WORK / PRODUCT
Porchlight
A daily AI companion for parents living on their own.
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Founder & Builder
- Status
- Live
The problem
Millions of elderly parents live apart from their children, and a daily check-in is the thing nobody has time for.
The approach
A warm conversational companion that checks in every day, adapts to mood, and — because many parents have no smartphone — can simply ring them on the phone. Isolated per-family deployment so no two families share data.
What shipped
- Live and in daily use by a real family tester
- 10 build iterations
Stack
- Cloudflare Workers
- D1
- Claude API
- Telephony