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Recovery Studio Launch & Expansion Planner
Turn the fuzzy middle between signed lease, equipment order, staff training, and soft launch into an owned plan—with questions to verify, not invented legal conclusions.
5
phases, thesis to expansion
3
project types
3
task weights
The tool
Run the Launch & Expansion Planner
Answer eight questions about the project — type, stage, space, modalities, staff, vendor, financing, software — and the planner narrows a full launch down to the work that actually applies to it.
This is the longest of the five views. On a phone the vendor frame stops at about 4,000px, which lands part-way through the plan — open it in its own tab to reach the later phases.
Preparing Launch & Expansion Planner…
This planner organizes project work and questions to verify. It does not determine whether a permit, license, inspection, insurance policy, clinical rule, or legal requirement applies. Confirm requirements with the relevant authority and qualified advisors.
Sample walkthrough
A worked example: adding cold plunge to an operating studio
A fictional 'Add a modality' project, answered honestly, produces a plan shaped like this — sequenced work plus questions to verify, never invented legal conclusions.
The project answers entered
- Project type
Add a modality to an existing studio
- Modality
Cold plunge, two units
- Space
Existing wet-capable room
- Staff
Current team, not yet trained on the new protocol
- Financing
Cash — no lender milestones
What the planner returns
- Scope
Modality additions skip the site-search and lease phases
- Critical path
Drainage and electrical verification → vendor order and install window → staff training and SOP sign-off → soft launch
- Example dependency
'Schedule installer' stays blocked until the utility-verification task has evidence attached
- Verification questions
Permit, sanitation, and insurance items generate as questions for your local authority and broker — never as legal determinations
- Readiness score
Weighted completion across applicable tasks; critical weight-3 items move it fastest
A fictional walkthrough of the planner's structure. Which tasks apply depends on your answers, and jurisdiction-dependent items always route to the authority or advisor who can actually decide them.
What you get
What lands in your launch plan
Applicable tasks organized by phase, from thesis through expansion.
Dependencies, criticality, owner class, status, and evidence required for each task.
A weighted checklist-completion score and transparent on-track, at-risk, or blocked status.
A downloadable plan your team can move into the project system you already use.
Keep going
The plan gets you open. This is the year after.
Fifteen chapters of what to build once the doors work, aimed at a studio that keeps running on the days the owner is not in it.
Checklist · 75 points · 15 chapters
Recovery Studio Growth Blueprint
Fifteen chapters of editorial actions for a studio that should not depend on the owner, with your progress kept in this browser.
Open the blueprintRecovery Studio Pro — The Weekly Brief
One email a week for people running physical recovery and wellness studios, written by the team building Praxium.
Free. Unsubscribe any time. We store your address for the brief, notify our team of the signup and hash it for ad measurement: Privacy policy
Methodology
How tasks are selected, weighted, and scored
Method 1.0.0, published 2026-07-22. Next review: 2026-10-22.
- 01Tasks are selected from project type, stage, space, modalities, staff, vendor, financing, and software answers.
- 02Critical tasks carry weight 3, important tasks 2, and supporting tasks 1. Readiness is completed applicable weight divided by all applicable weight.
- 03At-risk and blocked labels describe checklist state and dependencies; they are not probabilities of business or launch success.
Source ledger
What supports the planner
Each source is tied to the part it supports; a link is not treated as blanket approval for every output.
Praxium planning methodology v1.0
PraxiumSupports: The condition-driven task structure, dependencies, and weighted completion score.
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Pairs with the rest of the toolkit
Every tool keeps its assumptions and limits visible, so a result from one is safe to carry into another.
Live tool
Studio Economics Calculator
Model capacity, session economics, fixed and variable costs, debt service, break-even utilization, and payback from your own recovery-studio assumptions.
Open the Studio Economics CalculatorBeta — human review required
Claims & Citation Checker
Screen wellness marketing copy for high-risk claim language, unsupported quantified outcomes, and missing citation links before human review.
Open the Claims & Citation CheckerPreview — not a finished report
Market Gap Explorer
Explore modality representation in a dated, source-backed recovery-studio research sample—with denominators, missingness, and confidence shown.
Open the Market Gap ExplorerPreview — not a finished report
State of Recovery Studios
Preview the measurement framework, data dictionary, exclusions, and release standard for Praxium's future State of Recovery Studios dataset.
Open the State of Recovery StudiosPlay the space
Studio Sim
Lay out a floor, write a booking sheet for one open block, and replay it. Then type your own tiers, prices and rates and watch a month-by-month projection built from those entries alone.
Open Studio SimWrite it down
Studio Playbook Lab
Three guided drafts — the first three visits, the method in the owner's head, and a membership someone can explain at the desk — each one leaving as a file you can edit.
Open the Playbook LabLaunch & Expansion Planner
Frequently asked questions
Does the planner tell me which permits I need?
No. It generates authority and advisor questions based on your project, but it does not make jurisdiction-specific legal or regulatory determinations.
Can I use it for adding one modality to an existing gym or med spa?
Yes. Choose Add a modality and the planner narrows the work to utilities, vendor, integration, training, SOP, pricing, launch, and post-launch review tasks.
What does the readiness percentage mean?
It is weighted checklist completion across applicable tasks. It is not a probability that the business will open on time or perform financially.
How long does it take to open a recovery studio?
The planner does not predict a date, because no honest tool can from a form. It organizes the work by phase, from thesis through expansion, and shows which critical-path tasks are blocked; the real timeline depends on permits, build-out, equipment lead times, and staffing in your jurisdiction.
Should I run the economics calculator first?
They pair well in either order. The calculator pressure-tests whether the room is worth building; the planner turns a go decision into sequenced work. Both keep every assumption editable, so a changed vendor quote updates your thinking in both places.
Can my team work the plan together?
The published view produces a downloadable plan built to move into whatever project system your team already uses, and each task carries an owner class, status, and evidence field so the work can be split cleanly.
The plan is only worth what the team does with it.
Praxium carries the sequenced work into the shifts that have to do it, with the owner class, the evidence and the blocked dependency attached to each task.