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Red Ember on a laptop: a household's week, with what is due today, the appointments for the next seven days and what needs attention.
Red Ember on a phone: the task list, with what is overdue and what is due this week.

From Red Ember families

Hear from caregivers

Red Ember helped me get my son an IEP. I didn’t think he qualified, but Red Ember helped me understand his rights and gave me the exact language to send the school.
KayleeMom of three
I could cry. My son’s waiver benefits were reduced by 80%. Not only did Red Ember point out policy violations, it helped me file an appeal and recover over $8,000 in lost funds.
KaitlynCaregiver & mom of two
Red Ember let me upload the new Colorado calculator, and in less than 5 minutes I had provider-ready forms for signature. Within days the care plan was approved! Seriously saved me over 40 hours.
AndyCaregiver & dad of three

Real experiences from caregivers using Red Ember, including the family who built it. Every family’s situation is different, and results like these are not guaranteed.

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Works in every state

Navigating Medicaid waivers or other disability services?

Five tools for the paperwork side of disability services. They work in every state, from the day you sign up.

Renewals. Eight steps to get ready for the yearly renewal. Upload the paperwork, write down what has changed, and print it all for the meeting.

A renewal in progress in Red Ember: eight numbered steps, three of them done, and the fourth open, with the current service plan uploaded and a note about what has changed for Ellis since last year.

Appeals. Keep the notice dates, write your statement, and get a hearing request drafted for you to send.

An appeal of a cut in respite hours in Red Ember, showing the dates on the notice and what each one means.

Waiver tracking. The program, the renewal date, your coordinator and the paperwork, on one card.

The waiver card in Red Ember: the program, a countdown to the renewal, the coordinator and four filed documents.

IEP review. The school plan, its goals and supports as they are written, and a countdown to the next IEP meeting, kept in one place.

The IEP and 504 plans card in Red Ember: the school, a countdown to the next IEP meeting, three accommodations and three goals as they are written, and the signed plan on file.

Communication log. Every call and email about an issue in one place: who you spoke to, what they said, and what happens next.

The communication log in Red Ember: three contacts about a cut in respite hours, each with what was asked and what was said.

Real screens from Red Ember, with sample data. In Colorado the renewal has nine steps: the last two are the state’s care calculator and the plan that comes back.

State-specific guidance

Disability Guide policy library

If you’re managing a Medicaid waiver, you can ask specific questions about your case. The Disability Guide pulls responses directly from official policies to provide an answer.

  • Colorado
  • Tennessee
  • California
  • Kentucky
  • More states every month

In these states Red Ember also shows the appeal deadlines for your program, and counts them down where it can.

50 Colorado policy documents · 10 Tennessee · 7 California · 8 Kentucky · last checked 5 October 2026

See what Red Ember does for Colorado waivers →

Not your state yet? Everything above already works for you. Tell us where you are and we’ll prioritize it.

Disability Guide answering a Tennessee family’s question about a cut in respite hours: how long they have to appeal, where to file, and how to keep services, with the official source the answer came from.

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How Red Ember lightens your load

Turning your mess into order

A brain dump becomes actionable tasks

Just say it out loud, whatever comes to mind.

Hold the microphone button and ramble. Red Ember sorts your brain dump into tasks, shopping lists and things you’re waiting on.

It figures out who the task is for and when it’s due, and shows you the whole list before it saves anything. Nothing gets filed away without you approving it first.

Email becomes a checklist

The one that gets buried

You know the one. It’s sitting in your inbox right now, three days old, and you’ve scrolled past it four times telling yourself you’ll deal with it tonight.

Red Ember reads your inbox and pulls the open to-dos out into an actual checklist — including the things you’re waiting on someone else for, which a normal to-do list has nowhere to put.

Calendar and email access are both optional, and both read-only. We don’t send anything on your behalf.

Needs attention: therapy notes to the CCB two days overdue, a service plan signature page due today, waiting on the pediatrician's skilled-care letter, a dentist booking and CES renewal paperwork.

Color-coded for items that are overdue, due within a week, waiting past a reply date, or marked as important. Everything else is saved without a tag rather than shouting for your attention.

Scattered notes become signature-ready records the stateinsurancedoctorsschools will accept

Saving hours by creating the documentation you need.

Your case manager sends a service plan calculator. Somewhere in it are line items that need a provider’s signature explaining why this help is medically necessary. Figuring that out used to mean digging through old records, cross-referencing diagnoses and compiling proof, taking hours, or an entire weekend.

Now it’s just four simple steps.

  1. You upload the calculator your case manager already sent you.
  2. It reads every task on it — the hours, the frequency, the category.
  3. It matches each one to an active diagnosis and writes why the help is needed.
  4. You download it, ready for a provider’s signature.
One spreadsheet in.
One signature-ready form out.

Scrap paper becomes a pattern you can see

Medication and side-effect tracking, organized enough to spot what changed

Did she take the new dose today, or the old one? Was that rash from the antibiotic or something else? Did the doctor say to stop the old prescription or taper it?

There’s no need to reconstruct things from memory. Red Ember tracks what’s changed, when it changed, and what the doctor said, so you’re not wide awake at 3am racking your brain.

A symptom tracker in Red Ember: thirty days of behavior, sleep and appetite entries drawn as rows of dots shaded mild, moderate or severe, darkest in the middle of the month. Under the latest entry, a note that the Keppra dose changed fifteen days before.
A real screen from Red Ember, with sample data. It shows a medication change next to the entries around it and leaves the conclusion to you and the doctor.

Shared Organizer

Underneath it all, Red Ember is a single place for your family’s calendar, email, tasks, documents, health records, and money.

Not because you need another app to check. Because right now, that information is scattered across six apps, three notebooks, and your own memory, and you’re the only integration between them.

Less time asking “What are we forgetting?” More time knowing “We’ve got it handled.”

Answers, not search results

Ask Ember

Ask Ember uses the information you’ve already added to Red Ember, and can answer questions like:

  • “I have an unexpected hour free, what can I get done?”
  • “Which item on my to-do list should I prioritize today?”
  • “Log a headache for Elliot, started after recess.”

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78%

of family caregivers report burnout. (Our experience tells us it’s a much higher number.)

You’re not tired because you’re bad at this. You’re exhausted because you are quietly doing unpaid jobs: case management, nursing, scheduling and insurance negotiation, on top of your other responsibilities.

Nobody trained you for this. Nobody would call this workload reasonable if it showed up in a job posting.

Red Ember doesn’t take away the caregiving. It removes the part where you are also the filing system: what needs to happen, what already happened, and what needs your attention next.

A Place for Mom / Morning Light Strategy, September 2025 · n=1,029 family caregivers

Built by caregivers for caregivers

We built Red Ember
because caregiving is messy

  • Because sometimes you have five minutes to figure out what needs to happen next.
  • Because you forget things when you’re tired.
  • Because a doctor’s appointment can create ten new tasks.
  • Because one person shouldn’t have to keep an entire care plan in their head.
  • Because the people providing care deserve tools designed around the reality of caregiving.

Red Ember was built from those experiences. We hope it makes yours a little easier.

What it costs

One price for the whole household: everyone on the same page, without more logins to manage or another per-person subscription model.

$15 a month

Start with Red Ember: bring your caregiving details together, keep track of what’s already happened, what needs to happen, and what you’re waiting for. Get some of the caregiving information out of your head and into one place.

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Try it free for 14 days. If it doesn’t lighten the load, it’s not for you; no hard feelings.