About

Why kapwa?

Kapwa (Tagalog) — the self in the other; the recognition that another person is not separate from you.

Home care in America runs, to a remarkable degree, on the Filipino diaspora and on immigrant caregivers of many roots — people who carry kapwa into other people’s homes every day. The industry has never had infrastructure worthy of that. We’re building it.

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What we believe

Care work is skilled work, and reliability is its signature

The caregiver who shows up through a year of overnight shifts is performing at an elite professional level, and the industry treats that as invisible. We believe making reliability visible — and making the record belong to the person who earned it — changes the economics of care work from the bottom up.

Our commitments

Built-in, not bolted on

These aren’t policies we promise to follow. They’re constraints built into the system’s architecture — each one enforced by the software itself.

No client information in chat, ever.Client details never transit messaging apps. Reports flow through protected channels; clients are referenced by alias only.
Caregivers own their record.CareScore belongs to the caregiver. Cross-agency sharing of an individual's record without consent isn't forbidden by policy — it's impossible by construction.
No credential document images.We track what credentials caregivers hold and when they expire — attestation and dates, never photos of documents.
Network insight is anonymous by birth.Cross-agency intelligence is aggregate-only, with a minimum-population floor built into the aggregation engine itself.
Check-ins only where they belong.Presence check-ins are scoped to awake-overnight shifts — the shifts where they protect caregiver and client alike — and nowhere else.
Measure before claiming.Our numbers come from simulation until a pilot measures them in the real world. We say which is which, every time.
Contact

Talk to us

Agency interested in the pilot, caregiver who wants this at work, or someone who cares about care — we read everything.

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