Adeptation
We enable cognitive adaptation by leveraging AI to reinforce memory, recall and resilience.
© 2025 Adeptation Inc. | Confidential | Patent Pending
Anand Narasimhan | anand@adeptation.ai
Andy Patrick | andy@adeptation.ai
"Joan has always been the one who remembers every birthday, every story. Lately, she's started losing the details and a bit of herself."
The Aging Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
Currently there are over one billion people worldwide will be over the age of 64. This unprecedented demographic shift brings with it an equally unprecedented challenge: how do we care for cognitive health at scale when traditional healthcare systems are already stretched beyond capacity?
The economic burden of cognitive decline now exceeds $1 trillion annually in the United States alone. Yet despite these staggering costs, access to meaningful, continuous cognitive care remains woefully inadequate. Current solutions are episodic, reactive, and fail to address the daily lived experience of cognitive change.
1B
People Over 64
Double by 2050
$1T
Annual Cost
Of cognitive decline in US
35%
Modifiable Risk
Through behavioral intervention
"Some days Joan feels foggy and searches for a word that's right there but won't come. It's frustrating, and a little frightening."
The Cognitive Gap: Why Current Solutions Fall Short
Traditional cognitive assessment happens in annual memory tests that capture a single moment in time. But cognition doesn't decline on a schedule. It shifts gradually, day by day, influenced by sleep, stress, social engagement, and countless other factors that episodic testing simply cannot capture.
Digital brain training apps offer daily engagement but lack personalization and adaptive depth. They treat all minds the same, failing to understand the unique cognitive fingerprint of each individual. Meanwhile, emerging AI companions provide conversation but miss the sophisticated cognitive modeling needed to truly support memory resilience.
The result is a profound gap: people experiencing cognitive change have nowhere to turn for continuous, personalized, adaptive support that meets them where they are and evolves with them over time.
"Her doctor gives her a memory test once a year. But cognition doesn't fade once a year, it shifts every day."
The Breakthrough: Adaptive Cognitive Reinforcement
Adeptation introduces a fundamentally new approach to cognitive health: Adaptive Cognitive Reinforcement. Using advanced AI, we model, monitor, and continuously reinforce cognition in ways that feel natural, personal, and deeply human.
Our system doesn't just test memory, it engages with it. Through everyday conversation and interaction, Adeptation builds a rich, multidimensional understanding of how each person thinks, remembers, and communicates. This cognitive model evolves over time, capturing subtle patterns that reveal not just what someone remembers, but how they remember.
01
Continuous Engagement
Natural conversation and interaction become the foundation for understanding
02
Personalized Modeling
AI builds a unique cognitive fingerprint for each individual
03
Adaptive Reinforcement
Targeted exercises strengthen neural pathways and support recall
04
Longitudinal Evolution
The system learns and adapts as cognition changes over time
"When Joan starts using Adeptation, she just talks, about her day, her garden, her grandkids. The system listens, learning her rhythm, her stories, her mind."
How Adeptation Works
The Four-Phase Adaptive Loop
Capture
Multimodal intake through natural conversation, voice patterns, and daily interactions
Research shows that speech parameters like pitch variability, speech rate, pause structure, intensity, prosody, and voice quality are associated with depression, cognitive decline, and early neurodegenerative disease.
Analyze
Semantic encoding and cognitive pattern recognition build a personal memory model
Changes in language, semantics, and discourse structure over time provide early indicators of cognitive decline. NLP methods show longitudinal language data are especially powerful for predicting conversion to cognitive impairment, with semantic coherence, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity declining in older adults with cognitive impairment.
Reinforce
Adaptive prompts and exercises strengthen recall pathways and support memory formation
Based on validated tools like the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) for assessing everyday memory errors. Research by Ball et al. (2020) on strategic monitoring and Zita et al. (2022) systematic review show positive evidence for prospective memory training effects in older adults.
Evolve
Continuous longitudinal tracking adjusts interventions as cognitive patterns shift
The convergence of evidence from acoustic biomarkers, language-based markers, validated memory instruments, and reinforcement interventions provides strong rationale for a unified, longitudinal multimodal platform.
"After a few weeks, Adeptation begins recognizing subtle shifts in Joan's recall, guiding her with gentle challenges that spark new connections."
After just a few weeks of engagement, Adeptation begins recognizing the subtle markers of cognitive change — not as clinical data points, but as meaningful shifts in how someone expresses themselves and engages with their world.
The system gently guides users with challenges calibrated to their current capacity, creating positive cognitive stress that strengthens neural connections without causing frustration or overwhelm.
Three Elements of Adeptation's multimodal cognitive memory and reinforcement technology are patent pending covering cognitive adaptation, privacy, and psychological safety.
Why Cognitive Resilience Matters
"Joan starts remembering little details, old jokes, favorite recipes. Her confidence returns, and so does her joy."
Cognitive health is not merely the absence of decline, it's the presence of vitality, independence, and connection. When people maintain their cognitive resilience, they remain engaged with life, relationships, and purpose. They continue to contribute their wisdom and experience to families and communities.
The research is clear: Risks of cognitive decline are modifiable through lifestyle and behavioral adaptations.. Yet most people lack access to the tools and support needed to make meaningful changes. Adeptation bridges this gap, making evidence-based cognitive care accessible, engaging, and effective.
The impact extends far beyond memory. Users report improved mood, greater confidence in social situations, reduced anxiety about cognitive change, and a renewed sense of agency over their own minds. For many, it's the difference between fearing the future and embracing it.
Independence
Maintaining autonomy in daily life and decision-making
Social Connection
Staying engaged with relationships and community
Emotional Wellbeing
Reduced anxiety and increased confidence about cognitive health
Market Opportunity: A Global Need
The market for cognitive health technology sits at the intersection of three massive, converging trends: global aging, digital health adoption, and the AI revolution in personalized care. We're meeting an urgent, underserved need that spans consumer, clinical, and corporate wellness sectors.
Our initial serviceable obtainable market (SOM) of $1B focuses on Medicare Advantage plans, progressive healthcare systems, and forward-thinking corporate wellness programs, all actively seeking differentiated cognitive health solutions.
"Joan is one of millions stepping into a new phase of life, ready to stay connected, curious, and cognitively alive."
Traction: From MVP to Real-World Impact
Product Status
- MVP is fully functional, running on Web, iOS, and Android
- Includes speech and recall testing modules
- Adaptive reinforcement loop in place
- Secure, user-owned cognitive graph storage
- Integrated analytics for longitudinal tracking
Pilot Programs (In Progress)
- Two Independent Living Centers (U.S.)
- Deploying Adeptation with aging residents (65–85)
- Focus: memory reinforcement, mood, and confidence tracking
- Data pipeline feeding cognitive graph validation
"From theory to field: real users, real outcomes, real data."
"Joan's success inspired Adeptation's first pilots now, dozens of residents are beginning their own journeys toward cognitive clarity."