A conversation companion for serious illness
Whether the news came today or you've been carrying it a while, you don't have to make sense of it alone. Ask questions, think through decisions, and find support whenever you need it.
Free to use · Private by design
You don't have to organize it first.
What Ember is
Ember is a conversation companion for people facing serious illness. It helps patients and families understand what's happening and prepare for what comes next.
Each Ember companion is built around a specific illness, for the patient and the people beside them.
Working with partners
From single-disease funds to national nonprofits, Ember works with the people already doing this work across many illnesses.
We built Ember after living through serious illness in our own families. When one person is sick, everyone around them carries something too: questions, decisions, fear, and the work of keeping life moving.
Ember is for the person caring for them.
Built by people who've been there.
Read our storyLife doesn't happen all at once. Neither does this conversation.
The first conversation
Let's start with what happened today.
The next appointment
Here's where we left off, and what you wanted to ask.
Weeks later
A lot has changed. Let's make sense of it.
A hard day
You don't have to explain everything at once.
Months later
We can figure out what matters now.
One thing at a time. For as long as it takes.
One question is enough. We can take it from there.