Built by a dad who gets it.

The morning everything changed

Audrey is normally a high-energy kid. For a few days she wasn't herself — tired, drinking water constantly, in the bathroom every ten minutes. I didn't put it together. My wife — she used to be a nurse — did. She quietly said, "Let's get her checked."

We went to our normal family doc just to rule things out. The finger-stick was higher than their meter could read. They told us to drive straight to Children's Hospital Colorado. She stayed overnight. She was starting to go into DKA. She was five.

We landed in the hands of the team at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes. They were extraordinary. They taught us what Type 1 actually is, how to give injections, how to count carbs, how to think about diet and activity, how pumps and sensors and apps fit together. They walked two terrified parents through the whole thing without ever making us feel small.

Audrey is seven now. She's thriving. She represents the Barbara Davis Center and the Children's Diabetes Foundation at events around Colorado. She's already braver about T1D than I am about most things.

Why we're building CarbCue

Carb counting is the unglamorous, every-meal, every-day work of T1D. You do the math at breakfast. You do it at lunch. You do it at dinner. You do it again at the birthday party. You do it standing in front of a restaurant menu while your kid asks why this is taking so long.

We didn't want to build another medical device. We wanted a fast way to look at a plate and get a useful, honest carb estimate with the shape of what's coming. So you can plan. So you can stop second-guessing the cupcake. So dinner doesn't feel like a quiz.

What CarbCue does

• Takes a photo of the meal.
• Returns an AI-assisted carb estimate with a confidence rating.
• Shows you the breakdown by item, so you can edit anything.
• Draws an illustrative absorption curve so you can picture the next two hours.
• Keeps a log you can scroll back through.

What CarbCue is not

It is not a medical device. It does not recommend insulin doses. It does not measure blood glucose. The curve is not a prediction of what your child's CGM will show. Always defer to your care team and trust your sensor in real time.

If you're newly diagnosed

We've been there. The first week is a blur. The first month is a firehose. It does get calmer. A few things we wrote that might help:

• The morning we found out
• What a newly-diagnosed family actually needs in the first 30 days
• Pumps, pens, CGMs, and apps — what each one actually does