Clinical tools should not cost more for the clinicians who have the least

The PHQ-9 is in the public domain. The GAD-7 is the same. The PCL-5, the C-SSRS: most of the validated scales clinicians use every day were developed with public funding, validated through peer-reviewed research, and released without charge so that any provider, anywhere, could use them.

The research is free. The infrastructure to use it properly is not.

That gap is where clinical measurement-based care tools have historically lived, leaving solo therapists in community practices, psychologists running one-person clinics, and counsellors in rural settings without a realistic path to structured outcomes measurement.

The inequality hiding in plain sight

A mid-size group practice paying $200 a month for unlimited providers and a full assessment library is paying roughly $10–20 per clinician seat. That's reasonable. That works.

A solo provider paying the same $200 a month (or more, in tiered systems) is paying the full freight for a platform designed to justify its price across a team. The math never works out.

The result: the providers with the narrowest operating margins, often serving the communities with the greatest need, either skip structured outcomes measurement entirely or rely on paper and manual scoring. Both have costs. Paper adds scoring errors. Skipping MBC means missing the clinical signal that a patient is not improving, or is deteriorating.

Patients whose clinicians receive regular feedback on progress are significantly less likely to deteriorate or drop out. Lambert, Whipple & Kleinstäuber (2018) found that routine outcome monitoring nearly doubled clinically significant recovery rates in patients at risk of poor outcomes.

Solo providers know this. They want to measure. They don't want to pay a team-scale fee for a one-person practice.

What we built, and why

Care is HiBoop's plan for one clinician: $25 a month, month to month, no credit card to start. Core validated scales including the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and C-SSRS, scoring on submission, and individual patient outcome tracking. Export your data anytime. No lock-in.

The price is set for a one-person practice, not divided down from a team plan. Access to clinical measurement tools should not depend on the size of your practice.

If you are a clinician working one-on-one with patients, you should be able to:

• Send a PHQ-9 digitally before a session and have it scored before the patient walks through the door
• Track a patient's GAD-7 trend over six months without building a spreadsheet
• Receive a safety flag when a patient's C-SSRS scores cross a clinical threshold, the moment they submit

These are not advanced features. They are the floor of what measurement-based care means. Solo providers should have them.

What this isn't

Care is not a trial. It does not expire. It is also not the full HiBoop platform.

Care has one clinician seat. It uses the core scales, not the full library available on Team. It has per-patient progress charts, not practice-wide caseload visibility.

When a practice grows to a second clinician, a third, a group, the economics shift. Team, from $200 a month with unlimited clinicians, the full library, and practice-wide outcomes visibility, becomes the right fit. That move should happen because the practice is growing, not because Care was never sustainable for one clinician.

Who Care is for

Solo providers working in independent practice. Psychologists in private settings. Counsellors running their own clinic. Registered Social Workers doing one-on-one sessions. Nurse practitioners in community health. Clinicians who do not work within a larger organization and are figuring out outcomes measurement on their own.

It is also for clinical training programs (graduate students, practicum placements, supervised clinical work) where structured measurement matters and budget is real.

And it is for clinicians who are considering HiBoop for a larger practice but want to evaluate it properly with their own patients before bringing it to a team. Care lets you do that month to month, with no time box.

The principle underneath it

We are a company that builds tools for the people providing care. Those tools should serve the clinician, and through the clinician, the patient. Whether that clinician works in a 20-seat group practice or alone in a rented room in a community health building, the clinical obligation is the same.

Access to the infrastructure for good measurement should reflect that.

The scales are public. The infrastructure should be within reach of the clinician working alone, too. Care is $25 a month, one clinician, no credit card to start, and you can send your first check-in today.

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