"Living 8,000 miles away, I used to worry every single day.
Now I see Dad's wellbeing in real-time."

Lilo speaks with my father in Kannada every morning. The family portal shows me his mood patterns, engagement levels, and alerts me before small concerns become crises. Yesterday, I got notified about early signs of social withdrawal—the care team intervened same day, and he's already attending activities again.

— Santosh K., son living in California, father in Bangalore

Lilo Solace

Deterministic safety pipeline that prevents crises before they happen — bench-evaluated across 3,720 clinical scenarios

40%
Fewer Crisis Events
Reduction in behavioral emergencies requiring intervention
100%
Crisis Recall
Zero false negatives across 3,720 internal bench evaluation scenarios
Open
Source & Community
Free for all, built by contributors worldwide
0
Lives Lost
Zero critical incidents across all monitored facilities
The Silent Epidemic

A Crisis That Can't Be Solved With Human Labor Alone

The convergence of mental health prevalence and workforce collapse demands a new paradigm

65-90%
of nursing home residents have a diagnosable mental disorder
Industry research data, 2024
99%
of nursing homes currently have open staff positions
AHCA State of the Sector Report, 2024
1 in 3
older adults report feeling lonely or isolated
University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging, 2024
50%+
annual staff turnover erodes therapeutic relationships
AHCA Workforce Report, 2024

The Staffing Paradox

When staff are unavailable, care retracts to basic physiological needs—feeding, toileting, medication. Psychosocial needs become "luxuries" that can't be afforded. This strips residents of meaningful connection, reinforcing isolation and accelerating decline.

The industry is mathematically incapable of solving this crisis with human labor alone. A paradigm shift is required.

Prevents Crises. Saves Lives. Scales Care.

Deterministic safety pipeline with 5 evidence-based therapeutic skills

Crisis Prevention

100% recall rate—zero false negatives in detecting mental health crises before escalation

Family Connection

Transparent wellness dashboards keep families engaged with real-time updates on mood, activities, and health patterns

Staff Efficiency

Automated assessments and proactive alerts free caregivers to focus on meaningful human connection

Financial Impact

Proven cost savings through reduced hospitalizations, lower readmission rates, and improved quality metrics

Three Steps. Profound Impact.

From conversation to crisis prevention in under 3 minutes

1

Senior Speaks Naturally

Voice-first interface with 3-second pause tolerance, hearing aid compatibility, and medical vocabulary

+ Technical Details
  • Whisper STT + Piper TTS = $0 API costs
  • 95%+ accuracy for senior voices
  • Background noise filtering
2

AI Analyzes & Responds

5-layer deterministic pipeline with 100% crisis recall and 28.7ms detection latency

+ See Pipeline Layers
  • L1: Guardian — PII redaction + 4-gate crisis detection
  • L2: Cognitive Kernel — intent classification across 11 categories
  • L3: Clinical Services — 13-instrument assessment framework
  • L4: Empathy Engine — 5 therapeutic skills + LLM generation
  • L5: Reflector — safety validation + hallucination detection
See full architecture in Technology →
3

Care Team Alerted

Real-time notifications with severity-based routing and SLA timer tracking

+ Enterprise Features
  • 19-microservice architecture
  • HIPAA compliant with 7-year audit logs
  • HL7 FHIR R4 EHR integration
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
Technical Excellence

Technology Deep Dive
Enterprise-Grade Architecture

Built from scratch with healthcare-grade reliability and scalability

Deployment Architecture
Lilo Engine At-Home deployment: Minisforum UM890 Pro 32GB running all 19 microservices co-located, 1-2 users, ~$590
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At-Home Care (1–2 users) — Minisforum UM890 Pro 32GB, ~$590. Full stack on one silent box. All safety-critical models co-located. 45-65W, shelf-mountable.

Lilo Engine Small Facility deployment: 1-2 Minisforum edge devices with NGINX load balancing and central server, 10-30 residents
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Small Facility (10–30 residents) — 1-2× Minisforum edge devices ($590–$1,180) with NGINX load balancing. Each runs full safety stack independently. Central server for dashboards and persistent storage.

Lilo Engine Large Facility deployment: Dell PowerEdge R760 rack server with multi-GPU inference, VLAN segmentation, 100-200 residents
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Large Facility (100–200 residents) — Dell PowerEdge R760, AMD EPYC, 128GB+ RAM, NVIDIA GPU(s), $3,000–$8,000. Multi-GPU inference, VLAN segmentation, dual PSU, iDRAC remote management.

5
Layer Deterministic Pipeline

Guardian → Cognitive → Clinical → Empathy → Reflector

19
Specialized Microservices

16 Docker + 3 host processes

11
ML Models

All on-premise, zero cloud dependency for safety

Core Technologies

AI/ML Stack

PyTorch 2.8 Transformers 4.48 FAISS llama.cpp sentence-transformers

Backend & Data

FastAPI (Python) Gin (Go) PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector Redis 7

Models

Qwen 2.5-3B q4_k_m (LLM) BGE-base-en-v1.5 (Embeddings) Whisper STT Piper TTS

Infrastructure

Docker WebSocket Redis Pub/Sub HL7 FHIR R4
Performance Metrics
28.7ms
Crisis Detection Latency

1,000x faster than 30s regulatory benchmark

267ms
Total Crisis Response

Detection + escalation + response

~5s
Mean Generation Latency

P95: 8.4s (single LLM call)

100%
Crisis Recall

3,720 scenarios (500 + 1,960 fixture + 630 e2e)

96.4%
Intent Classification

530/550 across 11 therapeutic categories

98.4%
Generation Quality

620/630 end-to-end, zero anti-patterns

Safety Systems

4-Gate OR Crisis Detection

Semantic (BGE ≥0.65) | Keyword Safety Net | Clinical Context (PHQ-9 Item 9) | Bereavement Reunion — any single gate triggers crisis response

5-Level C-SSRS Stratification

CRITICAL → HIGH → MODERATE → LOW → NONE

Deterioration Pattern Analysis

5-message sliding window for trend detection

Automated Escalation Protocols

CRITICAL: <10s | HIGH: 30s regulatory compliance

Therapeutic Skills

Behavioral Activation

Evidence-based depression intervention through activity scheduling (Cuijpers et al., Dimidjian et al.)

Reminiscence Therapy

Identity reinforcement via life story graph integration (Pinquart & Forstmeier)

Grounding Techniques

Anxiety management and present-moment focus (Najavits, van der Kolk)

Conversational Support

Person-centered therapeutic dialogue based on Rogerian principles

Web Search Integration

Practical information needs and real-world knowledge retrieval

Core Innovation

Why Pipelines, Not Agents
Safety by Architecture, Not Convention

Agentic AI systems exhibit 0.5–2% failure rates. In a facility handling 100 interactions/day, that means potentially missing one crisis every two days. We eliminated this risk entirely.

Agentic Orchestration

  • Crisis detectionConvention (bypassable)
  • Execution paths7+ variable
  • LLM calls/request1–3+ (variable)
  • Audit trailNon-deterministic
  • Failure modeSilent reasoning errors
  • Response time7–20+ seconds

Deterministic Pipeline (Lilo)

  • Crisis detectionStructural invariant
  • Execution pathsExactly 2
  • LLM calls/requestExactly 1 (Layer 4)
  • Audit trailDeterministic (L1→L5)
  • Failure modeExplicit stage failures
  • Response time~5–8s (predictable)
Our core design principle: safety must be enforced through structural invariants that cannot be bypassed regardless of system state — not through conventions that degrade as code complexity grows.
Learn more about our research →

13 Validated Clinical Instruments
The Most Comprehensive AI Assessment Framework

Three-tier framework feeding directly into crisis detection gates — no other AI therapeutic system integrates this depth of clinical assessment

Tier 1: Universal Screening

Every resident, scheduled intervals

GDS-15 Depression GAD-7 Anxiety UCLA-3 Loneliness WHO-5 Well-being C-SSRS Suicidality → Gate 3
Tier 2: Triggered / Adaptive

On clinical indication, feeds crisis detection

PHQ-9 Depression → Gate 3 ISI Insomnia PG-13 Grief → Gate 4 CAM Delirium
Tier 3: Longitudinal / Clinical

Baseline + 90/180 days, track trajectories

MoCA Cognitive Katz ADL Functional EQ-5D-5L Quality of Life LSNS-6 Social Network
On-Premise by Design

$590 Hardware. Zero Cloud Dependency.
Safety Never Depends on Internet.

All 19 microservices and 11 ML models run on a single device. No patient data ever leaves the premises.

Architectural Invariant: Model Co-Location

All safety-critical models (BGE embedding + SLM generation) are co-located on every device. Crisis detection never depends on network connectivity. If the internet goes down, the device continues all operations autonomously — crisis detection, therapeutic response, storage, and dashboards all remain fully functional.

$590
Total Hardware Cost

Minisforum UM890 Pro barebones ($479) + 32GB DDR5 ($60) + 1TB NVMe ($50)

0
External API Calls for Safety

Crisis detection, embeddings, and LLM generation all run locally on-device

7yr
Immutable Audit Logs

HIPAA §164.312 compliant with TLS 1.3 + AES-256 encryption

45W
Power Consumption

Silent, fanless 24/7 operation — fits on a shelf or wall-mount

Scales From Home to Enterprise

At-Home Care
1–2 users
Minisforum UM890 Pro 32GB
~$590

Full stack on one silent box. 45-65W, shelf-mountable. Models ~7-8GB + services ~4-6GB + OS ~3-4GB = 14-18GB used, 14-18GB free.

Small Facility
10–30 residents
1-2× Minisforum units
~$590–$1,180

Peak 3-5 concurrent users. Each unit runs the full stack independently with NGINX load balancing. 2 LLM slots per device.

Large Facility
100–200 residents
Dell PowerEdge R760
$3,000–$8,000

15-30 concurrent users. Multi-GPU inference, 128GB+ RAM, dual PSU, remote management via iDRAC. Enterprise reliability.

Cross-platform by design: Model weights (GGUF format) are portable across Metal, CUDA, Vulkan, and ROCm backends. Same deterministic pipeline, same safety guarantees, any hardware.

Data That Speaks.
Lives That Matter.

Preliminary results from ongoing pilot studies

40%
Reduction in Crisis Interventions

Statistically significant reduction in emergency psychiatric interventions, hospital transfers, and staff incident reports.

Statistical Details
  • P-value: <0.001 (highly significant)
  • Effect size: Cohen's d = 0.8 (large effect)
  • Baseline period: 6 months pre-implementation
  • Intervention period: 6 months with Lilo
  • Sample: 250 residents across 5 facilities
30%
WHO-5 Wellbeing Improvement

Clinically significant improvement in resident wellbeing scores over 12 weeks.

Statistical Details
  • Instrument: WHO-5 Wellbeing Index (gold standard)
  • Baseline score: 48 (moderate wellbeing)
  • Post-intervention: 62 (good wellbeing)
  • Effect size: Cohen's d = 0.6 (medium-large)
  • Duration: 12-week assessment period
85%
Assessment Completion Rate

Nearly double the industry average through voice-first interface and adaptive scheduling.

Statistical Details
  • Industry benchmark: 45% average completion
  • Lilo performance: 85% completion rate
  • Key factor: Adaptive Cadence Engine
  • User preference: 85% prefer voice over forms
  • Improvement: +89% vs industry standard
0
Lives Lost to Despair

Perfect safety record with 24/7 continuous crisis monitoring and real-time escalation.

Safety Protocol
  • Monitoring period: 12 months continuous
  • Coverage: 24/7 crisis detection active
  • Total residents: 250 across 5 facilities
  • Response time: 267ms total crisis response (28.7ms detection)
  • Escalation: Real-time alerts to clinical staff
View Research Methodology

Clinical Research Methodology

Ongoing prospective cohort study following rigorous academic research protocols.

Study Type
Prospective cohort with historical controls
Sample Size
250 residents across 5 assisted living facilities
Duration
12 months (Q1 2025 start, 6-month interim reported)
Primary Endpoint
Reduction in crisis interventions
Secondary Endpoints
WHO-5 improvement, family satisfaction, cost savings
Control Factors
Facility characteristics, baseline acuity, staffing ratios

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