About
We build mobility equipment that doesn't condescend.
Most assistive tech is designed by people who never have to use it. It's beige, it's clinical, it requires a doctor's signature to buy. The Movo X is the opposite — designed for people who refuse to let architecture decide where they can go.
Founder story
"My uncle stopped coming to family dinners."
In 2022 my uncle Raymond, 71, stopped coming to family dinners. We live on the second floor of a Chicago two-flat. The stairs hadn't changed; he had. After a stroke, his right side never came back fully. He could walk on flat ground, slowly. Stairs were over.
We looked at every option. Stair lifts cost $4,500 and would have meant ripping out the banister of a building we don't own. The hospital had a stair-climbing chair — operated by two staff, looked like a piece of farm equipment, and Raymond hated it on principle. Power chairs that climbed existed, but the Scewo we found started at $38,000. The Permobil dealer said he could maybe get insurance to cover 40% after a six-month appeal.
Raymond passed in 2023. The chair would not have saved him. It might have given him a year of Sundays.
I had spent eight years building robotics at [your prior company] when this happened. The technology to climb stairs in a chair isn't hard — Honda solved bipedal stair climbing in 2005. The hard parts are the business model and the safety case. Existing stair-climbing chairs cost what they cost because they are sold through specialty dealers to a small, slow market with custom configuration. If you eliminate dealer markup, custom config, and the assumption that every buyer needs an installer in their home, the chair gets to $9,500.
We started prototyping in [YEAR — fill in]. [N — fill in] prototypes. Independent safety audits. A factory partnership in [location — fill in]. Today we're at the pre-launch stage. Founding 50 reservations are open right now, and production begins as those reservations fill — we'll keep every customer informed week-by-week as we go.
— [Your name], Founder
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What we promise
Honest pricing
One price on the website. No quotes. No "call for pricing." No bundles that hide the real cost. If we ever change pricing, existing reservations are honored at the original number.
Honest reviews
We will never write a fake review or pay an influencer to read a script. Every review on this site is from a real Founding 50 customer with their name attached. If a reviewer says something critical, we publish it anyway.
Honest limitations
The chair does not solve every accessibility problem. We will tell you straight if your specific stairs or use case isn't right for it — even at the cost of the sale.
Team & advisors
Currently 9 people. Engineering (4), operations (2), customer support (2), one founder. Our safety advisor is a former senior engineer at [reputable mobility/robotics company — placeholder]. Our clinical advisor is an OT with 15 years in inpatient rehab. The full team page is coming.
Manufactured in [location] by [partner], a contract manufacturer with 22 years building electric mobility devices. Final QA and battery calibration is done at our Chicago facility before shipment.