MeetClara press kit

What is MeetClara?

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MeetClara is an AI companion that phones older adults on their regular phone for warm, unhurried conversations, and saves each call's recording, transcript and written story for their family.

Short description

MeetClara is an AI phone companion for older adults. Clara calls on the days and times a family chooses — on any landline or mobile, with nothing to install — for unhurried conversation about their life and week. After every call the family keeps the recording, a transcript and a written story in a private app.

Long description

MeetClara is an AI phone companion for older adults. Clara calls on the days and times a family chooses — on any landline or mobile, with nothing to install — for unhurried conversation about their life and week. After every call the family keeps the recording, a transcript and a written story in a private app. MeetClara is free during its closed beta, available for US phone numbers in English. Clara is a companion, not a medical or emergency service. MeetClara LLC is based in Chicago, Illinois; reach the team at support@meetclara.org.

MeetClara at a glance

Company	MeetClara LLC
Location	Chicago, Illinois
Status	Closed beta, joined through the waitlist
Pricing	MeetClara is free during the closed beta. No credit card is asked for.
Phones	Landline or mobile, US phone numbers
Languages	English
Contact	support@meetclara.org

What Clara does and doesn't do

What Clara does

• Clara calls your parent on the phone they already have — landline or mobile — with nothing to install.
• You choose the days and times Clara calls, and you can change or pause the schedule in the app anytime.
• Calls can be life-story conversations or lighter check-ins, set day by day.
• You can also schedule a one-time call.
• If your parent misses a call, Clara leaves a short voicemail saying when she'll call next — or that she'll call again soon, when nothing is scheduled yet.
• Your parent can call Clara back on her number — you choose whether she answers anytime, for a while after a missed call, or not at all.
• Scheduled calls aim for about 20 minutes and follow your parent's lead; calls your parent makes can run up to 45 minutes by default.
• Tell Clara what's on your mind — a check-up, a birthday, a worry — and she's designed to bring it up naturally when the moment feels right.
• Clara picks up threads from earlier calls.
• Clara is designed to avoid inventing details, and when your parent asks whether they've already told her a story she can't find, she is designed to answer "Maybe — either way, I'm listening." In our own testing she still gets this wrong in both directions: she has denied stories she was told, and has said a story came from an earlier call when it was told minutes before. The recording and transcript are the record to trust.
• If your parent shares news — health, a loss, a worry — Clara is designed to stay with that first; the plan waits.
• After every call your family can play the recording, read the transcript and a short written story, and see a gentle note on how your parent sounded.
• Tap any line of the transcript and the recording jumps to that moment.
• In the iPhone app, ask a question and get an answer drawn from your parent's own calls (coming to Android).
• Only people invited to your family's circle can see the calls in the app. Everyone in it can read the transcripts; you choose who can also play recordings, change the schedule, add notes, or invite others.
• Every call is recorded — that's how your family keeps the stories.
• On the first call, Clara is designed to say who she is, which family member asked her to call, and that she writes down what your parent shares for the family.
• Email privacy@meetclara.org and we'll send a one-time code to the email address on your account. Reply with that code, and we'll delete the account within 30 days.

What Clara doesn't do

• MeetClara is a companion service — not a medical service, and not a medical alert system or a replacement for 911.
• Clara doesn't call 911 or send your family a real-time alert. If your parent mentions a fall or seems distressed, a note may appear in that call's summary in the app after the call.
• Clara isn't a reminder service: she won't call at a set time just to remind, and she can't confirm a pill was taken.
• Clara adds conversation to the week; she isn't a replacement for family, friends or care.
• Your parent never installs, charges or learns anything.
• Clara speaks English.
• MeetClara calls US phone numbers only.
• MeetClara is a consumer service for families; it isn't set up for HIPAA business associate agreements.
• We don't sell or rent your family's data.
• Connections between our systems are encrypted (TLS), and the database is encrypted at rest. The phone network itself isn't encrypted end to end.

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Press contact

support@meetclara.org — interviews are handled by email.