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Making the demand and supply problem impossible to ignore.

iTAV tells the story of what is breaking government-sponsored health plans, in an illustrated series and in research built for the operators living it.

The Comic Series

Hard problems, drawn out.

Each issue takes one uncomfortable truth about government-sponsored health plans and makes it impossible to look away from.

iTAV Comic Volume 1 cover, Disruption: The Year No One Saw Coming
Volume 1 · Q4 2025

Disruption: The Year No One Saw Coming

Why government-sponsored health plans are not immune to the disruption every other industry is bracing for.

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iTAV Comic Volume 2 cover, The Forecast Trap
Volume 2 · Q1 2026

The Forecast Trap

How bid room assumptions destroy workforce plans before open enrollment even begins.

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The Life of the Missed Forecast
Volume 3 · Q3 2026

The Life of the Missed Forecast

The human cost of a forecast that misses, told from inside the operation that has to absorb it.

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What changes

What SMARTOps actually delivers.

Not features. Outcomes health plan operations leaders can measure.

Close the gap on forecast variances

Stop absorbing the difference between what you planned for and what actually happened.

No more spreadsheets and manual workarounds

Replace the patchwork of exports and manual reconciliation with one forecasting layer.

Admin cost predictability

Know what staffing costs are coming before the budget cycle locks you in.

Improved operational performance

Staff against reality instead of last year's average, and watch service levels follow.

Member satisfaction and access to care improvements

When staffing meets demand, members get through, and get the care they need on time.

Lower burnout and turnover

Understaffing is a forecasting failure before it is a hiring failure. Accurate demand forecasts mean less mandatory overtime, fewer queues absorbed by the same handful of people, and less of the replacement cost that follows.

Stephanie Jones Media Kit
Media kit

Everything you need to feature our CEO, Stephanie Jones.

Recognition and affiliations, mission and vision, recent media coverage and more.

Open Media Kit

Predict Demand. Protect People. Preserve Margins.

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