
Mo shadowed his brother's first week at a new centre. What he saw was a team of skilled, committed people working without the information they needed, and not only for Marwan.
Marwan is autistic and non-speaking. Over years, Mo's parents learned what every gesture, sound and look meant. What calmed him. What overwhelmed him. What a certain cry meant at 2am, and what the same cry meant at 2pm.
None of it was written down, because it never needed to be. It lived in two people.
He was there to help the team get to know Marwan. What he ended up watching was how much of the day the staff spent working things out for themselves, with no way to keep what they learned.
And it was not only Marwan. The same thing was happening with every non-speaking person in the building. That was the moment it stopped being a family problem.
Rather than take Mo's word for it, they ran a discovery session. Support workers, coordinators and family in one room, naming the problems in their own words and answering a lot of questions.
Nobody in that room described a software problem. They described losing the thread on a person, over and over, and having nowhere to put what they knew.
The centre agreed to pilot it, and did something more useful than agreeing. They told us which of their problems mattered most, and in what order. That is how the first version of MORO got its shape.
Mo and Omnya had the question. The people doing the work had the priorities.
"It wasn't just my brother. It was everyone in that building who couldn't tell you what they needed."
The staff were not careless. They were skilled people who had never been given the information, working in a system with nowhere to keep it. That is the gap MORO was built to close, and it is the same gap in every organization that supports people with complex needs.
MORO was not specified in a room and then sold. One centre helped decide what to build. Another one changed it while they were using it.
The discovery round table gave us the problems in the team's own words, ranked by which ones actually hurt. That decided what the first version of MORO did, and just as importantly what it left out.
Nine things in MORO exist because a support worker at DEEN said the product was getting in the way, plus more than twenty other fixes. They changed inside the four weeks, not after.
"Not a clinical system. Not an electronic binder."
There are good systems for compliance, billing and clinical records, and organizations should keep them. What Marwan's story exposed was a different gap: the shared, human understanding that makes a shift go well, and the fact that it had nowhere to live. That is the only thing MORO set out to fix.

Marwan's brother. A mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur, with years in the auto and nuclear sectors and over a decade in real estate. He founded MORO because he lived the problem before he understood it was one.

Has led global healthcare analytics teams and now works as Director of Data and AI at Frazier Healthcare Partners. She brings the discipline of building human-centered products to a category that usually skips it.

Mo and Omnya. Six people work on MORO, all in-house, no agencies and no contractors.
MORO is live on iOS and Android, free for families forever, and in use at four care organizations across the GTA.
Four pilots completed, eleven features shipped because someone doing the work asked for them. Built with caregivers, for caregivers.
یہ ہمارا روزانہ ایک گھنٹے سے زیادہ بچاتا ہے۔ ہماری لاگنگ ڈیڑھ گھنٹے سے 30 منٹ پر آ گئی۔DEEN Support Services، مسیساگامکمل کیس اسٹڈی پڑھیں
وہ تین گفتگوئیں جنہوں نے سمت طے کی، ان لوگوں سے جو یہ مسئلہ جیتے ہیں۔
یہ ان انٹرویوز سے ہیں جو MORO تک لے گئے، جب کوئی ایپ موجود ہی نہیں تھی جس پر رائے دی جا سکے۔ ان میں سے کوئی ہمارے پروڈکٹ کی بات نہیں کر رہا۔ وہی اس کے وجود کی وجہ ہیں۔
ایک نگہداشت کنندہ کے طور پر، ہر نئے فرد کے معمولات کو شروع سے سیکھنا تھکا دینے والا ہے۔ اس میں مکمل طور پر ڈھلنے میں ہفتے، کبھی کبھی مہینے لگ جاتے ہیں، اور مجھے اکثر لگتا ہے کہ میں ہر بار دوبارہ شروع کر رہی ہوں۔
میں بنیادی ضروریات اور ترجیحات بتانے میں بہت وقت صرف کرتا ہوں—یہ مغلوب کن ہے، خاص طور پر جب متعدد ذمہ داریوں کے ساتھ توازن رکھنا پڑے۔ کاش اس فرق کو پاٹنے کا کوئی آسان طریقہ ہوتا۔
ایک ماں کے طور پر، میں اپنے بیٹے کی ضروریات اور معمولات سمجھتی ہوں، لیکن باہر کی دنیا نہیں سمجھتی۔ یہ دیکھ کر دل ٹوٹ جاتا ہے کہ وہ ان محرکات سے جوجھتا ہے جن سے بچا جا سکتا تھا اگر دوسرے جانتے کہ اس سے کیسے بات چیت کرنی ہے۔ مجھے ایک ایسا حل چاہیے جو یقینی بنائے کہ اس کی ضروریات جہاں بھی وہ جائے، سمجھی جائیں۔
Mohamed AliMORO کے بانی
Omnya El MassadMORO کی شریک بانی
Fadwa Aliفل سٹیک ڈویلپر
Mojahid Jamalایپ ڈویلپر
Rahaf WalidUX/UI ڈیزائنر
Abdalla Abdelgadirسافٹ ویئر ڈویلپرIf your organization has the same problem, start with one group for four weeks. If it does not save your team time, you walk away.
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