The creator tours the office of a tech startup called Ato, where the founders explain their product: an AI companion device for seniors. They demonstrate its features, including radio access, proactive AI conversation, and voice-based heart rate monitoring, and show how families can send reminders via an app. The video also covers the company's origin story, their in-house design and manufacturing process, and concludes with a call to action for other founders to apply to the Founders, Inc. program.
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Transcript
Is this thing? It's an AI companion device for seniors. It functions like a radio. It can connect to 30,000 channels. Yes. So my grandpa can still listen to his favorite radio channels. Like, he'll also be able to interact with it. AI will proactively interrupt the radio and ask you about something. Using the variation in the frequency of your voice, this device can track your BPM. It's pretty accurate. There are some papers you better close to an Apple Watch. That's impressive. You can send a message to your grandparent. Remind us about their medication, about their medical appointments. Rank it'll just pop up over here no they don't have to use their phone. We heard a lot of grandchildren engaging with the rank parents a bit more. Atul is my runpa. I mean, he he was my grandpa. He was initially rank experiment for him, so it means everything. How many versions did it take to go from, like, v one to this? Eight. So you can see tone difference and also cloth difference. I think I like this more. The film that we did and the the landing page, they were able to see a lot of our thought process. That is something I really appreciate as a consumer. When I touch a product that I can feel how people thought about it. No you guys build all of these yourselves? That's Absolutely. There's a lot of advantages to having the design team right next to the manufacturing team. We're doing packaging. We're doing the electronics. We're doing the housings. The pace of iteration is just so fast. We're shipping five, six hundred units a month. We moved from Argentina to SF last year. It was supposed to be for a couple of weeks, and then we ended up moving here. Even our wives ended up moving. Everyone is on the top 1%, and it's twenty four seven focusing on this. Founders Inc helped a lot, so you should apply.