One Family's Chaos Became Every Caregiver's Solution

There's a moment Amanda Lukof comes back to often. Her parents, managing Liam's care across doctors, schools, therapists, and vocational programs, and doing it with Post-its, spiral notebooks, and an ever-growing stack of email threads they were terrified of losing.

Liam was diagnosed with autism at age 2. For the next two-plus decades, his family poured everything into his care. The love was never the problem. The infrastructure was.

"Caregiving has been held together by people's memories, notes, and sheer effort for far too long," Amanda says. "Every time care changes hands, families are asked to retell and reconstruct an entire life. We're building the infrastructure to change that."

Together with her partner and CTO Zachary Pucci, Amanda built Eleplan, a platform that helps caregiving families centralize, organize, and securely share everything that matters: medications, appointments, care preferences, provider contacts, and transition notes. One place. Always accessible. Shareable when it needs to be, protected when it doesn't.

The Win That Opened the Doors

At the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego in April, Eleplan was named Grand Prize Winner of the inaugural 2026 Global AI Challenge, hosted by the ASU Spark Center for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) and backed by Arizona State University and the J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute. The prize totaled $100,000 in cash and OpenAI credits, and it comes with something beyond the prize money: a place in a room full of investors, policymakers, and innovators shaping where care and learning technology goes next.

The challenge was built around a mission Eleplan was already living: developing AI-powered tools that improve access, inclusion, and outcomes for people who've historically been underserved by existing systems. It reflects Arizona State University's broader charter commitment to measure success not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes.

"This recognition is incredibly meaningful, not just because of the validation, but because of what it represents," Amanda said on stage. "We're building with real families at the forefront."

That framing, with families, not for them, matters. It's not a tagline. It's the reason the product works.

The Problem Hiding in Plain Sight

Consider what a caregiver actually manages on any given week. A child with autism starting with a new job coach who needs to understand his sensory triggers, communication preferences, and what a bad day looks like. A parent with dementia whose primary doctor has just retired. A sibling with a chronic illness navigating a new insurance plan with three new providers who have no history.

In each of these cases, there's a person who holds the knowledge. And there's a massive, invisible risk every time that knowledge has to be transferred, or worse, isn't.

This is the problem Eleplan solves. Not in theory. In the daily, grinding reality of caregiving life.

The platform turns fragmented information, the kind stored across emails, notebooks, heads, and folders that no one else can find, into something organized, searchable, and securely shareable. A new teacher, babysitter, or case worker doesn't need to be briefed from scratch. The information is already there, already structured, already ready.

The Next Chapter

The ASU+GSV win was a catalyst, not a ceiling.

With that momentum, Eleplan is now launching its seed raise, an opportunity for investors who understand that the next great category of care technology isn't being built inside a hospital. It's being built for the 63 million Americans who are caregivers right now, often without the tools, the infrastructure, or the backup systems they deserve.

The caregiving market is enormous and largely underbuilt. The population of people managing complex, ongoing care for a family member, whether a child with developmental differences, an aging parent, or a spouse with a chronic condition, is larger than almost every consumer health segment that has attracted venture capital over the past decade. Yet the tooling for these families remains remarkably primitive.

Eleplan is building the infrastructure caregiving families have always needed, a platform that organizes, protects, and shares the information that matters most, across every type of care, every provider, and every stage of life.

Why Now

AI makes this moment different.

The ability to intelligently organize, surface, and summarize complex caregiving information, and to make it genuinely useful to non-technical families under real-world stress, wasn't practically achievable a few years ago. It is now. And Eleplan is building with that capability at the core, not as an afterthought.

The grand prize was financial validation, but it was also something more: recognition from the broader technology and education community that Eleplan belongs in the conversation about how AI creates real human impact.

Join Us

The seed round is open. Eleplan is looking for investors who see what the team sees: a massive underserved market, a founder and CTO who built this from personal necessity and have never lost sight of why, and a product that works in the hardest conditions because it was designed there first.

For Amanda, it always comes back to Liam. To the question her family lived with for years: What happens when we're no longer here?

Eleplan is the answer. And it's just getting started.