ADA access that pays for itself — and funds what's free.
TinkyTown is the ADA effective-communication layer for public counters — so a voice-impaired person gets understood at the town hall, the library, the hospital desk. Public agencies and businesses fund it the way they already fund any ADA obligation. That revenue is how we're building toward free communication access in every public space that can't pay for it on its own.
A bridge to the clerk — not a wall in front of them.
The ADA requires public agencies and businesses to communicate effectively with people who can't speak the way a counter expects. Today that obligation is met badly — paper, "let me get someone," or a walk-away.
TinkyTown puts a communication bridge right at the counter. A voice-impaired person scans a QR code, speaks through it in plain language, and the clerk understands — at the town hall, the library, the DMV, the hospital intake desk. The human stays. We just make the conversation possible.
It is ADA effective-communication infrastructure — not a kiosk that replaces staff, and not a clinical device. It's how a Title II or Title III entity meets an obligation it already has.
Compliance budgets that already exist, put to work for everyone.
Every public agency already carries an ADA-compliance line item. TinkyTown turns that existing spend into access — and the revenue funds the mission beyond the counter that paid for it.
The entity, not the person
Title II/III agencies and businesses fund TinkyTown to meet their ADA effective-communication obligation. The voice-impaired person never pays a cent.
The mission
Product revenue flows to Age Well Alliance's work — recognition, advocacy, and free communication tools — on the Patagonia model: the company funds the cause.
Building toward free
Our aim is to use that revenue to bring free communication access to the public spaces and libraries that can't fund it themselves. That's the work — in progress, not finished.
"Building toward" is honest: paid deployments are live across Connecticut today; free-for-every-public-space is the goal that revenue is meant to reach, not a finished claim.
Whoever can pay, funds free access for whoever can't.
TinkyTown is one of two ways we keep the lights on without billing the people we serve. The other is Purple — brands funding free AAC. Different funders, same promise from the charter: the voice-impaired person is never the customer, and never the product.
See both funding modelsMeet your effective-communication obligation — and fund the mission doing it.
Validated by the Connecticut State ADA Coordinator and directed to 151 towns. The procurement chain is proven, the verticals are live, and every counter you cover helps fund free access somewhere else.