The Founder
Built by Someone Who Needed It
I didn't build this from a whiteboard. I built it because I remember the night I couldn't find a clinic that was open. And I know how that story ends.
I know what the gap feels like because I lived in it. When I was ready to get help, I called four numbers. Two were disconnected. One had a 6-week wait. The fourth got me in — and that single conversation changed everything. But it took 72 hours of searching to find it.
The difference between finding help and losing hope in those 72 hours wasn't my character — it was a directory that hadn't been updated in 6 months. That's a solvable problem.
I searched for a MAT provider at 11pm on a Friday after a relapse. Every clinic I could find was closed. Every phone line rang out. The information existed — it just wasn't reachable. That's the gap Live Now Recovery closes.
Live Now Recovery is the platform I wish had existed when I needed it. It's not built on sympathy. It's built on systems — because sympathy doesn't answer the phone at 2am, but a real-time provider database does.
Privacy was non-negotiable from day one. The stigma around addiction is real. Anyone should be able to find a provider without leaving any trace. No account. No login. No data.
If you're in the middle of it right now: call 833-234-6343. Ohio MAR NOW. We built this because you matter.
A Recovery Timeline
- 2014Rock Bottom
'Rock bottom' isn't a place — it's a decision. For me, it was the moment I realized the next step was either treatment or not waking up. I chose treatment. That decision took everything I had.
- 2015First MAT Appointment
Buprenorphine changed everything within weeks. The literature is right: when the cravings step back, you get your life back. I started thinking about the future for the first time in years.
- 2018Four Years Clean
Started volunteering with community recovery programs. Saw firsthand that the people who didn't make it weren't weaker than me — they just hit different logistics walls at different moments. The same walls I almost hit.
- 2021Mapping the Gap
Spent 6 months mapping the provider landscape in NE Ohio. Discovered that 40% of listed providers were no longer accepting patients. Clinic hours were wrong. Phone numbers were dead. The system wasn't broken — it was invisible. I started documenting it before I wrote a single line of code.
- 2024–25Live Now Recovery Launches
This isn't a startup. It's a public health intervention wrapped in a technology platform. Every warm handoff that completes is a data point in the case for scaling this nationally. Every provider that goes live is a door that didn't exist yesterday.
Why Technology
The Crisis Doesn't Need More Compassion.
It Needs Better Infrastructure.
Proved that coordinated MAT routing works. Their Hub-and-Spoke model connected rural patients to urban specialists via real-time provider matching — and overdose deaths dropped 30% in participating regions.
Proved that continuity of care saves lives. By starting MAT in state prisons and maintaining it post-release, they cut post-incarceration overdose mortality by 60%.
Proved that when you treat addiction as a health issue — not a moral one — overdose deaths drop 80%. They did it without new medications. They did it with better systems.
The technology to build that coordination exists. I'm building it.
National Scale
This Isn't About Ohio
Ohio is the pilot. But West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Kentucky. Tennessee. New Mexico. Rural Nevada. These are communities with willing providers, people in crisis, and zero real-time coordination.
- 1.West Virginia80.9 per 100k
- 2.Kentucky56.2 per 100k
- 3.Tennessee54.6 per 100k
- 4.New Mexico51.3 per 100k
- 5.Nevada47.1 per 100k
Live Now Recovery is the infrastructure layer they're all missing.
One platform. Deployable in any county. In days.
If you're a provider, a funder, or someone who's been where I've been — this platform is for you.
The technology is ready. The evidence is clear. The only thing missing is the will to build it at scale.