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Get the App via TestFlightAna will be your care coordinator, guide, and liaison, and thank you for being one of the first people in the world to meet her. You're not just testing an app; you're helping us build something that's going to change how families care for the people they love as they age.
Samana takes its name from the Samanea saman, the rain tree, famous for one thing above all: a canopy so wide and symmetrical that it often spreads wider than the tree itself is tall, sheltering everything and everyone beneath it. That's the idea at the center of everything we're building. Samana Care is the canopy: one continuous relationship that shelters the senior, the family caregiver, and the whole care team around them, not a patchwork of separate tools that each cover a little piece and leave the rest exposed.
If you're brand new to this, here's the short version.
Right now, when a family is caring for an aging parent, spouse, or loved one, care is scattered across a dozen different people and systems that don't talk to each other: doctors, home health aides, family members, insurance, medications, appointments. When something changes, nobody has the full picture. That gap is where seniors fall through the cracks, and where family caregivers burn out trying to hold it all together themselves.
Samana Care is building the platform that closes that gap: one continuous relationship, guided by Ana, your voice-first AI care coordinator, that connects the senior, the family caregiver, and the entire care team around them.
Today, we're direct-to-consumer: you and your family are using Samana Care directly, with no hospital or insurance company involved. Where we're building toward is enterprise-level integration with the electronic health record systems hospitals already use (like Epic's MyChart), so that when a senior is discharged from the hospital, their discharge paperwork and care plan travel with them automatically, bridging the exact coordination gap that causes so many seniors to end up back in the hospital within 30 days.
I spent thirty years as a family caregiver: for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my godfather, my sister-in-law, and my aunt. Caregiving wasn't something on the side of my life; it ran through the whole of it. Alongside that, I spent four years in nephrology and dialysis administration, where care coordination wasn't a talking point, it was the job, and the failure points showed up daily, not in theory.
Then the pandemic happened. It was during that time that everything I'd already lived through, personally and professionally, came into sharp focus, and I started actively looking for something that could close the gap I kept running into. I couldn't find it. So I decided to build it myself.
"One moment sums up exactly why: I once called five hospitals in a single day just to find out where one patient had been transferred, because no single system tracked him. That's the black hole families fall into. Samana Care exists to close it, for your family, and for mine."
Colette Knight Scott, Founder & CEO
MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product: the leanest real version of a product, built to test with real people before adding every planned feature. It's not a demo and it's not a prototype. It's the real product, live, doing real things for real families, just focused on proving the core idea works before we build everything around it.
That's exactly what this test phase is. You're using the real Samana Care, with Ana making real phone calls and real check-ins. What you're helping us prove: does this actually help? Does a family caregiver's day get easier? Does a senior actually look forward to talking with Ana? That's the proof of concept this MVP phase exists to generate, real usage data, not assumptions, over a 90-day test window, as we continue building out the full platform around what's already working.
As a thank-you for joining us at this stage, your subscription during this MVP test phase is just $4.99/month: an introductory price for being part of this group. And when we launch our complete platform, everyone who was with us for this test will receive a special discounted rate of their own, as our way of saying thank you for helping us build this from the very beginning.
Ana is already doing quite a lot, in a natural, conversational way, not a script, not a menu of options.
This MVP focuses on the check-ins and six care markers above. Here's what Ana will be able to do as we build out the full platform:
Everything but physical touch. What you're using today is real, but it's the foundation, not the finished house.
For this MVP test, every signup is a dyad: one family caregiver, paired with one senior loved one being cared for. That's the relationship we're testing and refining right now.
What we're building toward is bigger: the full platform will connect an entire care team and family around a senior, not just one caregiver, and will support multiple loved ones at once for caregivers managing care for more than one person.
We're also building for something different: a senior managing their own care independently, with no designated caregiver at all. In that version, they choose who gets access, a doctor, a nurse, a social worker, anyone they want in their circle. There's a real benefit to that even if a caregiver never becomes necessary: if and when one ever is, the transition is far smoother, because Ana and the whole system already know them.
Here's where we're taking this, and why the relationship with Ana matters more than any single feature.
Samana Care is designed to support a senior through the entire arc of aging: from full independence, through the stages of care that may come later, all the way through end of life. Ana isn't a tool that gets swapped out at each stage. She's the constant, the liaison who has known the senior and the caregiver the whole way through, who understands the relationship and the real challenges of that specific family's journey, not a generic case file.
And the relationship doesn't end when the senior's life does. In our full build, the caregiver has their own ongoing relationship with Ana too: the same conversational support, available to them directly. After a loved one passes, Ana moves into a different mode: supporting the caregiver through grief and the aftercare that follows, because caregiving doesn't stop mattering the day the caregiving ends.
This isn't something we're guessing at. Ana's support in this area, and the guardrails around it, are being built with real clinical guidance from psychology, psychiatry, and counseling professionals on our team. Ana is designed to know her limits: when something needs more than conversational support, she points families toward licensed, professional help, not as a replacement for it.
Protecting your family's health information isn't a compliance checkbox we're getting to eventually, it's part of the foundation of the culture we're building this company on, from day one, alongside raising and growing. We're building toward hospital-and-bank-level security standards, not because a regulation requires it, but because that's the level of trust this kind of relationship actually deserves.
We're not going to hand you a made-up reliability statistic; we'd rather tell you exactly what's built and let the real results of this test speak for themselves.
You're part of something bigger than an app test. Families across the country, and eventually the world, are navigating this exact fragmentation right now, without the support you're about to have. Every check-in, every piece of feedback, every rough edge you help us find brings us closer to being able to support many more families the way we're about to support yours.
Thank you for taking this journey with us.
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