How it works

A long explanation, because you deserve one.

If you're here, you've probably read the manifesto on the homepage and you want to know what actually happens when you trust us with your story. This page tells you, in detail. It's long. That's intentional. We think the mechanics matter, and we'd rather you understand them now than be surprised later.

The seven stages

A case on Rebirthealth moves through seven stages. Some are fast; some take weeks. Here is every one of them, in order.

Stage 1 · You post your case

You write down your story — what's wrong, what you've tried, what you want — in a five-step form. You upload any files that might help, if you have them. You set an amount you're willing to pay the advisor you eventually select. At the end, you pay a non-refundable deposit to put the case on the board. That deposit is how we know you're serious, and it's how the advisors know you're serious too. The moment you submit, your case is live and visible to every qualified advisor on this platform.

Stage 2 · Advisors study your case

For the next 21 days, advisors can read your case on the task board. If one of them wants to write a proposal, they read the brief, open your attachments, think about it, and — when they're ready — write a full response. That response is structured. Every advisor must answer the same three questions: what they think is going on, what they recommend, and what you should watch for as you move forward. They have up to 2,000 words to do it. No more. Advisors cannot see each other's responses during this window. Each one is working in their own sealed room.

Stage 3 · Advisors score each other's work

When the 21 days are up, the sealed rooms open to everyone who wrote a proposal. Now each advisor must read every other advisor's response and score it on four dimensions: evidence, feasibility, originality, and value. Scoring is not optional. An advisor who does not complete all their scoring within 72 hours forfeits their own proposal entirely — it's removed from the task and they cannot be selected. This sounds harsh because it is. We explain why in the next section. During scoring, the proposals the advisor is rating are fully anonymous. No name, no category, no tier. Just the words.

Stage 4 · You see everything

When scoring is complete, every finalized proposal becomes visible to you at once. You see the full text of each one — we don't summarize, we don't rank, we don't recommend. You see them in random order, with their four-dimension peer scores displayed alongside. This is the moment the whole process was built for. Read each proposal carefully. Compare. Take your time. There's no countdown.

Stage 5 · You select an advisor

When you've decided, you click to select one advisor. At that moment, the remaining balance of your task amount moves into escrow, and the winning advisor is notified. The other advisors see that the task has been awarded, but not to whom. The winning advisor's full profile now becomes visible to you — their name, credentials, prior work, and contact within the platform. Until this moment, you knew them only as "Proposal #3" or similar.

Stage 6 · Engagement and delivery

What happens next depends on the type of task. Some tasks — quick second opinions, independent readings — are fully delivered the moment you accept the proposal. You read it, you use it, you accept. Other tasks — the ones where you want ongoing guidance — kick off a working period of up to a month. During this time, the winning advisor is available to answer follow-up questions, adjust their recommendations, and walk with you through the early days of whatever approach you're trying. The specific mode is set when you post the task. In both cases, your advisor is now visible to you by name, and you to them by whatever details you chose to share.

Stage 7 · The holding period

When you accept the delivery, the escrow enters a 30-day holding period. During this window, you can still raise a dispute if something was fundamentally wrong with the advisor's work (more on that in a later section). If no dispute is raised, the funds release automatically at the end of the 30 days. The task closes. Your case is archived in your own history, and the advisor's successful completion is added to their profile.

Seven stages sound like a lot. It is a lot. But this is a case — a real health situation, often years in the making — not an errand to be run in an afternoon. We built the flow to give every stage the time it deserves: 21 days for advisors to think, 72 hours for them to score each other, 30 days for you to decide whether what you received was really what you needed. Faster would be worse.

Sealed · Scored · Survived

The heart of the platform is a three-word mechanism: Sealed, Scored, Survived. It's what makes the manifesto's promise real — that you will see not "the advisor we recommend" but "the one still standing after all the others tried to tear it down." Here's how each of the three words works.

Sealed

From the moment an advisor opens your case until they submit their own proposal, they cannot see what anyone else has written. There is no peeking. There is no leaderboard of in-progress answers. Every advisor is in their own sealed room, writing their own answer to your situation. This matters because without it, you'd get herd behavior. The first advisor to submit would set the frame; the second would react to the first; the third would split the difference; and by the tenth, you'd have ten variations of the first one. Sealed submission forces every advisor to commit their own thinking before they get contaminated by anyone else's.

Scored

Once everyone has submitted, the seals come off — but only to the other advisors, not to you. Each advisor must now read every other proposal and score it across four dimensions:   Evidence quality — Is it grounded in something the advisor can point to: research, experience, observation?   Feasibility — Can you realistically act on this?   Originality — Does it offer something the others don't?   Value — Is it worth what you're paying? These dimensions are broad on purpose. They're meant to work across very different traditions of knowledge. An advisor from modern medicine scoring an advisor from traditional medicine uses the same four dimensions, even though what counts as "evidence" looks different in each. That's the point. Scoring is forced. Any advisor who skips scoring loses their own proposal. This is how we keep the peer-review meaningful — there's no tourist mode, no drive-by bidding. If you want to be considered, you must also take the work of your peers seriously.

Survived

When scoring is done, you see what's left. Some proposals will score high on evidence but low on feasibility. Some will score high on originality and low on value. Some will score well on everything. Some will have been pulled entirely because their author didn't finish scoring the others. What you do NOT see is a single recommended proposal. We never tell you which one to pick. The only thing we guarantee is that every proposal you see has been read and scored by every other advisor — and has survived that reading. That's a different kind of trust than "our experts say so." It's trust grounded in peer challenge, not platform authority.

We could have built a much simpler platform: match you with one advisor, take a cut, move on. But one advisor is what the medical system already gives you, and if one advisor was enough, you wouldn't be here. The whole point of Rebirthealth is that one advisor is not enough — you need many, working in parallel, challenging each other. Sealed-Scored-Survived is the machinery that makes that actually happen instead of just sounding good in a tagline.

Where your money lives

At no point during your case does your money flow directly from your account to any advisor's account. It sits with Rebirthealth the entire time, in a segregated escrow account. Here's the path it takes.

When you post your case

You pay a non-refundable deposit to put the case on the board. This money leaves your payment method and enters the Rebirthealth escrow account. It is not sent to any advisor. It is not available to us for our own use. It sits in escrow, against your specific task. The deposit is non-refundable because the moment you post, we start spending: the case goes live, advisors begin reading, time is committed by real people. If you changed your mind ten minutes later, that commitment would still have been made. The deposit is how you make that commitment real.

When you select a winning advisor

The remaining balance of your task amount now leaves your payment method and joins the deposit in escrow. The two together — your full task amount — are now locked against this specific task. They are still with Rebirthealth. Still not with any advisor. At the same moment, every advisor who was NOT selected sees that the task has been awarded. They receive nothing. No runner-up prize, no participation bonus. The task amount belongs to the winning proposal only.

When the advisor delivers

Delivery does not release money. Your explicit acceptance does. If your task was a one-shot proposal, acceptance is a button you click after reading the winning proposal: "I accept this delivery." If your task included a month of engagement, acceptance comes at the end of that month, when you confirm that the work is done. Either way, acceptance starts a 30-day clock. The money still sits in escrow, locked against your task. It has not moved.

After the 30-day hold

If no dispute is raised during the 30 days, the escrow automatically releases the full task amount from the task lock to the advisor's platform wallet. The advisor can then withdraw those funds to their own bank account on their own schedule. If you do raise a dispute during the 30 days (more on this in the next section), the release is paused and our mediation process begins.

A note on platform fees

Rebirthealth takes a platform fee out of the advisor's share. The fee is not charged to you separately — it's built into the task amount. When you set your task amount, the advisor receives something less than that after the platform fee. You pay what you set. The advisor receives what the platform passes on. The fee is how the platform pays for itself.

Direct peer-to-peer payments are easier to build. They're also how you lose money. Keeping every dollar inside a real escrow account, with real timestamps and real release conditions, is the thing that lets us promise you'll get a delivery before money moves. It also means you are never asked to trust any specific advisor with a transfer — the only party you ever trust is the platform, and the platform is structurally designed so that your money cannot be touched until a verifiable event has happened.

When things go wrong

In the whole seven-stage flow, there's really only one moment where things can go genuinely wrong between you and an advisor. It's the window between when you accept a delivery and when the 30-day hold releases the money. Everything before that moment is either pre-commitment (you haven't paid yet, so there's nothing to argue about) or pre-selection (you haven't chosen anyone yet, so there's no specific advisor to argue with). The only time a dispute can legitimately arise is when: you've paid the full task amount, you've accepted the delivery, you're spending time with what the advisor gave you, and you realize it isn't what you agreed to.

The dispute window

You have 30 days from acceptance to raise a dispute. You do this by clicking "Raise a dispute" on the task detail page. The platform immediately pauses the release of the escrow. No funds move until the dispute is resolved. When you raise a dispute, you tell us what happened, in your own words. You can include any supporting documentation. The advisor is notified and has a chance to respond. Rebirthealth's mediation team reviews both sides and makes a determination. The determination is not a court ruling. It's an attempt by a neutral party to find a fair resolution. Possible outcomes include: full refund to you, partial refund to you, release of full funds to the advisor, or a negotiated middle-ground. The determination is final within the platform.

What counts as a valid dispute

You can raise a dispute when the delivery was materially different from the proposal you selected — missing sections, unfinished engagement, failure to respond during a scheduled follow-up period, or approaches that were clearly outside the scope of what was proposed. Changed minds are not disputes. Results that weren't what you hoped for are not disputes. An advisor's recommendation that didn't work for you, despite being faithfully delivered, is not a dispute. Rebirthealth cannot and does not evaluate whether an advisor's approach was "medically correct." We evaluate whether what was delivered matches what was proposed. That is the only question we're qualified to answer.

The 30-day hold exists specifically so that disputes are possible. We could have released funds on the moment of acceptance — many platforms do. But that leaves no protection for the case where you accept in good faith and only realize later that something was wrong. 30 days is a compromise: long enough for second thoughts, short enough that advisors aren't waiting forever for their pay. We also keep the dispute mechanism simple on purpose. You don't have to prove anything in a legal sense. You just have to tell us what went wrong, and we take it from there. The complexity of the system should not become a barrier to getting heard.

Who the advisors are

Every advisor on Rebirthealth has been individually reviewed by the platform before they're allowed to take tasks. Here's what we check, and — more importantly — what we don't.

What we verify

Identity. We confirm that the advisor is a real person and that the name and photo on their profile match who they say they are. This is done with government-issued ID verification. Credentials, when they exist. If an advisor claims a formal license or certification — a medical license, a traditional medicine practitioner certificate, a bodywork certification, anything issued by a recognized authority — we contact the issuing body or verify through public registries that the credential is real and still valid. Not every advisor has formal credentials. In several of the traditions represented on this platform, knowledge is passed through lineage rather than through examination, and that is a real and valid form of expertise. We do not disqualify advisors for lacking a piece of paper. Evidence of prior work. Every advisor — credentialed or not — must submit real evidence of having practiced their craft. Videos of sessions, photos of previous work, written case summaries, lineage documents, testimonials from past clients. We review this material manually. We are looking for proof that the person has actually done the work they say they do, not a judgment on whether the work was "correct" by any standard. A verification fee. Advisors pay a one-time fee to apply for the platform. This fee covers the manual review cost and acts as a filter. The fee is non-refundable whether the application is accepted or rejected.

What we don't verify

We don't verify that an advisor's approach works. We don't verify that their tradition is "scientific" or "legitimate." We don't verify that their prior results were good. We don't verify that their proposals will help you specifically. We are not qualified to make those judgments, and no platform is. What we can tell you with confidence is that the advisor is a real person with a real history of doing the work. What they do for you, and whether it helps, is between the two of you — with the additional quality signal provided by peer scoring, and the additional protection provided by escrow.

There's a temptation on platforms like this to say "all our advisors are top experts" or "every advisor on the platform is approved by us." We don't say that, and we won't, because it isn't true of any platform that deals in health. Nobody is qualified to approve an advisor's entire worldview — not us, not anyone. What we CAN do is verify that they are who they say they are, that their credentials (if any) are real, and that they have actually practiced. That's the promise we make. The rest is peer review, transparent pricing, and the reality that the whole system runs on your judgment — not ours.

There's more you could read — our frequently asked questions, the stories of people who've used the platform, the details of how advisors are categorized. But if you've read this far, you probably have enough to decide.

The case that brought you here has already waited long enough.