Why participate
Do it for your loved one. Do it for the next family.
The first Proxi pilot is small on purpose. We are asking a few caregivers to help us learn, carefully and honestly, what works in real life with dementia before this is offered to more families.
A familiar voice can be more than a feature.
For many families, the phone becomes a lifeline and a burden at the same time. The same question repeats. The same reassurance is needed. They want the same familiar voice, again and again, often exactly when the caregiver cannot pick up.
Proxi is being built for that moment: not to replace family, not to make medical decisions, and not to pretend care is easy. It is meant to preserve a familiar point of contact when silence would otherwise answer.
For your loved one
Your participation helps us learn what makes a voice feel safe, familiar, and bounded. You teach us what Proxi should know, what it should never say, when it should hand off to a person, and how it should stay within family preferences and boundaries.
For you
You get a chance to shape a tool around the lived reality of caregiving: repeated calls, nighttime worry, care decisions, exhaustion, guilt, love, and the ordinary need to sleep, work, shower, drive, or breathe.
For other families
Every pilot dyad helps us find the mistakes before this is offered to more families. Your experience can make the product clearer, safer, kinder, and more useful for families who will face the same road later.
This is how a product becomes ready.
A product like Proxi cannot be finished in a conference room. It has to be shaped by real calls, real caregiver boundaries, real confusion, real calm, and real moments when the right answer is to stop and bring in a person.
The pilot helps us answer practical questions: how much recorded caregiver voice is enough, what caregivers need before approving a voice, what follow-up feels respectful, which situations should never be automated, and how to explain the system without hiding the hard parts.
A larger reason.
There are millions of families doing dementia care quietly, often alone. They are not looking for poetry. They are looking for one fewer impossible hour in the day and one more way to keep love recognizable.
If your family joins the pilot, you are helping us build toward a new standard: technology that starts with the caregiver, respects the person with dementia, admits its limits, and hands back control instead of taking it away.
What participation does not mean
- It does not mean you are enrolled just by applying.
- It does not mean anything starts before informed consent, meaning written agreement after questions are answered.
- It does not mean Proxi makes medical or care decisions for you.
- It does not mean you lose the ability to pause, change, or withdraw, meaning leave the pilot.