About
Walk in cold, learn the room, fix what's broken.
SoberSphere HQ is the operating partner for detox and residential treatment centers, measured on the paid day. It exists because the gap between how much centers care and how badly the path around the care is built is the widest gap we have seen in any industry.
Matthew Alaimo · Founder
The pattern is always the same.
Years ago a friend called about a treatment center that was losing money and asked me to come figure it out. I had never worked a day in addiction treatment. I took the operation apart, learned the business from the people doing it, and rebuilt how it found and followed the families who called.
That has been the pattern for about thirty years across industries I had never touched: telecom, marketing, staffing. Walk in cold, learn the room, fix what's broken, move to the next problem. Treatment is the one I came back to, because of that gap — and because the thing that fixes it isn't a marketing budget, it's the year after somebody leaves.
Like most people, I used AI as a better search engine until I had a platform to build that would have cost a small fortune the old way, and I built it myself in months. That's when it clicked: the AI is a contractor, and the judgment about what to build is the whole job. SoberSphere is that judgment, pointed at the one number that decides whether a center makes it.
The company
Two sides, one reason.
SoberSphere
A free platform for people in and around recovery, and for the families around them. Open to anyone, never a condition of anything, and not a center's sales tool. It is free because the version that charges only reaches the few who can pay, and those are already the people the standard of care reaches.
SoberSphere HQ
The side that works for treatment centers. HQ brings the platform to a center's families in the center's name, and works everything around it: findability, the first touch, the days from yes to arrival, the year after discharge, and the reconciliation that tells you what any of it cost per paid day.
Both sides need the same thing to be true: that the family stays. That is the only reason we can honestly say we are on your side of the table — not because we promise it, but because our model breaks if it isn't so.
The team
Small, on purpose, for now.
Today the work is the founder's, directly. He runs every first look, every Teardown, and every bed-day review for a center's first year. That is not a growth strategy; it is what the first centers are owed while the model is being proven on their buildings.
As centers come on, an account manager owns process adherence — the desk script, the link in the first minute, the discharge packet, the check-ins — and the founder stays in the quarterly review. We take on a limited number of centers at a time, few enough that every one gets the attention the fee implies. When someone joins the team, they will be on this page, by name, with a photograph.