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Cognitive CompanionPrivacy-first AI for aging in place

Cognitive Companion helps families keep seniors safer at home by noticing meaningful routine changes, preserving personal memories, and giving caregivers calm, timely awareness.

Cognitive Companion
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A quieter way to care from home.

Aging at home should not require constant surveillance or persistent worry. Cognitive Companion turns local home signals into useful care context: where someone is, what changed, when help may be needed, and which memories or routines can support the next moment.

What it helps families do

Know more, interrupt less, respond sooner.

01

Notice meaningful changes

Reliably detect routine anomalies, prolonged stillness, pacing, and unusual room transitions. The system uses stable presence tracking to provide calm, reliable awareness.

02

Keep identity close

Store family facts, medication notes, and preferences in a personal knowledge repository. This powers grounded voice responses, family-approved info cards, and interactive memory quizzes delivered to the senior via the companion web app, e-ink displays, and Home Assistant speakers.

03

Give caregivers context

Route behavioral signals, daily summaries, and reviewable alerts directly to caregivers. The system integrates with Telegram and custom webhooks to keep families informed with actionable context, rather than a constant stream of raw camera footage.

A day at home

Built around real caregiving moments.

Morning

A medication reminder appears on an e-ink display and can be read aloud.

Afternoon

The system notices a routine change and waits for context before alerting.

Evening

A senior asks about grandchildren and hears a trusted answer from family-curated memory.

Night

A caregiver receives a concise summary instead of a stream of false alarms.

For everyone in the circle of care
For families

Support independence without losing touch.

Cognitive Companion is for households where care is shared. It helps you understand daily rhythms, preserve personal history, support natural conversation, and stay aware when a routine shifts unexpectedly.

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For care partners

Care infrastructure for the home.

For health plans, senior-care providers, and care organizations, Cognitive Companion is privacy-preserving aging-in-place infrastructure. Local-by-default inference improves unit economics, while consistent reliability drives long-term retention and earlier risk signals.

Explore the architecture
Trust by design

Private enough for the home. Extensible enough for builders.

Local-first intelligence

Privacy is an architectural requirement. Vision, language, embeddings, and reasoning process entirely on local hardware to build lasting trust.

Caregiver review

Rules and pipelines are configurable so sensitive actions stay human-in-the-loop.

Open architecture

The system is built to adapt. Pipelines, notification channels, context filters, and agent tools can be extended.

Clinical humility

The system supports families and care teams. It does not replace professional judgment.

For builders

Beneath the calm surface is a serious local AI stack.

Cognitive Companion combines distributed systems and applied machine learning. The stack includes realtime sensor fusion, Bayesian identity resolution, edge-native architecture, vision reasoning for complex rule pathways, and MCP tool support. These components are fully documented for teams who want to deploy, inspect, or extend the system.

Released under the AGPL-3.0 License.