Openslot
A living referral directory that asks each provider to confirm intake status on a recurring cadence and shows coordinators exactly when every answer was last verified.
Behavioral-health and social-service coordinators often search spreadsheets whose most important facts—open capacity, intake status and accepted coverage—decay within days. Openslot turns each provider row into a recurring verification workflow. An authorized intake contact receives a short message or call, answers a bounded set of availability questions and creates a time-stamped confirmation that coordinators can inspect before referring. The supplied research confirms a newly launched state directory and distinguishes its passive licensing-data updates from active outbound availability checks. It also confirms enterprise closed-loop referral networks, but not a self-serve directory using this exact freshness loop. That is evidence of a supported gap, not proof that providers will answer. Silence, failed delivery and stale responses must remain visible rather than becoming negative availability claims. Provider identity, contact authority, message delivery, response, normalized status, coordinator search, referral attempt, provider acceptance and patient outcome remain separate. Sensitive patient details do not belong in routine verification messages. The product can make directory freshness explicit and reduce blind calling. It cannot guarantee capacity, eligibility, clinical fit, response rates or successful placement.
A nonprofit, community program or behavioral-health coordination team that maintains a provider directory and owns the outreach relationship.
A recent state-directory launch supports current attention to freshness without proving a durable procurement window.
Nonprofit and behavioral-health coordination teams are identifiable, though budget and purchasing authority need validation.
One cross-reference and limited connections provide modest convergence.
A recognizable coordinator workflow, a concrete recurring verification mechanism and a confirmed distinction from passive and enterprise alternatives support a focused product.
Provider participation, messaging permissions, normalized availability and patient privacy are operationally difficult, while no structural incumbent copying cost is evidenced.
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