Why ClearPath exists.

We Listened

Tim Thornton runs Meals on Wheels for the Payson Senior Center in the mountains of Gila County, Arizona. Every weekday, his team delivers meals to more than 140 homebound seniors across one of the most rural counties in the state.

The reason ClearPath exists is simple: we listened.

We listened when seniors told us about falling and lying on the floor for hours — sometimes days — before anyone found them. We listened when they told us, quietly, that they couldn't keep track of their medications anymore. We heard the pain in the voices of adult children describing their parents' struggles from two states away.

We listened when others nodded politely and moved on with their day.

And we listened to what they don't want. They don't want a device telling them what to do. They don't want cameras in their living rooms. They don't want to feel watched, managed, or reduced to a patient. What they wanted was peace of mind — for themselves and for the people who love them — without giving up their independence or their privacy to get it.

Those conversations are the entire blueprint for ClearPath.

The picture grows quickly from there. The same gaps that put a homebound senior at risk also affect the adult son with an intellectual disability whose mother is aging out of being his caregiver, the patient discharged from the hospital after a stroke, the group home staffer trying to track medications across eight residents, the family two states away who just wants to know that Dad is okay tonight.

These are different lives, but the underlying need is the same: a quiet, capable presence in the home that supports independence, alerts the right people at the right time, and lets the humans involved focus on caring instead of monitoring.

Tim Thornton didn't arrive at this work by accident. He grew up in a household where caregiving was simply what the adults did — his parents cared for others as a matter of course, and he learned early what it looks like when one person quietly holds another life together. That kind of upbringing leaves a mark. You stop seeing care as something specialized that happens in hospitals, and you start seeing it as something ordinary that happens in kitchens and hallways and bedrooms — the real geography of where people actually live.

He spent his career in electronics design and manufacturing, including years of systems work for the Department of Defense, where the standard isn't "good enough" — it's that the system has to work when failure isn't an option. That discipline doesn't leave you either. It becomes how you think about every product you build for the rest of your life.

Service has been the through-line. For more than fifteen years he volunteered with children in his community before stepping back from that work a few years ago to give his full attention to seniors. The faces and the ages change. The instinct to show up doesn't.

Daily proximity to the problem. An engineering background built for systems that can't fail. A lifetime of caring for, and learning from, the people around him. That's the foundation ClearPath is built on. We didn't start from a market study. We started from a route sheet, and we started by listening.

What We Build

ClearPath Technologies is an Arizona-based assistive technology company. We design, build, and ship products that support independent living for people facing cognitive, physical, developmental, or age-related challenges — and for the families, caregivers, and organizations that walk alongside them.

Our products feel less like a medical device and more like a quiet, capable presence in the room.

ClearPath Remind is a tablet that goes wherever it's needed — a kitchen counter, a nightstand, a group home common area, a recovery room. It shows the day's medications and appointments, personal messages from family or staff, and reminds gently when it's time. If something is missed, caregivers know.

ClearPath Guard is a quiet, camera-free fall-detection system that doesn't require anything to wear or charge. Beyond detecting falls, Guard is being built to predict them — analyzing movement patterns over time so families and providers can intervene before a serious incident. Fall response, finally turned into fall prevention.

Who We Serve

ClearPath products are built for, and sold into, four overlapping populations:

• Older adults aging in place, and their families
• People living with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the providers serving them
• Individuals recovering from illness, injury, or other life-changing health events
• Family and professional caregivers, and the institutions they work within — group homes, assisted living, home health agencies, rehabilitation providers, intermediate care facilities, and developmental disability service organizations

Our products are designed to meet the technical and accessibility requirements of state Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver programs and comparable funding mechanisms — because the people who most need this technology are often the ones least able to pay for it out of pocket.

How We're Built

ClearPath is structured deliberately as two complementary entities, and each makes the other stronger.

ClearPath Technologies LLC holds the intellectual property, manufactures, and sells commercially — direct to consumers, to institutional buyers, and through distribution partners and B2B contracts. Revenue comes from software subscriptions, hardware sales, IP licensing, and reseller and service agreements. This is the engine that scales the technology nationally and sustains everything else.

Our affiliated 501(c)(3) nonprofit does two things, and they're inseparable:

• It places ClearPath systems with individuals and families who couldn't otherwise afford them. This is where the proof points come from — real homes, real outcomes, real data that strengthens the commercial case.
• It partners with regional career and technical education (CTE) programs to give students hands-on experience across the full lifecycle of a real product line — not just the assembly bench. Students work alongside the company in electronics manufacturing, product design and development, marketing and brand work, accounting and operations, and customer support. They graduate with portfolios, not just certificates, having helped build and ship the systems installed in their own community.

This isn't charity bolted onto a startup. It's a self-reinforcing loop. Commercial revenue funds local equity. Students become the workforce. The nonprofit generates credibility and reach. The LLC carries the model anywhere it can be replicated.

Where We're Going

Now (2026) — ClearPath Remind is live with caregivers and families in our pilot network, including Champions Dashboards for managing multiple users across families and provider settings. ClearPath Guard hardware is in active prototyping, with first home installations and early Fall Risk Score data targeted later this year. Our nonprofit affiliate is being established, with workforce-development partnerships in development to bring student assembly online.

Next (2026–2027) — Cellular-equipped bundles ship nationwide with multi-year service included. Care-team and organizational pricing rolls out for assisted living, home health, group homes, and developmental disability service providers. We pursue HCBS waiver eligibility and state-by-state Medicaid pathways. Guard's predictive fall-risk capability matures from a single-home signal into a longitudinal tool that providers can act on. The nonprofit licenses its first community affiliate to a partner town — same student-built, locally-distributed structure, adapted to its own context.

Horizon (2027 and beyond) — A national network of community-licensed nonprofit affiliates, each feeding its local placement program and training its local students. Predictive safety becomes a standard expectation in independent-living households the way smoke detectors became standard in the 1970s — quiet, expected, and preventing harm before it happens.

The Promise

Eleven thousand Americans turn 65 every day. Roughly seven million Americans live with an intellectual or developmental disability. Millions more are recovering from a hospital stay, managing a chronic condition, or caring for someone who is. The next twenty years of independent-living support cannot be built only inside hospitals and facilities. It has to be built into the homes where people actually want to live, by people who actually know them, in communities big enough to matter and small enough to care.

And the goal isn't to respond faster when something goes wrong.

The goal is to see it coming.

We listened. Now we're building what they asked for.