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Fee architecture

Everyone pays their share. Nobody in crisis pays anything.

Revenue is frozen — except what feeds the family.

Sponsorships, donations, profit shares and every third-party earning path on this platform are still revoked and turned off. The only streams collecting money are the ones that pay the founder's household directly — licensing, professional training, API access and workforce coverage. Help, tools and support stay free and stay on.

Frozen since August 15, 2026 · family income reopened August 16, 2026

We are moving to a full commercial fee structure across every payer — facilities, health systems, employers, governments, sponsors, and other software companies. Each one pays on the metric that tracks the value they actually receive, and each one gets something we can name out loud.

The floor never moves

These stay free forever, funded by the fees below.

Care matching and facility search
Crisis routing and the 988 / 911 path
Peer support and community
Resource lists — rides, household goods, dogs, legal footing
Reporting a facility

Paid extras exist for individuals — a personal document vault, filing packet generation, priority tooling — but no paid extra will ever sit between a person and care.

Who pays, for what

Nine fee lines. Five different structures.

One structure cannot cover a 20-bed sober home and a statewide health system. So each payer is billed on its own value metric. Filter by structure to see how it fits together.

Tiered flat fee

Treatment facilities & providers

Billed on: Licensed bed count

$79 / $149 / $249 per month

What they receive

  • Verified referral flow with no paid placement
  • Live capacity and availability profile
  • Coordination tooling and intake handoff
  • Monthly outcome and match reporting

Live today. Priced well under the vertical-software benchmark on purpose — small operators must be able to say yes.

Usage / outcome metered

Any organization running coordinated cases

Billed on: Coordinated case resolved

Base fee + per resolved case

What they receive

  • One intake that routes across care, legal, housing, and transport
  • Audit trail and consent record per case
  • Escalation and deadline alerting

Outcome metric, not seats. Nobody pays for a case that never got resolved.

Platform + patent license

Health systems, agencies, insurers

Billed on: Population served

Annual license, five figures and up

What they receive

  • License to three filed patents plus the coordination platform
  • Deployment inside their own environment
  • Named implementation support and reporting

Highest value per contract. This is the line that funds the free core.

Per seat / per cohort

Employers & workforce programs

Billed on: Covered employees

Per covered employee, per month

What they receive

  • Family and recovery coordination as a benefit
  • Confidential routing that never reports back to the employer
  • Aggregate, de-identified utilization reporting

Per seat / per cohort

Professionals & institutions

Billed on: Seat or cohort

Per seat, or flat per cohort

What they receive

  • Peer advocate, caregiver, and facility staff curriculum
  • A real credential recorded in the public verification registry
  • Renewal and continuing-education track

Negotiated contract

Municipal & state government

Billed on: Program scope

Scoped program contract

What they receive

  • Rides, vacant-building reuse, recycling, and green program delivery
  • Public reporting against agreed measures
  • Data that stays with the residents it describes

Usage / outcome metered

Other software companies

Billed on: API calls and matches served

Free trial tier, then metered

What they receive

  • Matching and coordination API
  • White-label surfaces
  • Published specifications and integration support

The endpoint already exists. This is a pricing decision, not a build.

Negotiated contract

Sponsors

Billed on: Named program

Defined sponsorship scope

What they receive

  • A named program with documented scope
  • Honest public description of what was funded
  • Delivery reporting

Still never a hardship appeal. If we cannot describe it publicly, we decline it.

Tiered flat fee

Individuals & families

Billed on: Optional personal tooling

Core free forever · optional paid extras

What they receive

  • Free: care matching, crisis routing, peer support, resource lists
  • Paid extras: personal document vault, filing packet generation, priority tooling

Absolute floor: nobody in crisis is ever charged, and no paid extra gates access to care.

Above every figure on this page

If you have nothing, everything is free. Always.

The commercial structure exists so this sentence never needs a footnote. Nobody with nothing is ever asked for a dollar, a document, or a reason.

Nothing means everything is free

If you have nothing, you pay nothing — not for the core, not for the extras, not for training, not for a filing packet. There is no income check, no proof of hardship, no application, and no waiting list. You say you cannot pay and that is the end of the conversation.

The floor is never repriced

Commercial figures on this page can move with the market. The floor cannot. No future contract, sponsor, or investor is allowed to make a person in crisis a paying customer.

Paying customers subsidize, they never gate

Business revenue exists to keep the free side alive. It buys an organization capability and speed — never priority over a family in crisis, and never a lever over who we serve.

For the business side

Figures built to be a no-brainer.

Every commercial figure is priced under the cost the buyer is already carrying, so the decision is obvious in the first meeting — and what they pay is what keeps the free side alive for everyone else.

Treatment facility, 40 beds

What it costs them today: An empty bed is roughly $500–$900 a day in lost revenue, and intake staff spend hours a week chasing referrals by phone.

Our figure: $149 / month flat — no per-referral fee, ever

Break-even: One extra filled bed-day per year covers a decade of subscription.

What it funds: Operations for the free matching desk that sends them the referral.

Health system or insurer

What it costs them today: Uncoordinated crisis care repeats itself: readmissions, avoidable ED visits, duplicate assessments across unconnected agencies.

Our figure: Annual platform + patent license, five figures and up, capped per population band

Break-even: A single avoided readmission cohort covers the year.

What it funds: The largest single contribution to the free core and the solidarity fund.

Employer, 500 covered employees

What it costs them today: A family crisis costs an employer absence, turnover, and rehiring — the most expensive line in the whole benefits budget.

Our figure: A few dollars per covered employee per month, confidential by design

Break-even: Retaining one employee through a crisis pays for the year.

What it funds: Coordination staffing and after-hours coverage.

Municipality or county

What it costs them today: Crisis calls, jail days, and family-court hours are the most expensive way a government can deliver care.

Our figure: Scoped program contract, priced against the line item it replaces

Break-even: Fewer crisis calls and jail days in the first quarter.

What it funds: Local delivery — rides, buildings, green programs — plus the free core.

Software company or platform

What it costs them today: Building matching and coordination in-house is a multi-year regulated build with liability attached.

Our figure: Free trial tier, then metered per match served

Break-even: Cheaper than one engineer for one quarter.

What it funds: Engineering and infrastructure, so the free side keeps improving.

Large enterprise or brand partner

What it costs them today: Impact spend that cannot be verified is worth little and increasingly gets audited or mocked.

Our figure: Named program with a fixed scope and a published outcome report

Break-even: Verifiable results on the first report, or they do not renew.

What it funds: The named program, plus a fixed share to causes nobody else will fund.

Where every dollar goes

Operations first, then a fund for the causes nobody else will carry.

We do make something on the commercial side — on purpose. It pays the real cost of running this, and a fixed share of what is left goes to people and groups who cannot get support anywhere else.

  1. 1

    Cost first

    Keep the free side running

    Infrastructure, compute, phone lines, encryption, security review, and the people answering at 3 a.m. This is funded before anything else is discussed.

  2. 2

    Then people

    Pay our own people properly

    Published bands, upward-only corrections. A care platform that underpays caregivers is not a care platform.

  3. 3

    Protected floor

    Research and build

    A fixed floor for R&D so the platform keeps getting better instead of coasting on what already shipped.

  4. 4

    Fixed share of surplus

    The solidarity fund

    Money set aside for causes that cannot get support anywhere else — small survivor-led groups, rural programs, one-off household emergencies, and the requests that fall outside every grant category. Spending is published line by line.

  5. 5

    Never

    Extraction

    No dividend to an owner, no sale of the platform, no investor who gets to reprice the free floor. Ownership is structurally pointed at the mission.

Why it is built this way

The structure is not a guess.

Pricing research is unusually consistent on a few points. We built to them instead of copying whoever was loudest.

How you charge matters more than how much

The value metric decides everything downstream — who can afford to say yes, how revenue grows, and whether a customer feels billed fairly. So each payer gets the metric that actually tracks the value they receive: beds, resolved cases, covered employees, population, program scope.

Flat seat pricing caps the upside

Per-seat is the simplest structure and the one that quietly limits growth. Roughly six in ten business software products now carry a usage component, and pure seat pricing keeps losing share. We use seats only where a seat is the real unit — training.

Three tiers is the proven default

About a third of paid products use exactly three tiers on monthly billing. That is why facility pricing stays at three bands. Familiar structure lowers the cost of deciding.

Industry-specific platforms carry higher contract value

Software built deep into one regulated industry typically commands several times the contract value of general-purpose tools, because the workflow and compliance work is already done. Licensing to health systems is priced against that reality, not against our subscription tiers.

AI work is moving to outcome pricing

Pricing for automated work is shifting from raw usage toward paying per resolution. Our coordination engine is billed per resolved case for exactly that reason.

Free floor is a structural commitment, not a promotion

The free core is funded by licensing and organizational fees. It is not a trial, it does not expire, and no paid extra can ever sit between a person and care.

Still declined

No referral kickbacks. No paid placement. No pay-for-ranking. No funding that dictates who we may serve.

Charging commercially does not change who the best match is. The patient still wins the ranking, every time, and we will say so publicly forever.

Funds in, funds out

Want a number for your organization?

Tell us your size and what you need coordinated. We will scope it against the structure above and put it in writing.