The asymmetric stakes list

What this site will refuse.

There are some things a desk that takes the inside seriously must refuse, no matter what is offered, because the cost of doing them once is permanent.

  • No commission for clinic referrals. No clinic pays the desk for a placement, a mention, a footnote, or a position on a list. If a clinic is described on this site, the description is mine, not theirs.
  • No undercover marketing for any clinic. No clinic gets to dictate the description of its own type, its own programme, or its own typical week. If a clinic is unhappy with what is described here, the response is published on the page it concerns, not folded into a quiet edit.
  • No naming clinics in a way that could be read as a recommendation. Types, not brands.
  • No exploitation of the moment. The chat does not get pushed at someone who has just typed “I am being admitted tomorrow morning.” The pages do, and they cost nothing — the questions to ask the clinic on arrival, and the routes for the people at home.
  • No pretending my four weeks were everyone's four weeks. The page is one person's lived account, said clearly, with the bias named.
  • No sharing of patient stories from the bot conversations, ever, even anonymised, even in a podcast, even as "a question I was asked once". Confidentiality is the standard. The bot does not become content.
  • No offering myself as a sponsor, mentor, recovery coach, or aftercare provider. The desk is a resource, not a relationship. Aftercare is your clinic's, your fellowship's, your therapist's, your doctor's.
  • No selling rehab beds. The desk does not have rehab beds for sale. The desk is not a placement service. Procurement is a separate question, and no part of this network is a placement service either.

Each of those is a no that costs the desk money. That is the point.

Next

  • How this site is written — independence, the declared conflict, corrections, and how the SI (super intelligence) guide is governed
  • About James — the lived authority and its limit