Our Story

My wife, Rachel, is an occupational therapist. She began her career in a clinic setting, then gradually moved into early intervention home-based car. First a few visits a week, then eventually full-time. She fell in love with the work. Building an intimate relationship with families. The flexibility. The ability to treat in a natural setting instead of being confined to one room all day.

But that freedom came with a cost.

Home-based care is more independent than clinic work. And with it, comes a quiet pile-up of responsibilities: scheduling, confirmations, documentation, mileage, route planning, and the constant mental math of filling, but not over-filling, your day. A schedule may show four one-hour appointments, but the day itself stretches to eight hours once driving, gaps, and last-minute changes are accounted for.

What made it hardest wasn't any single task, it was the mental load. And Rachel consistently found herself ending the day feeling tired not just from the work, but from managing the work.

And this wasn't unique to one agency or one city. As we moved cities and Rachel changed jobs, the same patterns showed up again. Different systems. Different tools. Same problems.

It became clear these challenges are not unique to any agency, they are structural. So many tools in healthcare are built around clinics, hospitals, and centralized coordination. Very few are designed around the lived reality of practitioners who work in homes, largely managing the admin work on their own.

As Rachel made plans to start her own practice, I wanted to help.

I can't treat patients. I can't drive her between visits. But I can build something.

Tenyla was created to reduce the mental burden that follows therapists throughout their day. To be a tool that feels like something that supports them, rather than something they have to constantly manage. A tool that understands that care doesn't begin when you arrive at the door, and it doesn't end when you leave.

Rachel's feedback shaped every part of this product. But the goal was always larger than one person. Home-based providers—early intervention therapists, pediatric and adult clinicians, nurses—do some of the most critical work in healthcare, often with the least visibility and the fewest tools built specifically for them.

If we can make their days calmer, more predictable, and more sustainable, that is what matters. Not just for therapists, but for the families they support.