Person layer, the flagship
Hello, It's Me®
A Medicaid-reimbursable assistive technology platform built for adults with IDD. Structured digital interaction, engagement coaching, and three ways to access it.
Healthcare Technology for the IDD Care System
Every person deserves to be seen.
Focus EduSolutions builds healthcare technology for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We make people seen, supported, and connected.
WCAG 2.1 AAHIPAA-awareMedicaid HCBS eligible through Hello, It's Me®
Where You Fit
Three doors into the same mission.
Door 01
Investors
A platform closing a 7 million person gap. See the thesis.
See the thesis Door 02Providers and Payers
Tools and a trained workforce for the people in your care. See the platform.
See the platform Door 03Families and Advocates
Technology built for the person, not adapted from something else. Meet Hello, It's Me®.
The Root Problem
Loneliness is the surface. Invisibility is the root.
People with IDD go unseen by the systems built to support them. What goes unseen goes unsupported. What goes unsupported gets lost. We build the technology that ends the invisibility.
7M+
Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States.
Source: CDC NCBDDD
$60B+
Annual Medicaid expenditure on IDD services.
Source: CMS 2023 Expenditures Report
<10%
Of adults with IDD regularly take part in community digital activities.
Source: National Core Indicators 2022 to 2023
The Flagship
Hello, It's Me®, the platform built for the person.
A Medicaid-reimbursable assistive technology platform built from the ground up for adults with IDD. Structured digital interaction, engagement coaching, and multiple ways to access it.
The Platform
One platform. Two layers. One purpose.
We serve the person and the workforce who support the person. The connection between the two is the whole company.
Why Trust Us
Evidence, not adjectives.
Clinical authority
Dr. Karyn Harvey, Chief Clinical Architect. 35 years of IDD research, published by AAIDD.
State traction
One contracted state, Missouri. Four more in the pipeline.
Standards
WCAG 2.1 AA, HIPAA-aware, Medicaid HCBS aligned.
Why We Exist
We build the recognition and care the system misses.
The Founder
Nothing was missing in my cousin. What was missing was a system willing to see him.
Read the full founder noteThree Fault Lines
Where the system breaks the connection.
01
The workforce crisis
Direct support professional turnover runs 43 to 50 percent nationally. Some organizations report 70 percent or higher. The people closest to the individual leave before they are trained to recognize what matters. VantageIDD answers this.
Source: NADSP workforce data.
02
The transition cliff
Young adults with IDD lose school-based services at 21 and fall into a system with few coordinated supports. The drop is sharp and the options are thin.
Source: State transition policy summaries.
03
The fragmentation
The person, the workforce, and the funding rarely connect. Information sits in silos. The individual carries the cost of the gaps.
Source: IDD system coordination reports.
What We Deliver Today
Hello, It's Me®, the Medicaid-reimbursable assistive technology platform. VantageIDD, workforce certification and training. RelateSpark, group relationship coaching for adults with IDD.
Direction, not current delivery
Where We Are Going
We are building toward vocational rehabilitation and employment supports, so the path does not end at connection. These pathways are in development, not live. We name them as direction, not as current delivery.
The Platform
The person and the workforce, on one system.
Most tools serve one side. We connect both. The workforce VantageIDD certifies supports the individuals on Hello, It's Me®. The data, the training, and the care move together.
The Architecture
Two layers, one connection.
Person Layer
Tools and connection for the individual
Purpose-built interaction, life skills, and relationship coaching.
Workforce Layer
Certification for the people who provide care
Training aligned to recognized standards of practice.
01
Person layer
Hello, It's Me® gives the individual a purpose-built platform for interaction, life skills, and communication. RelateSpark adds group relationship coaching as a guided Program.
02
Workforce layer
VantageIDD certifies and trains direct support professionals and support coordinators against CMS Core Competencies and the NADSP Code of Ethics.
03
The connection
A trained workforce supports a seen individual. No competitor links the two layers. This connection is the moat.
The Product Family
Three products. One purpose.
Each product serves a different part of the care relationship. Together they form one platform.
Person layer, a Hello, It's Me® Program
RelateSpark
Group relationship coaching for adults with IDD. Connection and relationship skills, delivered as a guided Program.
Workforce layer
VantageIDD
Certification and training for the IDD workforce. Three tracks, DSP Training, the IDD Case Management Professional Program, and a Custom Program. Built with Dr. Karyn Harvey and aligned to CMS Core Competencies and the NADSP Code of Ethics.
The Ecosystem
Everyone around the person matters.
The individual sits at the center. Every role around them shapes whether they are seen, supported, and connected. We build for all of them.
Individuals with IDD
Tools built for you, not adapted from something else.
Support coordinators and case managers
Certification that meets Medicaid case management standards.
Direct support professionals
Training that gives the role a real professional identity.
Providers and agencies
A trained workforce and a platform your individuals use.
Payers and states
Medicaid-aligned tools with audit-ready documentation.
Advocates and families
Technology that treats the person with dignity.
About Focus EduSolutions
End the invisibility that leaves adults with IDD unsupported.
Mission
End the invisibility that leaves adults with IDD unsupported.
Vision
A care system where every person with IDD lives and works with dignity, supported by the right tools, a trained workforce, and real connection.
The Founder
Why I started this.
I grew up in a middle-class home in India. At 19 I left a steady path and built my first company. First-generation entrepreneur, no safety net, no blueprint. In 2008 I came to the United States. I built education technology for over a decade. The past several years I have built healthcare technology, and I bring every lesson from education into this work.
The reason runs deeper than any company.
I had a cousin. We grew up together, same school from kindergarten, playing side by side. To me he was simply another kid. My cousin, my friend. The bond never broke.
The world saw him differently. People around us looked at him as less, and for a while their frame crept into mine. I sensed something missing in him, and the feeling troubled me.
I was wrong. As I grew up, the truth landed. Nothing was missing in my cousin. What was missing was a system willing to see him. He lived with Down syndrome no one named and no one acknowledged. The problem was never him. The problem was every structure built to support him and failing him.
He died of cardiac arrest. He left this world the way the world treated him, unseen.
I carry him into every part of this work. Across much of the world, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities stay unnamed and unsupported. Even in the United States, with more resources than anywhere, 7 million adults with IDD live outside the digital and social world the rest of us assume. Loneliness is the surface. Invisibility is the root. What goes unseen goes unsupported. What goes unsupported gets lost.
Focus EduSolutions exists to end the invisibility. Hello, It's Me® is a person saying I am here. VantageIDD trains the workforce to recognize the needs no one recognized for my cousin. RelateSpark rebuilds the connection isolation takes. One company. One purpose. Every person with IDD seen, supported, and connected. One hello at a time.
Vik Aurora
CEO and Founder
The Team
The people behind the purpose.
Vik Aurora
CEO and Founder
First-generation entrepreneur. 35 years across education and healthcare technology. MBA, Northeastern University. Vik grew up alongside his cousin, who had Down syndrome, unseen by every system meant to support him. That loss became the foundation for Focus EduSolutions. He has built and scaled education and healthcare technology platforms for over a decade, and brings every lesson from that work into this mission. One company. One purpose. Every person with IDD seen, supported, and connected.
Charles Gaughan, MBA
Chief Growth Officer and EVP of Capital Strategy
Growth advisor with 20+ years building healthcare technology organizations across early-stage and growth-stage companies. Former VP of Business Development and VP of Payer Markets. Charles has led go-to-market strategy, sales leadership, and revenue infrastructure for health information technology companies serving commercial and government-backed healthcare payers. MBA, University of Denver, Daniels College of Business. Focused on market planning, strategic partnerships, and scaling revenue for mission-driven platforms.
Dr. Karyn Harvey, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Architect
Dr. Harvey brings over 35 years of clinical and research experience in intellectual and developmental disabilities. Currently Chief Clinical Officer at REACH Services and formerly a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, she is nationally recognized as an expert in trauma-informed IDD support. She designed the clinical and curriculum architecture underlying every RelateSpark Program. She is not a guest endorser. She built the framework.
One Purpose
Every person with IDD seen, supported, and connected.
For Investors
A platform closing a 7 million person gap.
Adults with IDD sit outside the digital and social systems the rest of us use. Medicaid spends over 60 billion dollars a year on IDD services, and the workforce supporting these individuals turns over at 43 to 50 percent.
Source: NADSP workforce data. Source: CMS 2023 Expenditures Report.
Focus EduSolutions connects the person and the workforce on one platform. Hello, It's Me® leads. VantageIDD trains the workforce. The connection is the moat.
Sources: CDC NCBDDD (population). CMS 2023 Expenditures Report (Medicaid spend). NADSP workforce data (turnover).
Public Proof
Real traction, named sources.
State traction
One contracted state, Missouri, with four more in the pipeline.
Clinical authority
Clinical architecture by Dr. Karyn Harvey, Chief Clinical Architect.
Standards
Aligned to Medicaid, HCBS, and NADSP standards.
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