No app. No screen. Nothing to install. Dost rings their ordinary phone at a fixed time every day and talks with them in Hindi, English or Hinglish they just pick up, like any other call.
Amma
Daily call · 9:00 AM
Namaste Amma. Ghutne ka dard aaj kaisa hai?
Aaj thoda theek hai beta. Subah walk pe gayi thi.
Bahut badhiya. Aur Rohan ka exam kaisa gaya?
Nothing to tap, swipe or approve.
What you see
Your parent gets a phone call. You get a picture of how they are doing. Neither of you has to meet in the middle.
For your parents
The same friendly voice, at the same time, every single day.
Nothing on their side ever feels like software.
For you
The reassurance of a daily check-in, without the daily worry.
You stay close, even from three time zones away.
You do the setting up, once. After that, the only thing that ever happens on their phone is a call from someone who is glad to hear their voice.
Their name, what they love talking about, the topics to steer clear of, and the time of day the call should come. Takes about four minutes.
Their phone rings like any other call. Nothing to install, nothing to set up on their side, nothing to remember.
The AI listens, remembers, and adapts to their pace. It answers in short sentences, waits through pauses, and goes quiet the moment they start speaking.
A short recap, trends drawn from what comes up again and again, and an alert if something sounds off with nothing for them to manage.
Set up once, in four minutes. After that your parent never sees a prompt, an update, or a thing to approve.
What the AI does during the call, and what happens to the words afterwards that is the whole product.
Your mother should not have to reintroduce herself every morning. What she mentioned last week comes back up naturally in the next call not as a checklist, but the way family remembers.
Kept from earlier calls
Tomorrow, 9:00 AM
“Aur Rohan ka exam kaisa gaya, Amma?”
One mention of a sore knee is a Tuesday. The same thing four weeks running is a trend, and that is what we surface.
“Ghutne mein dard”
Four weeks running worth a doctor’s visit.
Transcripts are processed after the call, and only her own words are kept. Nothing the AI inferred about her health or mood is ever stored.
If a stranger has been asking for an OTP or a transfer, it usually comes up in conversation. Dost catches it and tells you.
“Beta, bank se phone aaya tha. OTP maang rahe the.”
Flagged, and you were told the same day.
If the call goes unanswered, you hear about it on WhatsApp before you have had a chance to start worrying.
To you, 9:26 AM
Amma didn’t pick up this morning. We’ll try again at 11:30, and let you know either way.
Silence is information too. A missed call does not sit in a log waiting for someone to notice it.
9:00 AM
Daily call no answer
9:20 AM
We try again, quietly
11:30 AM
Third attempt
11:32 AM
You get a WhatsApp
12:00 PM
Emergency contact called
No tiers, no seats, no enterprise calculator. It costs less than a month of tiffin service.
One parent · a call every single day · cancel whenever you like.
Both parents on the same daily call: +₹399/month. No setup fee, no contract, no cancellation call to sit through.
We’ll call them once, at a time you pick. You read the summary the same day. If it doesn’t feel right for your family, that is genuinely the end of it.
Not sure how to bring it up with them? Tell us in the form and we’ll suggest a first call that feels natural.
Dost is mentored by Darius Monsef, a 2x Y Combinator founder. He built CreativeMarket.com, acquired by Autodesk in 2014, and BraveCare.com, which raised $40M. His guidance is helping shape both our product and our go-to-market strategy.
Before building the full platform, we visited an old-age home in Bengaluru and put Dost in front of the people it is actually meant for. Residents talked to the AI companion live, in their own language, while we sat and watched what really happened. What we learned there about pacing, pauses, and interruptions shaped the product far more than any demo could have.
You are handing us a daily conversation with your parent. Here is exactly what that does and does not mean.
The transcript is processed after the call ends. Only what your parent actually said is kept. Anything the AI guessed about their health or their mood is thrown away, not filed. You can delete everything, permanently, from your dashboard.
Dost is company, not care. It does not diagnose, treat, or monitor any condition, and it is not a substitute for a doctor, a nurse, or an emergency service. Trends are a reason to make a phone call to your parent, or to their physician.
On the very first call we explain who we are, in their language, and ask. If they would rather not, we do not call again. Either of you can end it at any time and when you do, their data goes with it.
The AI stays on the line and keeps them talking rather than hanging up. You and the emergency contact you named are notified within minutes. If someone is in danger, a human still has to dial 112 please do that first.
If something isn’t answered here, write to us. A person replies.
Yes and here’s the specific version of yes. It is an ordinary phone call, from a number we tell you about in advance. Dost never asks for money, OTPs, bank details or documents, and it never will. If somebody else has been asking your parent for those things, that is exactly the sort of thing we flag to you.
We try again about twenty minutes later, and once more before midday. If all three go unanswered you get a WhatsApp message, and if we still can’t reach them we call the emergency contact you gave us. You never have to be the one who happened to notice.
You get a written summary of every call. Full transcripts are available to you only if your parent agreed to that when we asked them on the first call. Their conversation belongs to them, and we won’t hand it over behind their back.
Hindi, English, and the Hinglish most Indian families actually speak at home. It follows your parent’s lead mid-sentence instead of making them choose one and stick to it. More Indian languages are on the way.
No, and we say so plainly on the first call, in their language. We don’t pretend otherwise and we don’t let the AI pretend either. What is real is that it remembers what they told it, it listens properly, and it is never in a hurry.
Stored: what your parent actually said, in their own words, and the trends that emerge when they mention something again and again. Not stored: anything the AI concluded, assumed or guessed about their health or their mood. That is used to write the summary and then discarded.
Yes. Book a single free call at a time you choose, and read the summary the same day. No card, and nothing starts automatically afterwards.
Dost is not an emergency service and cannot send help to anyone. If your parent sounds distressed, the AI stays on the line and keeps them company while we alert you and your emergency contact within minutes. If someone is in immediate danger, call 112 first always.
No. This one matters to us more than any feature. It replies in short sentences, sits through long pauses without filling them, and the moment your parent starts speaking it stops mid-word if that’s what it takes. Being interrupted is a perfectly normal part of talking to family.
Then we stop. We ask on the first call, in their language, and a no is a no not a reason to try again next week. Most of the hesitation we see is about not wanting to be a burden rather than about the calls themselves. Tell us in the form and we’ll suggest a gentler way to start.
Tell us a little about them. We’ll make one call, at a time you choose, and send you the summary the same day. If it isn’t right for your family, nothing else happens.
We are a small team in India, and every one of us lives away from home. Dost began as a way to stop typing “khana khaya?” into a chat that goes quiet, and hoping that means everything is alright.
One free call. No card. Nothing rings on their phone until you say so.
