Active RCT · 70 Years of Science · 1,000+ Families · Pilot School Signed

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

NeuroPath Health scales 70 years of proven behavioral science — backed by 20+ peer-reviewed publications and 1,000+ families of real-world data — so every school, clinic, and care agency has the right answer at the right moment. No clinical ego. No drift. No guessing.

NeuroPath Health — 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: No direct commands. Green/Red Card: "your way" (5-min delay) vs "my way" (transition now + preferred activity). Voice flat. Body sideways. Max 5 words. Wait 30 seconds.

Source: Marcus's BIP §4.2 · Counter-Control Management Protocol · Incident Log: 3 Monday post-lunch escalations · SLP de-escalation sequence
IEP 2024–25 BIP v3 Incident History SLP Cards Onboarding Podcast
1 in 9
U.S. school-age children with a neurodevelopmental diagnosis
200–500%
Higher suicide risk for children with unaddressed behavioral needs
40–50%
Technical adequacy score of school FBAs and BIPs — the documents we rely on
42%
Of school clinicians report supervisors never discuss evidence-based assessment
The Stakes — This Is Not a Discipline Problem

Unaddressed behavioral needs
don't stay in the classroom. They follow children for life.

The behavioral crisis in schools is a public health emergency hiding behind compliance paperwork. The consequences of getting this wrong are not measured in detentions — they are measured in decades.

200–500%

Higher Suicide Risk

Children with frequent, unaddressed behavior problems face a 200–500% higher risk of suicide attempts compared to peers who receive early evidence-based intervention.

20–25

Years of Life Lost

Individuals with severe, unmanaged mental illness die 20–25 years earlier than the general population — often because behavioral symptoms interfere with treatment of chronic physical conditions.

$150M

What Institutions Are Spending

Children's Mercy Hospital committed $150M for their "Illuminate" initiative. Nationwide Children's received a $50M donation to scale behavioral health. Major health systems are proving the problem is real. We provide the scalable software layer.

"Early evidence-based intervention and integrated care can improve long-term outcomes related to employment, social integration, and the reduction of chronic disability."

— Clinical Research Literature on Pediatric Behavioral Health
Why Human Practitioners Are Failing

The system has a clinical ego problem.
NeuroPath Health doesn't.

The gap between what the research says works and what practitioners actually do is not a knowledge problem. It's a behavioral one. And it costs children their futures.

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Clinical Judgment Bias

Experienced clinicians believe their intuition outperforms objective, standardized assessment tools — often resisting evidence-based protocols as a "threat to their clinical judgment."

Experience is negatively correlated with openness to evidence-based assessment.

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Diagnostic Overshadowing

Providers incorrectly attribute psychiatric symptoms — depression, anxiety — to a child's intellectual disability rather than treating them as separate, treatable conditions.

Only 41% of physicians feel confident providing equal care to patients with disabilities.

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Clinical Drift in Schools

Without supervision or feedback loops, school clinicians drift from evidence-based protocols over time. 42% report their supervisors never discuss evidence-based assessment.

FBAs and BIPs score 40–50% on technical adequacy. They're legally required. They're often inadequate.

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NeuroPath Has No Clinical Ego

Our AI doesn't have biases, doesn't take shortcuts, and never "already knows the dance." It adheres strictly to 70 years of evidence-based science — every time, for every client, for every new staff member.

Zero clinical drift. Zero diagnostic overshadowing. Zero judgment bias.

The Micro Problem — Static Document Failure

You handed a clinically inadequate 47-page PDF
to a brand-new aide.

School FBAs score 40–50% on technical adequacy — vague behavior definitions, no clear hypotheses connecting behavior to function. Then we give that document to a paraprofessional in an industry with 30%+ annual turnover and expect it to guide them through a live crisis. It cannot.

"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)
01

Clinically Inadequate Documents

School FBAs and BIPs score only 40–50% on technical adequacy. Vague behavior definitions. No clear hypotheses. Legally required, clinically weak — and we treat them as the truth.

02

30%+ Annual Staff Turnover

Every new aide resets behavioral progress to zero. No structured knowledge transfer exists. The new hire guesses on Day 1 — and the child absorbs the cost.

03

A Clinical Vocabulary No One Understands

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

04

1 in 3 Americans in a Provider Shortage Area

Specialists in therapy, psychiatry, and counseling are projected to remain scarce through 2037. The workforce cannot scale. The documents they produce are inadequate. A new model is required.

The Solution — The Science Is Settled. The Problem Is Scale.

70 years of proven science.
Not enough humans to deliver it.

The behavioral science works. We have 20+ peer-reviewed publications and 1,000+ families of real-world data proving it. The problem has never been what to do — it's that there will never be enough trained specialists to get this science to the people on the ground. NeuroPath Health is the infrastructure to scale it infinitely.

70yr

Proven Applied Behavioral Science

Seven decades of evidence-based behavioral analysis — the most rigorous, replicable framework in behavioral health. We didn't invent it. We built the infrastructure to scale it infinitely.

20+

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Every protocol in NeuroPath's framework is backed by published, peer-reviewed research. Not clinical opinions — documented, replicable science that holds up in an IEP meeting or a courtroom.

1K+

Families of Real-World Data

Over 1,000 families of annotated behavioral outcome data — systematically collected with experimental rigor. Not a lab dataset. Real behaviors, real outcomes, real training signal.

RCT

Active 40-Family Randomized Trial

The KKI Caregiver AI Empowerment Trial is running now. Parallel-arm design measuring caregiver self-efficacy, school implementation fidelity, and daily IBRST data. Publishable in 6 months.

⚡ Why This Moat Is Insurmountable

A competitor can rent GPT-4 in six weeks. They cannot compress 70 years of behavioral science, 20+ peer-reviewed publications, and 1,000+ families of annotated real-world outcome data into a training dataset. This moat compounds permanently with every new deployment.

5 Core Outputs NeuroPath Health Generates

  • Real-time crisis query — plain English in, cited protocol out
  • Staff onboarding podcast — new aide knows the child before Day 1
  • IEP advocacy deck — research-backed, auto-generated in minutes
  • IBRST incident tracking — longitudinal behavioral evidence base
  • Treatment prediction — Phase 2 LLM recommendation engine
Go-To-Market

Three markets. Same problem.
One platform.

Undertrained staff, high turnover, no real-time behavioral support — this pattern repeats everywhere. NeuroPath sells to whoever controls the budget and lives the problem daily.

Vertical 1
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Special Education
Districts

FBAs score 40–50% on technical adequacy. 30%+ annual staff turnover. The Director of Special Ed writes $50K out-of-district checks when interventions fail.

The Sales Hack

Price under $14,500 → Director signs without board vote → deploy in days. No RFP. No 6-month wait.

BuyerDirector of Special Ed
BudgetIDEA + PD Funds
ComplianceFERPA · No PHI
Pilot status✓ Warm intro secured
Vertical 2
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SLPs, OTs &
Allied Health

Allied health professionals handle complex diagnoses but receive zero behavioral training. When behavior blocks progress, they're forced to reduce or terminate programming entirely.

The Value Prop

NeuroPath acts as a real-time behavioral co-pilot — keeping therapy sessions on track the moment behavior becomes a barrier.

BuyerPractice owner / clinic director
BudgetPractice operating budget
ProcurementDirect · No bureaucracy
U.S. market200,000+ practitioners
Vertical 3
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IDD Self-Directed
Care Agencies

Medicaid-funded agencies supporting adults with IDD. Direct-care staff have zero behavioral training. A state specialist visits once a month. Same 30%+ turnover as schools.

Why They Can Buy Directly

Under self-directed care, agencies hold "Employer Authority" — they control their Medicaid waiver budgets and procure independently, no state approval needed.

BuyerAgency director / CCS
BudgetMedicaid waiver funds
ProcurementDirect · Employer Authority
Market size$50B+ Medicaid IDD waivers
The School District Sales Hack

$14,500. Director signs today.
No board vote needed.

Every Director of Special Education has a discretionary spending threshold — typically $10K–$25K — below which they can sign a contract without a school board vote. We price our pilot just under it. Deploy in days, not months.

1
Director says yes
Warm intro via clinical co-founder
2
IT & FERPA review
Vertex AI VPC passes every district audit
3
Sole Source Justification
20+ publications + 1,000+ families = unique. No RFP.
$14,500 signed — no board vote
Year 2: district-wide at $80K–$150K with 12mo of IBRST data
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. Priced under the Director's discretionary spending threshold — they sign, we deploy, no board approval needed.

Phase 1 Pilot Structure

SettingRural Maryland school district, K–12
BuyerDirector of Special Education (warm intro)
Pilot Price$14,500 — under discretionary threshold
Funded ViaIDEA funds + Professional Development budget
UsersSpecial ed staff, paraprofessionals, 1:1 aides
Data InputIEPs, behavioral plans, incident logs — FERPA, no PHI
Primary MetricStaff protocol fidelity + behavioral confidence
SecondaryDaily IBRST incident frequency & severity
Year-EndEd. psychology publication + district-wide renewal ($80K–$150K)

The Approval Path — Navigated in Weeks

  • Step 1 — Director says yes (warm intro, pre-sold on the problem)
  • Step 2 — IT & FERPA review (Vertex AI VPC passes every district audit)
  • Step 3 — Student Data Privacy Agreement (pre-negotiated template, done in days)
  • Step 4 — Sole Source Justification (3-year database = unique; no RFP needed)
  • Step 5 — Director signs at $14,500 (no board vote at this price point)
  • Year 2 — Board vote for district-wide contract backed by 12 months of IBRST outcome data
  • District-wide renewal at $80K–$150K — the moment the pilot was always building toward
Who NeuroPath Health Serves

One platform. Five audiences.
One mission: scale the science.

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School Districts

The new aide starts Monday. NeuroPath makes sure she's ready before the first crisis — not after. Real-time guidance, zero clinical ego, zero drift from the evidence-based protocol.

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

Allied health professionals support individuals with complex diagnoses but receive zero behavioral training. When challenging behaviors emerge, sessions break down — and providers are forced to reduce or terminate programming entirely.

  • Real-time behavioral co-pilot during therapy sessions
  • Guidance when behavior blocks progress — not after the session ends
  • Instant access to counter-control and demand-avoidance protocols
  • Client-specific guidance, not generic advice
  • Keeps therapy on track without requiring a behavioral specialist on-site
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IDD Staffing Agencies

Agencies supporting adults with IDD via Medicaid waivers face the same crisis as schools: untrained direct-care staff, 30%+ turnover, and a behavioral specialist who visits once a month. Under self-directed care, they control their own budgets.

  • Direct-care staff get real-time behavioral guidance — no specialist required
  • Onboarding podcast for every new hire before their first shift
  • Funded through Medicaid waiver budgets — agencies buy directly
  • "Employer Authority" means no procurement bureaucracy
  • Consistent evidence-based protocols despite constant staff turnover
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Caregivers & Families

Stop advocating from emotion alone. Upload your child's full EHR from MyChart. Enter every IEP meeting as a data-equipped clinical partner — not an overwhelmed parent with a stack of binders.

  • Upload full EHR directly from MyChart or hospital portal
  • One unified record across all providers and specialists
  • Real-time behavioral guidance for home de-escalation
  • IEP advocacy documentation generated in minutes
  • Complete continuity every time a teacher or aide changes
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Payors & Health Plans

Children with unaddressed behavioral needs cost you 200–500% more in crisis events. NeuroPath's school and agency outcome data is the ROI evidence base for value-based PMPM contracts.

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

Coming Next

The same infrastructure works wherever undertrained staff encounter complex behavioral needs without adequate support.

  • Pediatric emergency departments (triage vs. crisis intervention)
  • Foster care and residential treatment facilities
  • Juvenile justice and diversion programs
  • Primary care pediatricians managing behavioral referrals
  • Any setting where the specialist-to-client ratio is inadequate
Request a Pilot

Your staff starts Monday.
Are they ready?

NeuroPath Health is deploying pilots in special education, allied health, and IDD agencies. If you're a Director of Special Education, a clinic owner, an agency director, or an investor — we want to talk this week.

Schools: $14,500 pilot (IDEA/PD eligible) · Allied Health & IDD Agencies: contact us for pricing · partners@neuropathhealth.com