EnrichPoint: A Kumonix Founder Story

Every so often, someone you used to work with does something that stops you mid-scroll. For me, that person is Vadim Tabakman.

I worked alongside Vadim years ago, and if you'd asked me back then to guess what he'd eventually build, I probably wouldn't have guessed right. Not because it doesn't fit him, but because most of us don't end up building the thing we're truly meant to build. Vadim did. He founded EnrichPoint, a company that makes technology for the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and special needs community, and after digging into what he's built, I wanted to write this not as a favor to an old colleague, but because the work genuinely deserves attention.

Sixteen years before the first line of code

Here's the thing that separates EnrichPoint from most "impact" startups: Vadim didn't discover this market. He's been living in it for over 16 years, as a family member navigating the ASD world, and as someone who's sat through the IEP meetings, the sensory-regulation trial and error, and the exhausting hunt for AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) apps that actually work for the person using them, not just for a marketing screenshot.

That distinction matters more than it sounds. A lot of software aimed at special needs families gets built by people who've read about the problem. EnrichPoint's products are built by someone who has lived the problem, repeatedly, for over a decade and a half. On the company's about page, the founding principle is stated plainly: "The best apps don't just work. They understand. That understanding only comes from spending real time with the people you're building for." It's not a slogan bolted on after the fact. It's clearly the actual design process.

What EnrichPoint is actually building

EnrichPoint isn't a single app chasing a single feature. It's a growing family of purpose-built tools, each one solving a specific, real problem that special needs families and caregivers run into constantly:

• epSpeak: an AAC communication app for non-verbal and special needs individuals, with customizable icons and voice output that let someone express needs, feelings, and choices with confidence. For a family with a non-verbal child, this isn't a nice-to-have. It's a voice.
• epPassword: a secure vault built specifically for the caregiving reality. It stores and shares medical info, medications, insurance details, and passwords with family, while granting time-limited, read-only access to the caregivers supporting a loved one. Anyone who's tried to coordinate a rotating cast of aides, therapists, and family members around sensitive information knows exactly why this needed to exist.
• epRegulate: a proactive emotion and sensory regulation companion that learns an individual's personal trigger patterns, catches dysregulation early, and surfaces the right calming tool at the right moment. Built specifically for autistic individuals and the people who support them.
• epFidget: a collection of digital fidget and sensory tools for calming, focusing, or just keeping busy hands busy.
• epCaregiver: the connective tissue of the whole ecosystem, a central hub for managing household members, tracking licenses, and routing into each product's caregiver tools from one place.
• epBode: proof that EnrichPoint's design philosophy travels beyond the ASD community specifically. It's a property management tool for tracking maintenance, expenses, and upkeep, genuinely useful for anyone managing a home or rental, and a good example of how "build with empathy and simplicity" produces good software in general, not just niche software.
• epTogether: a calmer, more communal offering. A hex-puzzle game where each player's individually solved puzzle becomes one piece of a much larger, collective figure that thousands of people are slowly building together.

The parts that actually make me trust it

A few details stood out while reading through the site, and they're the kind of details that are easy to skip past but say a lot about how a company operates.

Privacy is a real commitment, not a checkbox. EnrichPoint states outright that they don't sell personal information, don't run third-party ads inside their apps, and don't use end-user data to train AI. For a company building tools that store medical information and enable non-verbal communication, that's exactly the bar it should be held to.

Accessibility isn't a feature, it's the foundation. Because the products are rooted in the ASD community, the team works toward screen-reader support, sensory-friendly interactions, and support for a wide range of motor abilities across the board. Not just in the "accessibility app," but in everything, including the property management tool.

It's small, and it's honest about being small. This is a family-led team, not a funded juggernaut with a growth-hacking playbook. Vadim writes the company blog himself, first-person, and has said plainly that if one of EnrichPoint's products is the wrong fit for someone's situation, he'd rather say so than chase a conversion. That's a rare posture in software, and an even rarer one in the wellness and caregiving space, which is frequently crowded with tools optimized for engagement metrics rather than actual outcomes.

Why this is worth your attention

I'm writing this post because I believe in what Vadim is building, but also because I think it's a useful example for anyone thinking about starting something themselves. The best products tend to come from people solving a problem they've personally sat inside of for years, not months. EnrichPoint isn't chasing a trend. It's the accumulated output of someone who spent over a decade and a half showing up for a community, and who eventually decided the best way to keep showing up was to build the tools that community actually needed.

If you know a family navigating special needs caregiving, communication challenges, or the exhausting logistics of coordinating care, or if you're just someone who appreciates software built with real empathy instead of assumed empathy, go take a look at EnrichPoint. Start with epSpeak or epPassword if you want to see what "built by someone who's lived it" actually looks like in practice.

And if you want to follow along as it grows, Vadim's blog on the site is worth bookmarking. It's not content marketing, it's a founder documenting what he's learning as he builds, in public, one honest post at a time.