Preview release·Public launch early June 2026

Plan B for PANS

A non-profit for PANS, PANDAS, autism & severe dysregulation

When there's no 911 to call.

Plan B is your answer.

When your kid is in free-fall and no practitioner can see the full picture — Plan B is the layer that can. At its core is Minta, our free AI clinical companion built for PANS families. She reads every research-backed modality, every published teaching, every cohort study we can put on the record, alongside your child's full history. Then she hands you what to try next — and the questions to bring to your next appointment.

Free · Non-profit ·Built by a family who's lived it

Minta is still learning. Today she offers thoughtful suggestions shaped to your kid. Soon — as every family who joins adds their story — a real protocol emerges for every child.

↓   What Plan B is

FIG. 01 · Subject P-0001 · Plan B for PANS

Clinical silhouette — representative subject, Plan B for PANS
Acute · Ongoing
OCD
ARFID
Agoraphobia

“My son was eight when he told me he wanted to die. The doctors didn't have an answer. Neither did I. I spent two years at 2am — alone, researching every modality anyone said had helped — and then piecing it together across a dozen practices none of which talked to each other. Plan B is what I wish I'd had.”

Rachel Johnson · Founder

Our thesis

A path out of the fire — built from every modality, every family, every hard-won answer.

Today: a real understanding of every option out there. Tomorrow: the path itself. Minta is learning which modalities actually work for which symptoms — sharpening with every family who joins, every cohort we run, together.

Built by a mother · Trained by every family · Published openly

Compounding promise

It gets better with every family who joins. Over time — together — we build the way out.

Try Minta · Free · No sign-up

Ask Minta anything.

A question about your kid. A modality you keep hearing about. A symptom that isn’t in any textbook. Type it in your own words — Minta will give you a real read, grounded in everything she’s learned from the families and research papers she reads.

For example

“My 9yo has new OCD and food refusal after strep. Where do I start?”“What’s the difference between PANS and PANDAS?”“My kid plateaued on IVIG — what are we missing?”“Is mold the reason nothing else is working?”
Ask Minta now →

Ask as many questions as you need. No data saved. No sign-up. Just a real read.

ticsrageOCDsleepanxietybrain fogfood fearFIG. 01 — THE BUCKET

§ 01 · The problem

35 symptoms. 12 supplements.
Three new meds this month.
What is actually working?

PANS and PANDAS families carry a cognitive load no spreadsheet can hold. New symptoms appear. Old ones come back. You start a binder and the headaches get worse — is it the binder, or a flare, or the guanfacine you bumped up last Tuesday?

Plan B is the tracker built for that exact confusion.

Modality-agnostic
Free forever
Your data, yours

The stakes

There's no 911 for this. When your kid is in crisis, the emergency system has no answer for what's actually driving it underneath.

This is where you go when there's no other place — for solutions.

§ 02 · The engine

One system.
Every facet feeds it.

Parent forums have suggestions. Plan B builds a path. It reads every modality on record, every practitioner teaching, every cohort study we run, and every kid's full intake — and synthesizes them into a real starting place. The more families tracking, the more cohort studies we fund, the faster the real paths emerge — together.

Inputs · What feeds it

01Every modality (standard · functional · fringe)
02Every practitioner teaching & published work
03Live cohort data from running cohort studies
04Your kid’s full intake, onset story, labs
05Community questions and corrections

Synthesis engine

Plan B

Reads it all together.

Outputs · What it produces

A starting place shaped to your kid’s specific profile
Matched placement into a cohort study
Referrals to practitioners whose work fits
Real-time answers to your 2am questions
Published cohort findings, for every family after
↺ Feedback loop

Your family's journey feeds back into the library. The 100th family's read benefits from what the first 99 contributed. More people in → more studies funded → faster to solutions, for everyone.

A real starting place, not silence. Sharpened with every family. Together we get out.

§ 03 · The center

The tracker is Plan B.

  • The doctor willing to talk at 2am — for free.
  • The friend who'll help you troubleshoot when you're out of options and can't sleep.
  • The specialist who knows every modality — and will help you figure out your next lane.

Every answer Plan B gives starts from your kid's full story — captured in intake, extended daily by the tracker. Without that, there's nothing to synthesize. With it, the engine works for your kid specifically, and sharpens every time you come back.

Minta is still learning — today she offers suggestions. Soon, with every family who joins, a real protocol emerges for every child.

§ 02 · The method

Four pieces. One picture.

PP. 12 — 19

01

● ACTIVE

Intake

Log your kid's baseline — symptoms, meds, onset, history, and everything already tried. Takes about fifteen minutes, or an unhurried conversation with Claude.

02

Weekly

Rate each symptom on a 0–10 scale, week by week. Add new symptoms as they surface, flag the returning ones.

03

Daily

When titrating meds or starting a protocol, track changes in real time and flag new symptoms as they appear.

04

Analysis

Claude reads your full timeline and flags likely correlations, possible reactions, and the one thing most worth pausing — or trying next.

01 — Intake form

Date of onset✓ saved
Triggering event✓ saved
Current meds✓ saved
Baseline symptoms~typing
Family history— —

INTAKE · LIVE VIEW

  1. 01

    Intake

    The whole story, captured once.

    Pregnancy, birth, environment, diet. Every medication ever tried, every supplement, every modality. Every symptom, every flare, every weird behavior that nobody else took seriously. Labs, tests, imaging. The onset story — told in your own words, in conversation with Minta, at your pace. About twenty minutes in one sitting, or broken up across days. It all saves as you go.

  2. 02

    After intake, the tracker opens

    Daily check-ins. Thirty seconds before bed.

    Once your intake is in, the tracker takes over — from your phone, every day. Tap a mood rating (0–10). Log any med change, new supplement, dose tweak. Rate each symptom you care about — OCD, rage, sleep, tics, food aversion, anxiety — on the same 0–10 scale. When a new weird behavior shows up (a tic, a food fear, a rage episode, a 2am wake-up), tag it the moment you see it. Free text for context when you need it: ‘meltdown at 4pm, right after screen time and missed lunch.’

    Saturday gives you a weekly rollup — bar charts for every symptom, a timeline of every med change, all your flare notes in one place. Patterns you couldn't see before start to jump out: rage was 8/10 Monday, 3/10 Wednesday — what changed? The binder dose, probably. Six weeks in, the pattern is visible in a way no memory, no folder of doctor notes, no stack of Google tabs could ever hold.

  3. 03

    Minta reads both

    Troubleshoots from the full record, 2am included.

    Minta already has your intake. Now she has every day you've logged. Ask anything — ‘why did we have a bad week?’, ‘is this new symptom concerning?’, ‘what should we try next?’ — and she reads the whole record before answering. She runs correlations across meds, symptoms, timing, triggers: ‘Rage spiked the week you raised guanfacine AND started the new binder. Tics ticked up same week — may be rebound. Pause the binder at half-dose for 10 days to isolate which one is the driver.’ Specific to your kid. Grounded in your data. Not generic advice.

  4. 04

    It sharpens

    We’re teaching Minta to spot patterns.

    Your kid's data (consent-based, de-identified) joins every other family's data in the library. As stories come in, Minta is learning which modalities actually work for which symptoms — spotting the patterns no single family can see alone. Every successful story teaches her what to suggest. Every failed one teaches her what not to. Every cohort run adds signal. The read you get today is only as sharp as what the first families contributed. The read the hundredth family gets is sharper still.

Nothing works without your intake. Nothing sharpens without your log. This is where the compounding lives.

A day with the tracker

Thirty seconds at a time. Six weeks of these and the pattern finally becomes visible.

07:12Mood4 / 10 · Woke up anxious
08:30SymptomNew tic — throat clear
12:00FoodLunch refusal · tagged ARFID
15:10Rage8 / 10 · triggered by screen time
19:00DoseBinder · 1/2 scoop
22:45Note30s before bed · day logged

Saturday →

Weekly roll-up: rage spiked Mon & Wed — both after binder increases. Food refusals clustered around screen-time days. ARFID tagged 5x this week (up from 2 last week). A pattern you couldn't see before becomes visible in a way no memory could hold.

Use · Share · Use again

The more you log — what's failing, what's working — the faster Minta sees your kid's patterns and the path out.

Make this your trusted advisor while you're waiting six weeks for the next intake appointment — or when the $2,000 half-hour consult isn't an option. Every log adds to your kid's picture and the library that helps the next family. Use it. Share it. Come back.

Start your intake →

§ 03 · The why

Understanding the mechanism — so solutions get easier to craft.

Plan B isn't only matching modalities to kids. It's pursuing the questions underneath — which behavior is which driver? Every added family, every added cohort, every added data point pushes these questions closer to answers.

  • Q1

    Are these behaviors pathogen-driven?

    When sudden OCD, rage, or regression appears — is the brain reacting to a specific infection? Which one, and in which kid?

  • Q2

    Or are they symptoms of an inflamed brain?

    Is the driver the pathogen itself, or the inflammation it provoked? Different answers mean different protocols.

  • Q3

    Does strep have a personality? Does mold? Does lyme?

    Do specific pathogens produce specific behavioral signatures? Does a kid picking their nose constantly mean parasites? Does a kid saying "I want to die" mean lyme? We're collecting the data to find out.

  • Q4

    Which combinations load the bucket fastest?

    Mold + strep + methylation stall + stress — what order? Which is the bottleneck for which kid?

  • Q5

    Where does each modality actually fit?

    Not “does it work” — where in the sequence does it belong, for which kind of kid?

The why is how the solution gets precise. Every family helps us answer it.

Our promise on your kid's data

Yours, always

Your kid's intake, logs, and conversations are your data. We don't sell it. We don't share it with advertisers, insurance, or schools.

Deleted on request

One click and everything your family put into Plan B is gone — from the tracker, the chat, the aggregate library. No questions asked.

Never shared without consent

Aggregate patterns (de-identified) help the next family's read — but only if you opt in. No consent, no contribution. Default is private.

Read the full privacy policy.

How to start

Three steps. Nothing else to figure out.

01

Do the intake

Twenty minutes, or break it across days. Pregnancy, birth, triggers, meds, symptoms, everything you've tried. The more detail, the sharper Minta's read.

~20 min

02

Log daily

Thirty seconds before bed. Mood rating, med changes, new symptoms, flare notes. Six weeks in, the pattern becomes visible.

30 sec / day

03

Ask Minta anything

2am meltdown, new symptom, stuck on protocol choice — Minta has your full record and runs the correlations a single visit can't.

anytime

What makes Plan B different

You've already tried the other places.

Facebook groupsPANS forumsDoctor visitsPlan B
2am access
Specific to YOUR kid
Reads every modality together
Remembers your kid's full historypartial
Gets sharper with every family
Costfreefree$300–$2,000 per visitfree
Data belongs toMetaforum ownertheir chartyou

Parent forums have suggestions. Doctors see their slice. Plan B is the only place that holds everything together— your kid, every modality, every family's story.

Voices · From the families using Plan B

Our first families are joining now.

As stories come in — breakthroughs, stalls, real journeys — we'll share them here (with consent). If you're using Plan B and want yours included, email Rachel.

Stay in the loop

Not ready yet? Stay in touch.

Monthly update on what Minta's learning, which cohort studies are running, and what's emerging. No spam. One-click unsubscribe.

Put Plan B on your phone

No app store. No download.

Plan B lives on your home screen like any other app. Updates automatically. Works offline for the daily tracker.

iPhone · Safari

  1. Open app.planbforpans.com in Safari
  2. Tap the Share button (square with arrow)
  3. Scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen
  4. Tap Add

Android · Chrome

  1. Open app.planbforpans.com in Chrome
  2. Tap the menu (top right)
  3. Tap Install app (or Add to Home screen)
  4. Tap Install