Foxy is an AI companion for children with Type 1 diabetes, designed to support the daily routines your family already follows — while giving your child a place to talk, play and gradually take more ownership.
Foxy works alongside your family’s care plan. Parents and clinicians stay in charge of medical decisions.
For children approximately 5–12 · Android beta · Parent/caregiver remains in charge
Most families know what needs to happen. The hard part is making it happen every day when a child is busy, tired, at school, embarrassed, frustrated — or simply fed up with diabetes.
When every routine depends on another reminder from a parent, both sides can get exhausted. Foxy is designed to help the child take a little more of the routine into their own hands, with a companion beside them instead of another adult reminder.
“Hi, I’m Foxy. I have diabetes too. I know it can feel unfair, and some days you just don’t want to think about it. I’m here to talk, play, and help you work through the hard bits so you can get on with the things you actually want to do.”
Foxy is built to feel like a child-side companion: curious about what your child likes, ready for ordinary conversation and games, and present around the diabetes routine without turning every interaction into a lesson.
Foxy can appear around familiar moments in the schedule your family already uses, such as meals, glucose checks, waking and bedtime.
Your child can talk about football, school, games, friends, stories or whatever matters that day. Foxy remembers interests and context across conversations.
Repeated interaction is designed to help surface what makes routines easier or harder for this child — for example boredom, school embarrassment, fatigue, frustration or wanting more independence.
The aim is not to create another diabetes programme on top of the one you already have. Foxy is designed to fit around real family life, and conversation or play can happen naturally when your child wants it.
During a routine, your child can choose to show Foxy a meal or a glucose-meter screen instead of typing or describing everything. The point is to make the interaction quicker and give Foxy the context of what your child is doing at that moment.
For a glucose reading, Foxy can recognize or repeat the number so the routine can continue naturally. The number is not used to judge the child or make treatment decisions. For food, Foxy can recognize what is shown and keep the conversation general and non-judgmental; it does not calculate carbohydrates or calories.
The family beta is designed to explore whether Foxy can help make everyday diabetes management feel less parent-driven and more child-owned.
Foxy supports conversation, engagement and everyday diabetes routines. It does not recommend treatment, calculate doses or tell a child what medical action to take.
If your child asks what to do medically, Foxy directs the question back to you or your diabetes team. Food and glucose information are used only as context for the routine and conversation. Your existing care plan, monitoring tools and clinical guidance remain the source of medical decisions.
The current beta does not give parents a transcript of the child’s conversations with Foxy. We are developing a future parent view around broad patterns and helpful areas to pay attention to, rather than replaying what the child said.
The goal is to give parents useful support without turning Foxy into another way of checking up on the child.
Registration uses a six-digit account ID rather than asking for your child’s name, email address or phone number. Voice is converted to text for the conversation, and raw voice audio is not stored.
Before installation, parents receive the beta consent and privacy information explaining what information the app uses and how it is used.
We are inviting our first families with children approximately 5–12 years old who live with Type 1 diabetes to try the Android beta at home.
We would like families to use Foxy as part of normal life for an initial 1–2 weeks and tell us what really happens: Does your child come back to Foxy on their own? Do they talk, play or ignore it? Does Foxy fit into the routine? Does anything feel awkward or unnecessary?
This is an early beta, and that is exactly why your experience matters. Feedback from the first families will directly shape the product before broader testing.
Meals and glucose checks are natural anchors in a child’s diabetes day. Letting a child show Foxy a meal or meter screen can make the interaction faster and more natural. Foxy uses that information as context for the routine and conversation, not to make treatment decisions.
Foxy is built around the routine your family already follows. Conversation, games and stories are there to make the relationship useful and engaging, not to create another required programme.
The beta does not include a parent transcript of the child’s chats. We want the child to have a genuine relationship with the companion while still keeping parents responsible for care.
No. Your family’s treatment plan, monitoring tools and clinical team remain the source of medical guidance. Foxy supports the everyday experience around that care.
Our goal is simple: give your child a companion who understands the routine, stays interested in the rest of their life, and can help them take a little more ownership over time.
“I initially thought that you and Mom invented this diabetes to control me.”
— A founder’s son, on diagnosis day
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
— Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I suppose that some of you, or maybe your friends, share my pain of being a parent to a child with a clinical condition — or deal with this professionally. Our small team strongly believes in co-creation when it comes to innovative products. We invite you to join our community of like-minded people that will, through comments and suggestions, help us build an excellent product.
We need all sorts of advice, namely:
— Igor, co-founder