Founder's message
Why we built DailyCall
My grandmother Margaret lost her husband when she was 55, and lived another 25 years after that.
For a good part of that time she lived with us, and we were lucky to have her close. But even then, there were long stretches where she was on her own: quiet afternoons and slow days when there wasn't always someone around to talk to. She was independent and sharp, and never wanted to be a burden, so she rarely said much about it.
I spent 15 years as a software engineer at IBM before starting DailyCall, and through all of it I kept coming back to the same question: what if someone kind and patient could check in with her on the days we couldn't be there? Not an alert, not another app to learn, just a real conversation.
That's what DailyCall is. A warm daily phone call for an aging parent or grandparent, and a simple text update afterward so the family knows how it went. It's meant to add a steady moment of connection to the day, never to replace the people who love them.
I built it the way I'd want it for my own family: honest about being AI, private by default, and simple enough to work on the phone already sitting on the kitchen counter.
