For senior living operators
Better programming, in less staff time, across every community you run
Spirantix adds an AI layer to the calendar and resident app you already run. It builds and improves your activity calendar, reaches more residents, gives staff their hours back, learns from each week on its own, and rolls the results up from one community to a region to the whole company. We also teach AI, technology and scam safety in person and online. We are an educational nonprofit.
The short version
Better, less expensive, and more customizable
Those are the three things that decide whether a change is worth making. Here is what we claim on each one, and the rest of this page is the evidence.
Better
The schedule is built from what actually filled the room in your community, not from a template. Each week's attendance and feedback improve the next week's plan, and residents who usually stay in their apartments get invited by name.
Less expensive
You are not buying a second platform. The resident app and the calendar your team already runs stay exactly where they are, and you pay for the AI layer on top of them, not for a replacement.
More customizable
It fits the process you already have instead of replacing it. Your calendar, your forms and your staff routine stay as they are. We fill in the part that is missing and leave the rest alone, in one community or across seventy.
More residents in the room
Activities are planned from what actually filled the room before, not from a template. The residents who usually stay in their apartments get invited by name.
Staff hours back every week
The calendar, the flyers, the reminders and the follow-up are drafted for your team. Staff approve and adjust; the typing goes away.
Insights at every level
What ran, who came, what worked, and where quality of life moved -- for one community, for a region, for the whole company, on one screen.
It learns each week on its own
Every week's attendance and feedback feed the next week's plan. The schedule you approve in March is built on your own community's history, so it fits your residents better than the one you approved in January.
Fits the software you already run
Your resident app, your calendar and your screens stay exactly where they are. We add the AI layer and keep updating the tools staff already open every morning.
Training, in person and online
One staff member per community takes a short prep course and can lead AI, technology and scam safety sessions with our materials. An expert joins you on site once or twice a year.
The comparison
How Spirantix compares, line by line
Every line is marked Live, In build or Planned, so you know exactly where we stand before you talk to us.
What you get on day one: the resident Concierge, one calendar shared with residents and families, reminders they control, photo albums, and the classes. Everything below that says In build or Planned is work we are doing with the first communities that join, and this page will keep saying so until each line is live.
| Feature | Spirantix | Engagement platform LifeLoop, Touchtown, Sagely | Spreadsheets and Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table stakes: what every option covers | |||
| Publish the community calendar to residents and families | Live | Yes | Manual |
| Print the calendar by the day, week, or month | In build | Yes | Yes |
| Create a flyer that prints | In build | Yes | Yes |
| Resident sign-up for an event | In build | Yes | Manual |
| Record who attended | In build | Yes | Manual |
| Count signed up against attended, per event | In build | Yes | Manual |
| See attendance by resident | In build | Yes | Manual |
| Send the family an update | Live | Yes | Manual |
| Resident app or portal | Live in the Concierge | Yes | No |
| Digital signage and in-room TV | No | Yes | No |
| Where the market is moving | |||
| AI suggests activities from what residents like | In build | Yes | No |
| Recommends what to move, combine, or replace, and says why | In build | Not what it is built for | No |
| Scheduled report on one resident's activity and involvement | Planned | Partial | No |
| Event photos become a memory the resident can ask for by voice | In build | Partial | No |
| Residents plan their own activities, and those ideas reach the programmer | Planned | No | No |
| Organization-level insight and recommendations across communities | Planned | Partial | Manual |
| Runs alongside the system you already own | In build | n/a | n/a |
| Training: train the trainer, plus an expert visit once or twice a year | Running today | No | No |
A dash or a no is not a criticism. It is the edge of what a product is built to do, and every option here is in real use by communities that are happy with it. If you are choosing between us and a platform you already own, the honest answer may be both.
The life-story budget
If you already pay for a life-story tool
Life-story capture is usually bought as its own line item, owned by activities, life enrichment, or memory care rather than by whoever signs the engagement platform. Two vendors sell it that way:
- LifeBio licenses story capture directly to communities, so a community's own staff or volunteers gather the stories. It reports use in about 100 communities. Licensing page
- MemoryWell sells resident storytelling to operators, and was in 33 communities across 14 states as of 2018 reporting. Senior Housing News
The buyer is the activities or life-enrichment lead, and in memory care the director of care. Neither is the person comparing engagement platforms, which is why this is not a row in the table above.
What Spirantix covers in the same account
- Stories in the resident's own words, kept with the person they belong to instead of in a separate system
- Photos with names saved against them, plus albums and captions
- Family sees what the member shares, from their own account, with no second login for a story tool
- The calendar and the reminders sit next to those memories, so staff are not keeping two records
- Turning an album into a short video from photos, stories, and audio is being built
Start from what works
Your current tools are not the problem
Whatever you run today got you here. Two of the three options have real strengths, and we would rather name them.
The engagement platform you own
Publishes one calendar to every screen, keeps resident profiles, records attendance, and reports participation. LifeLoop, Touchtown, and Sagely have earned their place in thousands of communities, and their teams know this market well.
Spreadsheets and Word
Cheap, flexible, understood by every staff member, and no training required. A good activity director can run a whole calendar on one tab, and nobody has to approve a purchase.
What neither one does
Neither forms a view of next week and brings it to you. Neither sits with a resident and answers what is on today in their own words. That is the part we added.
Where we add something new
The work that happens after the report
Every item here starts from data your community already collects. None of it asks your team to enter anything twice.
New programs, suggested before you ask
Each month it reads what residents attended and what they asked the Concierge for, then brings a shortlist of programs you do not run yet. Each one comes with the reason: who it would reach, which hour is open, and what it would replace.
Residents plan their own activities
A resident asks the Concierge to set up a bridge game, a walking group, or a call with a grandchild. What residents plan for themselves is the strongest signal a programmer can get, and it arrives as a suggestion instead of a guess.
Reports on one resident, on your schedule
Pick a resident and a cadence: weekly, monthly, or before a care conference. It writes what they joined, what they declined, what they stuck with, and where involvement changed. For staff, and for family when consent is in place.
Which two programs can share an hour
It compares who attends what. Two activities that draw different people can run in the same slot and reach more residents. Two that draw the same people are competing for them, and it shows which one to move.
A week that repairs itself
A cancellation, a rained-out outing, a room suddenly unavailable. It proposes a replacement that suits the people already signed up, sends the prep notes, and regenerates the flyer.
Answers in a paragraph, not a dashboard
Your programming director can ask why the Tuesday group is shrinking, what changed in memory care this quarter, or what to try in the two o'clock slot. The answer comes back in a paragraph they can act on.
Memory care, and every resident
The event is over. The memory is already there
Your manager takes a few pictures and writes a few lines, the way anyone posts to Facebook. That is the whole job.
One post, to everyone connected
Photos and the write-up go out to the community: residents, families, and staff. No retyping, no separate newsletter, no printing.
It lands in each resident's own album
Everyone who was there gets the day saved without doing anything, so "what did I do yesterday?" has an answer with a picture next to it.
The Concierge hands it back
A resident asks what happened on Tuesday, and the Concierge shows the photos and reads the write-up. For memory care, that is a cue, not a file cabinet.
It runs inside the app residents already use
The post appears in the same Concierge the resident talks to, on the same phone or tablet. There is no second app to install and no second login to remember.
The post also collects the feedback
Who opened it, who asked for the photos, who said they would come next time. Engagement with a post is another signal about what to program, and it arrives without sending anyone a survey.
The family sees it the same day
The daughter three states away sees the event without a phone call she does not have time for.
It builds the community the way a good Facebook group does, and it does something Facebook cannot: the memory belongs to the resident, in their own record, and the Concierge can bring it back to them.
Not only software
The training is part of the offering
Software vendors sell software. We also teach, because fear of AI is the other half of the problem, and it spreads through a community that lives together.
A class residents actually attend
What generative AI is, how to ask a clearer question, what to keep private, and how to spot a scam. Single talks, workshops, or a multi-week course.
Many sessions are offered at no cost.
Train the trainer
A staff member at each community takes a short prep course, then delivers the sessions themselves using our materials. Your community stops depending on us to keep teaching, and the person residents already trust is the one standing at the front.
An expert visit, once or twice a year
Someone who knows the material comes to the building, meets residents and staff, and answers the questions that only come up in person.
The measure is not attendance. It is a resident who is less afraid, a family that stops worrying, and a community whose shared mood lifts with them.
Across the whole organization
What one community cannot see alone
Ninety residents is a thin sample. Across seventy communities, every community gets a peer baseline: how its programming compares, and what already worked somewhere like it.
What is gaining interest
Which programs are filling up across the company, and which ones have stopped pulling people in.
What can run together
Where the audiences differ, two programs can share the hour. Where they compete, the calendar shows it.
Where to look closer
A community whose attendance is slipping shows up in the numbers before it shows up in a conversation.
It does not stop at reporting. The organization view recommends what to try next, what to retire, and which two programs can share an hour, and it shows the evidence behind each recommendation. Your programming standards stay yours. What changes is that you can see which parts of them are working.
A win on three sides
Who benefits, and how
The resident
A better day, more of the time. Programs they actually want, a calendar they can ask about, and their memories kept in their own voice.
The community team
Hours back from flyers and sign-up sheets, and next month's program already drafted from what residents actually attend, with the reasoning behind each suggestion.
The organization
Occupancy, length of stay, and lead flow all move on the same three things: a resident who is happy, a family that trusts the place, and programming that keeps earning its hour.
Where the line is
What is live, and what is next
Live today
- The Concierge for residents: people, dates, stories, photos, reminders, and the calendar
- The Spirantix Concierge App: all of it in one place on a tablet, laptop, or phone, with photos and connections the member manages
- Reminder notifications by text and by email, whichever the resident turns on
- A family member or caregiver can help with the calendar, and only with the resident's permission
- "Who is this?" answered from the name you saved against the photo, or by showing the group photo where everyone is named. No face matching in Phases 1 and 2
- ChatGPT integration, for early access members
- Classes and courses that answer the worry about AI
Being built
- Claude integration, with the same account and the same memories
- Family sharing of photos and memories, with the resident deciding what is seen
- In Phase 3 of the app, face matching: it compares a face in a photograph to the people the member already saved. It does not search for who a stranger is, and it does not identify the member
- Memory care support, for a short stay and for the long term
- The sponsor layer: a community, its staff, and its calendar as one account
- Sign-ups, attendance, and the reports that come from them
- Flyer generation, printed calendar views, and family reports
- Program suggestions, resident-planned ideas, and cross-community insight
- Short memory films from photos, stories, and audio
We would rather you know exactly where the line is. The resident side is running now. The sponsor layer is what we are building with the first operators who join us, and the comparison table above will keep saying so until each line is live.
Start here
See it with your own programming
One community, one program, one week. We will show you the resident view and the team view side by side.