Tools that open the door.
We build communication-access tools — real products, deployed in real places, for people whose voice doesn't work the way the world expects. Stroke survivors. AAC users. People with aphasia, ALS, apraxia, dysarthria, brain injury, cerebral palsy, late-stage dementia, selective mutism. Autistic people who don't speak or speak differently than expected. Our products fund our advocacy. Our advocacy protects our people.
A Connecticut mission-locked LLC.
Not a nonprofit. Not a startup story.
Most accessibility companies live or die by exit value. We can't be acquired by anyone who won't honor our charter. We don't sell user data. We don't profile the people we serve. We don't run ads against vulnerable users. These are written commitments, not slogans.
Revenue from our products is dedicated to funding advocacy and coalition work — pushing to make voice impairment a recognized civil rights category alongside vision, hearing, and mobility. That's what makes the products possible to keep building. And that's what makes the model honest.
Three products.
One mission.
We don't claim a portfolio bigger than what we ship. These three are real, in production, and account for everything you can buy from us today.
TinkyTown
Communication-access kiosks and boards for town halls, libraries, schools, and public counters.
See how it worksTinkySpeak
The communication engine that powers TinkyTown. Symbol-supported boards, one-tap full-sentence output, offline-capable.
See how it worksAgeWell Compliance
The lightweight version for retail, restaurants, and clinics that don't need a full kiosk — boards, signage, and staff guidance.
See how it worksTinkyTown
Public-service access
Kiosks and printed boards for the public counters that government and civic life run on — town halls, libraries, schools, transit windows, registrars. So a stroke survivor can renew their dog license. So a person with aphasia can ask the librarian a real question. So a parent of an autistic kid can fill out school paperwork without having to apologize for their child.
- Symbol-supported boards designed alongside the named communities
- Tap-or-point flow — no typing, no spelling, no calling out
- Validated by the Connecticut State ADA Coordinator
- Deployed across 151 Connecticut municipalities
- ADA Title II–aligned for state and local government
TinkySpeak
The communication engine
Founded by a father trying to give a voice to his nonverbal son and his stroke-recovering mother. The engine that powers every TinkyTown deployment — and works on its own as an AAC tool for individuals, schools, and clinics.
Designed alongside the people who use it
- One-tap full-sentence output — no word-by-word building under pressure
- Offline-capable — works when WiFi doesn't, which is when it matters most
- Symbol-supported boards across the named voice-impairment communities
- Eye-gaze and switch-scanning paths for users who can't tap
- FERPA / HIPAA-compatible deployments for schools and clinics
- Recycles existing tablets — devices people already own become the AAC
AgeWell Compliance
The small-business version
Most retail floors, restaurants, and small clinics don't need a full kiosk. They need a board at the counter, a board at the table, signage that signals access, and staff who know how to use them. That's what AgeWell Compliance is — the lightweight kit, designed to align with ADA Title III without selling fear.
- Counter and table-side communication boards
- Signage that says "you can be served here without speaking"
- Staff guidance — what to do when someone hands them a board
- ADA Title III–aligned for places of public accommodation
- Pilot deployments running — operator-grade, not insurance-flavored
AgeWell Compliance is a tool, not insurance.
If anyone tells you we sell ADA insurance, lawsuit coverage, or a "compliance guarantee" — they're working off our old marketing. We don't. We never properly should have. The product is access tools. Full stop.
For legal questions about your specific exposure, talk to a lawyer. For real access on your floor, talk to us.
Five principles
we don't compromise on.
If a feature breaks one of these, it doesn't ship. These are the rules we'd want any company serving our family members to follow.
Lived experience leads.
Boards, vocabularies, and flows are reviewed by people from the constituent communities — not invented at a whiteboard and tested on them later. We are building shared governance with lived-experience leaders. That work is in motion, not finished.
It works when WiFi doesn't.
Emergencies, basement clinics, rural town halls, dead-zone libraries. The places where someone needs to communicate the most are often the worst-connected. The core tools have to keep working there.
Our users aren't the product.
We never sell, license, or transfer user data to third parties. We never monetize the people we serve through ads, profiling, or data brokering. This is in the charter. It will be in customer contracts.
Symbols, not deficit framing.
Tap-or-point access where someone can be served without speaking. Language that respects each community's stated preference — identity-first where chosen, person-first where chosen. No pity, no cure, no puzzle pieces.
We label what's shipped, what's piloting, and what's not built yet.
Translation, multilingual access, and language-barrier tools are a separate accessibility benefit — they are not part of the voice-impairment story we're advocating for. ESL needs are real and important, and they belong with their own advocates. Conflating them with stroke survivors, AAC users, and aphasia patients insults both communities. We won't do it.