Turn Your Recovery & Unhoused Support Budget Into 100% Verified Daily Action.
Stop handing out untraceable grocery gift cards that get traded for 50¢ on the dollar. alife.now gives shelters, recovery communities, and behavioral health non-profits a turnkey mobile Contingency Management platform—disbursing $10 micro-incentives onto Stripe Issuing MCC-locked debit cards only when participants complete GPS-verified exercise and AI-verified weekly sobriety checks.
alife.now contracts directly as your compliant Programmatic Incentive & Disbursement Technology Partner. Even better: as your cohort members complete walks and sobriety checks, their anonymized achievement badges appear in the alife Supporter App—attracting outside community donors to co-sponsor your clients and stretch your grant dollars even further.
1-Hour Walk (≥1.0 mi) or 30-Min Run (≥2.5 mi). Live GPS breadcrumbs enforce Haversine distance, speed caps, and a strict maximum of 6 stationary breaks (45s idle threshold).
Whitelist your own shelter/recovery staff to sign off on $2 rapid test strips in-house, or route members to nearby walk-in clinics—verified automatically via gemini-2.5-flash-vision.
Verified via Stripe Identity (with a seamless shelter fallback for clients awaiting replacement IDs). Instant virtual Visa card with Apple/Google Pay and hard MCC blocks on liquor, bars, casinos, ATMs, and wire transfers.
Every Operational & Compliance Question—Solved Upfront.
Traditional client incentive programs fail audits because physical gift cards leak into street cash and require hours of manual caseworker tracking. Here is how alife.now solves every shelter and recovery blocker from day one:
“What if our grant money is used to buy alcohol, drugs, or gambled away?”
Solved via Stripe Issuing MCC Controls: Unlike cash stipends or grocery gift cards (which are routinely sold outside stores for 50¢ on the dollar), every participant’s virtual Visa card blocks liquor stores, bars, casinos, ATMs, cash-back, and money orders at the Visa hardware network level.
“What if 40% of our unhoused clients have lost or expired photo IDs?”
Solved via Immediate Balance Accumulation + Caseworker Card Option: Clients with an ID verify in 60 seconds via Stripe Identity (document + selfie). Clients awaiting a replacement ID can join immediately with a 4-digit PIN, log workouts, and accumulate balance while your shelter helps restore their ID—or your organization can issue a caseworker-managed corporate sub-card immediately.
“Walk-in clinics charge $15–$29 for a drug screen. Can we use our own $2 rapid test strips?”
Solved via Whitelisted Partner Testing: We whitelist your facility as an official alife.now Sobriety Provider. Your staff can administer your existing ~$2 bulk urine/saliva rapid strips during regular check-ins and initial an alife verification slip. The member snaps a photo, gemini-2.5-flash-vision verifies it in seconds, and the member unlocks their $10 reward with zero external lab fees.
“How do we protect clinical test records while still attracting community donors?”
Solved via Confidential Raw Results + Public Achievement Badges: Under our Privacy Policy, uploaded test slip photos, clinic addresses, and raw diagnostic data are 100% confidential and never shown publicly. Meanwhile, the member’s first name/username, miles walked, and positive “Verified Sober Check” badge appear in the public Supporter Feed—allowing everyday citizens to co-sponsor your clients!
“Our caseworkers are overworked—they can’t manually track workouts or manage gift card safes.”
Saves ~2 Hours of Staff Labor per Client/Month ($70+ value): Automated 12:00 PM daily workout reminders, Wed/Fri/Sat sobriety prompts, GPS distance verification, and instant card loading eliminate manual spreadsheets and physical gift card inventory.
“What stops someone from starting a workout and sitting on a bench or riding a bus?”
Solved via Heartbeat Telemetry & Break Caps: Continuous GPS heartbeats measure real outdoor progression. Stopping for more than 45 seconds logs a stationary break; exceeding 6 breaks or failing to meet the minimum mileage results in $0 payout.
6 Built-In Safeguards So You Can Move Ahead Today
We engineered our program structure to clear your CFO, Risk Manager, and Grant Compliance Officer without months of committee review:
1. 100% Unused Incentive Rollover / Refund Guarantee
Your Member Incentive Pool is held strictly for verified completions. If a cohort member drops out, 100% of their unspent incentive balance rolls over to another client or is refunded/credited back at the end of the pilot.
2. SNAP, Medicaid & IRS <$600 Cliff Protection
At our standard $100/month member goal ($40/wk cap), a 90-day cohort member earns at most $300–$480—staying safely below the $600 IRS Form 1099-NEC reporting threshold and structured as MCC-restricted basic-needs wellness stipends so clients don’t lose SNAP or Medicaid.
3. Built-In Exercise Waiver & 1.0 MPH Gentle Pacing
Our Privacy & Participation terms include an explicit voluntary Assumption of Risk releasing referring non-profits from liability. Plus, our baseline Walk 1 Hour activity requires just 1.0 mile—a gentle 1.0 mph stroll safe for all fitness levels.
4. 1-Click Grant & Board Audit Export (CSV/PDF)
Receive an automated monthly reconciliation report detailing total cohort miles walked, sobriety checks verified, exact dollars disbursed, and 0% prohibited merchant spend—ready to attach directly to Boulder County or Opioid Abatement grant reports.
5. 60-Second Custom Cohort Rules via a8-admin
Whether your organization practices Harm Reduction (rewarding daily walking first before requiring urinalysis) or Abstinence-First Sober Living, our live a8-admin dashboard configures payout amounts, daily/weekly caps, mileage, and sobriety rules in 60 seconds.
6. Community Supporter Multiplier Effect
Because your cohort members appear on the alife.now Supporter App when they complete workouts and sobriety checks (with all raw clinical test images kept strictly private), local citizens can directly sponsor your members—multiplying your program’s funding!
Choose Your 30-Day Cohort Pilot Size
Cleanly separated between Program Delivery & Platform Setup (eligible under Data Collection, Case Management & Evaluation grant lines) and 100% Pass-Through Member Incentives ($100/mo goal per participant).
a8-admin Setup
$1,500
a8-admin Setup
$2,500
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$3,500
100% Unused Incentive Pool Guarantee: Any unearned portion of the $2,500 / $5,000 / $10,000 Member Incentive Pool automatically rolls into Month 2 or is refunded to your organization upon request.
Ready to Launch Your Cohort Pilot?
Reach out directly to Founder Gregory Love for a live in-person demo in Boulder, a customized a8-admin ruleset walkthrough, and our ready-to-sign Pilot MOU & Form W-9.