November 4, 2025
GiveCare Releases First Open-Source AI Safety Framework for Family Caregivers with New Evaluation Benchmarks
WASHINGTON, D.C. - November 4, 2025 - GiveCare, an AI-native startup dedicated to caregiver safety, today released two foundational preprints - GiveCare and SupportBench - ahead of this week's AgeTech Connect Summit in Atlanta and the Caregiver Action Network's Hill Day in Washington, during National Family Caregivers Month.
"GiveCare: An SMS-First, Multi-Agent Caregiving Assistant with SDOH Screening and Anticipatory Engagement" (PDF) introduces a trauma-informed AI reference system that turns an ordinary phone into an SMS support channel for tracking caregiver burden and surfacing resource suggestions.
"SupportBench: A Deployment Gate for Caregiving Relationship AI" (PDF) establishes a benchmark for longitudinal AI safety, evaluating systems for crisis detection, medical-boundary compliance, and cultural competence before real-world deployment.
"We're building AI that protects caregivers, not just engages them," said Ali Madad, Founder of GiveCare and Board-Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA). "Our goal is to make every caregiving interaction safer - for families, clinicians, and the AI ecosystem itself."
The open-source framework supports efforts to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (OAA), which funds vital nutrition, transportation, and caregiver support services for nearly 12 million older adults each year.
Madad will advocate for OAA reauthorization during Hill Day on November 6, underscoring that technology is designed to complement - not replace - community care infrastructure.
Caregiver stress and SDOH assessments are now available at score.givecareapp.com.
About GiveCare
GiveCare develops open, safety-focused AI systems for family caregivers. Its SMS-first assistant and evaluation frameworks help healthcare organizations, researchers, and policymakers evaluate AI more carefully before use in caregiving contexts. All code and instruments are publicly available at github.com/givecareapp for community validation.
Learn more at GiveCareApp.com.
About Ali Madad
Ali Madad, BCPA, is a designer-founder and AI engineer who creates systems that care. He leads SCTY, advising Fortune 500 companies on human-centered AI strategy and applied design. He serves as an advisor to A Better Goodbye, a mentor with I AM ALS, a policy member of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), a member of FamTech, and a contributor to Coalition for Health AI (CHAI). Madad holds five design patents and serves on the Software Safety Standards Panel at Internet Safety Labs.