Companion device for aging parents
Never alone, never a burden.
Patient answers for them. Peace of mind for you. AL remembers the little things, keeps the family close, and never tires of a question.
Why AL exists
The same question, a few minutes later, is brand new to the person asking. AL is built on one small promise: the tenth reply is as warm as the first. No sighing. No keeping score.
9:12 am
Did I take my pills?
You did, right after breakfast. The little blue one too.
9:26 am
Did I take my pills?
You did. All set until tonight.
9:51 am
Did I take my pills?
Yes, all taken. Maya will be glad to hear you're keeping up.
Why now
The country is growing older faster than it can care for itself. The math is already against us.
1 in 5
Americans will be over 65 by 2030, one of the fastest-aging stretches in the country's history.
9.3M
caregiving jobs will need filling by 2031, more than any other occupation, with nowhere near enough workers to fill them.
53M
family members are already caring for someone, most of them unpaid and stretched thin.
And almost none of the technology meant to help was built for them. Even Alexa and Google Home leave most older adults frustrated. AL starts from the other end, designed for the person asking, not the person setting it up.
It knows your family
AL learns the shape of your family: the names, the routines, the stories behind the photographs. When your dad asks who's coming this weekend, AL answers with the real plan. Maya, on Sunday, and she's taking him to lunch.
The family adds to it as life happens: the surgery went well, the neighbor stops by on Tuesdays. AL folds it gently into conversation. Nothing to program.
Questions get answered from your family's actual life, not generic replies.
Conversation and activities built from their own memories.
Because AL knows what yesterday sounded like, it can notice when something changes.
Text AL the way you'd text a sibling. 'How was Mom's morning?' gets a real answer: doses taken, how she seemed, what she talked about. And what you share flows back into her day.
How was Mom’s morning?
A good one. She took her 9 am dose on time, and we sang along to Patsy Cline. She’s looking forward to Maya’s visit on Sunday.
Tell her Maya is bringing the kids.
I will. She’ll love that.
AL notices what a weekly visit can miss: more questions coming back, new confusion in the afternoons, restless nights. It shares quiet trends with the family. Patterns, not alarms.
A few gentle moments each day: a favorite song from their youth, a saying to finish together, a question about the garden they loved. No scores, no rushing. Designed with the ideas behind the music, reminiscence, and cognitive-stimulation approaches used in dementia care, and made from their own memories.
Nights are when worry lives. If someone is up and unsettled at 3 a.m., AL is awake too: a calm voice, a gentle steer back toward bed, and a note for the family in the morning. If something truly needs you, you'll know right away.
On the kitchen counter
AL lives on the counter, next to the kettle. Nothing to unlock, no apps to open, no buttons to find. It stays quietly awake, and a small always-on screen shows the shape of the day at a glance: the time, the next dose, a gentle reminder or two. Say the wake word from across the room, and it’s already listening.
Before you go
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Private by design
Everything AL knows about your family exists for one reason: caring for the person in front of it. Your conversations are never used to train AI models. Nothing is sold or shared, and nothing is used for advertising. No third parties are listening.
Conversations and memories stay your family's. They are not a dataset.
No advertisers, no data brokers, no exceptions.
The family decides what AL keeps. Ask, and it forgets for good.
We are working toward SOC 2 compliance, the standard for handling sensitive data with care.
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