What is the name of your organization?
Wingu
What is the name of your solution?
Cuidos App
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Transforming unpaid care through AI to support caregivers, elevate care recipients, and build gender-equitable health at home.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Buenos Aires
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Argentina
What type of organization is your solution team?
Nonprofit
Film your elevator pitch.
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What specific problem are you solving?
In Latin America and globally, unpaid care work is a critical yet invisible pillar of healthcare systems—especially for people with disabilities, the elderly, or chronic illnesses. The burden of this work falls disproportionately on women, limiting their time, economic autonomy, and well-being. In Argentina, women spend over 6.4 hours per day on unpaid care versus 3.4 hours for men. This inequality undermines gender equity and weakens community health outcomes. Caregivers often lack tools to organize support, leading to stress, isolation, and burnout, which affects both them and those they care for. Globally, over 2.3 billion people need care due to age, disability, or illness, and by 2050 this number will increase significantly due to aging populations. Yet care remains under-resourced, uncoordinated, and undervalued. Our solution addresses this gap by equipping families with AI-powered tools to redistribute care tasks, give voice to care recipients, and relieve the mental load of caregivers—helping shift cultural norms and enabling healthier, more equitable systems of care at home and in communities.
What is your solution?
Cuidos is a mobile app that uses AI to support families and communities in organizing and sharing unpaid care work—especially when caring for people with disabilities, the elderly, or those living with illness. The app helps users create fair, customizable agreements based on individual preferences, stress levels, and availability. It tracks task completion, sends reminders, and provides visual feedback to reduce mental load and household conflict.
Cuidos uses Flutter for cross-platform development and is powered by AI models integrated via ChatBase and Claude. Our algorithms are co-designed with gender and care experts to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and to ensure equitable distribution.
We’re now expanding the app to include care-specific health features, such as suggested tasks and reminders tailored to conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or post-surgical recovery, along with tips and trusted resources to guide caregivers. This will help families understand and manage complex care scenarios with more confidence and compassion.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Cuidos serves families and informal caregivers—primarily women—who carry the invisible and unpaid responsibility of caring for others, especially people with disabilities, older adults, or those living with illness. These caregivers are often overwhelmed, unsupported, and excluded from health systems, despite being essential to daily care. In Argentina and across Latin America, this care burden limits their time, well-being, and economic opportunities.
Our solution provides practical tools to organize, redistribute, and recognize care work, giving visibility to those often overlooked. It reduces mental overload by automating reminders, clarifying responsibilities, and enabling communication across family or community groups. With our upcoming health-focused features, caregivers will also receive condition-specific tips and suggested tasks, making them feel more confident and less isolated in their roles.
Cuidos also uplifts those receiving care by giving them a voice in the planning process. Ultimately, it builds more equitable, healthier care ecosystems at home, where everyone’s time and effort is acknowledged.
