Crescent Mind · Clinical System of Action

Mental health needs a system that runs care. Not another tool.

Crescent Mind closes the loop between clinical signal, treatment decision, and measurable outcome — purpose-built for mental health practices entering value-based care.

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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 — all structured and longitudinal, 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 — automatically generated for patients, practices, and payers.

The problem

Mental health practices are running care on systems built to record it.

EHR. Scheduling. Messaging. Assessments. Documentation. Practices operate across five or more disconnected platforms — none of which 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 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 — all 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 — in session and between sessions.

Generates the outcomes data value-based care requires

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

Practice ROI

Pays for itself within 2–3 months.

Modeled impact for a 20-clinician practice entering value-based care.

$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 required for VBC — 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 entering value-based care.

Crescent Mind is purpose-built for mid-to-large mental health practices that are moving — or planning to move — into value-based care contracts.

Group practices & behavioral health orgs

Entering value-based care

Outcomes tracking, performance management, and risk infrastructure for practices making the shift.

Integrated health systems

Standardizing mental health delivery

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

Payer & employer contracts

Contracting on outcomes

Population-level monitoring and cost-control reporting that current systems cannot produce.

Now onboarding

Pilot partners

We start where the pain is highest: practices that want to enter VBC but lack the infrastructure to deliver it.

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

Co-Founder

National mental health leader. Former 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

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

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.”

Get in touch

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 a system of action. We are establishing that category — starting where the pain is highest.

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