We cut what beverage operators overpay for.
The advisory layer for beverage brands — packaging, freight, IT, insurance, benefits. We find the leaks, the vendors pay the bill, and the operator pays $0.
You just make the introduction. We do the rest, and you are paid on each account for as long as it stays enrolled.
The first credible name in beverage owns the network.
Beverage is a tight, relationship-driven world — brokers, distributors, and buyers all run in the same circles, and one good intro travels fast. Get in early and the category builds around you: everyone who joins later refers the next, and you're already at the center. Early isn't a nice-to-have — it's the whole moat.
Three parties have to win. If one of them doesn't, don't make the introduction.
Three parties, one mechanism. UnifyWell is the cleanest version of the model we have — and the test below is what you are actually checking for before you open a door.
A benefit their crew can actually use.
Depending on plan design, payroll structure and employee elections, the arrangement may affect taxable wages and employer payroll-tax expense — the provider models this per employer, and every employer confirms it with their own advisers. What is not conditional is the engagement model: savings-share, no retainer, no upfront cost. The work funds itself out of what we recover.
Care they can reach on a shift.
Access to virtual care, a generics program, and discounted labs, imaging, dental and vision — subject to the program's own service terms, availability and eligibility rules. In a high-turnover industry, an employer who offers hourly staff something usable has a retention argument most of their competitors do not.
Paid monthly, while it runs.
A recurring commission on every participating employee, every month, for as long as that company stays enrolled — on the terms of your written agreement, which governs. Commissions stop when an account does, so the book is worth what it retains, not what it signs.
You introduce. We do the rest.
You're not a salesperson. You make one warm introduction to an operator who trusts you — Ad Astra runs everything after. Stay as involved as you want, or hand it off. The residual is the same either way.
The work is real — and none of it is yours to do.
If you have the relationships, you have everything you need.
You don't need to know beverage, IT, or benefits. You need one thing — operators who trust you. We handle the rest.
Anyone with a network.
Sales reps, consultants, accountants, attorneys, former operators — anyone with relationships inside beverage businesses and a name worth trusting.
Technical expertise.
No benefits, tax or IT knowledge. No managing the engagement. You open the door and we walk through it together — and you are never the person who answers a tax or compliance question.
The relationship.
You own your clients — always, full stop. We carry the same values you did when you made the introduction.
A benefit you'd be proud to walk in with.
A real, compliant Section 125 / MEC plan — engineered so the tax savings pay for the care. Here's what every enrolled worker gets:
Free & unlimited virtual care
Primary care, urgent care 24/7, and counseling 24/7 — no copay.
Free generic medications
Plus international sourcing for brand-name and a GLP-1 weight-loss program.
60–75% off in-person care
Office visits, labs, imaging, procedures, dental and vision at cash-pay rates.
Wellness & coaching
Live coaching and group sessions — confidential and HIPAA-compliant.
ACA / MEC compliance
Minimum Essential Coverage for every enrolled employee, free yearly physical, free preventive care.
Starts in 30 days
Supplements an existing plan or stands alone. Onboard with just payroll data — no open-enrollment window needed.
A complement, never a rip-and-replace. UnifyWell layers on top of — or stands in for — existing benefits, and like everything we bring, it's built to support the operator's team and give them time and money back, not replace them.
What the model looks like on their headcount.
Run it live, on their numbers, on the first call — as a way to show the shape of the arrangement, not to quote them a result. Every figure is illustrative, the employer confirms their own position with their own advisers, and you do not characterize the tax treatment. That is the provider's job, in writing.
What you earn while it runs.
The standard partner rate is $15 per participating employee, per month, for as long as that company stays enrolled. No tiers to decode. Rates above standard exist for category-owner and network-class partners and are set in the written agreement, not here.
One rate on every participating employee — no tiers, no splits to decode. Category-owner and network-class partners are negotiated above this and it is set in their written agreement, not here.
Land with benefits. Then own the rest of their spend.
UnifyWell gets you in the door. The same operator buys a dozen other things — and you're already the call they make. Every silo behind the wedge is backed by a signed, vetted bench: we bring the providers, you never source a thing.
Benefits get you in. These get you deeper.
We lead with people because UnifyWell is the easiest yes. But beverage brands bleed in a few specific, expensive places — listen for these, and you've found the next door.
Freight & logistics
"Freight costs more than the liquid in the can." Heavy, low-margin product — a freight audit and re-routed lanes drop straight to the bottom line.
Packaging & co-pack
"Cans, bottles, labels, co-pack — it's our single biggest spend." The line beverage brands overpay on most. Re-sourced, it's real recovery.
Merchant processing
"Card fees on DTC and wholesale are quietly bleeding us." Every transaction. The right rails shave points off every order, for good.
Specialty insurance
"Product-liability and recall coverage keep climbing." Food & beverage risk is its own market. A re-bind saves money and de-risks the brand.
Workers' comp
"Comp on the production crew is brutal." Manufacturing class codes run high. Re-classification and re-bind ride straight off the UnifyWell conversation.
What a single beverage customer is worth.
Benefits get you in. But one operator buys a dozen things you can fix. Toggle the services, set their spend, and watch two numbers move together: what they save and what you earn, for as long as each line stays in place. We target ~15% savings and you earn 20% of our margin on each line — internal figures, never quoted to an operator. Illustrative arithmetic on the inputs shown, not a projection.
A network worth belonging to.
The money's real — but it isn't the whole reason. AI is squeezing the people who do the actual work, and platforms hoard the margins. We're building the opposite: a network where the people with the relationships own the upside, and one honest introduction pays for years.
You see what we make.
No hidden fees, no fine print — the commission's on the contract. Turns out honesty is a competitive advantage.
We only win if you win.
When the network wins, everyone in it wins — we're not extracting from you. Tired of 3% commissions? Same.
The robots work for you.
AI is the tool, not the replacement — leverage for good people, not a way to need fewer of them. Built, not bought.
Ad astra — to the stars.
They don't care how you started. Only that you showed up.
Three lines. That's the whole ask.
"Can I introduce you to the people who got us real benefits and lower payroll taxes — at zero net cost?"
Nobody says no to that question.
Make the warm introduction — then hand them to us. Ad Astra runs the numbers, the proposal, and the close. You don't sell a thing; you just opened the door.
Stay as involved as you want. Sit in or step back — either way the residual is yours. "They handle a dozen things — want me to connect you on workers' comp too?"
Saying yes is simple.
Ad Astra runs on Band of Hands — a curated B2B marketplace that operates as the engine beneath the surface, letting us serve more beverage brands, power our sales, and keep every commission above board and transparent.