Solo cares.
A companion for people with special needs, and the guardians who love them.
Built first for one young man.
You're on the list.
Thank you. As Solo gets ready, we keep you informed, and you are first in line.
What Solo is
Not an app. A buddy.
Solo learns how you talk, what you love, and how you need things said. For special needs families.
Talk to it or type to it
Whichever is easier today. Solo waits for the answer, and waits again. A slow answer is not a no.
It learns you
Your words for things. Your favorites, and it never gets tired of them. The way you need things said so they land.
Guardians set the rules
What Solo may say, look up, show and play is set by the guardian, in the words families already know from TV and app ratings.
Why
One young man.
Two circles. The first is outlined: the person. The second is lit: the companion. Together.
Solo started as a companion for one young man, built by his dad and guardian.
First he had to be known, deeply enough that he knew he was seen, known and understood. Then Solo could do more than hear him. It could match how it answers to him: his personality, his likes and dislikes, his disabilities, how much he takes in, how he communicates.
Every family that joins gets what was built for him. Then Solo learns your person, and the care becomes theirs.
Shawn Ring, founder and guardian
For guardians
You set the rules. Solo keeps them.
Solo is a buddy, not a clinician. It does not diagnose or treat. It is informed by therapeutic practice and built to work alongside the therapists, teachers and caregivers already in your person's life.
Rules
- Set what Solo may say, look up, show and play, by category and by level.
- In the words families already know from TV and app ratings.
- Every family's lines are their own.
Reports
- Shaped to what you want to know, and nothing you don't.
- What Solo showed or played. What it learned.
- A change in mood, or a sign of pain, goes to you.
Approvals
- Anything past a line you set is not refused and not shown. It comes to you.
- Approve once, approve always, or decline.
- Solo does what you answered.
Rules, reports and approvals are personal to your family. Solo is built to bend to your person, not the other way round.
Community
A place for families like yours.
Special needs families and guardians, across the whole spectrum, finding each other. Here and on Instagram.
Explainers
Conditions and care in plain language, researched from primary sources, with the sources named.
Guardian truths
Short, honest posts on guardianship, paperwork, loneliness and small wins.
News
Developments in care, policy, therapy and assistive tech. One paragraph, source linked.
Community
Families and guardians connecting with each other. Every comment answered. Your wins shared.
The first explainers
- CHARGE syndrome
- Autism
- Down syndrome
- Cerebral palsy
- Intellectual disability, day to day
- Epilepsy
- Sensory and communication differences
- Mental health alongside disability
- Aging parents of adult children
- Rare syndromes: what guardians wish clinicians had said
Built first for one young man.
Next, for families like yours. Guardians go first.