Romeo
now
How are you doing this week? Not the baby, you.
Mini-step · For you
Done
Not now
Everyone asks how she is. Everyone asks about the baby. Nobody asks about you.
So you hold it together in the day, lie awake at night, and tell everyone you’re fine. Elmest is the place where you don’t have to.
1 in 10
fathers go through depression in the year around a birth.
Paulson and Bazemore, JAMA, 2010
3 to 6
months after the birth is when it shows most, long after the visits stop.
Paulson and Bazemore, JAMA, 2010
Sideways.
In men it often shows as a short fuse, long hours, going quiet or a few more drinks, not as sadness.
Meet Romeo.
An AI companion for fathers and partners. He listens first, keeps it short, and knows when to bring in a human.
Listens first
Start with what happened. He finds the words with you.
One step, not a lecture
One thing for tonight, never a list of twenty.
Remembers what matters
The baby’s name, what helped. Forgets on request.
Knows when to call in a human
He tells you who to call when it’s too much.
Everything happens in one quiet conversation.
You talk, Romeo answers, and the useful things land on your phone.
Your tiredness, your worry, how this year is landing on you. Romeo asks, and he means it.
When you feel useless, he finds the part that’s yours to carry, and starts you on the first step.
What she may be going through, and what tends to help. He never assesses her or tells you what to watch for.
Reminders, alarms and your calendar, set right from the conversation, on your own phone.
Keep a few people you trust close. When it would help, Romeo offers to call or text one of them.
Speak instead of typing. Your phone turns your voice into words, and Elmest never receives the sound.
What you write stays yours.
A private account of your own. Nothing you write is shown to her, sold or counted.
Not shared with her
Nothing counted
Your voice stays with your phone
Yours to take or delete
Steady when it’s heavy. Human when it matters.
Every message is checked for danger first. If it’s urgent, Romeo gives you the emergency number for where you are.
Every message checked first
The right number in over 240 countries
Never a diagnosis
Two people. Two private experiences. One family transition.
Bloomest is for her, with Laurence. Elmest is for you, with Romeo. One family code opens both, and each of you gets a full year of your own.
“I came for the children. I stayed for the mothers.”
N. Lacroix
Elmest is for the one standing beside them.
After twenty years with children and their mothers, N. Lacroix built Bloomest for the season no one prepares a mother for. Elmest is the space she made for the partner: someone finally asking how he is.
Asked, answered.
Anything else on your mind? Write to us, and a person reads every message.
Who is Romeo?
Is Romeo a doctor or a therapist?
Can my partner see what I write?
Does Romeo assess my partner?
Where does my access come from?
Which languages does Romeo speak?
Your year may already be waiting.
Download the app and enter your family code. Nothing to pay.
