Remembering what matters

Currently in stealth development and slated for limited release in late 2026, Nomi is an ambient assistive technology designed to help people living with Alzheimer’s and dementia stay cognitively and emotionally connected to the people in their lives. The idea was born from deeply personal experience — insights that emerged while my father was living with Alzheimer’s — and from a conviction that technology can do more than monitor or manage a condition. It can help preserve what matters most: our relationships.

Nomi is built around a simple but powerful belief — that even as memory becomes unreliable, identity and relationship don’t have to fade with it. Too often, the tools designed for cognitive decline focus narrowly on safety and logistics, while the emotional and relational dimensions of a person’s life go unsupported. Nomi approaches the problem differently, meeting people where they are and gently reinforcing the threads of connection that give daily life meaning and continuity.

I’m not yet sharing specifics about how Nomi works, but the guiding principles are ones I’m happy to talk about openly: dignity over dependency, presence over surveillance, and the idea that the people closest to someone — their family, their caregivers, their community — are the real infrastructure of care. Nomi is being created to support that human infrastructure, not replace it. More to come.