What Suite is building next.
Suite started with one question: what does an older adult actually need from a phone? The answer was reminders that ring, a calendar you share, and an assistant that talks like family. The same question keeps moving — out of the screen, and towards the eyes, the ears, and the stairs.
This page is a plan, not a promise.
Everything below is work we have committed to internally, in the order we intend to do it. Dates and scope can still move — a plan that never changes is usually a plan nobody is working on. When something ships, it moves to the app and this page is updated to match.
How to read this page.
- Building now
In active work. You will see parts of it appear in app updates.
- Up next
Designed and specced. Starts when the work above it clears.
- Exploring
Research and early prototypes. No release date, and it may not ship at all.
Building now
An assistant trained on Suite
Today Suite talks through general-purpose models. We are fine-tuning on our own corpus — the millions of real turns from families using Suite — so the assistant learns the way our elders actually phrase a question, the patience they need when the answer is bad news, and how to say “I don’t know” in a way that helps.
- Fewer answers that lecture back at you
- Recognises a worried question, not just a literal one
- Answers in your language, with your local units and customs
A safer chat, by training
Scam and fraud attempts aimed at older adults are now the most common thing families share to Suite. We are teaching the model to recognise them the moment they arrive — in a text, a link, or a photograph — instead of only after a link is tapped.
A better-trained model still does not make Suite an emergency service. The red button on the home screen is still the thing that calls for help.
Up next
Glasses that steady what you look at
Assistive glasses that magnify what you are reading and hold the image still. Shaky hands, a moving bus, a small print label in a shop — the picture stops moving so the words can be read.
- Magnification that follows where you look
- Image stabilisation that cancels hand tremor
- Reads text aloud in your language
In development. Not a medical device — it does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition, and it is no substitute for an eye test.
A hearing assist that shifts what you cannot hear
Many people lose the high frequencies first — the consonants that carry meaning, not the vowels. This shifts the voice they are listening to into the range they can still hear, so a sentence becomes words again rather than a noise.
- Makes speech clearer, not simply louder
- Tunes to your own hearing profile
- Works in a noisy room, not just a quiet one
In development. Not a medical device — it does not diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition, and it is no substitute for a hearing test.
Exploring
A frame that helps you climb the stairs
A lightweight support frame that takes part of your weight and steadies your step, so a flight of stairs stays something you do rather than something you avoid. It also catches a stumble before it becomes a fall.
- Takes weight off the legs going up
- Slows a stumble instead of letting it finish
- Light enough to wear around the house
Early research. This is the hardest thing on this page, and it is the one we get asked about most.
Three rules we build by.
The elder is the customer, not the subject.
Every feature has to be usable by the person it is for — not configured on their behalf by somebody else. If it needs a grown child to set up, it isn’t finished.
Dignity before assistance.
Help that draws attention to what someone can no longer do gets refused. We design for the version of the device a person is glad to be seen using.
Nothing about you leaves your phone without you.
Assistive hardware sees and hears the world around you, which makes this the whole question. On-device processing wherever it can be, and a plain answer about what has to be sent and why.
Tell us what is missing.
This list comes from our own thinking, which is the weakest source we have. Families write in about what actually goes wrong — the print on the medicine box, the doorbell nobody hears, the step nobody mentions. Write to us and it lands on this page.