Founder's Note

We didn't build this for a market. We built it for our family,

and for every family like ours, navigating a world that wasn't quite designed with them in mind.

There's a moment a lot of families in the ASD world know well. The moment you realize that the tools that exist, the apps, the platforms, the systems, were built for someone else. Not for your child. Not for your household. Not for the complicated, and joyful reality that is your everyday life.

We have lived in that world for over sixteen years. Somewhere along the way, instead of waiting for someone else to build what we needed, we decided to build it ourselves.

That's EnrichPoint.

Where this really started

It wasn't a lightbulb moment. It was more like a slow accumulation. Years of watching, learning, and being part of the ASD community in ways that go far beyond technology. It was sitting with families who were managing enormous complexity every day, often with tools that were clunky, fragmented, or just plainly not designed with their loved ones in mind.

It was noticing how much weight falls on caregivers. The medication schedules. The emergency contacts. The therapists and specialists. The routines that can unravel an entire day. And the non-verbal individuals at the center of it all, people with so much to communicate, who deserved better ways to do it.

If technology isn't intuitive for everyone, it isn't good enough. That became our North Star.

I have a background in software engineering. Over a decade of it before moving into product, presales and strategy. I spent years building things for enterprise customers, for efficiency, for scale. That all mattered. It was only when I got into Presales, that I started to see not just the sales side, but the human side. The users who would use the technology, day in and day out. Now when I started building for this community, that's when I felt like I was building for the right reasons.

Why now, and what we've built

EnrichPoint is officially live. Our first Android app is out in the world. A few more are on the way. We are very much at the beginning, and I mean that in the most honest, non-marketing-speak way possible. We have a long road ahead.

But the core of what we're building has always been clear: technology that starts with the most vulnerable users and works outward. Our AAC communication app, epSpeak, is built for non-verbal and minimally verbal individuals. It gives them a voice. Literally. And it's designed with caregivers in mind, so the people who support these individuals can customize, track, and collaborate without needing a computer science degree.

Everything we build goes through the same filter: does this make someone's day meaningfully easier? Does it reduce burden? Does it open a door that was previously closed? If the answer is yes, we keep going. If not, we go back to the drawing board.

What matters most to us

I want to be transparent about something. There are bigger companies. There are better-funded teams. There are organizations with more users and more visibility. We are a small operation, building with intention, driven by something that isn't entirely explainable in a pitch deck.

Family is the word. Not the company-values version of it, the real version. The kind that means you keep going when it's hard because you know exactly who you're building for. We've seen what it looks like when our grandson communicates something for the first time that they couldn't communicate before. We've seen the relief on a caregiver's face when they feel less alone in the coordination of care. That's the measuring stick we use.

Let me give you an example. We were at Disneyland or California Adventure. I don't recall which one exactly. For those that have been, or have been to any amusement park, you know the wait times for rides. Sometimes the wait could be 2 hours. Imagine wanting to take your child or grandchild on the ride they want, but they don't have a way to communicate to you, which ride they want. Do you stand in line for 2 hours, on the off chance they want that ride? When I was able to show my grandson a list of pictures of different rides, he was able to touch the one he wanted. He couldn't say it. But he could point. That's when I realized there needs to be better tools out there. Not just for my grandson, but for his mom, for his grandparents, for his aides and for other kids, adults and families out there.

Nothing is more important than family. And if there's some little thing we can do to make things just that much easier, that much better - then we feel like we're succeeding.

We also deeply value input from our users. From families, therapists, specialists, from partners who work in this space. We are not the experts on every individual's experience, the community is. We build the tools, but the community shapes them. That's not a tagline. It's how we've operated from day one and it's how we'll keep operating as we grow.

Where we're going

Honestly? We're going wherever the community needs us to go. We have a product roadmap, and we have phases and plans and timelines. But the most important thing on our roadmap isn't a feature, it's trust. Trust from the families who use our apps. Trust from the individuals whose lives are affected by the technology we build. Trust that we will continue to listen, to improve, and to show up.

In the near term, you'll see more apps launch. epSpeak will launch soon, and with that, more functionality will be added. More connection points between caregivers and the individuals they support. We are building toward a fuller ecosystem, that reduce duplication and that give back time to the people who need it most.

In the longer term, I'd love for EnrichPoint to be known as the company that proved inclusive design. That when you build for the most overlooked users first, you end up with something better for everyone.

A note to our community

If you're reading this as a parent, a caregiver, a sibling, a therapist, or as someone navigating the world with special needs yourself, thank you for being here. Truly. You are the reason this exists, and you will always be at the center of every decision we make.

If you have feedback, ideas, frustrations, or just want to tell us what your day actually looks like, please reach out. Our contact page exists for exactly that reason, and I personally read everything that comes in.

We are just getting started. And we're glad you're with us.

Vadim Tabakman

Founder, EnrichPoint