Built for people who are on their own.
Not as a replacement for company. As something better than nothing, on the days there is nothing.
Why it exists
There is a particular kind of isolation that does not look like isolation from the outside. Somebody who gets up, manages the day, answers the phone when it rings — and goes a week without a conversation that asks anything of them.
It is common among veterans, among first responders, and among older people whose families moved away or whose friends died first. And it comes with a second problem: the things that would be worth saying are often the things hardest to say to the people who know you. Nobody wants to be the relative who is struggling.
Kindava was built for that gap. Something in the room that asks how you slept, remembers what you said about your knee, and does not get tired of you.
What we decided early, and will not trade away
It says what it is not
Kindava is not a therapist, a medical device or a crisis service, and it says so on the front page in the same size type as everything else. A product in this space that hides its limits has already made a choice about who it is for.
Nobody reads your conversations
Not family you share the device with. Not our own support staff, on any screen. It is enforced by the system rather than by policy, because a promise that depends on everyone behaving is not a promise.
Sharing is given, never requested
A relative can be shown that the device is working and roughly when it was last used — but only if the person using it chooses to show them, and they can stop at any moment. There is deliberately no way to ask for access to somebody else's device.
No trends, no scores, no alerts
We will not tell a family member that somebody is "talking less this week". That reads as a clinical signal from something that is not a clinical instrument, and it could as easily mean their sister came to stay.
It is never the only thing
When somebody says something serious, Kindava points to people — 988, the Veterans Crisis Line — rather than trying to handle it. That copy is reviewed by a qualified clinician, not written by engineers and hoped for.
You can erase all of it
Every conversation and everything written about you, in about thirty seconds, without asking us. Here, if you want to.
What it costs to be honest about
Kindava is new, and there are things we cannot yet claim. It has not been independently security audited. It is not HIPAA-covered, and we do not pretend otherwise. The wake word is still being trained on the product's own name. None of that is hidden in a changelog — it is written into the health data policy, in the section headed what we will not claim.
The companies worth trusting with this are the ones that tell you what they have not done yet.
Who makes it
Kindava is made by BlackSolstice Technologies, a small company in Washington State.
If you want to ask something, or tell us something went wrong, there is a person at the other end.
If you are in crisis, please reach a person.
Call or text 988
The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time of day.
Veterans: call 988, then press 1
The Veterans Crisis Line.