Your Full-Stack Growth Engine: BD in a Box for MCOs
From pipeline scouting to ROI modeling, Akros delivers the strategy, partners, and execution capacity your team needs to move faster without compromise.
Who It’s For
-
Regional and mid-market MCOs without dedicated BD or innovation teams
-
Lean payer product or strategy teams who need execution capacity
-
Health plans drowning in pilot requests, internal ideas, or startup pitches
-
Executives tired of great ideas dying in backlog
What’s Inside BD in a Box
1. Innovation Festival
A 3-day AI-powered strategy sprint that brings clarity, confidence, and commercial readiness to your top ideas or vendor pitches.
Why It Works:
-
Prioritize ventures or internal ideas with real market potential
-
Co-create GTM assets, story frameworks, and pitch decks
-
Use proprietary AI to rank features, extract emotion drivers, and map social relevance
-
Align cross-functional stakeholders in real time
What You Leave With:
-
Top 5 market-ready ventures
-
Same-day assets, alignment maps, and GTM playbooks
-
Clear next steps to fund, pilot, or scale each idea
Available as a standalone sprint or part of BD in a Box
2. Pipeline & Partnership Scouting
Stop sorting through noise. We deliver high-fit, high-potential partners and ventures—curated for your strategy.
You’ll Get:
-
Targeted scouting reports and shortlists
-
Vendor screening based on Stars, Medicaid, SDOH, or strategic alignment
-
Opportunity maps with key gaps, overlaps, and white space
-
Warm intros and briefing prep
Great for payers interested in innovation coalitions, accelerator partnerships, or ecosystem expansion.
3. Pilot Structuring & ROI Modeling
No more vague “let’s test it” deals. We design high-clarity pilots and build models that your CFO—and regulators—can get behind.
Includes:
-
Pilot scope design: timeline, target population, KPIs
-
ROI models: cost savings, Stars uplift, TCOC impact, engagement curves
-
Risk-sharing or value-based deal templates
-
Reporting frameworks to track what matters
Built for teams advancing social care, maternal health, digital health, or SDOH pilots.
4. On-Demand BD Agent
A fractional BD leader embedded in your world—without adding headcount.
How It Works:
-
We attend ecosystem events on your behalf
-
Run point on promising leads and vendor negotiations
-
Bring back insights, intros, and ready-to-act next steps
-
Act as an extension of your team inside or outside your org
Great for smaller teams who need to show up big and get traction fast.
Engagement Models
How to Use the Box
Innovation Sprint
One-time 3-day festival, with follow-up deliverables
BD in a Box Retainer
3–6 month engagement including all 4 services
A La Carte Modules
Flexible access to individual components (e.g. ROI modeling only)
Why Akros
We’ve done this from the inside. Our team includes former payer execs, CROs, and startup founders who know what it takes to drive partnership-ready ideas to the finish line—with the incentives, stakeholders, and regulation in mind.