Enkidu Labs is named after the oldest friendship in literature. That is not an accident.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written down in Mesopotamia almost 4,000 years ago. It is the oldest great story we have.
In it, the gods shape Enkidu from clay and leave him in the wild. He runs with the animals and drinks at their waterholes. Then he meets Gilgamesh, the proud king of Uruk. They fight. Then they become friends.
Technology in medicine should be calm, private and fast. It should earn its place by giving time back, and then get out of the way.
Anything that adds clicks without adding care does not belong in the clinic.
Enkidu Labs is founded and built by Dr Ahmed Al-Obaidi, a general practitioner in Victoria, Australia, with a genuine soft spot for digital health and well-made solutions. Every tool starts with a friction felt on a real working day, then gets built, tested and used against real lists, not a product roadmap. The result is software that feels like it was made by someone who has actually run the clinic, because it was.
I'm a GP. Most of what I build is meant to sit beside a clinician and carry part of the load (the note, the inbox, the paperwork), so they can stay with the patient. That's Enkidu's role in the story. Loyal, and there when it counts.
There's a second reason. I'm Iraqi-Australian, and I studied medicine in Baghdad. Some of the first cities, the first writing and some of the earliest medical texts came from Mesopotamia. Naming the company after one of its oldest characters is a small way of keeping that close.