Just tell the phone what you want.
Saathi turns the Android phone your parent already owns into something they can simply talk to. Pip, a warm face on the home screen, understands Hindi, Hinglish and English — and does, finds, remembers, teaches and looks after. Anything risky waits for your parent's clear yes. Above a limit you set, it waits for yours.
Namaste, Meena ji. Aaj main aapki kaise madad karun?
A phone in every hand. Help in almost none.
Indians over 60 today, on the way to 347 million by 2050.
UNFPA · India Ageing Reportown or can reach a phone but can't use the internet on their own.
LASI Wave 1 · NSSOlost to cyber-fraud in India in 2024. Seniors are the most-targeted group.
MHA / I4C · 2024Teach the person the interface. Bigger buttons, a tutorial, a child on speed-dial.
Make the interface adapt to the person — and remove it wherever a sentence will do.
Five things your parent can say. Pick one.
No app names, no menus. Pip works out whether to do it, find it, remember it, teach it or keep an eye on it — and what has to happen before anything leaves the phone.
- Pip knows "beti" means Priya and places the call
- Messages, reminders, a bhajan on YouTube and directions work the same way
- Anything that leaves the phone — a WhatsApp message, a shared photo — is read back first and waits for a yes
- Pip searches photos, downloads and messages — your parent never needs to know which app holds what
- "Mera number kya hai?" shows it big enough to hand the phone over
- "Ye beti ko bhej do" shares it — after a clear yes
- Weeks later: "Mera passport kahan hai?" → "Aapne bataya tha, almirah ke upar wale shelf mein."
- Pip remembers people, routines and what's coming up on the 25th
- It is honest about what it was told versus what it knows
- One step at a time; Pip waits until your parent has done it before saying the next
- The fifth time is as patient as the first
- Saathi makes your parent independent — it doesn't do everything for them
- Confusing messages are explained in plain words before anyone acts on them
- Medicine reminders, unknown-caller warnings and the payment-app nudge run in the background
- "Mujhe help chahiye" sends your parent's location to you and calls for help — with no internet at all
The AI interprets. Your family holds the keys.
Every request Pip hears is sorted by how much could go wrong. Small things just happen. Medium things wait for your parent's clear yes. Big things wait for yours — wherever you are.
Low risk
Nothing leaves the phone, nothing can be lost.
- Weather, news, "what's my number?"
- Calling family
- Finding a photo or document
Medium risk
Pip reads back exactly what it's about to do, then waits.
- Sending a WhatsApp message
- Sharing a contact or location
- Booking a cab, ordering food
High risk
A request reaches you; nothing moves until you tap approve.
- Money above the limit you set
- Paying someone new
- Submitting sensitive forms
This is the coming norm, not a nice-to-have. India's banking regulator is proposing exactly this "trusted person approves" pattern for seniors' larger transactions. Saathi is built around it from day one.
Safety that never goes dark.
We designed Saathi backwards from the worst moments. The parts that keep your parent safe don't depend on the internet, a good signal or a cloud service being up.
Emergencies come first
"Chest pain." "Main gir gayi." One tap or one sentence sends your parent's location to you and calls for help — before Pip ever waits on a network.
Medicine, never missed
Pip reminds at the right time, notes what's taken, and quietly tells you by SMS if a dose is missed — so small things don't become big ones.
A calm voice at the moment of risk
When an unknown number calls or a payment app opens, Pip says the one thing that matters: never share an OTP. When a message is confusing, Pip explains it before anyone acts on it.
Made for ageing, not for "the elderly."
Eyesight, memory, hands and confidence change at different speeds. Saathi is built to change with them.
Speaks their language
Hindi, Hinglish and English today. More Indian languages on the way — tell us which one your family needs.
Patient by design
Short answers. Asks instead of guessing. Explains the same thing the fifth time as kindly as the first.
A face, not a grid
Large tiles, one voice button, and Pip always one word away — so the phone stops being something to learn.
Not a watcher
Your daily update is a gentle rhythm — "up by 7:40, medicine taken, called Meena" — sent only with your parent's consent. Personal details stay on their phone.
Not a concept video. A phone you can pick up.
Saathi's hardest parts are built and tested on real Android phones. We're opening early access to a small first group of families.
- Pip greets your parent by name in Hindi and takes voice requests
- Calls family by relationship — "beti ko call karo"
- Medicine reminders, dose tracking, missed-dose SMS to you
- Daily check-ins, emergency SOS with location, unknown-caller screening
- Voice notes to family and a consent-based daily update
- The do / find / remember layer and the family-approval loop
- A first pilot with 10–20 families, with a human help line
- A family dashboard and a second Indian language
A care companion that goes home with the patient.
Saathi is introduced at the moments families are already thinking about a parent's safety, by staff they already trust. Your patients and residents get a companion on their own phone. You stay present between visits.
- Missed-dose alerts and SOS reach the family — and, if you choose, your care team
- White-label option for your own branded companion
- We run the first pilot with you, including onboarding support and a help line
A small monthly subscription. Paid by you, for them.
A fraction of what companion hardware costs — and it lives on the phone your parent already carries.
Everything that keeps your parent safe and connected.
- Pip companion in Hindi, Hinglish and English
- Emergency SOS and medicine reminders
- Scam guard and message explainer
- Daily family update, consent-based
For bigger families and richer memory.
- Everything in Core
- Deeper memory of people, places and routines
- More family seats and approvers
- Additional languages as they launch
Expected launch pricing. Early-access families lock in founder pricing for as long as they stay.
Join the first group of families.
We're opening early access to a small first cohort. You'll get first invites, founder pricing, and a say in what we build next. No card needed.
Years inside Indian hospitals. Years putting voice AI in front of Indian enterprises.
Ratandeep Bansal
Serial entrepreneur at the intersection of healthcare and AI. Co-founded Livingo, a WhatsApp-based post-discharge care platform used by 50+ hospitals across five states and 250,000+ patients, and Next Big Innovation Labs, the Merck-backed company behind India's first commercial 3D bioprinter. Three granted patents in AI and robotics.
Nisha Mutneja
Director of GTM & Partnerships at ConvoZen.AI, NoBroker's conversational-AI platform, taking multilingual voice agents to large Indian enterprises — a team recognised in the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge and at the Morgan Stanley India CTO Summit. Founded Hippo; earlier brand partnerships at ByteDance/TikTok and The Viral Fever.
The things families ask first.
Does my parent need a new phone?
No. Saathi runs on the everyday Android phone they already own and is built to run well on older, budget phones. There is nothing to buy or ship. An iPhone version isn't possible today because Apple doesn't allow a replacement home screen.
I live in another city or country. Does this still work?
Yes. You set Saathi up on a visit or talk a relative through it, and from then on the daily update and any approval requests reach you wherever you are. In an emergency, the SOS reaches you with your parent's location regardless of distance.
Is it private? What can Pip see?
The personal details Pip remembers stay on your parent's phone. The daily family update is sent only with their consent, and it's a gentle rhythm — medicines, mood, who they spoke to — not a transcript. Saathi explains what it's about to do in plain words and waits for a yes.
What languages does Pip speak?
Hindi, Hinglish and English today. More Indian languages are next — tell us which one matters to your family when you join the waitlist.
How does the scam protection work?
When an unknown number calls or a payment app opens, Pip gives a calm reminder: never share an OTP, PIN or password, and call family if you feel rushed. Money above the limit you set waits for your approval. Deeper automatic scam detection is on our roadmap.
Give your parent a phone that listens.
And give yourself the quiet of knowing someone patient is looking out for them — on the phone already in their hand.