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. You will know what is coming, when, and how. If you want to help shape Solo, reply to any note from us and tell us about your person.
What Solo is
Not an app. A buddy.
Named by the young man it was built for.
Solo is a companion for people with special needs, and the guardians who love them. You talk to it or type to it. It learns how you talk, what you love, and how you need things said. Then it helps you do the things you want to do: get around, search, find things, learn, and join in. In your own rhythm, at your own pace, without being judged.
It is built for the hard parts too. Looping. Getting stuck on one topic. The anxious hours and the lonely ones. The days when trust is hard. Solo is made to help a person through those, gently, the way their family has said works.
For people with special needs: a companion
Solo does not judge. It helps. It walks with you through what you are looking for, what you are curious about, what you want to learn. Entertainment turns into discovery. And it connects you to the people and the world around you, in your way, because you matter.
For guardians: an ally
A helper wired to understand your person, shaped by what you know about them. Rules, reports and approvals are yours. It helps you see what is happening, and it never replaces you.
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
Where this goes
One companion. Home, therapy, and the place of learning.
Solo lives at home. It is built so home, therapy and the place of learning can connect, one companion that knows the person across all three. That is the vision, and the platform is built for it.
Targeting a Q1 2027 launch.
You are not alone
Families everywhere face the same loops, the same waits, the same worries.
Now there is a tool built from inside one of those homes. What Solo learns helping one person makes it better at helping the next. Over time that becomes centers of understanding: for a condition, for a therapy, for a way of communicating. By helping your loved one, you help other families.
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
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.
Built first for one young man.
Next, for families like yours. Stay in the loop, or help shape it before it launches.