Founding pilot forming in Minnesota

The one at their side.

Yar is the companion at the bedside. It makes sure your loved one is heard. It makes sure you know.

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Yar (یار) is Farsi for companion, friend, the one at your side.

63M
Americans care for a family member. That is one in four adults.
Every day
families drive to facilities just to learn what happened since yesterday.
25.6M
people in the U.S. cannot easily be heard in English when it matters most.
Why Yar exists

Built so that no one is left unheard.

Yar started the way every good medical device starts. Someone needed it, and nothing else worked.

Our founder's grandmother had a stroke and entered rehab in Minnesota. She couldn't make herself understood. Her family couldn't know she was okay without standing in her room. So they stood in her room, every single day, because there was no other way.

Yar is the other way.

Real people, with real problems, deserve a real solution.

"We've tried everything. It still doesn't feel like she's cared for unless I'm in the room." A daughter, before Yar
How it works

Three promises to every family.

Yar is always on. It sees and hears the room the way a good nurse would, understands what matters, and keeps none of it. No footage. No archive. Just the right message to the right person, the moment it counts.

1

Know, without asking.

The care team already records the day: meals, sleep, showers, medications, mood. Yar turns the day into a clear, gentle feed on your phone, in your language. Nurses do nothing new. You call no one. And when nothing happened, Yar says so: "Nothing unusual today." Silence never means uncertainty.

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This afternoonShe ate well, walked with therapy, and is resting. All calm.
2

Be there, from anywhere.

Approved family can drop in by voice or video. Your person answers nothing, presses nothing. Every drop-in announces itself out loud before connecting, staff can pause it with one tap during care, and Yar stores no footage. There is nothing to replay, and the device says so right on it.

"It's me. Take your walker. Let's walk to breakfast together. I'm with you."

3

Yar remembers what matters.

Every patient has things the chart doesn't capture. Family suggests them, a nurse approves them with one tap, and Yar puts them in front of the right person before it matters. Not after.

Sleeps sitting up. Lying flat causes panic; oxygen resolves it. Prefers a female caregiver for bathing.

Live the day

Scroll through one day with Yar.

On the left, what happens in Room 250. On the phone, what Yar sends: one message for the nurse, in clinical language, and one for the family, in human words. Same moment, two translations.

7:14 AM

The day starts without a phone call.

The aide charts breakfast the way she always has. Yar reads what the care team writes and turns it into plain, warm words in the family's language. Nobody at the facility lifts a finger they weren't already lifting.

In the chartResident up and dressed. Ate most of breakfast, requested tea. Pleasant this morning.
12:47 PM

She says it in Farsi. Yar says it twice.

No call button pressed. No English required. Grandma speaks to her room, and Yar sends two different messages: the nurse gets clinical urgency, and the family gets the calm truth after help has already arrived. One moment, translated for each person who needs it.

She says, out loudسرفه می‌کنم، قفسه سینه‌ام تنگ است و سرگیجه دارم"I'm coughing, my chest feels tight, and I'm dizzy."
3:20 PM

The near-miss that never happens.

Her profile says female caregivers only for bathing. Family suggested it, a nurse approved it, and every shift can see it. Today her usual aide called out sick and the schedule was about to send someone else. Yar catches it before anyone reaches her door.

In her profile · approved by her nurseFemale caregivers only for bathing. Sleeps sitting up. Her daughter's voice calms her.
9:41 PM

Goodnight, from twelve miles away.

Approved family drops in by voice. The device announces the call out loud before it connects, and Grandma presses nothing. Her daughter's voice fills the room for four minutes, and she goes to bed because family asked. Patients do things for the people they love that they won't do for anyone else.

In her room"It's late. Let them help you to bed. I'll see you Saturday." In bed by 9:49, sitting up the way she needs.
3:05 AM

The hard moment finds you. Not the other way around.

Grandma is up and anxious, and she won't settle for the night aide. Yar knows from her profile whose voice works, tells the nurse, and offers the family a way in. Two minutes later she's calm. Nobody waits for morning. Nobody drives across town in the dark.

7:02 AM · The next morning

You knew everything. You drove nowhere.

The morning summary is waiting with your coffee. The whole night, accounted for. The whole day ahead, planned. This is what Yar gives a family: their person, cared for and heard, and their own life back.

One iPad in her room. One app in your pocket. The whole day, heard.

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Who it's for

Three people, one hallway. Yar answers all of them.

We spent weeks reading what families, nurses, and administrators actually say. These are their words, and this is what Yar does about them.

The family

"I know nothing unless I'm standing in her room."

Yar replaces the surveillance visit, never the love visit. The feed answers "is she okay" before the question forms, the digest says "Nothing unusual today" instead of going silent, and if Yar ever loses connection, it tells you that too. Silence is never ambiguous. Open the family app →

Nobody returns my calls. The activities director, the floor nurse, the administrator. I keep a log now.Family caregiver forum
I lie awake waiting for the phone to ring. The night call is the thing I dread most.Caregiver community
Families are already zip-tying video devices to nightstands and fighting facility WiFi to build this themselves.What our research found
The nurse

"This makes your phone ring less."

No new documentation, ever. Yar reads what you already chart and answers the family before they call. Yar understands the room in the moment and stores no footage of anyone. There is nothing to review, nothing to replay, nothing to be used against you. What it does keep is the log of every update families received, and that log is your armor when someone says "nobody ever tells us anything." Open the nurse station →

Fifteen different family members calling for separate updates was a nightmare.Nursing forum
Family told patient relations they "never get updates." My notes saved me: four entries showing they don't answer the phone.Nursing forum
Nurses already improvise Yar by hand: designated spokespersons, caller passwords, laminated family-call cheat sheets.What our research found
The facility

"Be the building families ask for by name."

Families choose on reputation and reviews, and communication failures are what fill complaint logs and survey citations. Yar turns family communication from your biggest complaint category into your differentiator, documents your language access, and costs less than a dollar per patient-day.

56% of nursing facilities say they are struggling with occupancy right now.AHCA State of the Sector
49% of malpractice claims involve communication failure, and those cases cost more.CRICO claims data
$3.95/min is the list rate facilities pay for phone interpretation. Yar carries the routine moments between interpreter sessions.LanguageLine published rates
Your day, your volume

Hear every moment. Or just the ones that matter.

Every family member sets their own rhythm, and can change it anytime. Urgent moments ignore every setting and reach you instantly.

Live, as it happens.

A notification for each event, timestamped, the moment the care team logs it or Yar hears it. For the family member who wants to feel the day in real time.

یارYARFamily7:14 AM
Breakfast finished
She ate well and asked for tea.
یارYARFamily10:05 AM
Therapy done
Walked 40 feet with the walker.
یارYARFamily12:58 PM
Resolved: chest tightness
Reported, assessed, vitals normal.✓ Resolved
یارYARFamily4:12 PM
Shower complete
With Maria. Preference honored.

Summaries, on your schedule.

One message, on your schedule. Pick your rhythm below. And on a quiet day Yar says so: "Nothing unusual today." You never have to wonder what silence means. Anything urgent still reaches you the second it happens.

Every 3 hoursEvery 5 hoursMorning + nightOnce a day
یارYARFamily12:00 PM
Midday summary
A good morning. Breakfast finished, therapy done, 40 feet walked. She's resting in the day room.
یارYARFamily · always instant12:47 PM
She reported chest tightness
Nurse Sarah is with her now. We'll follow up.
یارYARFamily6:00 PM
Evening summary
All clear since this afternoon. Vitals stayed normal, shower done, dinner finished.
یارYARFamilyYesterday
Nothing unusual today
A calm, ordinary day. She's okay.
For facilities

Be the facility families ask for by name.

When families stay notified, the phones ring less. When the phones ring less, your nurses move faster. When your nurses move faster, care gets better and the reviews follow. One device, three wins.

Faster workflow, calmer floor.

Every "how is she doing" call your nurses don't take is minutes back at the bedside. Families see the day as it happens, so they stop calling to reconstruct it.

Zero new documentation.

Yar works from what your staff already charts. It reads. It never adds a field, a form, or a step.

A communication record that protects your staff.

Every update a family receives is logged and exportable. When a complaint reaches patient relations, your team has the receipt.

Care preferences with a nurse in the loop.

Families suggest, your staff approves with one tap, every shift sees it. Preferences reach the bedside before the moment, not during it.

The family voice as a care tool.

Clinical trials show family presence reduces agitation and delirium. Yar lets family de-escalate at 3 a.m. and encourage therapy remotely, so your staff stop facing those moments alone.

Staff-safe by designDrop-ins announce themselves before connecting, any staff member can pause with one tap, and Yar stores no footage of anyone. There is nothing to review or replay.
InterpretationYar supplements qualified medical interpreters. It never replaces them. It carries the routine moments between sessions and documents your language access effort.
Consent firstResident and roommate consent built in, compliant with authorized electronic monitoring laws like Minnesota Statute § 144.6502.
IntegrationYar connects to the charting systems your teams already use. No new software for your staff to learn.
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Never wonder again.

We're starting with a small number of families and one facility at a time, beginning where this story began. Tell us about your person.

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