Founding Municipality Cohort
Help shape the nation’s first information ecosystem designed not only to report on settlement compliance and spending but also to prove whether it worked and drive lasting change.
The Essentrify Founding Municipality Cohort (FMC) is a select national group of communities invited to help define requirements, set priorities and pioneer the nation’s first specialized Abatement Information Ecosystem.
FMC members will help design and evaluate the platform — and be the first to license the capability the settlements will eventually force every recipient to confront: not just a record of spending, but evidence of what worked, what didn’t, and what to carry forward.
The FMC Value Proposition
As the National Opioid Settlements enter their accountability phase, the FMC offers a select group of leading communities a unique opportunity: to secure founding-rate access, to shape the solution to a problem the settlements left unsolved, and — through the first-of-its-kind Sustainment Dividend Fund — to share in the value they helped create.
Prove Abatement, Don’t Just Report It
Every recipient must be able to report expenditures. FMC Members will be able to measure effectiveness — tracking, at the individual level and over time, whether funded programs actually reduced harm. This is the capability that separates a compliance vendor from an evidence partner.
A Direct Hand in the Design
Monthly meetings with the development team give FMC Members direct influence over how the evidence platform develops. You will be helping shape the national standard while it is being designed.
A Defensible, Non-Administrative Expenditure
Essentrify is structured as a direct abatement cost — data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of programs — not administrative overhead. Your investment is attributable to abatement impact and does not compete against the administrative spending cap.
Hands-On Implementation Support
Active onboarding assistance to configure the platform for your unique program and data needs, so it produces output that fits your reporting and evidence objectives from the start.
Reinvestment Through the Sustainment Dividend Fund
As the platform’s client base grows, a portion of new revenue is set aside in the Sustainment Dividend Fund and allocated back to FMC Members. Your allocation first offsets your own subscription; any amount beyond that is made available as additional funding for allowable abatement use — reinvested directly into your community.
Founding-Member Pricing
Priced to your county’s settlement allocation — not a fixed published fee.
Founding-member pricing is built around your settlement allocation. Rather than a fixed published fee, Community Abatement is priced to your county — proportionate to the settlement funds you administer, and structured so your ongoing cost never outruns the money coming in. Founding members lock their founding rate for the life of their membership.
Tell us your county and we’ll show you exactly what it looks like.
What Each Model Includes
The two models differ at the data level — which determines what your county can actually do, not just what it costs.
Compliance Core
Everything needed to run a clean, audit-defensible grant process — FOA/RFP drafting, application scoring, approval workflow and grantee management, program- and expenditure-level tracking, Exhibit E classification and audit trail, and automated settlement reporting with real-time dashboards. This is the baseline every recipient needs, including capabilities like structured application scoring that common compliance-and-reporting tools usually leave out.
Community Abatement
Everything in Compliance Core, plus the capability that defines Essentrify: the Personal Abatement Record, capturing outcomes at the individual level, over time, across programs. Adds longitudinal evidence generation, program fidelity scoring, and cross-program outcome comparison — the difference between knowing what you funded and knowing whether it worked. No compliance-and-reporting platform on the market provides it.
| Capability | Compliance Core | Community Abatement |
|---|---|---|
| FOA / RFP drafting & application infrastructure | ✓ | ✓ |
| Application scoring (eligibility & allowable use) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approval workflow & grantee management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Program- & expenditure-level tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exhibit E classification & audit trail | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automated settlement reporting & dashboards | ✓ | ✓ |
| FMC Advisory Board seat | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sustainment Dividend Fund participation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personal Abatement Record (individual-level) | — | ✓ |
| Longitudinal evidence generation | — | ✓ |
| Program fidelity scoring | — | ✓ |
| Cross-program outcome comparison | — | ✓ |
Working as a group? Counties that want to share a platform and pool regional evidence can join together under a single consortium agreement. If that fits your situation, start with a conversation.
Roadmap to General Availability
Founding Cohort Recruitment & Collaborative Design
Enrolling founding partners; beginning collaborative platform design.
Collaborative Build
Advisory sessions with FMC Members to refine the platform.
Platform Launch
Go-live and activation of the founding subscription term, timed as close to the October 1 fiscal-year start as is practical.
First Compliance Cycle
Automated, state-specific settlement reporting 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 FMC Members should share in the success of the ecosystem. FMC 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 is set aside in a restricted Sustainment Dividend Fund. The communities that helped establish the platform benefit as it grows.
What It Means for You
Because FMC Members prepay their founding term, no renewal falls due during the founding window — so any allocation you earn in those years comes to you as additional funding for any allowable abatement use your community determines. The allocation grows as the client base grows; it reflects the platform’s adoption, not a fixed rebate.
Reinvested in Your Community
Where your allocation exceeds your subscription cost, the additional funding is made available for allowable abatement use — reinvested directly into local programs, in full compliance with settlement requirements.
What Joining as an FMC Member Means
Essentrify is an early-stage company building a platform that is not yet complete. FMC Member fees fund that development. As with any early-stage venture, the risks are real: development may take longer than projected, the platform may differ from what is currently envisioned, and — as with any startup — the company may not ultimately succeed. FMC Members are not passive purchasers of finished software; they are charter participants who accept both the risks and the influence that come with building something new.
We state this plainly because the counties who join us deserve candor — and because the members who join with clear eyes are exactly the partners we want.
Founding Status Is Available Only During the Build
We are enrolling a limited founding cohort now, while the platform is being designed and built. Founding membership — the locked founding rate, the Advisory Board seat, the Sustainment Dividend participation — closes when the platform reaches general availability. This is a one-time window, open by its nature only until the thing we’re building is built.
“Secure Your Seat in the Cohort”
Move from reporting on the past to proving the future. Every recipient will soon face the same question: did the money work? FMC Members are the ones who will be able to answer it.
We don't just report on the settlement; we prove the abatement.
Join us in building the infrastructure your future demands.