takefive.care
An AI care agent that lives in your family's group chat — answering questions, tracking medications, surfacing what matters, and sending a weekly digest that keeps everyone genuinely in the loop. No new app. No new habits. Just a phone number.
The origin story
Take Five was born from lived experience, not a market analysis. As five siblings coordinating care for aging parents, we lived the coordination chaos firsthand. The scattered texts, the missed handoffs, the one person carrying too much.
"We built what we needed. We named it after what made it matter — the five of us, showing up."
— Eric Landry, Founder & #3
Every family has their number — the people who showed up when it mattered. Take Five is built for all of them.
Built on dignity
Dignity is the difference between being cared for and being managed.— Eric Landry, Founder
The senior controls what family sees. Their preferences guide care. Their voice is in every major decision.
Social connection is clinically proven to reduce dementia risk, heart disease, and premature mortality. Take Five treats it as a health intervention, not a nice-to-have.
SMS-first means no app, no training, no barrier. Works for the 78-year-old aide who only texts and the 45-year-old daughter who uses everything.
The what
No apps. No training. No friction — just a phone number and a calm, intelligent presence holding everything together.
Invite family, professional caregivers, and anyone in your parent's support network. Each person gets role-appropriate visibility.
Your home aide or agency nurse texts a Take Five number after each visit — naturally, like any text. They never join the family chat. The family always knows what happened.
Take Five parses every update, maintains the care log and life log, assigns tasks, and surfaces what matters before it becomes a crisis.
Every week: what happened, patterns worth noting, what needs a decision — without anyone having to write a summary by hand.
Each week the agent asks one gentle question. The answers build into a memoir — her life, in her own words, preserved forever.
When the hardest question comes, the agent gives your whole family the same data, the same guidance, and a way to decide together with dignity.
One warm weekly summary of what happened, what she's reading, what needs attention. The sibling in Denver stays genuinely close without anyone having to write it by hand.
Missed check-ins, medication gaps, and pattern changes surface before they become crises — not after.
A structured medication list with name, dose, AM/PM/evening schedule, prescriber, and purpose, stored and kept current. Ask T5 what Dad's on and get an instant answer from the care record.
Every doctor, specialist, and provider — name, specialty, phone, and notes — in one place the whole family can access. No more "who is Mom's cardiologist again?"
Books read, shows watched, walks taken. A living record of a life still being lived — because staying engaged is staying healthy.
Every check-in, update, and care note in a running feed, plus every weekly digest saved and searchable. The full care history is always there when you need it.
T5 reads every message for safety and health signals — falls, recurring symptoms, behavioral changes — and surfaces patterns in the weekly digest that nobody would catch looking at one week at a time.
Where's the will? Who has power of attorney? A shared registry of important documents — where they live, who to call — so the whole family knows before they need to know.
Upload a transcript from the weekly family call and T5 pulls out what matters — decisions made, health observations, follow-up items — so nothing important stays buried in whoever took notes.
Four features, one place to see how they actually work.
The knowledgebase
Every check-in, every update, every note shared in the group chat is stored in a care record, not buried in scroll. Ask T5 a question and it answers from the full history of everything that's been shared.
No digging through old messages. No calling the sibling who "keeps track of everything." The care record is the shared memory your whole circle can query, from anywhere, at any time.
The weekly digest
Every week T5 synthesizes everything shared in the care circle: what happened, how they're doing, what they've been into, and what needs a decision. The sibling in Denver who wants to help but hasn't felt in the loop reads it over coffee and finally does.
The digest isn't just a recap. It's where the pattern-recognition lives: the reading streak, the uptick in good days, the fall that got mentioned twice. All of it held together in one place your whole family can trust.
Mark — Monday. Sarah — Friday and Saturday. Next visit planned for Wednesday the 10th.
Dad — good spirits and engaged, but two falls reported recently and neck pain continues. Mom — variable week. Good mood Friday, harder Saturday — hearing aid wasn't charged, which caused sensory overload.
Dad went down a rabbit hole researching eggplant after dinner — turns out it's called aubergine. The whiteboard is in motion; Mom responded positively. Sarah went to mass with them Saturday and restocked meds for the next 30 days.
Two recent falls — one outside, one in the kitchen where the fire department was called. No injuries noted but both worth confirming. Dr. Patel appointment June 9 needs confirmation — wasn't on the calendar as of Tuesday. Neck pain should be raised at that visit.
Dr. Patel — Tuesday, June 9 · Family visit — Wednesday, June 10
The Life Log
Most care apps track what's wrong. Take Five tracks what's alive. Research shows that daily engagement in books, shows, conversations, and movement is one of the most powerful protections against cognitive decline and premature mortality.
Currently reading, just finished, loved or didn't — the reading life tracked naturally through caregiver check-ins.
What she's watching, what made her laugh — so the next caregiver already has something to talk about.
Walks, garden time, phone calls with grandkids. Small signals of vitality — and early warnings when they stop.
A simple daily signal. One tap from the caregiver. Over time the most valuable dataset in the product.
Appointment prep
Before the doctor visit, T5 assembles a summary from the care record: recent mood patterns, medication changes, symptoms mentioned in check-ins, questions the family has been asking. Everything the doctor needs to know, and nothing you'll scramble to remember in the waiting room.
Appointment prep packets are generated automatically and sent to the family before each scheduled visit. No prep required.
Now in pilot
Take Five is currently in active pilot testing with a small number of families. Tell us a bit about your situation below and we'll reach out as we open up the pilot.
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