AlwaysHere builds AI companions, practical education, memory technology, and partnerships around people and those who care for them.
Josh Rosenfeld is neurodivergent. He spent decades building digital products. After a layoff at 50, he started teaching practical AI and taught more than 1,500+ people.
A parent in one of his classes asked him to build an AI in her own voice for her 19-year-old autistic son, carrying routines and reassurance when she could not answer. He built it, then tested an early version with his own mother, 76, who asked to keep it.
Our course is taught primarily online, with Josh helping parents and caregivers learn from home.
AlwaysHere is an advanced support layer around a person and the people who care for them: a voice companion that calls, tools that keep the family close, training that teaches families to use AI well, and partners who reach the people we cannot.
Our mission is to make personalized support easier to reach, and to do it with independence, dignity, and connection intact.
We build for adults. We do not pretend to be a person, a clinician, or a family member. We publish the rules our companions follow, and we would rather lose a sale than take on a family we cannot help.
Everyone in the conversation knows it is AI, from the first call onward. Transparency is not a setting we can turn off.
“He calls her mombot. More than she calls him.”
Lee is 25 and autistic. His AlwaysHere companion speaks in his mom’s voice, with his okay. It calls every morning with his routine, a check-in, and whatever is coming up that day.
But Lee calls back. When he is anxious, when something happens, or when he just wants a familiar voice, he picks up the phone. It always answers.
He gave it a name. He calls it “mombot.” Not because we suggested it. Because you give names to relationships, not to apps.
Lee, 25 · AlwaysHere user · Used with permission
More stories are being gathered with permission from the families who use AlwaysHere every day. If you would like to share yours, we would like to hear it.
Relationship skills, safety, and connection for adults with IDD. Compass, its practice app, is supported by AlwaysHere technology.
In-home wellness programs for adults with disabilities in Minnesota.
The Collaborative Community Housing Initiative creates inclusive community living so adults with disabilities can live, work, and connect in the communities where they were raised.
Independent organizations we work with. Their programs are their own.
AlwaysHere builds assistive technology powered by AI for adults with autism or IDD, and aging parents, starting with a voice companion that calls them on the phone they already have.
AlwaysHere builds assistive technology powered by AI. Its voice companions call adults with autism or IDD, and aging parents, on the phone they already have, carrying routines and answering whenever they call back. Guardian adds safety inside the chats and browsers they already use. No companion ever claims to be a human being.
AlwaysHere builds assistive technology powered by AI for adults with autism or IDD, and aging parents. Its voice companions call on the phone the person already has, including a landline, carrying routines and reminders and answering whenever they call back. Guardian adds safety and personalization inside the AI chats and browsers they already use, and NeuroMem carries memory across every conversation so nobody has to explain themselves twice. Founded in 2024 by neurodivergent founder and AI educator Josh Rosenfeld, the company is based in Chicago, Illinois. Every companion follows twelve published rules, enforced on our servers, and never claims to be a human being.
Tell Josh the hardest part of the day. Hear how the companion would handle it, on your own phone. If it is not right for your family, he will say so.
Free. No credit card. We set up the account and our AI voice calls your phone.
