Why this company exists.

This company is inspired by my daughter. After a life-changing event left her using a wheelchair full-time, I spent years navigating systems that don't work - education, healthcare, and an assistive technology market unlike any other I'd encountered as a consumer.

Most of those systems are shaped by policy and societal attitudes, and I had no obvious way to move them. The technology was different. As a software engineer with a background in electronics, I kept looking at the equipment and software my daughter relied on and finding it basic, dated, and priced many times higher than the mainstream products I use every day - products held to standards of quality, usability, and user research that the assistive tech industry seems to have missed entirely.

That's the gap I can actually do something about. I started this company in 2025 to try. As a solo founder, the focus is on building the foundation first - the software platform, called Hubly, that everything else will sit on top of.

As Hubly grows, my hope is to expand into hardware designed to work with it from the start.

The people who rely on what I build are taking a chance on a new company. I don't take that lightly. If you have feedback, or you're dealing with the same systems I've been navigating, please get in touch.

Mario,
Founder of Helpful Machines