Speech & language rehabilitation

What if recovery could know your name?

Aphonos is building the next generation of speech and language rehabilitation — AI-powered, deeply personalized, and designed to scale access to therapy for the millions of stroke survivors currently underserved by the system.

2M+
People living with aphasia in the US — the most common language disorder you've never heard of
~3 hrs
Average weekly therapy time for aphasia patients — a fraction of what research suggests is needed
0
FDA-cleared prescription digital therapeutics for aphasia speech rehabilitation — a gap we intend to close

The problem

A massive unmet need, hiding in plain sight

Aphasia — the loss of language ability following a stroke or brain injury — affects more people than Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy, or muscular dystrophy. Yet most people have never heard of it.

Existing tools either digitise traditional exercises or help patients compensate for lost language. No one has built a system that uses the full capability of modern AI to restore it — personalized to who the patient actually is.

That is what Aphonos is building.

180,000 New aphasia cases in the US each year, primarily from stroke
Phase 3 gap No competitor has reached a prescription digital therapeutic for aphasic speech. Aphonos is building toward that bar.
Caregiver burden Families shoulder most of the recovery work with no clinical training and almost no support infrastructure

Our approach

Three things no one else is doing together

Aphonos combines large language model conversational therapy, pre-stroke identity personalization, and a caregiver integration layer into a single platform — built from the ground up for this patient population.

I

Identity-first personalization

Every session is shaped by who the patient was before their stroke — their career, family, hobbies, and life. This isn't a feature. It's the architecture.

II

Conversational therapy at scale

LLM-based conversation adapts in real time to the patient's severity, fatigue, and progress — delivering therapy-grade interaction between clinical sessions.

III

Caregivers as participants

After every session, families receive a clear summary and actionable guidance. Recovery is a team effort. We built the platform that way from day one.

Our product

Aphasia.ai — the consumer companion

Our flagship product is Aphasia.ai: a conversational therapy companion for stroke survivors and their families, available directly to consumers with no clinical referral required.

Phase 1 builds engagement and generates proprietary interaction data. That data de-risks Phase 2 clinical validation — and ultimately the path to a prescription digital therapeutic.

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Aphasia.ai — session preview
Aphasia.ai
Maria, you mentioned you used to teach at Lincoln High. Tell me — what was your favourite subject to teach?
Maria
Math… I… loved… algebra.
Aphasia.ai
Algebra — that's wonderful. What did you love most about it? Was it the puzzles, or watching your students figure it out?

Get in touch

Let's talk about what we're building.

Whether you're an investor, a speech-language therapist, a clinical researcher, or someone who wants to explore a partnership — we'd like to hear from you.

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