Active RCT · 3-Year Proprietary Database · Pilot School Signed

The 47-page IEP is useless
during an active meltdown.
ClearPath isn't.

ClearPath transforms your static behavioral documents into a real-time, queryable operating manual — so the new paraprofessional starting Monday knows exactly what to do when your child escalates on Tuesday. Backed by a running clinical trial and three years of proprietary behavioral data.

ClearPath — Marcus J. · Grade 4 · BIP Active
Staff Query — Real Time
New aide (Day 1): "Marcus is refusing every transition and I have no idea what his plan says. He's escalating. What do I do right now?"

Counter-control protocol — active: Do not issue direct commands. Use the Green Card / Red Card choice framework: offer "your way" (5-min delay) vs. "my way" (transition now, earns preferred activity). Voice flat, body sideways, maximum 5 words per utterance. Do not escalate your tone. Wait 30 seconds after offering the choice.

Source: Marcus's BIP §4.2 · Counter-Control Management Protocol · Incident Log: 3 prior Monday post-lunch escalations · SLP de-escalation card sequence
IEP 2024–25 BIP v3 Incident History SLP Cards Onboarding Podcast
1 in 9
U.S. school-age children have a neurodevelopmental diagnosis requiring behavioral support
30%+
Annual paraprofessional turnover — erasing months of hard-won behavioral progress every year
<20%
Of designated special ed staff feel adequately prepared to handle behavioral crises in real time
$47B
U.S. behavioral health market — schools bear the escalation costs when interventions fail
Four Strategic Pillars

Built on the right problem, the right data,
and the right sales motion

ClearPath isn't built on a product thesis — it's built on four structural realities that make school districts the ideal first market and three years of proprietary clinical data the ideal moat.

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Static Document Failure

A 47-page behavioral plan cannot respond to an active classroom crisis. The moment the new aide starts, that document becomes useless. ClearPath turns static clinical PDFs into a real-time, queryable operating manual — answering in seconds with cited, child-specific guidance.

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Schools First — The Right GTM

School districts have legally mandated Special Education budgets (IDEA funds), a clear economic buyer (Director of Special Education), and a procurement hack: price under the discretionary spending threshold ($14,500) and the Director signs today — no board vote, no 6-month RFP.

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3-Year Proprietary Database

Our clinical co-founder spent three years building an annotated behavioral database specifically designed to fine-tune an AI for treatment prediction. No competitor can replicate this head start. It isn't just a dataset — it's the steering wheel on top of any enterprise foundational model.

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FERPA Now, HIPAA Later

School deployments operate under FERPA — no PHI required. We use enterprise-grade Google Cloud Vertex AI with full VPC isolation. For Phase 2 clinical expansion, our stack is fully BAA-covered for HIPAA. And the patient-directed model lets families upload their own EHR data — bypassing hospital compliance entirely.

The Problem — Static Document Failure

You handed a 47-page PDF to a brand-new aide.
Your child is already escalating.

Every parent of a neurodivergent child knows this terror. Months of clinical work — neuropsych evals, behavioral intervention plans, SLP protocols — compressed into a static document that a new paraprofessional will never fully read, and couldn't act on even if they did. The document was written for anticipated scenarios. The crisis happening right now wasn't one of them.

"A paraprofessional facing an active behavioral crisis cannot query a PDF. Situational guidance requires real-time synthesis that static documents categorically cannot provide."

— KKI Caregiver AI Empowerment Trial, Clinical Rationale (Active RCT, 40 Families)
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The 47-Page PDF Problem

Static behavioral plans were written for anticipated scenarios. When a real crisis hits — a hallway meltdown, a cafeteria refusal — the PDF provides zero actionable real-time guidance. It's not a tool. It's a well-intentioned liability.

02

30%+ Annual Paraprofessional Turnover

Every time a new aide starts, months of hard-won behavioral calibration resets to zero. There is no structured knowledge transfer mechanism. The new hire is guessing on Day 1 — and the child pays the cost.

03

The Clinical Vocabulary Gap

Counter-control paradigms, demand-avoidance profiles, differential reinforcement schedules — dense clinical language that is incomprehensible to non-clinical school staff at exactly the moments it matters most.

04

No Single Source of Truth

IEPs, neuropsych evals, behavioral plans, and SLP visuals live across providers in incompatible formats. School teams start every year without the full picture. Critical context is lost in every transition.

The "Edelstein Engine" — Core IP

A 3-year head start that
no one can buy

We don't build an LLM from scratch — that costs tens of millions. We use enterprise foundational models (Google Cloud Vertex AI) as the engine, and inject the 3-year proprietary behavioral database as the steering wheel. Our competitors can rent the engine. Only we have the wheel.

3yr

Annotated Behavioral Database

Collected with ML fine-tuning as the explicit design goal — not retrofitted clinical notes. Structured, labeled behavioral outcome data encoding proprietary counter-control, demand-avoidance, and differential reinforcement frameworks.

RAG

Zero-Hallucination by Architecture

Every AI response cites its exact source document — "Source: BIP §4.2." The system operates exclusively within the uploaded clinical corpus. No open internet access. No fabrication. Clinical safety is architectural, not a policy.

RCT

Active 40-Family Randomized Trial

The KKI Caregiver AI Empowerment Trial is running now. 40 families, parallel-arm design, measuring caregiver self-efficacy, school-level implementation fidelity, and daily IBRST behavioral incident data. Publishable results in 6 months.

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Treatment Prediction Roadmap

The long-term goal: an LLM fine-tuned on the full database that recommends optimized treatment courses from intake data alone. A clinical decision support tool with no current equivalent in neurobehavioral care.

⚡ Why This Moat Is Permanent

The 3-year database grows with every school deployment. Every new IBRST data point strengthens the model. Every published RCT result makes the next payor conversation easier. Unlike a technical advantage that can be copied in 6 weeks, a data and evidence moat compounds permanently in our favor.

How ClearPath Generates Its Outputs

1

School uploads IEPs, behavioral plans, incident logs, SLP visuals into the secure FERPA-compliant ClearPath environment

2

The 3-year proprietary behavioral framework — counter-control, differential reinforcement, demand-avoidance profiles — provides the clinical reasoning layer via RAG and fine-tuning

3

Staff query in plain English during a live crisis. AI responds with protocol-specific guidance, citing the exact source. Staff onboarding podcasts auto-generated for every new hire.

4

IBRST incident data aggregates longitudinally — feeding the proprietary database, improving the model, and generating publishable educational research

For School Districts

The sales motion that bypasses
the school board entirely

We don't pitch the Superintendent. We don't wait for a board vote. We go directly to the Director of Special Education — the person who feels the financial and operational pain every single day — and price our pilot just under their discretionary spending threshold. They sign the check. We deploy next week.

"Every Director of Special Education has a discretionary spending threshold — often between $10,000 and $25,000 — below which they can sign a contract without a school board vote. Price the pilot just under it."

— ClearPath Go-To-Market Strategy

Where the Budget Comes From

IDEA Funds — federal money earmarked exclusively for special education tools
Professional Development Budget — ClearPath qualifies as behavioral staff training
Special Ed General Funds — state and local money for student support services
⚠ Avoid

Consumer AI Tools (ChatGPT, Consumer NotebookLM)

FERPA Compliant✗ No
BAA / HIPAA Ready✗ No
Student Data Safe✗ No
Training Risk⚠ High
IT Approval✗ Will fail
✓ Phase 1

Google Cloud Vertex AI (Enterprise)

FERPA Compliant✓ Yes
BAA Available✓ Yes
VPC Isolated✓ Yes
Data Used for Training✗ Never
IT Approval✓ Achievable
★ Phase 2 — Goal

ClearPath Proprietary Platform

FERPA + HIPAA✓ Both
Own Model Training✓ Our data
Hospital Ready✓ Yes
Patient-Directed Data✓ MyChart / EHR
Competitive Moat✓ Fully proprietary
The Pilot — Already In Motion

$14,500. No board vote.
We deploy next week.

Our clinical co-founder has an existing relationship with the Director of Special Education at a rural Maryland school district. The pilot is priced at $14,500 — intentionally under the Director's discretionary spending threshold. No school board approval needed. No 6-month RFP. The Director signs, we deploy.

Phase 1 Pilot Structure

SettingRural Maryland school district, K–12
BuyerDirector of Special Education (warm intro via clinical co-founder)
Pilot Price$14,500 — under discretionary threshold, no board vote
Funded ViaIDEA funds + Professional Development budget
Target UsersSpecial ed staff, paraprofessionals, 1:1 aides
Data InputIEPs, behavioral plans, incident logs — FERPA compliant, no PHI
Primary MetricStaff protocol fidelity + behavioral confidence scores
Secondary MetricIBRST behavioral incident frequency & severity (daily tracking)
Year-End GoalEd. psychology publication + district-wide renewal at $80K–$150K

The Approval Path We Navigate

  • Step 1 — Director says yes (warm intro, pre-sold on the problem)
  • Step 2 — IT & FERPA review (Vertex AI VPC isolation passes every district audit)
  • Step 3 — Student Data Privacy Agreement (we come with a pre-negotiated template)
  • Step 4 — Sole Source Justification (our 3-year proprietary database makes us unique — no RFP required)
  • Step 5 — Director signs at $14,500 (no board vote needed at this price point)
  • Year 2 — Board vote for district-wide renewal (now we have 12 months of IBRST outcome data to present)
  • District-wide contract at $80K–$150K — the moment we've been building toward
Who ClearPath Serves

One platform. Three audiences.
One mission.

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School Districts

The new aide starts Monday. ClearPath makes sure she knows exactly what to do before the first crisis — not after. Every staff member, experienced or brand new, gets the behavioral reasoning support of a trained specialist on demand.

  • Real-time crisis guidance, cited from the child's own records
  • AI-generated staff onboarding audio podcast before Day 1
  • IEP advocacy decks built automatically from clinical data
  • Knowledge continuity across 30%+ annual staff turnover
  • Funded via IDEA funds and PD budgets — no new budget line
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Caregivers & Families

Stop advocating from emotion alone. Enter every IEP meeting as a data-equipped clinical partner — armed with IBRST incident data, peer-reviewed literature, and a polished presentation that no school district can credibly dispute.

  • Upload your child's full EHR directly from MyChart or hospital portal
  • One unified record across all providers, schools, and specialists
  • Real-time behavioral guidance for home de-escalation
  • IEP advocacy documentation generated in minutes, not hours
  • Complete continuity every time a teacher or aide changes
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Payors & Health Plans

When behavioral interventions fail in schools, the cost lands on your claims. ClearPath's school outcome data — IBRST incident reduction, avoided out-of-district placements — is the ROI evidence base for value-based PMPM contracts.

  • Active RCT generating publishable outcome data right now
  • Avoided out-of-district placements ($42K per student per year)
  • Reduced crisis hospitalizations ($28K per event avoided)
  • Reduced ER and behavioral crisis visits
  • Value-based PMPM pricing tied directly to measurable outcomes
Request a Pilot

The new aide starts Monday.
Is she ready?

ClearPath is deploying its first school district pilot in Maryland. If you're a Director of Special Education, a school administrator, or an investor — we want to talk this week.

Director of Special Education? Pilot pricing starts at $14,500 — IDEA and PD budget eligible. partners@clearpath.ai