Launching fall 2026 · founding families get 3 months free
An AI guardian for the people who raised you
It stops scams the moment they happen, explains money in plain words, and keeps the whole family close. Join the launch list — we're onboarding a few hundred founding families first.
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Answers the scam call first
Screens unknown callers, recognizes the scripts, hangs up — then explains, calmly.
Watches the quiet leaks
Subscription traps, price hikes, double bills — flagged in plain words, family approves fixes.
Useful every single day
Medicines, memories, music, church on the TV — protection that rides along with joy.
Answering YC's Request for Startups: AI for the aging population
YC asked for founders building AI that serves the people software has ignored. That's this, exactly: 61 million Americans over 65, served by products designed for their children instead of for them. Older adults reported $7.7 billion lost to fraud last year alone — up 59% in twelve months. Why we're applying:this problem is compounding faster than a bootstrapped company can answer it, and the true figure is worse than the reported one — roughly three quarters of it never gets reported at all. We want partners who've built consumer trust at scale, because trust is the entire product.
Founder: James R. Myers · security engineer · Monterey Bay, California
Every week until launch — the wins, the misses, the pilot stories (shared with permission)
Why in public?
Elder tech has burned families before — big promises, quiet shutdowns. We're showing our work as we go: what the AI catches, what it misses, what pilot families actually say. If we want to be trusted in your mother's kitchen, we should be easy to watch.
Where to follow
The Hearth — deeper writeups, right here
Launch list email — one useful note a week
The misses, not just the wins
Every scam our AI fails to catch gets written up — what it was, why we missed it, what changed.
Real numbers or none
Detection rates get published once there's enough volume for the number to mean something. Not before.
Pilot stories, with permission
Never a family's name or details without them reading the post first and saying yes.
The features we decided not to build
And why. Some things shouldn't exist, and saying which ones is part of the record.
We haven't launched yet, so there are no user numbers to show you. When there are, they'll be real ones.
Plain-words help for families of aging parents
The 5 scams targeting your parents right now — and the one sentence that stops each
Scammers work from scripts. Give your parents a script back. Read it together this Sunday — it takes six minutes.
Read the article →The “grandma test”: why Mom won't use the tablet you bought her
It's not stubbornness. Five design sins that make tech feel like a test she can fail — and what to look for instead.
Your parent got scammed. Do these 6 things in the next 24 hours.
The order matters, the shame doesn't. A checklist to print — banks, FTC, credit freeze, and the conversation itself.
The quiet leak: a 20-minute subscription audit for your parents' accounts
One statement, one highlighter, three questions — and the charges that have been renewing quietly for years.
The $1,000 your parents are probably owed (and never claim)
Property-tax freezes, utility discounts, VA survivor benefits — where to look, in plain words, state by state.