For nurse practitioners · Ontario
Keep your job. Add a panel. $15 per patient per month, printed on the patient's receipt. 3% of the company if it's sold. You write the protocol. We do everything that isn't clinical.
What this is
Basal is a virtual weight-management clinic for Ontario. Patients pay $29 a month. We don't sell medication, so there's no markup to protect — which is how half of every dollar can go to the nurse practitioner who does the work.
It's on the receipt. Every patient, every month, sees your line. We think you've spent enough of your career being invisible.
You already know the numbers
National NP survey, reported by Global News, April 2025. Ontario NP average wage ≈ $58/hr (Indeed / Glassdoor, 2026). On April 1, 2026 the Ontario Health Minister confirmed there are no plans for NP fee-for-service billing codes.
Run your numbers
Most of our NPs will keep their full-time role and carry a Basal panel on the side. Each patient takes about seven minutes a month — an asynchronous review, a dose decision, a prescription — plus a 15-minute initial assessment when they join. Drag the slider.
Assumes $15 per active patient per month + $40 per initial assessment, with about 12% of your panel being new each month; ~7 minutes per monthly review and ~15 per initial. Ontario NP average wage for comparison: ~$58/h.
Illustrative. A contractual transaction bonus, not shares — your accountant will like that. Paid only if a sale happens while you're still contracting with Basal. The stated goal of this company is to be acquired; the Montreal clinic Livewell was bought by Hims & Hers in December 2025, about two and a half years after it launched.
The offer
Paid per patient on your panel — one documented monthly review each, the way Alberta pays NPs per rostered patient rather than per fifteen-minute unit. Patients who stay are patients you're paid for. Plus $40 for every initial assessment. Paid on the 1st and 15th, automatically. You never invoice.
Borrowed from Alberta's NP Primary Care Program
Your line is the first line of the receipt every patient receives. Half of every dollar goes to the clinician. We think that's the right ratio and we think patients should see it.
Borrowed from Costco: low overhead, high wages, in public
If Basal is sold, 3% of what it sells for is yours. It's a written bonus in your contract, not shares. One-year cliff, then it vests monthly over three years. Later NPs share a separate 2% pool by patient-months served.
Borrowed from how startups treat a founding engineer
We hand you a fully drafted clinical rulebook — who qualifies, how doses come up, when to hold, when to stop. You edit it, you sign it, and from then on it's yours: the regulator expects the clinician, not the company, to own it, and we agree. The company never overrides a clinical decision and never sets an approval target. That's in the contract too.
Borrowed from how the College already thinks
Your name and CNO number are on the site, the receipt and everything we publish. If you'd like to be the face of the videos and the price reports, that's yours to take. If you'd rather stay quiet, that's fine too — the option is the point.
Borrowed from the creator economy
Also: RNAO membership (which carries your CNPS coverage) reimbursed. Controlled-substances course reimbursed if you don't have it. Open-book monthly — you see the one-page P&L. $500 for every NP you refer who completes ninety days.
The split
In writing
Who this fits
You have a salaried role and eight spare hours a week. A panel of about 225 patients is roughly $4,400 a month on top, at ~$135 an hour. Check your employment agreement for outside-work clauses; most allow it with disclosure.
Async work that fits around a newborn, with no shifts. Check how EI parental benefits treat earnings before you start — we'll wait.
Twenty-five years of judgment, ten hours a week, no waiting room. Your patients get the best clinician they've ever had.
Half of NPs have considered leaving. If you did, this is a way back on your terms: the medicine without the machine.
Who's behind it
I'm not a doctor and I'm not a nurse, and I think that's the right person to build this. A physician-founded clinic makes the NP a subordinate; a founder who isn't a clinician makes the NP the clinical authority — which is why you write the protocol, why I never override a decision, and why there is no approval target and never will be.
I'm building Basal because generic semaglutide made the medication cheap and the clinics didn't follow — they kept the price and hid the markup. I don't own a pharmacy and never will. That's not a slogan; it's the only reason the economics work for you and for the patient at the same time.
What I'll never ask you: to prescribe faster, to approve more, to work a shift, or to send a fax. What I'll ask: that you'd send your own family to this clinic.
Pierre Blondo · Founder · Toronto
Straight talk
The Canada Health Act. As of April 2026 Ottawa treats medically necessary NP services as insured; Ontario has not acted, penalties fall on provinces from 2027, and every virtual clinic in the country — Felix, Hims, Rocky, Maple — charges for NP or physician time. Our fee is structured around the program, not the visit; a health-law opinion is budgeted for month two, and you'll see it.
The ramp. Month one is thirty to fifty patients, not four hundred. The calculator is where it goes. We'd rather you plan on the small number and be surprised.
One role
It comes with the protocol, the Clinical Lead title and 3% of the exit. The second NP joins around month three under different terms — the 2% pool, no title. We're not pretending to have a hundred openings; we have one, and it's the good one.
Every hour you give is a paid hour: you're paid per patient, and patients only reach you once they've paid. There is no unpaid ramp-up, no meetings, no "help us get set up." Applications reviewed as they arrive; we decide by Monday, October 6, 2026.
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