About Vaye

We're a small studio building tools for the people who raised us. We make things that older adults can actually use, and we make them for the people who love them.

The reason Vaye exists is uncomplicated. Scam texts, fake Medicare calls, AI-cloned voices asking grandparents for bail money, software designed to mistake confusion for consent. It is a daily struggle to determine all the ways somebody may deploy the internet to take advantage. The companies in a position to fix this have mostly built tools for younger users who happen to age into them. Our parents deserve better, and so do the families trying to help them at a distance.

We're starting with Sam. Sam is a scam-checking assistant that our users reach out to over text message. There's no app to install, no account to set up. Forward a sketchy message, paste a link, describe a call that didn't feel right, and Sam answers in plain language.

We started here because it's the problem most families face first. A daughter notices her mom got a strange text. A son worries about the calls coming to his dad's landline. We want to be the number people text in that moment.

From here the work expands, always in the same direction, always for the same family. The problems that come next sit close to where Sam begins: safety and fraud, then the larger questions that follow. Housing, benefits, care, and the quiet moments when families have to figure out what comes next together.

The name Vaye comes from veillée, a Creole word for the vigil a community keeps around someone at a threshold moment. Historically it meant the gathering of neighbors and family around a person when ordinary life had paused and something harder had begun. Presence. Accompaniment. The act of staying when staying is what's needed.

That's the shape of the work we're trying to do. Not a platform that optimizes decisions. Not a directory that routes families toward the nearest available resource. Something closer to a neighbor who picks up the phone, who knows your situation, who tells you the truth in plain language and doesn't disappear when the conversation gets hard.

If you're caring for a parent and want to talk, we'd like to hear from you. hello@vaye.care

The Vaye Team