We're bridging the gap between home and healthcare.
Brigid exists for the weeks after a hospital stay — the quiet, unguarded stretch when an older adult is home, the follow-up appointment is still weeks away, and their family is left to guess. We're building the daily presence that should have been there all along.
After a routine surgery, Eleanor was sent home to recover.
She was doing the things she was told to do. But recovery at home is full of small, easy-to-miss signals — a dose forgotten at supper, a night of broken sleep, a wound that looks a little different, a mood that quietly dips. On their own, none of them raises an alarm. Together, they're the early chapters of a story that too often ends back in a hospital bed.
Nobody was checking in every day. Not because anyone failed her — because the system simply isn't built to. Her surgeon was one appointment weeks away. Her daughter was two provinces over, calling when she could, worrying the rest of the time.
Eleanor is why we started Brigid. Not to replace her doctor or her daughter — but to be the steady, daily presence between them.
Make safe recovery at home the default — not the exception — for every aging adult.
We want a world where coming home from hospital doesn't mean being left alone with it. Where families feel present without being on call around the clock. And where the healthcare system catches the small things before they become emergencies.
Principles we build by.
Meet people where they are
Our users are recovering from surgery in their eighties. The technology has to disappear. A phone call asks nothing of them but a conversation.
Warmth is not soft
A kind voice and clinical rigour aren't a trade-off. Brigid is gentle on the surface and serious underneath — validated tools, real triage, honest flags.
Clarity for families
No jargon, no dashboards that need a medical degree. Everything is translated into plain language a worried son or daughter can act on in seconds.
Catch it early
The whole point is the day before the emergency. We optimise for the amber flag — the small shift that, noticed in time, never becomes a readmission.
Include everyone
Aging is universal; access shouldn't be a barrier. Brigid is multilingual and designed for low-tech, low-literacy users from day one.
Earn clinical trust
We're building for a pilot with real outcomes data — 30-day readmissions, recovery scores, escalation events — because trust in healthcare is earned with evidence.
Born at Queen's University.
Brigid started as a team at the Dunin-Deshpande Queen's Innovation Centre (DDQIC) in Kingston, Ontario — where a group set out to answer a simple question: what would it take to make sure no one comes home from hospital to silence?
Today we're preparing a six-month Ontario pilot, working toward partnerships with Kingston Health Sciences Centre and local retirement homes, and refining Brigid on real patient conversations.
Want to help us get there?
Whether you're a family, a clinician, a retirement home, or a partner who believes in this — we'd love to talk.