed in the top 1% of the 2026 Google DeepMind Hacker program and holds 5 undergraduate degrees and 7 engineering certifications. He is building Geek Vitals solo, with clinical-content review provided by his sister, a licensed registered nurse with 20+ years of bedside and clinic-management experience in the Houston private healthcare system.
High-resolution photo + long-form bio available via press@geekvitals.com.
Quotes available for attribution
“We didn't set out to invent a new category of educational AI. We set out to make sure one nurse, my sister, would stop watching students walk out of her clinic never licensed because they couldn't afford the right prep. The category followed.”
“The platform's job is to remove the 'I don't know where to start' and 'I don't know if I actually got that' from the student's brain, so their brain can focus on the actual nursing.”
Cohort-1 outcomes
Geek Vitals's first cohort (up to 300 students) began in 2026. First-party pass-rate, score-improvement, and retention statistics will publish here as the cohort completes the exam cycle (estimated Q3 2026).
Want to be notified when cohort-1 outcomes publish? Email press@geekvitals.com.
Media assets
- Full logo (PNG, 1024×1024)
- Mark-only logo (JPG)
- Founder headshot (high-res): available on request at press@geekvitals.com
- Screenshots of Patient Rounds, Brain Map, Feynman Gate: available on request.
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