About Velluto
Quality medicine.
Limited hours.
A thorough ADHD assessment takes 45 minutes to an hour of focused clinical time. The only way to do quality medicine at scale, within limited hours, is to be better organised before the patient walks through the door. See how that works in practice.
GPs who take on ADHD do it because they care. They know their patients. They have the training and the clinical skill. But they also have 20-30 patients booked today and a receptionist who is already behind.
When 30 minutes of a 45-minute session goes to chasing paperwork and phoning observers, the GP knows they are doing admin, not medicine. The preparation is what eats the hours. If the evidence arrives before the patient does, the GP can use the full session for clinical assessment, professional judgement, and a real conversation. For most practices, this means more assessments completed per week without additional hours.
High tech to be high touch. The technology does the preparation. The GP does the medicine.
Built from the ground up
Two women in Agnes Water.
One GP. One architect.
Dr Sandra Skinner is a specialist GP who works five to six days a week in a regional practice three hours from the nearest psychiatrist. She graduated medicine in 2003, spent a year as a psychiatry registrar before specialising in general practice, and received her RACGP Fellowship in 2011. When the reforms opened ADHD prescribing to GPs, Sandra welcomed it. She wanted to do this work because of the close relationships she already has with her patients. She knows their history, their families, their context.
But she could not see how to fit a thorough assessment into a day that was already full. She valued thoroughness. A proper ADHD assessment takes time, and time was the one thing she did not have spare.. Thorough medicine meant fewer patients per day, and fewer patients per day meant longer wait lists. It is 2026. The technology exists. Why was nobody using it?
Fabienne Wintle has a Masters in Information and Communications Systems and nearly 30 years structuring business knowledge into systems that work. Turning scattered processes, tribal knowledge, and undocumented workflows into structured information architecture. She had done this across dozens of industries and could not understand why nobody had done it for GPs.
They put their heads together. Sandra described the clinical workflow. Fabienne built a working prototype. Sandra tested it against real assessments and told her what was wrong. They adjusted the questionnaire flow because patients with ADHD abandon long forms. They rebuilt the observer report because the collateral evidence has to match what the GP actually checks before prescribing. They added validity flags because Sandra needed to know if a patient clicked through in two minutes without reading. Every adjustment came from what actually works in a busy regional GP practice.
Sandra now uses it with every ADHD patient. Fabienne built it to solve Sandra’s problem. But it turned out every GP doing ADHD assessments has the same problem. The same paper forms, the same unreturned observer reports, the same school documents that never arrive. The reform gave thousands of GPs permission. None of them got preparation. Read more about the GP pathway in Your GP already knows you, or check the FAQ for how it works day to day.
What Velluto means
Engineered for empathy.
Velluto is the Italian word for velvet. A material defined entirely by the quality of its surface. Smooth, dignified, without friction. That is the experience we set out to build.
A patient with ADHD who has already done something hard just to get to this appointment should not arrive anxious from battling paperwork. The intake should feel considered, not administrative. The technology recedes so the person can come forward.
One question at a time. Speech-to-text. Autosave. Calm, warm design. The result: patients arrive at the consultation ready to talk, not dreading more admin.
The Velluto mark is two overlapping leaf forms. The overlap represents clinical evidence meeting lived experience. Neither alone is enough.
The team
Three people. One mission.
Fabienne Wintle
Founder & AI Operations Architect
Fabienne Wintle designed and built the information infrastructure that powers Velluto. She has a Masters in Information and Communications Systems from the University of Geneva and Griffith University, and nearly 30 years turning scattered knowledge, tribal processes, and undocumented workflows into structured systems. She built her first website at 18. Her career has been built on one skill: structuring information so that systems and people can both work with it.
Dr Sandra Skinner
Specialist GP & Clinical Partner
BSc, MBBS, FRACGP
Dr Sandra Skinner is a specialist GP in Agnes Water, Queensland. She works five to six days a week, is telehealth-capable, and serves patients across regional Queensland. A region three hours from the nearest psychiatrist. She is the clinical intelligence behind every workflow decision in Velluto. Every feature has been tested against what actually works in a real assessment with a real patient.
Toby Lloyd
Head of Strategy
Toby Lloyd leads commercial strategy at Velluto. His background is in accounting and business strategy, applied to companies where the product matters more than the pitch. He manages the numbers, the growth model, and the commercial decisions that keep the clinical mission funded and sustainable.
The reforms arrived. The tools didn’t.
GPs got permission.
Not preparation.
By mid-2026, virtually every Australian jurisdiction will have introduced reforms allowing GPs to assess and treat ADHD. The training is underway. The AADPA guidelines exist. GPs are ready to do this work. But the workflow infrastructure has not caught up.
| State | Status (March 2026) |
|---|---|
| Queensland | All restrictions removed. Children since 2017. Adults since late 2025. |
| New South Wales | Continuation prescribing available. Endorsed prescriber training underway. |
| South Australia | 100 GPs completed training (28 February 2026). 100 more committed. |
| Victoria | $750,000 invested to train 150 GPs by September 2026. |
| ACT | Stage 1 continuation prescribing since February 2026. Stage 2 coming later this year. |
A newly endorsed prescriber still faces paper forms, uncollected observer reports, and school documents in shoeboxes. A GP who spends 30 minutes per assessment on admin sees one patient where they could see three. Every minute chasing paperwork is a minute another patient stays on the wait list. The backlog will not clear without better preparation tools. Use the ROI calculator to see the numbers for your practice, or read how to prepare for an ADHD assessment for the full clinical workflow.
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