Founding Partners

Underwrite the moment veterans come home.

Psychedelic Vets is standing infrastructure for the veteran community at the center of the most consequential mental-health research in a generation. A small number of Founding Partners can help fund that work — and grow with the platform from the ground floor.

What you'd be backing

A verified veteran audience no one else aggregates

Psychedelic Vets gathers, in one place, the studies actively recruiting veterans, the legal landscape state by state, and the research findings as they publish — favorable or not. It's built to be permanent: not a campaign, a funnel, or a moment, but standing infrastructure the veteran community can rely on indefinitely. A Founding Partner isn't buying impressions on a media property. They're underwriting that infrastructure at the moment it's being laid.

The offer

Ground-floor position, locked in now

Rather than wait for scale to publish a rate card, we offer a few partners a ground-floor entry: fees indexed to real audience metrics, so you pay almost nothing today and grow with the platform under terms you lock in now. You're buying position, not impressions.

Category exclusivity

You're the only brand in your category, for the life of the agreement — no one else in your lane on the platform.

A discount that never expires

Twenty-five percent off any rate card we ever publish, guaranteed for three years. The earlier you're in, the more that's worth.

Permanent Founding Partner standing

Recognized as a founding backer for good — the designation survives even if the relationship later changes shape.

First look at everything new

First right of refusal on new inventory — an interview series, events — before it's ever offered to anyone else.

Low risk by design: either side can step out at the close of any quarter, 30 days' notice, no penalty.

Five categories · one partner each

Reserved by fit, not sold to the highest bidder

We hold five non-competing categories, one partner apiece, and we'll launch with only one or two. If your category is taken, it's taken; if it's open, it's yours to claim. We'd rather carry two partners we believe in than five logos.

Open

Coffee & beverage

The morning ritual of the veteran community. Founder-led challenger brands over corporates.

Open

Sleep & recovery wearables

Recovery hardware and wearables that help veterans rebuild the unglamorous foundations — sleep, regulation, rest.

Open

Meditation & breathwork apps

Mind-body tools that pair naturally with the preparation and integration work we teach.

Open

Outdoor recreation

Gear and experiences that get veterans moving, outdoors, and back into a unit of some kind.

Open

Veteran financial services

Banking, insurance, and investing built for the way service members and veterans actually live.

How the deal works

You grow with the platform

Entry starts low and is indexed to real, verified audience metrics — the size of our email list and the reach of a monthly sponsored placement. As the platform grows, the fee follows the audience, never faster. It's a small bet now that becomes a fair one later, on terms you set today.

Indexed, not guessed

Fees track verified numbers from real dashboards — not a figure we invented.

A floor, no surprise ceiling

A modest monthly minimum keeps it real on both sides; the fee can never jump beyond audience growth itself.

Quarterly and reversible

We true up every quarter, and either side can leave at any quarter's close.

What's included

Where a Founding Partner shows up

  • Newsletter placementA single, clearly-labeled sponsor slot in every send of The Debrief, our weekly research dispatch.
  • Site presenceA place on the Partners page and a mark in the site footer — continuously, for the life of the agreement.
  • Monthly socialOne sponsored placement a month, through our human-reviewed approval queue.
  • Interview series, firstA host-read "presented by" when our interview series launches — included for Founding Partners, no fee increase.
  • Quarterly metricsA clear read on reach and performance, four times a year.
The lines we don't cross

What sponsorship will never buy

These are written into every agreement. They protect the veterans we serve — and, in the end, they protect a partner's reputation too.

Editorial independence

Sponsors have no say over content, coverage, or tone. We don't sell coverage, and there's no sponsored editorial.

The studies directory is off-limits

No sponsor presence on, beside, or linked from the research veterans rely on. Ever.

Microdosing Vets is firewalled

Our active dissertation research site carries no sponsorship of any kind while research is under way.

No health-claim co-marketing

We will not tie a partner's product to therapeutic outcomes.

Clear disclosure

Every placement is labeled as sponsored, per FTC guidance. Readers always know.

Fit over fee

We decline any brand whose products or marketing conflict with the mission — whatever the offer.

Where the money goes

Your support funds the mission directly

Founding Partner fees flow into the same giving pledge that funds the rest of Psychedelic Vets — veteran treatment grants, scholarships to the nonprofits that get veterans into legal, clinically guided care, and the work of moving research to the people it's for. Backing the platform isn't a logo placement; it's capital doing visible good for the veteran community.

See how we allocate what comes in →

Let's talk.

If your brand serves veterans, athletes, or anyone doing the work of recovery — and you'd like in at the ground floor — we'd like to hear from you. Tell us who you are and the category you'd fill, and we'll send the full Founding Partner details.

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