Strengths first
Most misunderstandings live in the room, not the person. We build for what people do well — stronger first 90 days on a job, less burnout from masking, smoother life transitions.
Sensory Bridges · An Innovation Co.
Walk into every room understood.
Brooks Band helps you understand yourself in the moment. Bridges helps the people around you understand you too.
General wellness. Not a diagnosis or a medical device.
“With the Brooks Band, we're not just helping people speak. We are helping them be heard.”
Megan Cales · Founder & CEO
01 — How we think
People aren't problems to fix.
After the front door
Every new job, school, team or relationship asks neurodivergent people to start over explaining themselves. We build what happens after that front door opens, so what helps you travels with you from room to room.
Farther together
Understanding runs both ways. The tools help the people around you learn how to be with you — not just help you cope. Paired Brooks Band users can share their How to Be With Me connection cards with each other, so managers and teams know how to support without guessing.
02 — The company
One company, one mission.
Sensory Bridges builds the Brooks Band and Bridges, the patent-pending connection platform underneath. One team, one mission.
“Nobody should be reduced to a 40-page file. We build tools that help people be understood on their own terms — especially when explaining what they need is difficult.”
Founded
Sensory Bridges, January 2025.
Where
Built in the Southeast, for care that happens everywhere.
Protected
Bridges is patent pending.
03 — The Brooks Band
Brooks Band™: the insight tool for the unseen.
A wearable that uses your voice and body signals to help you understand yourself in the moment, and learns you over time against your own data, never anyone else's.
Brooks Band runs on Bridges, our patent-pending connection platform. Patent pending
The person owns what the band produces. Not us, not a hospital, not an insurer.
- Your own baseline — compared only to you, never to an average.
- A private cue — what you do next is your choice.
- Derived records — not routine conversation transcripts.
- Sharing designed around permission and trusted supporters.
04 — The founder
I'm not an engineer.
I'm a mom. I'm also neurodivergent, which means I spent a long time being the person in the room who couldn't explain what was wrong in a way anyone could use.
Brooks Band started at my kitchen table, with a user who couldn't explain what was hurting and a mother who could see it anyway. I built the thing I couldn't find — a way to show how a day actually went, in words the people around you can act on.
Everything since — the studies, the filings, the pilots — came out of that. I'm still the one answering the email.
Project Healthcare — newest cohort graduateVanderbilt Builder Program alumNSF Mid-South I-CorpsSXSW alumLife Sciences alumCode Launch alum
Megan Cales · Founder & CEO, Sensory Bridges
More about Megan05 — The problem
Communication differences can be misunderstood.
30 minutes
is often all a clinician or teacher gets to decide what someone needs.
7.4M
Americans 65+ live with Alzheimer's dementia, and 2M live with aphasia.
1 in 5
therapy clients drop out early, often before the fit is right.
1 in 2
U.S. adults report feeling lonely.
The deepest hurt families describe is being misread — reduced to codes and a 40-page file.
Figures from published U.S. data. Sources on request.
06 — How it works
Notice. Choose. Connect.
Notice
A gentle private cue on the wrist, compared only to your own data — never anyone else's.
Choose
You decide what is shared, with whom and for how long. Nothing is shared unless you say so.
Connect
Pair with someone you trust — a teammate, manager, partner or therapist — and you both see what helped.
Brooks Band runs on Bridges, our patent-pending connection platform.
07 — Connection cards
How to Be With Me
Your How to Be With Me card is your own short guide to what helps you, written in your words. Make a connection card for each room in your life: family, friends, a partner, your doctor or therapist, your manager, a teammate or a cofounder. Share it with a quick scan, like trading contact cards. You choose who sees it and for how long. They try what helps, send a quick note back on how it landed, and your card gets better over time.
For my manager
- Give me the agenda before meetings.
- Written follow-ups help me most.
For my teammate
- A quiet check-in works better than a group one.
- Clear priorities help me do my best work.
For my therapist
- Let me write things down before we talk.
- Recap what we decided at the end.
For my family
- A little heads-up before plans change helps.
- Quiet time after a busy day recharges me.
08 — Who it's for
Built for the people in the room.
Neurodivergent adults
Our first focus: adults entering and growing in the workforce. Your baseline, your words, your call on who sees what.
Teams & employers
Managers and teams who know how to support without guessing — stronger first 90 days, less burnout from masking.
Therapists
Explore context and recovery patterns between sessions alongside professional observations — a starting point for discussing what may help.
Families
Words for what you already sense, and a way to hand it to the next person.
Schools
Coming in spring: private cues and personalized 'How to Support Me' information, designed to support student dignity and communication.
09 — Where we are
Honest status.
- now
Current watch prototype
Built on Samsung Galaxy hardware, with individualized baseline measurement and private cueing. Active development and testing; not generally available for public purchase.
- done
Protected
Bridges is patent pending.
- done
Recognized
Audience Choice, NeuroTech Frontiers 2026 (Vanderbilt University), and the 2026 ChaTech TechX Early Innovator Award.
- now
Pilot sites forming
Approved pilot opportunities are scoped with schools, therapy practices and families before use. Features and timing depend on readiness.
- next
Connected experiences
MirrorMatch, reporting and the playform are being developed and refined. Future hardware remains a separate development step; final features and timing may change.
10 — Three ways in
Three ways in.
Pilot sites
Schools, therapy practices, clinics and home-health agencies interested in exploring the pre-release watch build. Devices, setup, training and scope are agreed before use. Your setting and feedback help shape the work.
Apply to pilotEarly testers
Families, caregivers and neurodivergent adults who want MirrorMatch first. Your feedback shapes it.
Join the waitlistClinician advisors
An hour of your time, a few times a year. Look at what we're building and tell us where it's wrong.
Advise us11 — Privacy
Built so the person stays in charge.
- You own your data — it is never sold, and you can export it or delete it.
- Local processing with cloud-connected wearer verification where configured
- Routine records use derived measurements, not conversation transcripts
- Sharing designed around your choices
- Revocable access within applicable consent and legal requirements
- Encryption and role-appropriate views are part of the design
General wellness, not a diagnosis or a medical device. Care decisions stay with clinicians.
12 — FAQ
What people ask first.
Want to see it?
A 20-minute call, an honest look at where we are, and a straight answer about whether this fits your setting.