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When a Workflow Becomes a Product

When a Workflow Becomes a Product

Part One of MissionViewpoint's series: The Unbundling of Work For most of the history of ABA practice management technology, the division of labor was straightforward. Providers hired people to do the work. Software helped them do it. Employees handled intake, verified benefits, managed authorizations, built schedules, worked denials.

You Can Outsource the Work. Can You Keep the Advantage?

You Can Outsource the Work. Can You Keep the Advantage?

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

The Head Chef Leaves the Kitchen

The Head Chef Leaves the Kitchen

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

Provider Operations

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Part Two of MissionViewpoint's series: AI doesn't create organizational intelligence. It amplifies it. In the first article in this series, I drew a line between using AI and building the organizational capability AI can amplify. There's a reasonable objection to that distinction: building sounds

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Every Provider Already Has an Operating Layer

Every Provider Already Has an Operating Layer

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

Why Change Is So Hard in Autism Care

Why Change Is So Hard in Autism Care

ABA Stack

When a Workflow Becomes a Product

When a Workflow Becomes a Product

Part One of MissionViewpoint's series: The Unbundling of Work For most of the history of ABA practice management technology, the division of labor was straightforward. Providers hired people to do the work. Software helped them do it. Employees handled intake, verified benefits, managed authorizations, built schedules, worked denials.

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

When the Work Moves, Can Your Technology Move With It?

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

The Six New 2027 Adaptive Behavior CPT Codes & Impact on your Tech Stack

The Six New 2027 Adaptive Behavior CPT Codes & Impact on your Tech Stack

Market Outlook

How Did a $792 Hourly Rate for Autism Services Make It Through?

How Did a $792 Hourly Rate for Autism Services Make It Through?

When $792 an hour gets paid for routine autism therapy services — nearly nine times the national average in-network rate — the natural reaction is outrage at the provider billing it. But there's a more important question buried in that number. How did that claim make it through the

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

How Autism Care Actually Scales: A Systems View

Bold Prediction: AI Will Actually Create Jobs in the Autism Field

Bold Prediction: AI Will Actually Create Jobs in the Autism Field

The New ABA Operator Persona

The New ABA Operator Persona

Choosing the Right HR Platform for ABA Providers

Choosing the Right HR Platform for ABA Providers

Newsletter

Investor Briefings

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

Hi Rasmus Raises $50 Million. What Kind of Platform Is It Becoming?

A year in which capital has become harder to find across autism services just produced a $50 million investment in an ABA technology company. Hi Rasmus announced Thursday that Updata Partners has made a $50 million minority investment in the company. The founders retain majority ownership, and CEO Nikolaj Hendriksen

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management

The KPIs Autism Care Relies On — and What They Miss

The KPIs Autism Care Relies On — and What They Miss

Provider Consolidation Reality: Why Value Breaks Before It’s Realized

Provider Consolidation Reality: Why Value Breaks Before It’s Realized

Autism M&A Is Active — But True Consolidation Still Hasn’t Arrived

Autism M&A Is Active — But True Consolidation Still Hasn’t Arrived

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

Why Autism Care Is Ripe for Consolidation — and Why It Keeps Failing

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

When Integration Fails to Tame Behavioral Risk

Topic: AI & Automation

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Whose Data Does Artificial Intelligence Compound On?

Part Three of MissionViewpoint's series: AI doesn't create organizational intelligence. It amplifies it. Imagine an ABA provider spends two years using AI to improve utilization. At the end of those two years, what does the organization possess that it didn't possess when it started?

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

Point AI at Your Operation, Not Your Software

You're Using AI. That's Not the Same as Building It.

You're Using AI. That's Not the Same as Building It.

How Operating Layers Create Strategic Advantage & Adaptability

How Operating Layers Create Strategic Advantage & Adaptability

Your Measurement Framework Is Only as Good as the Data You Actually Own

Your Measurement Framework Is Only as Good as the Data You Actually Own

When the Autism Tech Stack Becomes the Risk

When the Autism Tech Stack Becomes the Risk

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own Stack in the Age of AI

The Hidden Cost of Building Your Own Stack in the Age of AI

Platform SCUBA

August 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

August 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

Theme: Integration moves from strategy to execution Over the past several months, Platform SCUBA has tracked vendors becoming more deliberate about what they build, what they integrate, and where they believe they can differentiate. August provided some evidence of what happens next. Partnerships and integrations are increasingly moving beyond announcements

July 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

July 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

June 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

June 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

May 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

May 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

April 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

April 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

March 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

March 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

February 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

February 2026 Platform SCUBA Update

Provider SCUBA

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA September 2026 Update

⚠️ Methodology Reminder SCUBA = Scott’s Completely Unscientific Behaviorist Assessment — a deliberately imperfect, directional look at staffing momentum across ABA providers. This is not a census. LinkedIn undercounts direct-care staff, headcount lags payroll, and public job postings reflect intent more than execution. But across 130+ organizations tracked consistently over time,

Provider SCUBA August 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA August 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA July 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA July 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA June 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA June 2026 Update

Provider SCUBA May 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA May 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA April 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA April 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA March 2026 Snapshot

Provider SCUBA March 2026 Snapshot

Operator Spotlight

How Behavioral Framework Is Building an Operating Layer on Top of Its Systems

How Behavioral Framework Is Building an Operating Layer on Top of Its Systems

What happens when a provider structures its data for execution—not just reporting David Iklodi joined Behavioral Framework in 2024 from investment banking. For the past two years, he’s been helping to improve operations at the company as VP of Operational Excellence. That background matters—not because finance and

Operator Spotlight: SpringHealth Behavioral Health: Bridging Gaps Across Age and Care Models

Operator Spotlight: SpringHealth Behavioral Health: Bridging Gaps Across Age and Care Models

Operator Spotlight on Lighthouse Autism Center: Scaling Diagnostic Capacity Without Compromising Rigor

Operator Spotlight on Lighthouse Autism Center: Scaling Diagnostic Capacity Without Compromising Rigor

Operator Spotlight: Wild Sun Behavioral Services - Preserving a Human Centered Care Model

Operator Spotlight: Wild Sun Behavioral Services - Preserving a Human Centered Care Model

Operator Spotlight: Caravel Autism Health’s CR Mobile Rollout as a Change Management Playbook

Operator Spotlight: Caravel Autism Health’s CR Mobile Rollout as a Change Management Playbook

Operator Spotlight on Jaybird ABA: Designing a Clinician-First Practice without Leaving the Floor

Operator Spotlight on Jaybird ABA: Designing a Clinician-First Practice without Leaving the Floor

Operator Spotlight: How Akoya Built a People-First Operating Model From Day One

Operator Spotlight: How Akoya Built a People-First Operating Model From Day One

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Your New Practice Management Platform Is Also Your Next 'Legacy' Platform

What a Platform Has to Prove Before an ABA Provider Will Switch

Almost Everyone Wants to Switch. Almost No One Does.

Untethering Your Operations from Your Tech Platform

Motivity’s Calmanac Acquisition Is About More Than Practice Management