Humane, not transactional
Cura knows Maria, greets her by name, and answers out loud. No forms, no dashboards, no jargon — a conversation with someone who remembers yesterday.
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Care between visits.
Cura checks in by voice every day. When something's off, it makes the phone calls that matter — booking the doctor's appointment while family watches.
Talk for 60 sec
A plain-language daily check-in — by voice, no app skills needed.
Cura calls the doctor
When the grade says it matters, Cura phones the office on your behalf.
Booked & logged
The appointment lands on the calendar — your family sees it live.
A 60-second voice check-in, a gentle grade, a phone call that books itself.
The mission
Aging at home should not feel like aging alone.
The care system sees your parent twice a month. The person who actually knows how last night went — the dizziness, the skipped pills, the nights that turned into mornings — is nobody, because doing the daily check-in is a human's job, and humans get busy, forget, or live three time zones away.
Cura does the daily part. One minute of honest conversation, spoken — the way elders actually communicate. Cura listens with care, grades the day, and takes the follow-up actions a family would: the reassurance, the tip, the alert, the call to the doctor's office that books the visit.
Our goal is simple: no quiet bad days. If something is wrong, it becomes a notification, a receipt, and a booked appointment — before dinner, not after the next scheduled visit.
What we believe
Useful AI speaks up at the right moment.
Escalation by design
Every turn ends with a grade. Gentle days get health tips; worrying days alert the family; worrying days that sound dangerous route to a scripted calm-down path the agent has no say in.
Real phone calls
When a doctor's office must be involved, Cura dials Twilio and speaks to a human receptionist in natural conversation — not a fake demo, not an SMS blast.
The family, never in the dark
Check-ins, grades, receipts, alerts and booked slots stream live to the caregiver dashboard — and every day can be printed as a visit summary for the actual appointment.
Hi, I'm Rishith — I built Cura to feel like family checking in.
Cura is my NextSpark Hacks submission, written end-to-end in one weekend: the voice console, the agent loop with its tier guard, real speech replies, the Twilio calling chain, the caregiver dashboard, and this hand-built, screen-reader–friendly design system. Everything runs on free tiers because the point of a companion is that anyone could run it.
One rule the whole product respects: Cura never calls 911. Escalation to emergency services is a human decision — Cura's job is to make sure the right humans know quickly, clearly, and in time.
Gemini agent loopNative-speech repliesTwilio real callsSupabase recordsNext.js + Web SpeechAll free tiers