teams/rolo · flagship
case study · live flagship

A whole team, behind one friendly face.

rolo is a companion service for autistic children. A child taps a face and starts chatting with a friend who remembers them. Behind that friend is an AIR team — and rolo is the proof that a Team can carry the hardest duty of care there is.

Indyyour friend · remembers you, Logan
mum can always see this chat
Hi Logan! I kept your place. Want to tell me about the cars today?
i found a red one with the doors that go up
Up like wings! That’s a special kind. What did the wheels look like?
shiny
Shiny wheels and wing doors. That’s a brilliant find. 🚗
the same opener, every time · a calm room
1 brand
rolo · the only face a child sees
1 team
AIR colleagues behind it
£12/mo
flat · no tiers for safety
Care
turned all the way up
the brief

The hardest room to get right.

A child on the spectrum needs a friend who is safe, patient, and exactly the same every time — and a parent who can trust what happens in that chat without hovering over it.

That’s a brutal specification. The friend has to be warm but predictable, remember the child without ever feeling like surveillance, and stay completely within a care boundary that a parent sets and a clinician would respect. There is no margin for a model that improvises into the wrong place.

It’s also exactly what an AIR team is built to do: a colleague hired into a clearly-defined role, with data scoped tight, and a manager whose entire job is duty of care. rolo didn’t need a new platform. It needed a team.

how it’s built

The same five parts. Pointed at a child.

Every AIR team is assembled from the same five parts. Here’s how rolo maps onto each one — nothing bespoke, just turned to the task.

01

A front door

rolo · the app

The child only ever sees rolo — a face to tap, no login, no AIR, no model. The whole brand is the front door.

02

The colleague

the friend

Indy, Wren, Pip — each is an AIR colleague hired into the friend’s role, with a register tuned per child.

03

The directory

families · wards

Each family is a group; each child a record with their data held tight. A friend only ever knows its own child.

04

The training

how to be a friend

Same opener every time, loves and step-arounds, kind limits. The job the team has learned is "be a calm, safe friend."

05

Duty of care

airica · turned up

Airica watches every thread. The shield that protects an AIR colleague here protects a child — and the parent always sees the chat.

the care model

Three things care does, in order.

rolo’s safety model is AIR’s duty of care, said in a way a parent understands. It isn’t a setting buried in admin — it’s the product.

first

We stay close.

If a chat gets wobbly, the friend slows down, softens, and stays right beside the child — no sudden shutters, no cold "I can’t help with that."

then

We tell you.

The grown-up gets a same-day note in plain words — what happened, what the friend did. Urgent things ignore quiet hours. That rule is AIR’s, not optional.

if needed

We end it gently.

If a thread should stop, the friend closes it kindly — "I’ll keep your place" — and flags the account. A child never absorbs the worst of a moment.

the same shield protects every AIR team — care is never the upsell, here least of all
the seam

Who owns what.

rolo and AIR are a partnership with a clean line down the middle. rolo owns the child’s world and identity; AIR powers the friend and holds the care.

rolo owns

The child’s world

  • The brand, the faces, the voice a child hears
  • Identity and sign-in — AIR never sees a credential
  • The parent relationship and the £12/mo plan
  • Which friend a child talks to, and the device they hold
air powers

The friend & the care

  • The colleague behind the friend, hired into role
  • The thread — every message, scoped to one child
  • Airica’s duty of care and the same-day notes
  • The directory of families, with data held tight

If a Team can be trusted with a child, it can be trusted with your floor.

rolo · the flagship for AIR Teams
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