Physical recovery can ask a lot of a person at exactly the moment their time, energy, and confidence are already stretched. Care may be hard to schedule, the price may be difficult to predict, and a printed exercise sheet rarely answers the question that comes up in the living room: “Am I doing this right?”
We are building Cost Plus PT to explore a calmer alternative: a focused recovery experience that is available at home, shows its price clearly, and adapts only when the information supports an adaptation.
Start narrow, then earn the right to expand
The first planned pathway is intentionally narrow. A smaller scope gives us a better chance to test the full loop—intake, safety screening, movement observation, a daily session, follow-up, and progression—without pretending one system can responsibly handle every condition.
Breadth is easy to promise. Reliable behavior is harder. We would rather make the limits visible and validate one pathway deeply before considering the next.
AI should make uncertainty clearer
A useful recovery guide should know the difference between what a person reports, what a camera can observe, and what the system is only inferring. When the view is poor or the information is incomplete, the right answer is not false confidence. It is a retry, a pause, or a recommendation to seek appropriate outside care.
That principle shapes the product we are prototyping. The conversational layer can make an experience easier to understand, but it should not be able to quietly override eligibility rules, stop conditions, or escalation boundaries.
- Show why a plan changed.
- Say when a movement was not observed clearly.
- Keep hard safety rules outside the model’s discretion.
- Make outside-care guidance available without a paywall.
Cost plus means showing the work
Transparent pricing is only one part of the idea. We also want to be transparent about product decisions, evidence, setbacks, and what still needs to be proven. This newsletter is where those notes will live.
Cost Plus PT is currently in development. The preview does not diagnose or treat a health condition, and it is not an emergency service. As the product changes, we will keep that boundary—and the reasons behind it—plainly visible.