The strategic thesis

Three bets that change the economics.

Legacy behavioural-health RCM platforms accumulated complexity for two decades — per-customer database stored procedures, per-payer T-SQL scrubbers, brittle ETL between vendors. The new platform inverts every one of those constraints. Three architectural commitments make it work.

The architecture bet · 01

A canonical model, no stored procedures, AI-first development.

Every business rule — claim scrub, modifier injection, group-size adjustment, COB cascade, denial categorisation, EVV validation — lives in TypeScript services with content-addressed YAML rule artifacts. Eight rule-set kinds span the whole pipeline.

A

Content-addressed artifacts

Every rule version has a hash, a provenance trail, and an immutable snapshot. A rule that's published in production today is the same artifact you'd see if you re-built the system from scratch tomorrow — bit-for-bit.

B

Scope precedence

Rules match against a 7+1 dimensional scope — org, site, facility, billing-entity, payer, program, service-line, plus state. Specificity scoring + precedence_rank tie-break make the winning rule explainable, not buried in a stored procedure.

C

Effective dating everywhere

Rules carry effective_from and effective_to ranges. A fee-schedule change scheduled for Q3 doesn't require a code deploy; an end-of-year payer policy update is a YAML change dated for January 1.

No stored procedures. No code deploys. No back-office tickets.
Rules Engines & Configuration
The economic bet · 02

Operating leverage that doesn't grow with customer count.

The legacy model is one DBA-supported deployment per customer, one custom integration project per partner, one bespoke report per executive ask. The new platform changes the unit economics — and the headcount they imply.

$1.5–1.8k
Production Azure spend per month
Legacy on-prem equivalent: $5K–$20K/month per customer
2–3
AI development engineers
The full long-term support headcount, not a per-customer ratio
234
Production commits
In 50 business days · ~4.7 per day · 2026-04-01 → 2026-05-20

Three numbers point at the same thing — the cost structure is structurally different.

Production Azure spend is bounded by the platform's resource footprint, not by the customer count. Adding a customer adds a tenant database (a few dollars/month of Postgres storage) and a Front Door host (cents/month), not a server, not a license, not a DBA on the support rotation.

The development model is the same. Adding a state's modifier policy isn't a sprint — it's a configuration commit. The 234-commit cadence isn't a sprint either. It's the steady-state.

The compliance bet · 03

HITRUST-ready, native MFA, federation as a first-class integration model.

Security and compliance posture is built into the platform, not bolted on. The controls a HITRUST auditor would expect — they're already there, with audit evidence.

Native MFA — TOTP + WebAuthn

Phishing-resistant authentication enforceable per-tenant. FIDO MDS3 sync gates trusted authenticator models. Counter-regression detection catches credential-clone attacks. Step-up MFA on sensitive operations with a 300-second freshness window.

Federation, not custom integrations

EMR / EHR partners register themselves: RFC 7519 JWT, RFC 7517 JWK, staged → active → superseded → revoked key lifecycle. Revoke propagates across every running instance in under 30 seconds via a 30-second LRU revoke cache.

Physical tenant isolation

No row-level security. One PostgreSQL database per customer, connection strings sealed in Azure Key Vault, never persisted in the master DB. Leaking a tenant token cannot grant access to platform routes; leaking a platform token cannot grant access to any tenant's data without an explicit, audited impersonation event.

BCDR with RTO ≤ 1h, RPO ≤ 5 min

Production Postgres on ZR-HA with 35-day backup retention; geo-redundant storage (RAGZRS); a DR-by-flag posture so the passive region only costs $1.1K/month when armed. The DR drill is dated and the runbook is current.

It is structurally cheaper, structurally faster, and structurally more flexible than any legacy platform — because the architectural choices remove the categories of work that drive legacy cost.
Competitive Differentiation