Founder story

They wanted to stay home. That was the whole request.

This is not a company origin story written for a brochure. It's what happened.

My parents were married for more than seventy years. Seventy. They raised their children on very little and gave away most of what they had. Whatever any of us managed to become, we became because of them.

As they reached the end of their lives, they both asked for the same thing. Not a hospital. Not a facility. They wanted to remain in their own home, in the rooms they knew, with their own chairs and their own windows.

We said yes, the way families do — quickly, and without fully understanding what we had promised.

An older man tending to plants in his living room

We bought everything. Cameras in the hallway. Smart watches neither of them liked wearing. A medication dispenser that beeped. Sensors, automations, apps.

It produced an enormous amount of information and almost no peace. The phone would buzz: motion in the kitchen. Was that breakfast, or was that my mother looking for something at three in the morning? The system didn't know. Neither did I.

I drove across the county, in the dark, more nights than I can count — not because I knew something was wrong, but because I couldn't prove that nothing was.

Both of my parents passed away peacefully, at home, in the house they loved. We kept the promise. I would do all of it again.

But I kept thinking about the families who can't. The daughter three states away. The only son with three children of his own. The spouse who is himself eighty-four. They make the same promise, and they are handed the same pile of devices that tells them everything except what they need to know.

StayHome AI is what I wished existed on those nights. Something that watched carefully enough to understand, and cared enough to explain. Not a security system. A partner in the work of caring for someone.

Our purpose is not to build artificial intelligence. It is to strengthen human caregiving — so that families can keep their promises.

If you're carrying this right now, you're not alone.

We're welcoming a small number of families and care teams into early access. We'd be glad to walk you through it.

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