Turning family engagement into recurring revenue for behavioral health
Pathroot activates, supports, and aligns families from intake through aftercare — improving retention, strengthening outcomes, and turning each admission into a recurring revenue opportunity.
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40+ providers under agreement | Live rollouts underway | 3,600 families expected in 2026
Why Pathroot, Why Now
Family support influences outcomes, retention, and revenue. Pathroot turns it into a structured, scalable system for treatment programs.
Families drive outcomes
Families influence admissions, adherence, early discharge risk, and post-treatment stability.
Programs lack infrastructure
Most programs rely on fragmented touchpoints, manual outreach, and inconsistent support.
Retention pressure is rising
Early discharge creates empty beds, lost revenue, weaker outcomes, and pressure to replace patients.
Pathroot fills the gap
A fully managed system supports families, keeps them aligned, and measures what matters.
Early discharge is a revenue problem
Unsupported or misaligned families can unintentionally push patients out of care — creating early discharges, empty beds, lost revenue, and pressure to replace patients.
25–40%
Patients leave treatment early
10 Days
Average empty bed after early discharge
$10K+
Average cost to replace a patient


Pathroot improves provider performance
When families are aligned earlier and supported consistently, programs can reduce early exits, protect revenue, improve outcomes visibility, and strengthen future referrals.
Provider adoption is underway and built to scale
Pathroot is rolling out through a model where referral partners, treatment programs, families,
and Pathroot all benefit from better engagement and outcomes.

Built by operators
Experience across treatment, healthcare, SaaS, and growth.
Our Team

Brent Palmer
CMO

Bruce Ahern
Board Chairman

Mike Guardalabene
CTO
Advisors

Rick Strobridge
Advisor

Dr. Sandy Newes
Advisor

Dr. Mary Flora
Advisor

Gerard Szatvanyi
Advisor

Rick Delgiorno
Advisor

Curt Allen
Advisor

Mike Webb
Advisor

Bob Pollack
Advisor
Proven founders with exits in SaaS and treatment
A team with direct addiction treatment experience, SaaS operating depth,
and multiple successful exits.












