Pelago for employers

Behavioral health that helps your people, and pays for itself

Care that helps your employees recover, backed by peer-reviewed clinical outcomes and pricing with fees at risk. When their lives improve, your costs come down too.

  • 0:1

    ROI in year one

  • $0

    per participant medical cost saving in the first year

Pay for outcomes, not access

Most behavioral health is priced on who can reach it, not whether people get better. The result? You add vendors and spend keeps climbing. Untreated substance use quietly inflates your largest medical claims, from cardiovascular to musculoskeletal.

~$0M

net-new healthcare spend per million employees added by digital EAPs

0-5%

legacy EAP utilization

0%

of those with mental illness go untreated

$0k

more in annual medical spend for employees with untreated substance use disorder

The economics, the evidence, and the engagement to back it up

Outcomes-based pricing

Fees at risk, tied to ROI and outcomes

Per-participant case rate with performance guarantees and 100% fees at risk.

Claims-validated ROI

Savings your CFO can actually audit

Independent actuarial and peer-reviewed validation, with savings concentrated in the chronic conditions driving your trend: MSK, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.

Utilization

A benefit your
employees actually use

Predictive targeting finds risk before it becomes a claim. AI-led care reaches the 60% who’d never book an appointment, and 97% of members enroll without a prior diagnosis.

Clinically validated

Evidence-based care, with a safety net built in

16 peer-reviewed studies, including two randomized controlled trials. Sona is supervised by licensed clinicians and outperforms every frontier model on clinical safety benchmarks.

Case Studies

Everyone's different and everyone is in a different part of their journey. Pelago has met a need that wasn't satisfied in the market prior where they can actually take somebody no matter where they are in the stage of their journey.

Tammy Fennessy

Director of Benefits

One vendor, every level of care your team needs

Substance use

Drinking, smoking, prescription pain medication, cut back or quit, it's your call

Real tools and real support, on your terms. Members see a 70% reduction in drinking frequency within 60 days.

Mental health

Stress, anxiety, low mood, sleep, whatever's weighing on you

Simple, self-guided tools and someone to talk to when you need it. Members see a 67% average reduction in depressive symptoms.

Behavioral addictions

When a habit stops
feeling like a choice

Gambling, gaming and other compulsive behaviors are treatable, with the same evidence-based, judgment-free care Pelago built for substance use. No diagnosis needed to start.

And members love it

I would without hesitation recommend Pelago to anybody that wants to make even a small change in their life.

Steve

Pelago Member

At first, the idea of using AI for my mental health, I had a little bit of reluctance about it. But after using Sona, I'm a believer.

Matthew

Pelago Member

[Pelago's] been a really great and active, consistent support, and that consistency and stability has meant quite a lot.

Lee

Pelago Member

There's more to life than drinking and going out. Since starting my life isn't as centered around alcohol. Having the support system ... having my counselor has been the change that I needed.

Crystal

Pelago Member

My relationship with alcohol is now more intentional and on my own terms ... So I feel a lot happier and healthier and more in control

Tressy

Pelago Member

If anyone I knew was trying to quit, I would point them in this direction.

Nicholas

Pelago Member

I would definitely recommend this program. I'm grateful I took that leap of faith ... here I am 10 times better.

Andrea

Pelago Member

The app is a beginner-friendly way of looking into addiction, keeping track of yourself, keeping yourself accountable.

Sean

Pelago Member

I took every single one of Sona's recommendations, and I worked on it. I feel overall so much better.

Sharyn

Pelago Member

  • I would without hesitation recommend Pelago to anybody that wants to make even a small change in their life.

    Steve

    Pelago Member

  • There's more to life than drinking and going out. Since starting my life isn't as centered around alcohol. Having the support system ... having my counselor has been the change that I needed.

    Crystal

    Pelago Member

  • I would definitely recommend this program. I'm grateful I took that leap of faith ... here I am 10 times better.

    Andrea

    Pelago Member

  • At first, the idea of using AI for my mental health, I had a little bit of reluctance about it. But after using Sona, I'm a believer.

    Matthew

    Pelago Member

  • My relationship with alcohol is now more intentional and on my own terms ... So I feel a lot happier and healthier and more in control

    Tressy

    Pelago Member

  • The app is a beginner-friendly way of looking into addiction, keeping track of yourself, keeping yourself accountable.

    Sean

    Pelago Member

  • [Pelago's] been a really great and active, consistent support, and that consistency and stability has meant quite a lot.

    Lee

    Pelago Member

  • If anyone I knew was trying to quit, I would point them in this direction.

    Nicholas

    Pelago Member

  • I took every single one of Sona's recommendations, and I worked on it. I feel overall so much better.

    Sharyn

    Pelago Member

  • I wanted to be more healthier. I wanted to be here for my kids. I just wanted to live a long, prosperous life with my family.

    Lamistie

    Pelago Member

  • I don’t drink during the week anymore. I used to drink every single day, Sunday through Saturday.

    Bettina

    Pelago Member

  • I like being self-paced, and with Pelago, I feel like I can set my own schedule.

    Sydney

    Pelago Member

  • My quality of life and just my quality of living [has] gotten so much better since using Sona because I've been able to ease my OCD and anxiety, where before it was consuming me.

    Grace

    Pelago Member

  • I can open up the app at any time and do a little bit of meditation or do a journal entry to make sure that I’m staying on track.

    Stacey

    Pelago Member

What happens when behavioral health care actually works

$0

avg. medical cost savings per participant over 12 months

0:1

ROI in year one (incl. program fee)


0%

lower medical spend, fewer inpatient, outpatient & ER claims

$0

PMPY medical cost reduction

0x

ROI

0

participants, matched control

Savings across

  • MSK ($44K)
  • diabetes ($29K)
  • cardiovascular ($19K)
Calculate your potential cost savings

Four steps from contract to outcomes

Integrate

Fits your existing ecosystem, from medical claims billing to your PBM and digital health stack.

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