Our story

We met in a support group.

Jason and Angeline had each spent months caring for someone they loved through glioblastoma before they ever met.

Jason & Tracy

Jason 45 months with his wife, Tracy

Jason lived the long version of the disease. Forty-five months of it. The constant recalibration. The late-night research. The pressure to decide with information that never felt like enough.

He watched how scattered it all was, and how much of the work of turning it into a plan landed on the family. He'd spent his career in data, research, and therapeutic development, so he started building AI tools to help families think more clearly and prepare with more intention. The first one worked. It was obvious families needed it.

Angeline & Lupe

Angeline 10 months with her mother, Lupe

Angeline was pregnant, and then parenting, through the ten months she cared for her mother. She lived the compressed version. Time collapsing. A new language she had to learn overnight. Decisions that wouldn't wait for her to feel ready.

She saw how hard families work to research and organize and hold each other up, and how little exists to help them make sense of any of it. Her background was in early-stage technology and product, and she kept circling the same gap. The distance between having the information and knowing what to do with it.

You're handed a diagnosis and a language you don't speak, and expected to keep up anyway.

Two people who'd carried this from different sides of it, now building one thing. Ember is the tool we each went looking for and couldn't find. A place to think out loud when serious illness enters your life.

— Jason & Angeline

Our commitment

What we promise every family.

We know what it feels like to leave an appointment with more questions than answers. To stay up late trying to understand unfamiliar language. To feel the weight of decisions that can't wait. Ember is built for those hours.

Always free for families.

Access to clarity should never depend on income, connections, or stamina. Ember will always be free for patients and caregivers facing glioblastoma. Support in serious illness isn't a luxury. It's part of care.

Part of something larger.

Serious illness can feel isolating. Here, your questions and experiences add to a clearer understanding of what families actually live through, and that understanding shapes better support, better systems, and better care for the people who come next.

Built with you, for you.

Ember grows through what families share in the hours between appointments. The confusion, the friction, the moments that feel hardest. Those patterns help us build steadier tools for the next family facing this diagnosis.

The people building Ember have been the patient, the caregiver, or the one who lost someone.

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Here when you need somewhere to start.

Start with today. We'll go from there.

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