Meet Rita.

Rita is 52. She lives in rural Illinois, works two part-time jobs and is her mother’s caregiver. By Thursday, her bank account usually holds about seven dollars.

Her mother’s ovarian cancer has returned. Her oncologist has suggested exploring a clinical trial. Rita needs a blood test of her own, but between her mother’s appointments and picking up extra shifts, she keeps putting it off.

Function Health offers testing and interpretation for $365 a year. Rita has seven dollars until Friday.

A local doctor has access to a new clinical trial database powered by AI. It could help identify a trial for her mother. But even paying for another consultation is beyond her means. And finding a trial would leave Rita with more to arrange: eligibility checks, medical records, travel, time away from work and somewhere to stay if the hospital is too far from home.

She wants to help her mother. She needs to look after herself. Missing a shift means less money for both.

The blood test and the clinical trial belong to different systems. In Rita’s life, they compete for the same money, the same hours and the same ride.

Labs have appointments to fill. Trial teams need eligible participants. Transport providers need customers. Assistance programs may have funds she qualifies for. Rita has to discover them, connect them and make the arrangements work.

Then her work schedule changes. Yesterday’s plan falls apart. She's heard rumors of layoffs.

The services exist. The need exists. Yet the work of turning them into something affordable and usable still belongs to Rita.

What if arranging all of this around Rita could create enough value to pay the participating businesses—and give Rita a share?