A father-and-son labor of love.

Articulo is built by two people: David, a dad, and Cole, his son. We're both dyslexic. We both grew up with speech issues — the kind where you know exactly what you want to say and it comes out too fast, or jumbled, or not the way you heard it in your head.

We're not the first in our family. David's father had the same thing. So did his father. Several generations of men in our line have worked through the same struggle, each one mostly on his own, each one figuring it out the hard way.

When it showed up in Cole, we recognized it immediately. What we also recognized was how little had changed about the practice part. A speech therapist can only see a kid so often. Everything in between is worksheets, repetition, and an adult saying "say it again" — which is exhausting for the kid and the adult, and quietly stops happening after a couple of weeks.

So we built it, nights and weekends. We started with the problem we know best — pace and clarity — and built an app that measures what a therapist measures, scores every word, saves every attempt, and turns it into progress a kid can see. Then we asked a speech-language pathologist to tell us everything we'd gotten wrong, and she's been part of it ever since.

We're testing it now with real families and real therapists. It's free while we get it right. If it helps one kid feel a little less alone with this — a little more in control of their own voice — it will have done its job.