Convergent Design, Inc.

What Convergent Design, Inc. does

Convergent Design, Inc. operates Maria, a senior safety service delivering fall detection through hardware deployed in the home environment. The system detects falls without requiring the senior to wear, charge, or carry any device and without using cameras, addressing the compliance and privacy limitations that constrain wearable-based competitors. The product includes baseline learning that personalizes detection to individual behavioral patterns, reducing false positives, and sends real-time alerts plus scheduled morning/evening reports to caregivers. An optional Live Backup add-on extends monitoring capability.

The commercial model is a direct-to-consumer subscription with hardware included, offered through a self-serve e-commerce website. Pricing tiers include Maria Night (starting at $19/month), Maria 24 (24-hour coverage), and Maria Insights (analytics and reporting add-on). Target customers are seniors living independently or with fall risk concerns, and the family members or professional caregivers responsible for their wellbeing. Marketing and sales are digital-first via the company website, with no disclosed channel partners, resellers, or institutional customers.

Convergent Design is a private company headquartered in Colorado Springs, United States, founded in 2000, with 11–50 employees. Leadership includes founder/owner Mike Schell and technical director Andy Mangrum. No funding rounds, partnerships, awards, patents, or geographic expansion are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Convergent Design, Inc.

Legal name

Convergent Design, Inc.

Website

https://convergent-design.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Convergent Design, Inc. offers Maria, a direct-to-consumer subscription service using in-home hardware to detect senior falls without wearables, cameras, phones, or charging, with alerts and reports delivered to caregivers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Colorado Springs

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware + Software Subscription: Monthly subscription model that includes hardware devices for home deployment. Customers pay a recurring monthly fee for access to the fall detection service, monitoring capabilities, caregiver alerts, and reporting features. The model includes multiple service tiers (Maria Night, Maria 24, Maria Insights) offering different levels of coverage and features, with upsell opportunities through optional Live Backup feature.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Convergent Design, Inc. sells Maria, a subscription-based senior safety service that detects falls in the home without requiring any wearable, camera, phone, or charging from the senior. Hardware sensors are deployed in the home to monitor activity, detect falls, learn individual baselines, and send alerts plus activity reports to caregivers. The service is sold direct-to-consumer with hardware included in the monthly subscription starting at $19.

Product overview

Convergent Design, Inc. offers Maria, a unified senior safety service focused on practical fall detection. The product portfolio includes Maria Night and Maria 24 as subscription tiers offering different monitoring coverage periods, Maria Insights as an add-on providing caregiver reports and baseline learning analytics, and optional Live Backup feature. Hardware is included with subscriptions starting at $19/month, with deployment described as privacy-first home-based monitoring without wearables, cameras, or phone requirements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Maria: Senior safety service focused on practical fall detection without requiring a wearable, camera, phone, or charging. Products include Maria Night, Maria 24, and Maria Insights.

Products and services

• Maria Maria is a senior safety service providing practical fall detection without requiring a wearable, camera, phone, or charging. The service deploys hardware in the home to monitor seniors, detect falls, learn individual behavioral baselines, send alerts to caregivers, and deliver morning and evening caregiver reports. Hardware is included with monthly subscriptions starting at $19.

Quantifiable outcome

• Pilot validation results mentioned but specific metrics not disclosed

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Medical Guardian: Leading direct-to-consumer PERS provider offering in-home and mobile medical alert devices with fall detection options. Directly competes with Maria for the same seniors and caregivers on a subscription basis.
• Bay Alarm Medical: Established PERS company selling in-home and on-the-go medical alert systems with fall detection. Comparable subscription pricing, target customer (seniors and caregivers), and DTC distribution model.
• Life Alert: Iconic PERS incumbent with strong brand recognition among seniors, offering emergency response and fall-related services. Direct competitor with overlapping product functionality and target market.
• Aloe Care Health: Smart-home senior care platform combining in-home hardware with caregiver alerts and fall detection. Closest comparable to Maria in terms of hardware-plus-software, privacy-conscious design, and subscription model.
• Essence Group: Provider of remote care and fall detection solutions for seniors using in-home sensors and connected care platforms. Comparable on non-wearable, sensor-based fall detection and elderly care use cases.

Emerging players

• Vayyar Home: Radar-based fall detection technology provider that, like Maria, avoids wearables and cameras. Comparable on the underlying technology approach (non-wearable, privacy-first sensors) and target use case.
• CarePredict: Activity and health monitoring platform for older adults using wearable sensors with analytics and caregiver insights. Overlaps with Maria Insights on behavioral baseline learning and caregiver reporting.

Broad incumbents

• Philips Lifeline: Long-standing PERS service backed by a global healthcare conglomerate. Direct competitive overlap on fall detection for seniors with the credibility and distribution of an enterprise parent.
• Amazon Alexa Together: Amazon's elder-care subscription offering leveraging Alexa-enabled devices for remote senior monitoring and fall alerts. Comparable subscription care model with massive distribution through Echo devices already in homes.
• Apple (Fall Detection on Apple Watch): Apple Watch ships with fall detection and emergency SOS included with hardware millions of seniors already wear. Represents a powerful free alternative that constrains pricing and adoption for dedicated PERS services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/convergentd
• Facebookfacebook.com/convergentd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/convergent-design

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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