Founded
Sensory Bridges, January 2025. MMMmc LLC, June 2026.
Sensory Bridges · An Innovation Co.
A discreet cue. Clearer communication.
Brooks Band™ is pre-release support technology built around a person's own baseline. A private vibration can offer a moment to pause or use a chosen support strategy. MirrorMatch™ is being developed to turn that context and personal preferences into clearer communication with families, educators and trusted care teams.
General wellness. Not a diagnosis or a medical device.
“With the Brooks Band, we're not just helping people speak. We are helping them be heard.”
Megan Cales · Founder & CEO
01 — The company
One company, one mission.
Sensory Bridges builds the Brooks Band. MMMmc: An Innovation Co. is the parent company — it holds the filed patents, copyrights and trademark and builds the software that runs on top of the band. Two entities, one mission.
“Nobody should be reduced to a 40-page file. We build tools that help people be understood on their own terms — especially when explaining what they need is difficult.”
Where
Built in the Southeast, for care that happens everywhere.
Protected
Patents, copyrights and trademark filed.
02 — The Brooks Band
Brooks Band™: the insight tool for the unseen.
Built on Samsung Galaxy hardware, the current watch prototype compares voice-level measurements to the wearer's own calibrated baseline and can give a private vibration. Context and recovery records are being refined to help people explore what support appears useful — not tell others what someone thinks or feels.
The person owns what the band produces. Not us, not a hospital, not an insurer.
- Your own baseline — compared only to you, never to an average.
- A private cue — what you do next is your choice.
- Derived records — not routine conversation transcripts.
- Sharing designed around permission and trusted supporters.
03 — The founder
I'm not an engineer.
I'm a mom. I'm also neurodivergent, which means I spent a long time being the person in the room who couldn't explain what was wrong in a way anyone could use.
Brooks Band started at my kitchen table, with a child who couldn't explain what was hurting and a mother who could see it anyway. I built the thing I couldn't find — a way to show how a day actually went, in words the people around you can act on.
Everything since — the studies, the filings, the pilots — came out of that. I'm still the one answering the email.
Project Healthcare — newest cohort graduateVanderbilt Builder Program alumNSF Mid-South I-CorpsSXSW alumLife Sciences alumCode Launch alum
Megan Cales · Founder & CEO, Sensory Bridges and MMMmc: An Innovation Co.
More about Megan04 — The problem
Communication differences can be misunderstood.
30 minutes
is often all a clinician or teacher gets to decide what someone needs.
7.4M
Americans 65+ live with Alzheimer's dementia, and 2M live with aphasia.
1 in 5
therapy clients drop out early, often before the fit is right.
1 in 2
U.S. adults report feeling lonely.
The deepest hurt families describe is being misread — reduced to codes and a 40-page file.
Figures from published U.S. data. Sources on request.
05 — How it works
Sense. Understand. Belong.
Sense — Brooks Band™
A pre-release watch build on Samsung Galaxy hardware compares selected measurements to the wearer's own baseline and can offer a discreet vibration. Routine records use derived measurements, not conversation transcripts; some wearer-verification processing may use the cloud.
Understand — MirrorMatch™
A developing 'How to Support Me' experience: how you communicate, what helps, and what can feel overwhelming. Personalized profiles and authorized summaries are being refined with the person at the center.
Belong — the playform
Motivation is built in to the design: chosen routines, rewards and visual progress that celebrate effort, confidence and growing independence. These connected experiences are being developed — not punitive scores or rankings of people.
Same baseline, three layers. That is the whole company.
06 — Who it's for
Built for the people in the room.
Therapists & counselors
Explore context and recovery patterns between sessions alongside professional observations — a starting point for discussing what may help.
Doctors & care teams
A longer view than a single visit — shared only when the person chooses to share it.
Educators & school teams
Private cues and personalized 'How to Support Me' information, designed to support student dignity and communication.
Families & caregivers
Words for what you already sense, and a way to hand it to the next person.
Neurodivergent adults
Your baseline, your words, your call on who sees what.
Court professionals
A development and validation pathway for baseline context alongside professional review — not a safety score, custody recommendation or court-validated product.
07 — Where we are
Honest status.
- now
Current watch prototype
Built on Samsung Galaxy hardware, with individualized baseline measurement and private cueing. Active development and testing; not generally available for public purchase.
- done
Protected
Patents, copyrights and trademark filed.
- done
Recognized
The Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Project Healthcare and regional press.
- now
Pilot sites forming
Approved pilot opportunities are scoped with schools, therapy practices and families before use. Features and timing depend on readiness.
- next
Connected experiences
MirrorMatch, reporting and the playform are being developed and refined. Future hardware remains a separate development step; final features and timing may change.
08 — Three ways in
Three ways in.
Pilot sites
Schools, therapy practices, clinics and home-health agencies interested in exploring the pre-release watch build. Devices, setup, training and scope are agreed before use. Your setting and feedback help shape the work.
Apply to pilotEarly testers
Families, caregivers and neurodivergent adults who want MirrorMatch first. Your feedback shapes it.
Join the waitlistClinician advisors
An hour of your time, a few times a year. Look at what we're building and tell us where it's wrong.
Advise us09 — Privacy
Built so the person stays in charge.
- You own your data — it is never sold, and you can export it or delete it.
- Local processing with cloud-connected wearer verification where configured
- Routine records use derived measurements, not conversation transcripts
- Sharing designed around your choices
- Revocable access within applicable consent and legal requirements
- Encryption and role-appropriate views are part of the design
General wellness, not a diagnosis or a medical device. Care decisions stay with clinicians.
10 — FAQ
What people ask first.
Want to see it?
A 20-minute call, an honest look at where we are, and a straight answer about whether this fits your setting.