🤿SCUBA Archive
What SCUBA is (and what it is not)
SCUBA stands for Scott’s Completely Unscientific Behaviorist Assessment.
That name is intentional.
SCUBA is not a formal methodology, a scoring system, or a claim of objectivity. It reflects observation, experience, pattern recognition, and judgment formed from working inside autism providers, technology companies, and data systems over time.
The goal is to be useful, not definitive.
SCUBA exists to help readers see how autism platforms and providers tend to operate in practice — where friction shows up, where leverage seems to exist, and what those dynamics may imply as organizations grow or change.
All SCUBA reports are editorial unless explicitly labeled otherwise.
Platform SCUBA
Platform SCUBA focuses on technology vendors and services used by autism providers across clinical, operational, and financial workflows.
These reports often look at:
- What the platform appears to focus on
- Who it seems designed for
- How it shows up in real provider environments
- Where it helps, and where it falls short
- What its design choices suggest about scale, data, and integration
Platform SCUBA is not a buyer’s guide, certification, or endorsement. It is an attempt to describe how platforms tend to behave once they leave the demo.
Platform SCUBA Archive
- November 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Market signals, hiring trends, platform investment posture and payor pressure dynamics. - October 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Consolidation versus tightening focus; modest hiring discipline with selective automation advances. - September 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Horizontal expansion and deeper feature sets amid signs of consolidation and product maturity. - August 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Steady market landscape with new clinician-first entrants included and refreshed coverage. - July 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Roster refresh with clinician-first platforms and retirement of low-footprint vendors. - June 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Strategic quiet with tactical movement across offerings and anticipation of forthcoming funding. - May 2025 SCUBA Platform Update
Theme: Post-CASP evolution in positioning, partnerships, new investment signals, and compliance emphasis.
Provider SCUBA
Provider SCUBA focuses on autism providers and how they appear to operate day to day.
These reports often touch on:
- Footprint and growth posture
- Staffing and supervision patterns
- Technology choices and tradeoffs
- Operational pressure points
- What becomes harder as size, payer mix, or complexity increases
Provider SCUBA is not an assessment of care quality or clinical outcomes. It is a way to make operating patterns more visible so they can be discussed more clearly.
Provider SCUBA Archive
- Provider SCUBA November 2025 Snapshot
Theme: Staffing momentum and cohort divergence across top ABA providers — steady headcount growth among largest providers and accelerated mid-tier expansion; policy and managed care signals in several states. - Provider SCUBA October 2025 Snapshot
Theme: Directional staffing trends with percentile shifts in the top rankings — ongoing assessment of largest providers and growth patterns. - Provider SCUBA September 2025 Snapshot
Theme: Snapshot of growth rates and shifts in provider rankings — emergence of new entrants into the Top 20 and mixed momentum across major providers. - Provider SCUBA August 2025 Snapshot
Theme: August hiring and growth trends — directional staffing patterns across tracked providers and aggregate momentum signals. - Provider SCUBA July 2025 Snapshot
Theme: Mid-summer provider growth signals — aggregate LinkedIn and public data trends in staffing and organizational shifts. - Provider SCUBA June 2025 Snapshot
Theme: June staffing and market position insights — directional shifts in hiring and relative growth among the largest providers. - Provider SCUBA May 2025 Snapshot
Theme: May provider growth and hiring landscape — steady overall patterns with limited substantial movement among major players.