Trusted neighbors, modern technology, a community owned by the families it serves. Boulder-built. Designed for everywhere your parents call home.
Tell us what you're great at — or what you need. We'll match you with a neighbor.
Or fill out the long form →A 90-second intake. No paperwork, no agency call. Sage AI asks the right questions and builds your profile on the spot.
Step 02Sage AI + Josh Emdur DO clinical oversight matches neighbors by skill, location, and schedule. Every match is physician-reviewed.
Step 03Caregivers earn $25–28/hr W-2 plus care tokens and service hours. Families get consistent, accountable care — not a gig lottery.
Same ComfortCard. Same identity. Same network. Pay, earn, or contribute time. We can all belong if we have something to offer.
An ER-readable family identity. Care hours delivered by background-checked, insured neighbors. Pre-tax eligible. Apple Wallet, physician-attested.
$25–28/hr W-2 (not 1099) plus cooperative equity over time. Neighbors caring for neighbors. We handle the match, the schedule, the paycheck, the background check, and the insurance.
After signup, set your skills, availability, and rate at /join.
Childcare, errands, a ride to the doctor, an hour of company, a meal cooked, a walk shared. 10 hours = your ComfortCard membership for the year, free.
Across 30 years, the average American family loses $500K–$1.5M to the traditional aging trajectory: nursing-home costs, adult-child caregiver opportunity cost, Medicaid spend-down, tax-inefficient spending. The cooperative preserves $300K–$500K of that.
Modeled estimate. Anchored to Genworth Cost of Care, BLS, AARP Valuing the Invaluable, MetLife Mature Market Institute, and CMS Medicaid spend-down data. Empirical anchor study underway in the Boulder pilot — year-1 outcomes will validate or revise the projection. How we test this →
Every care hour, every modification project, every health event is attested by name through our 50-state physician network at altru.care. AI drafts. The physician decides. The family sees the name.
“The moat is whoever first connects grounded clinical evidence to physician-earned trust.”
An Apple Wallet identity card and a small monthly habit that already does work today. Stores your advance directive, holds your care preferences, hands a paramedic the right summary in 90 seconds, and threads your family into the local co-op grid the moment you need a caregiver.
What every ComfortCard family gets:
The $499/yr Founding Member tier was retired. Read why →
“I will not go to the emergency room.”
Andrej Rosenthal said this again and again as he was dying of esophageal cancer. His wife — a doctor — built him a home hospital so he wouldn’t have to.
This is the answer.
Read the manifesto →No newsletter cadence. One email — when the first families can plug in and the first caregivers can apply. Or skip the wait and get a ComfortCard now.