Every service you sell needs a provider. This one doesn't.
Your ceiling is payroll, not demand. Commercial red light and PEMF bill on a membership and run with nobody in the room, about two minutes of staff time per session. Compression boots add on the same way.
Quick Answer
Commercial red light and PEMF earn on an esthetics or med-spa menu without consuming a provider hour. RECON builds by pillar count: a Station (one pillar), a Room (two) or a Suite (all three). A Station is a Restore Titan; a Room adds two Renew+ Photon PEMF mats; a Suite adds two Elite compression systems. Your build is quoted to your room and member base. Every Restore panel runs the same 8-wavelength dual-chip architecture across five sizes. Operators sell it as a monthly unlimited add-on or as single sessions, on standard 110V. Compression and PEMF carry a 30-Day Activation Guarantee; red light does not.
Your Revenue Ceiling Is Provider-Hours, Not Demand
Every line on your menu bills a person, not a room.
Two to eight providers. A book that closes out weeks ahead. That is not a marketing problem, it is an arithmetic one. Every service on your menu needs a licensed pair of hands in a chair for forty-five minutes or more, so your ceiling is payroll and calendar.
The Ask
Clients Name It Now
Red light stopped being a differentiator and became a checkbox. Clients ask for it by name. A studio with no answer sends the question, and the membership, to one that has.
The Block
Capacity Means Payroll
The conventional way to add a revenue line is another room and another provider, recruiting, licensing, fixed payroll. A purchase you can stop. A hire you cannot.
The Clock
Someone Adds It First
Light is going into rooms across your trade area this year. Whoever puts it on a membership first keeps the client who was going to ask you for it.
"Light is not an amenity. It's infrastructure, and infrastructure gets built to spec, not bought on price."
Inside The Restore Line
One architecture. Five sizes. Start targeted, scale to full-body.
Eight wavelengths, one array
Every Restore panel runs the same eight-wavelength array, 630, 650, 660, 670, 810, 830, 850 and 1060nm, with 1 to 100% dimming per wavelength, 1 to 10,000 Hz pulse control, and seven presets including Skin Care, Muscle Recovery, Joint Support and Sleep. One fixture, several distinct sessions on your menu.
Dual-chip LEDs
Each diode houses two chips, red and near-infrared, firing from the same point source through 30° focused optics, so coverage overlaps rather than alternates and dose stays even across the panel. Manufacturer-reported irradiance runs 165 to 219 mW/cm² at six inches by size, published per model at a stated distance.
Five sizes, one architecture
Start where your room starts. The Restore ONE is 12.6 × 9.1 inches, built for targeted work, face, joints, small areas, and runs the same eight wavelengths as the flagship. Core covers the torso, Edge half the body, Apex full body, Titan full body at maximum width. Add a size when the schedule asks for it; the protocols carry across. Below the panels sit single-chair formats, the Restore POWER handheld (660 and 850nm) and the Lumi-Mask (415, 630 and 830nm).
The commercial step-up
Blackline Forge steps up: nine wavelengths, the Restore array plus 480 and 590nm, at ≥160 mW/cm² at six inches, 1,152 dual-chip diodes per panel, same dimming and pulse control. Built to order, then installed, calibrated and staff-trained on site by RECON. Quoted on a qualification call. 2-year commercial warranty plus year 3 parts.
Published specifications by pillar: commercial compression · commercial PEMF · commercial red light.
Red Light Revenue Math for a Med-Spa: Three Models
Example math. Your inputs on the call.
The default model here is a membership add-on: unlimited light and PEMF as a monthly add-on, plus single sessions, on the membership you already run. Every number below is arithmetic you can verify on your own prices.
Model A: Break-even per system
How many paid sessions before one system has paid for itself? Divide the system's line on your quote by your single-session price. Booked two a day, a panel clears in weeks, not quarters. Not a capital-committee conversation; a question of whether the room gets booked.
Model B: The membership add-on
This model turns one purchase into a recurring line on a membership you already bill. Take 400 active members and an unlimited light-and-PEMF add-on at a monthly price you set:
| Attach rate | Members on the add-on | Monthly gross | Year 1 gross (12 months) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10%: the floor | 40 | 40 × your price | 480 × your price |
| 15%: planning case | 60 | 60 × your price | 720 × your price |
| 25%: mature program | 100 | 100 × your price | 1,200 × your price |
Payback in months is your build quote divided by monthly gross. Flip it to find the volume you need: members on the add-on to pay back in a target number of months = build quote ÷ (your add-on price × months). We run it with your quote and your member count on the call. Attach rate decides all of it, which is why the launch protocol ships with the equipment.
Model C: Revenue per provider-hour
What should decide this is what an hour of licensed labor yields, the one resource you cannot buy more of this quarter.
| Provider-staffed service | RECON light + PEMF room | |
|---|---|---|
| Session price | $150 (assumed) | $50 (example value) |
| Provider minutes consumed | 45 to 60 | ≈ 2 (orientation, reset) |
| Revenue per provider-hour | ≈ $150 to $200 | ≈ $1,500 |
| Capacity capped by | Payroll | Room-hours |
Run it forward. One panel across a ten-hour day at thirty-minute sessions offers twenty slots, 440 a month over twenty-two operating days. Fill a quarter, 110 sessions at the example $50, and that is $5,500 a month against roughly 3.7 hours of staff time. The same 3.7 provider-hours sold as a staffed service is about $550.
Same labor. Ten times the output.
Med-Spa Red Light and PEMF Equipment: Station, Room, or Suite
Compression is the add-on. Pricing follows the build.
Activate / Circulate (compression) is the add-on clients feel first: legs in the boots while they rest between services, no provider in the room. The build itself starts with Restore, the line clients name unprompted and the one that runs unattended. Renew (PEMF, relaxation and downtime) comes second, and compression completes the menu at Suite. Every build is quoted to your space on a call. Request a facility quote.
| Build | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Station | One pillar, light only. 1× Restore Titan panel. No Activation Guarantee on this build, see terms. |
| Room | Two pillars. The Titan plus 2× Renew+ Photon PEMF Mat. Guarantee attaches here. |
| Suite | All three pillars. The Room plus 2× Elite Compression System. |
Configurations are illustrative. A second room usually runs a Restore Edge or Apex; a targeted station runs the ONE or Core; a Renew+ Pillow is the common accessory add. Flagship: the Blackline Forge, built to order, qualification call, no guarantee.
The Guarantee, the Kit, and What This Costs Per Member
Risk first. Then what's included. Then the anchor.
Start with the risk
There is no esthetics case study on this page yet, and inventing one would be the fastest way to lose you. So RECON carries the risk, its own deposit, behind the protocol.
30-DAY ACTIVATION GUARANTEE30-Day Activation Guarantee. If your facility doesn't book 40 paid compression sessions (or 30 paid PEMF sessions) in the first 30 days per system, we refund your deposit in full. One condition: you run the launch protocol we hand you on day one.
Before you buy: a free on-site Recovery Demo Day, so your team runs real sessions first. Delivery and setup are free in the Denver metro. On any return, the buyer pays freight at cost, both ways.
Read the scope; it matters more here than in any vertical RECON sells to. The guarantee covers compression and PEMF. It does not cover red light. A Station here is red light only, so a Station carries no Activation Guarantee at all. Restore panels ship from stock on standard return terms, and that is the protection on that build. The guarantee attaches when PEMF enters at Room. Want RECON's money behind your launch? Buy the Room.
Blackline panels are special-order: cancel for any reason before fabrication, non-returnable after, 2-year commercial warranty plus year 3 parts, qualification call first. No Activation Guarantee applies to Blackline either.
What comes with every order
Operator Onboarding Kit. Staff training, the client screening protocol and contraindication list, session templates, and operator support. Included with every build, every commercial order.
The launch protocol. The thirty-day launch: social templates, a member email sequence, front-desk scripts, and in-room signage, on day one. It is the variable that decides whether attach lands at 10% or 25%.
The anchor: cost per member
Divide your build quote by your active members. At 400 members, even a full Suite is a one-time cost per member well under a single month of the add-on, for a line that bills every month afterward. Set that against the conventional way to add a revenue line: another room and another provider, with recruiting, licensing and payroll attached. One of those you can stop.
Why the timing is real
Lead time. Everything stocked runs the day it lands. Blackline Forge is built to order on 6 to 8 weeks, a Blackline on your spring menu is a decision you make now.
Founding Partner program. In each sector we work with one Founding Partner: one of the first facilities in your market to run RECON and help us tell the story. Founding Partners get a branded RECON space, direct founder access and a permanent place in our case studies, in return for an agreed marketing commitment. Ask whether your sector is still open.
Commercial Red Light for Med-Spas: Questions, Answered Straight
What is in a Restore panel?
Eight wavelengths on every Restore panel, 630 through 1060nm. Dual-chip diodes firing red and near-infrared from one point source through 30° optics, so dose stays even. Manufacturer-reported irradiance of 165 to 219 mW/cm² at six inches, published per size. And one architecture across five sizes: the protocol you run on a Restore ONE runs on a Titan.
How much provider time does this actually consume?
Roughly two minutes a session, a one-time front-desk orientation, then a room reset between clients. Nobody licensed needs to be in the room while it runs. It adds sellable hours without adding provider hours.
What should I charge for red light and PEMF sessions?
Two lines: single sessions for walk-in and guest revenue, and a monthly unlimited add-on on your existing membership, which is where the recurring money is. Monthly gross is active members × attach rate × your add-on price. We share pricing benchmarks from live partners on the call.
How do I structure it as a membership add-on rather than a new program?
Attach it as a tier on the membership you already bill, not a separate product with its own sign-up. Members opt in at renewal or their next visit, using the front-desk script and email sequence in the launch protocol. A separate program needs a marketing engine. A tier needs one conversation.
How much room and what power does it need?
A panel and a PEMF mat fit a 10×10 room, a converted retail corner, or a back room you stopped using. Everything stocked runs on standard 110V outlets, no plumbing, no dedicated circuit, no permit. Blackline is the exception: qualification call on room, power and utilization first.
How fast can it be running?
Elite compression, Renew+ Photon mats and Restore panels ship from stock and are operational the day they arrive, no install, no commissioning visit. Blackline Forge is built to order on 6 to 8 weeks; sequence the stocked equipment first so the room bills while the flagship is in fabrication.
Restore or Blackline, which panel should I buy?
Restore for almost every esthetics room: eight wavelengths, dual-chip, five sizes from the targeted ONE through Core, Edge, Apex and Titan, all from stock. Blackline Forge when light anchors your positioning: nine wavelengths (adds 480 and 590nm), ≥160 mW/cm², 1,152 dual-chip diodes, built to order on 6 to 8 weeks with RECON installing and training on site.
Book the Spec Call
Twenty minutes. Bring your active member count, what your membership costs today, and a photo of the room. You leave with a build spec, a build quote, and attach-rate math run on your numbers. If it doesn't clear, you'll hear that on the call.
Prefer to read first? Partner program overview.
The Thinking Behind This Build
The revenue logic behind the room on this page, written for owners, not clients: Unattended Revenue: the med-spa room that bills while you work.
The Same System, Built for Other Operators
One of six environments RECON specs for. Same hardware, different revenue model.