HOW IT WORKS

A flashlight, not a spotlight.

Brooks Band™ does one thing well. It gives the wearer a private haptic cue — a gentle vibration only they can feel — when their voice volume rises above their personalized baseline.

A spotlight announces. A flashlight illuminates, quietly, for the person holding it. The Brooks Band is a flashlight for self-awareness.

Wear it.

The Brooks Band looks and feels like a watch. Comfortable, low-profile, and worn throughout the day.

It learns your baseline.

The device calibrates to the wearer’s personal voice-volume patterns — not a one-size-fits-all threshold.

A private cue, when it matters.

A gentle vibration only the wearer feels, the moment their voice rises above their baseline. Nobody else hears a thing.

Self-awareness builds.

Over time, many wearers report noticing their own voice before the cue arrives. That’s the goal — internal awareness, not external correction.

What Brooks Band does — and what it will never do.

What it does

Measures voice volume against a personal baseline
Delivers a private haptic vibration to the wearer
Saves event-level data (timestamps, durations, intensity)
Lets authorized adults review patterns over time
Works across classroom, clinic, and home settings

What it does not do

Record audio — ever. It is architecturally incapable of storing audio
Transcribe or save anything said
Store biometric identifiers
Alert third parties, broadcast to a room, or notify anyone but the wearer
Replace clinical, educational, or therapeutic judgment

General wellness positioning. The Brooks Band is a general wellness wearable. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. It is not a medical device. Educational, therapeutic, and clinical decisions remain with qualified licensed professionals.

Sensory Bridges — Voice Awareness Technology for Every Learner

Voice Awareness Wellness Technology

Helping every learner become aware of their own voice

The Brooks Band is a wearable wellness tool that provides gentle, private haptic feedback for voice volume awareness — giving individuals the ability to self-regulate without constant reminders from others.

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How It Works

Simple for the wearer. Powerful for the team.

The student wears a Samsung Galaxy Watch. The watch quietly observes. The team gets the data they need — without interrupting the student's day.

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Voice Volume Awareness

The watch detects the wearer's own voice volume using on-device sound level measurement. When volume exceeds the wearer's personal range, a gentle vibration provides a private cue that only they can feel.

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Privacy by Design

No audio is ever recorded, stored, or transmitted. The watch measures sound level only — like a sound level meter on the wrist. All processing happens on the device. Only wellness observations leave the watch.

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Personal to Each Wearer

The device learns each wearer's own voice and personal range. Thresholds adjust to the individual — not a one-size-fits-all number. The device distinguishes the wearer's voice from background sound.

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Observation Data for Professionals

Teachers, therapists, and families each receive the observation data relevant to their role. Event counts, timestamps, durations, and acoustic measurements — everything needed for documentation.

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Built for Schools

Runs on Samsung Galaxy Watch in freestanding mode — no paired phone needed. Managed and secured through enterprise device management. Designed for all-day wear in a school environment.

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Dignity First

No public alerts. No visible signals to classmates. No adult having to say "use your inside voice" for the hundredth time. Just a quiet, private tap on the wrist that says: "hey, check your volume."

Who It's For

One device. Every person who supports the student.

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Teachers

Continuous observation data replaces manual tally sheets and memory-based documentation. Voice volume events, sustained engagement periods, and timestamps — all collected automatically.

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Speech-Language Pathologists

Voice volume data, vocalization counts, and return-to-range measurements collected continuously during the school day — not just during therapy sessions.

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Occupational Therapists

Independent wellness observations across multiple streams — supporting sensory and environmental documentation with continuous data instead of periodic in-room observation.

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Families

A plain-language daily summary of your child's day. No technical data — just a warm, honest picture of how things went and what's getting better.

Where We Are

Built through real-world validation

300+

Stakeholder interviews across schools, clinics, and families

Patent Filed

Utility patent application filed and in prosecution

NSF I-Corps

National Science Foundation customer discovery program

IRB Approved

University research study approved and in development

"Every child deserves to learn self-awareness — not be told to be quiet."

Megan Cales · Founder & CEO, Sensory Bridges, LLC

Get Started

Take the next step

Every submission goes directly to our team and receives a personal response within 48 hours.

Join the waitlist to be notified when the Brooks Band becomes available for families. No commitment — just a way to stay connected.

We're accepting a limited number of schools, therapy organizations, and districts for our founding pilot program. Pilots include device access, onboarding support, and documentation templates.

We welcome conversations with technology companies, assessment publishers, school districts, and organizations aligned with our mission to support neurodivergent learners.

We're raising a pre-seed round. Request the investor brief including market sizing, traction data, and financial projections.

Privacy, Compliance & Policies

Privacy Policy

What is collected: Voice volume level (dB), ambient sound level (dB), event timestamps, event durations, and wellness observation labels. No audio recordings. No speech content. No words or conversation. No photographs. No location data in school deployment. All data linked to a de-identified code — never a student name.

On-device processing: All raw sensor signals are processed on the watch and immediately destroyed. A 10-second rolling audio buffer continuously overwrites. No raw data is stored on the device or transmitted. Only derived observations leave the device.

Data transmission and storage: Observation data syncs via encrypted connection at end of school day on school WiFi only. Encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256). No data transmitted to any cloud service, third party, or external server outside the school's platform instance.

Data retention: Data retained for the current IEP cycle (typically one academic year) and automatically purged at end of retention period. Data can be deleted at any time by the authorized adult (parent/guardian) or school administrator.

Cookies & Tracking

This website uses no cookies, no tracking pixels, no analytics scripts, and no third-party advertising code. Form submissions are processed through Airtable, which has its own privacy policy available at airtable.com/privacy. The production platform will use only essential session cookies for user authentication — never advertising, tracking, or third-party analytics cookies. No data from the platform is shared with advertisers, data brokers, or any third party.

FERPA Compliance

All observation data is classified as an education record under FERPA (20 U.S.C. § 1232g) when used in a school setting. The school district is the data controller. Sensory Bridges operates as a "school official" under a FERPA-compliant Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with the district. Parents and eligible students retain all FERPA rights including the right to inspect, review, request amendment, and request deletion of all observation data. No data is disclosed to any third party without prior written parent consent or an applicable FERPA exception.

COPPA Compliance

Under COPPA's school exception (15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506), the school may consent on behalf of the parent for collection of student data for educational purposes only. No data collected under the school exception is used for any commercial purpose. No data is shared with third parties for non-educational purposes. No persistent identifiers are collected. Parents retain the right to review, request deletion of, and refuse further collection of their child's data at any time.

Opt-Out

Any sensor stream can be independently disabled at any time by the authorized adult (parent, guardian, or school administrator). The device can be completely deactivated at any time. All data collection ceases immediately upon deactivation. Previously collected data can be deleted upon request. Contact: privacy@sensorybridges.com

General Wellness Positioning

The Brooks Band is a general wellness assistive technology product. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. It provides acoustic and behavioral observations that support qualified professionals in their own documentation. All educational, therapeutic, and service decisions are made by qualified licensed professionals using their independent professional judgment.