Crescent Mind · Clinical Infrastructure

Mental health doesn’t need another tool.
It needs a system that runs care.

Crescent Mind closes the loop between clinical signal, treatment decision, and measurable outcome. It improves care under today’s payment model, and builds the evidence base that future payment models will require.

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$280B

US mental health market

~8,000

Mid-to-large practices in the US

40–60%

Want to enter value-based care

$240K

Annual ROI per 20-clinician practice

01 · Signal

Continuous capture

Between-session data & mood patterns

Patient-reported data, engagement signals, and clinician inputs. Every signal is structured, longitudinal, and available in real time.

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02 · Decision

Clinical intelligence

AI-native, longitudinal insights

The Clinical Intelligence Engine delivers context-aware decision support grounded in each patient's full longitudinal record.

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03 · Action

Adaptive care

Clinicians adjust protocols in real time

Clinicians see trajectory and adjust treatment in session, creating a direct link between insight and intervention.

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04 · Outcome

Proven impact

Validated measures for all stakeholders

Continuous, validated outcome measures, generated automatically for patients, practices, and payers.

The problem

Practices run on systems built to record care, not improve it.

EHR. Scheduling. Messaging. Assessments. Documentation. Practices operate across five or more disconnected platforms. None of them connect outcomes to treatment decisions, create feedback loops for clinicians, or enable system-level oversight.

Result: Care does not improve over time. Practices entering value-based care need more than better tools. They need the right clinical infrastructure.

No feedback loop

Clinicians have no visibility into patient progress between sessions. Each session starts from scratch.

Outcomes not linked to treatment

No platform connects what was done in session to what changed in the patient.

No system-level oversight

Practice leaders cannot identify dropout risk, benchmark clinicians, or standardize care.

VBC is blocked by infrastructure

~40–60% of practices want to enter value-based care. Almost none have the infrastructure to deliver it.

What Crescent Mind does

A closed loop between signal, decision, action, and outcome.

Crescent Mind is a clinician-facing, end-to-end platform built around one idea: care should improve continuously, not episodically.

Captures continuous clinical signals

Patient-reported data, between-session engagement, and clinician inputs. Every signal is structured and longitudinal.

Links signals to treatment decisions

The AI-native Clinical Intelligence Engine delivers context-aware insights grounded in each patient’s longitudinal record.

Feeds insights back into care in real time

Clinicians see trajectory, adjust protocols, and prove impact, both in session and between sessions.

Generates the outcomes data value-based care requires

Validated measures over time, automatically, for patients, practices, and payers.

Measurement

A transformational definition of mental health value.

Successful care is more than a lower symptom score on a GAD-7 or PHQ-9. Crescent Mind captures the full picture of whether care is working.

What a symptom score measures

Symptoms

One dimension. A number that goes down.

What Crescent Mind measures

Symptoms

Functioning

Engagement

Client-defined goals

Values-consistent action

Treatment progress

Real-world impact

This dataset does not exist anywhere else, and it is what value-based contracts will eventually be priced on. Our clinical co-founder is an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which is what lets us build goals from each client’s own values and still make them comparable.

Value today

Immediate value under today’s payment model.

Crescent Mind does not require a value-based contract to pay off. It improves how care is delivered and managed from the first month, and the evidence it produces is what future contracts will be priced on.

Reduce dropout, increase retention

See disengagement before the client stops showing up.

Strengthen treatment planning

Decisions grounded in trajectory, not recall.

Make supervision more effective

Real caseload patterns, not self-reported summaries.

Cut fragmented administrative work

Measurement falls out of the workflow, not on top of it.

Give leaders visibility

See provider performance and standardize across sites.

Practice ROI

Pays for itself within 2–3 months.

Modeled impact for a 20-clinician practice under today’s payment model.

$240K

Annual revenue impact per 20-clinician practice

$12K

Average annual incremental revenue per clinician

2–3 mo

Payback period at $2,400 per clinician per year

01 · Dropout

40% → 15% early termination

+6 sessions per patient per year = $1,200 per patient annually

02 · Capacity

+20% effective capacity via async care

+4–5 additional patients per clinician per year without adding session hours

03 · Positioning

Unlock value-based care contracts

Outcomes data is required for VBC, and Crescent Mind generates it automatically

Based on modeled impact across dropout, capacity, and reimbursement, to be validated in pilot.

HIPAA-compliant infrastructure · Built for clinical environments

Who it’s for

Built for practices under pressure to prove performance.

Crescent Mind is purpose-built for mid-sized behavioral health practices of 15 or more clinicians. Most are under payer, accreditation, or reporting pressure today, whether or not they have signed a value-based contract.

Group practices & behavioral health orgs

Proving performance today

Retention, supervision, and performance management that pay off immediately, plus the outcomes record contracts will later require.

Integrated health systems

Standardizing mental health delivery

Longitudinal outcomes and system-level performance data across clinicians and sites.

CCBHC & community behavioral health

Quality-linked payment already in place

Reporting and quality measures for organizations already paid against performance standards.

Now onboarding

Pilot partners

We start where the need is most immediate: practices already being asked to demonstrate that their care works.

Why now

Three forces are converging on mental health.

AI enables real-time clinical intelligence

Real-time signal extraction and decision support is now possible at clinical scale for the first time.

Value-based care demands measurable outcomes

Payers will only contract on systems that demonstrate continuous, longitudinal impact. Current systems cannot produce it.

Episodic care models are being replaced

The shift from session-based to continuous care is structural, not cyclical. Own the workflow, own the outcomes layer.

“Mental health will not be transformed by more platforms. It will be transformed by a system that guides every level of how care is delivered, and becomes the infrastructure for the category.”

The team

We’ve built healthcare systems at national scale.

Sonja Batten, PhD

Clinical Co-Founder

National mental health leader. CCO at Stop Soldier Suicide. Directed VA’s $7.5B mental health service line supporting 20,000+ clinicians. 50+ scientific publications and two books.

Heather West, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Healthcare operator and systems engineer. Founded VA-CASE ($40M national program). Prior: Parsley Health, Castlight, Crossover Health. Adjunct faculty, NYU. Named one of Utah’s CEOs of the year 2025.

Dana Fos

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Engineering leader across startups to 200K-person enterprises. Led teams through rapid growth and post-acquisition integration. Helped build New Orleans’ first tech unicorn.

“Other teams build features. We’re building a category.”

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For practices and investors.

For practices

Enter value-based care with the infrastructure to deliver it.

Reduce dropout, prove outcomes, and increase clinician capacity without adding headcount. We are currently onboarding pilot practices.

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For investors

Building the infrastructure layer for a $280B market.

Mental health’s shift to value-based care requires clinical infrastructure that does not exist today. We are building it, starting where the need is most immediate.

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Mental health doesn’t need another tool.It needs a system that runs care.