Founding Municipality Cohort
Co-design and pioneer the nation’s first specialized Abatement Information Ecosystem.
The Essentrify Founding Municipality Cohort (FMC) is a select national cohort of municipalities and counties invited to co-design and pioneer the nation’s first specialized Abatement Information Ecosystem. As the National Opioid Settlements enter the accountability phase, the FMC provides a unique opportunity for early adopters to secure their funding, return clinical and community health service hours for the people they serve, and participate in a first-of-its-kind Sustainment Dividend Fund.
The FMC Value Proposition
Founding Members receive the complete Essentrify compliance and evidence infrastructure for a full two-year term from platform launch — ensuring their local recovery efforts are documented, verified, and contributing to a national evidence base.
Automate Settlement Reporting
Direct integration with your state’s MOU reporting requirements, OSA compliance windows, and local accountability obligations — so reporting becomes a continuous output of the platform rather than a periodic manual exercise.
Exhibit E Compliant by Design
Essentrify is structured as a direct abatement cost under Exhibit E, Schedule A — data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of programs — with supplementary alignment to Schedule B, Part Three (J) and (L). Your investment is defensible under audit and clearly attributable to opioid abatement impact, without competing against the administrative spending cap.
Monthly Product Team Sessions
Direct influence over the Abatement Health Record (AHR) development.
Hands-On Implementation Support
Active onboarding assistance, including connectivity to your state or regional health information exchange infrastructure and community provider on-ramp support.
Four Ways to Join the Founding Member Cohort
Founding Member status is available at four entry points across two models and two license configurations. Every entry point carries the same full FMC governance rights, Advisory Board representation, and Sustainment Dividend Fund participation. The model you choose determines your data architecture. The configuration you choose determines how many counties share the platform — and the cost.
All FMC subscriptions cover two full years from platform launch. The upfront payment is held in fiduciary escrow until enrollment thresholds are met — see the Escrow Guarantee section below.
State-level note: State-level engagements, state trust administrators, and multi-jurisdictional entities requiring custom data governance architecture are not served by standard commercial offerings. These conversations begin with a direct call: ddormer@essentrify.tech.
What Each Model Includes
The two models differ at the data level — a distinction that matters for what your county can do with the platform, not just what it costs.
Compliance Core
Captures program-level and expenditure-level summary data. Designed to meet your compliance and reporting obligations with precision and without burden. Does not capture individual participant records and does not support longitudinal research at the participant level.
Community Abatement
Captures individual Abatement Health Records at the participant level. The full research and evidence generation platform — designed for counties that want to know not just what they funded, but whether it worked, for whom, and over what timeframe.
| Feature | CC Single | CA Single | CC Consortium | CA Consortium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program-level summary data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exhibit E classification & audit trail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FOA drafting & application infrastructure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audit Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FMC Advisory Board seat | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sustainment Dividend Fund participation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regional program inventory & peer benchmarking | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Individual Abatement Health Records | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Longitudinal evidence generation | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Program fidelity scoring | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Cross-community participant cohort analysis | — | — | — | ✓ |
Regional program inventory & peer benchmarking
Consortium members can compare how peer counties are classifying expenditures, structuring grant awards, and deploying programs — intelligence that no single-county subscription can produce.
Cross-community participant cohort analysis
With participant-level data linked across five counties, the Community Abatement Consortium enables research that is statistically underpowered at the single-county level. This is where settlement-funded programs begin to generate publishable evidence.
Five Counties. One Platform. One Founding Member Seat.
The Consortium License is purpose-built for counties that understand the value of working together. It is not a group discount applied to five individual subscriptions — it is a distinct product configuration that treats five counties as a single collaborative unit, with a shared data environment, shared governance representation, and regional intelligence that no single-county subscription can produce.
How It Works
One county serves as the Anchor. Four counties join as Affiliates. The Anchor county executes the Essentrify agreement, holds the FMC Advisory Board seat on behalf of all five, and receives the Sustainment Dividend Fund allocation for distribution among the consortium as the group determines. Affiliate counties are full participants — peer-appropriate, not subordinate.
The total fee is invoiced to the Anchor county. How the five counties divide that fee internally is the consortium’s business. As long as the total is met, Essentrify has no position on the internal allocation.
Anchor County — The Organizing Entity
- Holds the FMC Advisory Board seat on behalf of all five counties
- Executes the Essentrify subscription agreement as the contracting party
- Is invoiced for the full consortium fee; manages internal cost allocation
- Retains the Anchor role for the life of the consortium — it is not rotated
- Receives Sustainment Dividend Fund (SDF) grant distributions and allocates among consortium members as the consortium determines
Affiliate Counties — Full Participants
- Full access to all platform capabilities of the subscribed model
- Contributes program or participant data to the shared regional environment
- Participates in the SDF through the consortium’s FMC unit
- Informs the Anchor county’s Advisory Board positions through the consortium’s internal process
- Affiliate status is peer-appropriate — not subordinate
The Math That Makes Sense
For $3,000 more per county per year — the difference between the Compliance Core and Community Abatement consortium tiers — a county gains individual participant-level records, longitudinal evidence generation, program fidelity scoring, and cross-community research capability. For any county that believes its settlement-funded programs are producing real outcomes, that question answers itself.
Compared to a solo Community Abatement license at $20,000 per year, a five-county Community Abatement Consortium costs $25,000 total — $5,000 per county. Five counties. One-quarter the solo price. The same full platform. The same FMC status.
Roadmap to General Availability
FMC Recruitment & Onboarding
Onboard founding partners and begin collaborative platform design.
Collaborative Build
Advisory sessions with founding members to refine the Abatement Information Ecosystem for multi-state deployment.
Platform Launch
Go-live and activation of the two-year FMC subscription term.
First Compliance Cycle
Automated generation of state-specific settlement reports aligned to each member’s reporting window.
Strategic Fiscal Alignment
The full cost of Essentrify is structured as a direct abatement expenditure — not administrative overhead.
Exhibit E, Schedule A
Essentrify is classified as data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of opioid abatement programs — a direct abatement cost under Schedule A. Your full investment is attributable to opioid remediation impact and does not compete against the administrative spending cap.
Schedule B Alignment
Supplementary alignment to Schedule B, Part Three (J) — development of infrastructure to track and report on settlement spending — and (L) — research and evaluation of opioid use interventions. This dual classification provides defensibility under audit across multiple settlement frameworks.
The Sustainment Dividend Fund
We believe early adopters should share in the success of the ecosystem. Founding Members are granted exclusive access to the Sustainment Dividend Fund:
The Fund
For the first five years following General Availability launch, 5% of gross revenue from non-FMC clients will be placed in a restricted Sustainment Dividend Fund. This commitment reflects Essentrify’s founding belief that the organizations that built this platform should share in its growth.
The Distribution — and Why It Matters for FMC Members
Because Founding Members prepay two full years at enrollment, no subscription renewal falls due during the FMC window. That means every dollar of your SDF allocation during those two years is paid directly to you as an unrestricted grant — available for any allowable abatement use your community determines. For Consortium members, SDF grants are paid to the Anchor county and distributed among the five counties as the consortium determines. Your founding investment doesn’t just buy you a platform. Over time, a portion of it comes back as community dollars.
The Dividend
Where Sustainment Dividend credits exceed a Founding Member’s AIE subscription cost, the surplus may be issued as Community Abatement Grants — allowing FMC members to reinvest excess dividends directly into local opioid abatement programs in full compliance with applicable settlement agreement requirements.
The Fiduciary Escrow Guarantee
Your FMC participation fee is held in a segregated escrow account from the moment of enrollment. It will not be released until a minimum of ten Founding Member units are enrolled. Each five-county consortium counts as one FMC unit. Each single-county license counts as one FMC unit.
If the ten-unit threshold is not reached by May 31, 2026 — a date that may be extended at the sole discretion of Essentrify, Inc. — 100% of your participation fee will be returned within ten business days. In no case will escrow funds be released prior to ten enrolled units, regardless of any extension.
No risk. No orphan implementations. Your community’s funds are protected until the platform is real.
“Secure Your Seat in the Cohort”
By joining today, you move from “reporting on the past” to “defining the future” of opioid abatement.
We don't just report on the settlement; we prove the abatement.
Join us in building the infrastructure your future demands.