Episode 37: Who the Hell is This? Solving the Access to Care Bottleneck with Amol Deshpande from Frontera Health

The ABA industry has an access problem, and throwing generic corporate software at it isn't fixing a damn thing.In this episode of Rad N Bad, Sean and Mike sit down with Amol Deshpande, the founder of Frontera Health, a Silicon Valley veteran who is injecting radical disruption into the behavioral health tech space. Driven by his personal experience as a parent of an autistic son who achieved a life-changing outcome through high-quality early intervention, Amol isn't here to build another corporate tool. He’s here to dismantle the bottlenecks keeping families stuck on waitlists for months just to get a label.We strip away the marketing crap and dive deep into what it actually takes to scale access to quality care without burning clinicians into the ground. We talk about utilizing advanced, clinician-built AI to obliterate the administrative nightmare of report writing, and why billing platforms do absolutely nothing to change what happens in a child's home on a Tuesday night.Amol pulls no filters as we tackle the toxic tech trends plaguing the sector—specifically software providers who attempt to build a business "moat" by hoarding clinical data and blocking integrations. We unpack the line between clinical augmentation and replacement, why parent-mediated therapy models are the next major frontier, and how passive data collection through video could revolutionize accountability and RBT supervision.Stop letting corporate billing convenience dictate your clinical priorities. It’s time to use technology to eliminate the noise so we can get back to what actually matters: human connection, clinical depth, and radical behavior change.www.fronterahealth.com