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“There’s no greater mission than freeing the world from pain.”
I started Sword because I felt vividly the challenges that families face when they have to help a loved one recover from an injury.
In spite of the amazing advancements we’ve seen in so many industries, when it comes to how we treat pain, the world has been doing the same things for the last two centuries.
That’s why we’re building Sword, and why we’ve made it our mission to free two billion people from pain. By fundamentally reinventing how patients access and receive care, we’re pioneering a more human, more clinically effective, and more scalable way to treat patients.
This is our life’s work: to change the status quo and to free the world from pain. If you feel as strongly as we do about this major human problem, join us.
We’re just getting started.
Virgílio "V" Bento, founder and CEO
Our Word
These are the unchanging principles that we stand for. They ground us and inspire us to collaborate and push forward.
People Over Profit
Sword is built on the fundamental belief that we only succeed when our members do. Member outcomes come first. Our sincere desire to create meaningful connections with our members—to be in touch with their needs, to validate their concerns, to help them set goals—will always be of greater value to us than anything else.
MEMBERS OVER MONEY. ALWAYS.
Invent the Future
To be forward-thinking and truly innovative requires courage and conviction, but even more as well. To deliver truly substantive outcomes, we have to build from scratch the solutions we seek. And Sword is leading the way. From our partnerships with our customers to the experiences and products we create for our members, we approach everything we do with honesty, responsibility, and competence. Ultimately, this is the fuel that powers our mission and distinguishes our unmatched approach to radical human-centric care.
INNOVATION IS IN OUR DNA.
Always Be Delighting
Sword is nothing without its relationships. For our members, this means clinical support at their fingertips, a dedicated clinician and care coordinator, and access to the Sword community along their journey. For our customers, it means clear market differentiation, our commitment to the best possible member experience, and proof of clinical valuation and outcomes. We don’t stop at just ‘good enough'—we go above and beyond to delight our members and customers at every possible opportunity.
WE CAN ALWAYS BE DOING MORE.
Our Manifesto
Pain changes everything. Agonizing back aches, burning knees, and frozen shoulders. Fear and frustration, loss of interests, and crushing anxiety. Fallen family routines, missed opportunities, and a life that’s redesigned. Pain changes the body. Pain changes the mind. Pain changes everything. The truth is, people have been trying to solve pain for the last two centuries. So why isn’t there a better solution? Why care OR convenience OR cost-efficiency? Why surgery and suffering and medication-dependency? This is why we’ve created Sword—to free the world from the limits of pain. We know what it means to people when they can feel, move, and live better. When they can thrive. Because when we stop moving, we stop living. Here, everything we do is for people. For our members. They always come first. And, really, that’s the difference between us and the other guys. We hold ourselves to audaciously high standards—clinical and ethical—on their behalf. So we do our best, and then do it again. And again. And again. No shortcuts, side-steps or easy-way-outs. Ever. Pain changes everything. So we set out to change the way we treat it. On behalf of 2 billion people, let’s get to it.
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