About veisund
Who funds veisund?
This site spends a lot of words asking who pays the researchers, the doctors, the nonprofits and the news. The same question applies to us, so here is the answer, in one place, in plain terms.
Read this first. A funding page is a claim a site makes about itself, and self-description is the weakest kind of evidence we deal in. So this page separates what you can check from what you have to take as stated policy. The app being free, the absence of ads, and the published price of an expert listing are checkable today. The rest is policy, written down here so you can hold us to it.
Where the money comes from
The veisund app is free: no subscription, no in-app purchases, and no advertising. Peer support is not a revenue source and is not planned to become one.
The revenue model is the expert directory. Licensed therapists, coaches and peer specialists who choose to list their practice pay a flat listing fee of $29 a month, and the first 50 founding therapists get their first year free. The fee is never a percentage of session revenue, and paying it buys a listing, not a ranking: there are no promoted placements and no buyable positions in the directory.
That is the whole model. People who want to offer their services pay a flat, published price to be findable. Nobody pays us to reach you, and nobody pays us to say anything.
What we do not accept
As a matter of policy, veisund does not accept:
- advertising of any kind, on the site or in the app
- money from pharmaceutical manufacturers, their foundations, or their trade associations, in any form: grants, sponsorships, unrestricted educational funding, ad buys, or affiliate commissions
- sponsored or pay-for-placement content in the library
- payment for position: the only thing anyone can buy from us is a flat-fee listing in the expert directory, and it does not affect how the directory is ordered
These are stated as policy rather than as audited history, because a policy is what we can promise you and a promise is only worth keeping if it is written down where you can point at it.
The same standard, applied to ourselves
The library runs on a small set of editorial rules: caveats sit above numbers, never below. Facts, not verdicts. If the money cuts both ways, both directions get said. Sources are courts, regulators and peer-reviewed journals, and advocacy publications are never cited. A settlement is never described as a finding of wrongdoing.
Those rules exist because funding shapes what gets published, which is exactly why this page exists. If you want to see the standard we hold everyone else to, it is all free to read:
- How your doctor gets paid: look up any US physician's industry payments in the federal Open Payments data
- Who funds the nonprofits: eighteen mental-health organisations, sorted by what they will tell you about who pays them
- Who funds mental health advocacy
- Who funds psychiatric drug research
- Pharma and the news
If you ever catch this site breaking its own rules, we want to know about it. The correction will be visible, because that is the rule too.