Tim Balz
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72 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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If you can't afford to do late flight business class seating, I'd love for you to be able to have our technology still have you arrive ready to be effective, ready to enjoy whatever your travel reason is. And so I think. The real goal is for our technology to not be intrusive too.
So by 2030, I'd love for you to sit on a cushion and you have an expectation that you're sitting on Caligon's technology, but you don't need to know it or be reminded about it. It just needs to work so that you can live your life how you want.
Yes. So depending on the markets, we'll sometimes have sales channel partners. We do a lot of either B2B or B2B2C. Okay. Yep. So in the wheelchair market, we have sales channel partners who are able to make sure that our cushion is fit properly for their wheelchair and able to just ensure that the overall seating configuration meets that user's needs.
That's a great question. So if you're someone who utilizes a wheelchair, ask your local ATP to try it. We've got demos all around the country where you can go sit and experience our technology firsthand. That's probably the best way to do it right now. There are, we don't have any direct to consumer products yet just because of the different regulated markets we work in.
But that's something we're working towards. Hopefully soon you'll all be able to say, go fly on this airline and then you'll be able to experience our technology.
Yeah, so we have a huge number of channel partners, just about every major dealer in the country. And 99% of products for people with disabilities in the assistive technology space go through a dealer that's likely already distributing our products.
So yeah, so there's tons of companies here. And ATP stands for Assistive Technology Professional. There's a website where you can actually look up all the ATPs in your area as well through what's called RESNA, R-E-S-N-A.
Yeah, they can also hit our contact form and we can connect them directly with dealers that we work with in their area. If they already have an ATP they love using, they can reach out to them and reach out to us. So we have a contact form. We've got a phone number that you can call and we'd be happy to help educate you and get you a chance to experience the technology for yourself.
Look at that segue. So yeah, we... We are quite responsive on both our phone lines And through our contact us form, you're typically gonna get a response in 24 hours or less. But yeah, the cool thing too is we are physically here in Melbourne, Florida. We do almost all of our manufacturing here. Literally we manufacture the product one wall away from where I'm sitting.
Our engineers are also on the other side of the wall, building the technology and working with production to ensure that we're making the greatest products possible. So if you're interested and you happen in Melbourne, Florida, let us know. And I might get to say hi myself.
Yeah. So it's www.caligon.com. And we're typically either like at Caligon or at Caligon official on almost all the social medias.
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So I look at AI in a very interesting way here. I don't know which it'll be, but either AI is going to be a great equalizer or it's going to go the other direction. And I think It really all depends on if we implement it thoughtfully.
Because in our case, AI is making it so that we can take these populations that capitalism wouldn't have ever been able to justify us making a custom algorithm for every single person. That just wouldn't be feasible.
But now we can. And so that's something where I think it is actually able to empower, you know, these underserved populations. I think the same thing for Africa. We can bring the cost down of different technologies and bring the access to those technologies and access to information. That's the fastest way to pull people out of poverty. And so if we do.
If we manage AI appropriately and how we build it out, I think it will be absolutely world-changing in a very positive way for underserved populations. But I think if we do it incorrectly, it's probably going to widen that gap. I'm an optimist, so I think it's going to make the world better.
Absolutely. And we're going to keep working to do our best to help influence that outcome.
Yeah, so I run a small nonprofit that's based out of Indiana called Freedom Chairs. So we're not as big as we used to be just because I've spent a lot of time obviously running Caligon. But we'll typically do four to five wheelchairs a year. We'll donate at least. I'll go up to Indiana. I'll refurbish them, get them ready. And then as the needs come in, I'll coordinate to get people wheelchairs.
So if you're in and around Indiana, specifically like the Indianapolis, Decatur area, and you do need a wheelchair, feel free to reach out and we'll see what we can do to help you out.
I think the way we talk about AI makes it feel overrated. But I think that's the other thing is I think it's also underrated, but not in the ways we talk about it. So that's a difficult answer. But I'd say the way people talk about AI makes it overrated. But the way it's leveraged is probably underrated. We don't realize how much it's actually going to change yet.
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