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PathwayStudio

A CCMMP-grounded intervention engine. An incremental ask on top of working software.

PathwayStudio is the intervention-planning module that bolts onto Presence+ (DMU’s clinical platform) and licenses to other EMRs that want to give their clinicians evidence-based intervention support without building it themselves. The core engine works. This campaign turns it into a standalone, sellable product and validates its impact through a multi-year study with clinical partner sites.

$3,150,000 campaign over three years · 8 named-gift opportunities

At a glance

Ask
$3.15M over three years
Foundation
Catholic-Christian Meta-Model of the Person (CCMMP)
Outputs
Licensable engine + API + validated pathway library
Status
Core engine working; productization and study ready to launch

The model works; the gap is anthropology

The two-part EHR-plus-licensable-engine pattern is already validated commercially. Blueprint (blueprint.ai) pairs a clinician EHR with an intervention and clinical-decision-support layer that licenses into other systems via API. It now runs in 70,000+ clinicians’ workflows and powers the AI infrastructure behind several national provider networks. The pattern works.

But every tool in the category — Blueprint included — is built on a secular frame and generates suggestions from session transcripts. Fast and useful, and anthropologically empty. None has a model of the human person to orient care around. That’s the ground PathwayStudio sits on.

What makes PathwayStudio different

Three structural differences from anything else in the category. They’re also the reason a competitor with the same AI can’t shortcut the work this campaign funds.

A whole-person model nobody else has

PathwayStudio is the only intervention engine built on the Catholic-Christian Meta-Model of the Person — DMU's integrated psychological, philosophical, and theological account of the human being. Secular tools can't replicate it; they have no anthropology to measure against. The whole-person layer toggles off cleanly for secular partners.

Evidence-graded, with the receipts

Recommendations come from a curated corpus of clinical guidelines — APA, SAMHSA, VA/DoD, NICE — each tagged with its source and strength-of-evidence rating. That's the form clinical and compliance reviewers at EMR vendors expect to see.

Plans the whole arc of care, then measures it

Stepped-care pathways branch on assessment scores and escalate on risk. Session-by-session outcome measures (PCOMS) feed back into which pathways the engine recommends, so the engine learns from use and generates outcomes data DMU owns.

EMR-agnostic.The engine embeds via API. We don’t lock buyers into our EHR; we sell them the intervention layer. That’s what makes the licensing economics work, and what makes the philanthropic gift self-sustaining once partner revenue lands.

The study at the center

The grant funds a multi-year validation study. Assemble the clinical-guideline evidence; implement it as CCMMP-grounded stepped-care pathways with partner sites; measure outcomes for every person served; refine the pathways from the data. What comes out is an evidence-tested library of whole-person care pathways. A competitor can copy the AI; they can’t reverse-engineer the CCMMP foundation from features.

The licensing model is what makes the library self-sustaining. Once EMR partners are paying, partner revenue funds the continuing research — so philanthropic dollars seed an asset that pays for its own next decade.

Indicative allocation — $3.15M over three years

An incremental investment on top of an engine that already works. The numbers below are early estimates. The detailed budget gets built with the program team and clinical partners once a lead commitment is in place.

Investment areaIndicative range
Productize PathwayStudio as a standalone, licensable bolt-on~$1.0M
API and partner-integration layer for third-party EMRs~$0.6M
Validation study with clinical partner sites (multi-year)~$1.0M
Evidence-library curation (APA, SAMHSA, VA/DoD, NICE)~$0.3M
Outcomes measurement, IRB, data infrastructure, dissemination~$0.25M
Total$3.15M

Sponsorship opportunities

8 named-gift levels

A lead gift anchors the campaign. Sponsorships fund the parts. Happy to direct your support to the component that fits your priorities — productization, the API and partner-integration layer, the validation study, a single clinical partner site, or one disorder area’s pathway library.

$1,500,000

Founding lead gift

Anchors the campaign. Names the engine. Pays for the founding research and engineering leadership — the principal investigator, the architect, the core staff who carry the program through to a licensable product. A gift at this level is what tells EMR and practice-management partners that PathwayStudio is real and worth integrating with.

Recognition: Name the engine and the validation program in perpetuity (e.g., the *[Donor] Center for Whole-Person Stepped Care*). Lead-patron recognition in every published study, partner-integration release, and platform release.

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$500,000

Validation Study Sponsor

Funds the multi-year outcomes study: implement the CCMMP-grounded pathways at clinical partner sites, measure outcomes session by session, refine what works. The study turns PathwayStudio from a promising tool into a published evidence base — and produces outcomes data no competitor with the same AI can replicate.

Recognition: Underwrite the multi-year outcomes study. Named in perpetuity on every published outcomes paper, instrument release, and partner-integration release that draws on the study's data.

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$400,000

API & Partner Integration Sponsor

Builds the API and integration layer that lets third-party EMRs embed PathwayStudio's intervention engine inside their own clinician workflow. This is what makes the licensing model work — the revenue stream that funds the research long after the grant period ends. Philanthropic dollars in, self-sustaining research asset out.

Recognition: Named sponsor of the API and partner-integration layer (e.g., the *[Donor] Open Care API*). Recognition in every partner-integration release and on the public developer documentation.

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$250,000

Evidence Library Sponsor

Funds the curation of the intervention corpus — clinical guidelines from APA, SAMHSA, VA/DoD, NICE, and elsewhere. Each PathwayStudio recommendation traces back to a source with an explicit strength-of-evidence rating. That's the work that gets the engine through the clinical and compliance review at any EMR vendor that might license it.

Recognition: Named benefactor of the curated, evidence-graded intervention library (e.g., the *[Donor] Evidence Library for Whole-Person Care*). Recognition wherever the library is published or licensed.

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$150,000

Clinical Partner Site Sponsor

Pays for one clinical partner site to implement the pathways and contribute outcomes data to the study. Partner sites are where the evidence is actually generated. They are also the most direct way a donor can connect the gift to the patients PathwayStudio is meant to help.

Recognition: Named sponsor of one clinical partner site participating in the validation study. Recognition on the site, in the published study, and in DMU's annual research report.

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$100,000

Pathway Library Benefactor

Funds the stepped-care pathway library for one clinical area — depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, grief, relational distress, or another focus picked with the program team. Each pathway has its own evidence base, branching logic, escalation triggers, and PCOMS-tied outcome measures.

Recognition: Named benefactor of the stepped-care pathway library for one clinical area (e.g., the *[Donor] Pathway Library for Anxiety*). Recognition in every pathway release and accompanying clinical paper.

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$50,000

PCOMS Outcomes Sponsor

Pays for the session-by-session outcome measures (PCOMS — Partners for Change Outcome Management System) that feed back into which pathways the engine recommends. Without outcomes monitoring, the engine doesn't learn from use and the licensing partners have nothing defensible to show their clinicians.

Recognition: Named sponsor of the session-by-session outcome-measurement layer. Recognition in the outcomes-monitoring and feedback-informed treatment papers published from the program.

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$25,000

Founding supporter

The broadest entry into the campaign. For donors who plan a larger commitment later but want to be on record now, and for those who want to back the program from its first year of productization and validation work.

Recognition: Named in the PathwayStudio founding circle on the program's permanent acknowledgments page and in the inaugural research and partner-integration publications.

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The incremental ask

$3.15M over three years, in three parts: productize PathwayStudio as a licensable bolt-on, build the API and partner-integration layer for third-party EMRs, and run the validation study with clinical partner sites.

Happy to talk about directing your support to the part that fits your priorities.

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