Our story

The most human thing
we can build.

CAN exists for a simple reason. Most of us, at some point, will care for someone we love. And most of us, at some point, will need to be cared for. We are building so those moments feel less alone.

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The most human thing we can build.

Ahmad Alghazi · Founder & CEO
What we believe

Care should follow you,
not the other way around.

A long, healthy, independent life is not a luxury. It is the quiet promise that families make to each other, every day. We are building so that promise is easier to keep, for one person and for one hundred million.

I.

Live longer, in your own life.

Healthy years should be spent at home, with the people you love. For a population, those years are also the difference between a sustainable system and one in crisis.

II.

Independence is dignity.

Walking to the kitchen alone is care. So is keeping a citizen out of the ED, an employee at work, a member out of a higher-cost setting. The smallest freedoms scale.

III.

Caring should be possible.

For doctors, nurses, sons, and daughters. For health systems running thin and ministries running wide. We build so that caring for someone does not cost everyone everything.

A letter from our founder

This started with one person.
It will end with millions.

"She was not a chart. She was the person who taught me how to listen, how to be patient, and what it really means to care for someone."

Her name was my grandmother. In her last years, the system that was supposed to help her felt like the opposite of help. Appointments she could not get to. Forms in a language she did not speak. Instructions written for someone else. A family doing its best, in different cities, on different schedules, holding different pieces of the same story. The fragments never added up to her.

I do not think this is a healthcare problem. I think it is a human one. Every one of us, at some point, will care for someone we love. And every one of us, at some point, will need to be cared for. The question is not whether that moment will come. The question is whether anyone will be ready when it does.

CAN exists to make sure the answer is yes.

Yes for the daughter checking in on her father from another city. Yes for the physician who became a doctor to take care of people, not paperwork. Yes for the hospital trying to do more with less, the ministry trying to lift the health of an entire nation, the payer trying to turn a card into actual care.

We are not making another app. We are building the connective tissue of care itself, so that a long, healthy, independent life is the default, not the privilege, for as many people as possible.

Ahmad AlghaziFounder & CEO, CAN
How we work

Six things we will not compromise on.

The principles behind every line of code, every conversation, every decision.

01

A person, never a chart

We design for the human in front of us. Their kitchen, their family, their day. Not their record number.

02

Continuity is the product

Care is a relationship that lives between visits. We are building for everything in between.

03

Humans, extended by AI

AI gives clinicians their hours back. It does not replace the people who actually care.

04

Privacy as a kindness

Trust is not a checkbox. It is the foundation on which everything else stands.

05

Sovereignty, by design

Your data lives where it belongs, under the rules of the people it belongs to.

06

Built with, not for

Every feature is co-designed with the families and clinicians who will live inside it.

Who we build with

One mission,
every shape of care.

The same belief that started with one grandmother now runs through every organization that chooses CAN. Whether you serve a thousand patients or a hundred million citizens, the work is the same.

Our guides

The minds shaping how
CAN cares.

A small circle of physicians and designers who help us think harder, see further, and stay honest.

Design
"The user is right."
Don Norman
Author of The Design of Everyday Things. Cognitive scientist, former Apple VP, and a defining voice of human-centered design. He helps us remember who we are designing for.
Clinical
"Movement is medicine."
Dr. Jeff Krauss
Stanford and Harvard-trained physician. A veteran of the VA system and a leader in connected musculoskeletal care at Hinge Health. He grounds our thinking in what actually works at scale.
Geriatrics & longevity
"Add life to years, not just years to life."
Dr. Peter Pompei
Stanford Hospital physician with a lifetime of work in geriatric medicine. He keeps us focused on the person, not the diagnosis, and on the years that matter most.
Data infrastructure
"Care is a data problem before it is anything else."
Ali Kutay
Founder of Striim and former CEO of GoldenGate. He has spent his career building the systems that move critical data in real time.
Join us

Help us build
the connective tissue of care.

We are a small team building something that will outlast us. If that sounds right, we'd like to meet you.