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

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

ClearPath transforms static behavioral documents into a real-time, queryable operating manual — so the paraprofessional starting Monday knows exactly what to do when a child escalates on Tuesday. Built on 3 years of proprietary clinical data and a running randomized controlled trial.

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: 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.
ClearPath 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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ClearPath Has No Clinical Ego

Our AI doesn't have biases, doesn't take shortcuts, and never "already knows the dance." It adheres strictly to the 3-year evidence-based framework — every time, for every child, for every new aide.

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 "Edelstein Engine"

A 3-year head start that
no competitor can buy

We use enterprise foundational models (Google Cloud Vertex AI) as the engine. The 3-year proprietary behavioral database is the steering wheel. Our competitors can rent the engine. Only we have the wheel.

3yr

Annotated Behavioral Database

Built ground-up for AI fine-tuning. Encodes counter-control, demand-avoidance, and differential reinforcement frameworks. Collected with ML validation as the explicit design goal — not retrofitted clinical notes.

RAG

Zero-Hallucination Architecture

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

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 behavioral incident data. Publishable in 6 months.

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Treatment Prediction (Phase 2)

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 RCT result makes the next payor conversation easier. A data and evidence moat compounds permanently in our favor.

5 Core Outputs ClearPath 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
For School Districts

We sell to the person writing
the $50,000 out-of-district check

The Director of Special Education feels every intervention failure financially. They're our buyer — and they have their own checkbook.

"Every Director of Special Education has a discretionary spending threshold — often $10K–$25K — below which they can sign 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 for special ed tools & services
  • Professional Development Budget — ClearPath qualifies as behavioral staff training
  • Special Ed General Funds — state & local student support money
⚠ Avoid

Consumer AI Tools

FERPA Compliant
BAA / HIPAA
Student Data Safe
Training Risk⚠ High
IT Approval✗ Will fail
✓ Phase 1 — Schools

Google Cloud Vertex AI

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

ClearPath Proprietary

FERPA + HIPAA✓ Both
Own Model Training
Hospital Ready
Patient-Directed Data✓ MyChart
Competitive Moat✓ 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. 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 ClearPath Serves

One platform. Three audiences.
One mission.

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School Districts

The new aide starts Monday. ClearPath 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 audio 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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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. ClearPath's school 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
Request a Pilot

The new aide starts Monday.
Is she ready?

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

Pilot pricing starts at $14,500 — IDEA and PD budget eligible. partners@clearpath.ai