A free companion for families living through glioblastoma
Understand what's happening. And what comes next.
Ask anything about glioblastoma. The reports, the terms, the decisions, the numbers. For patients and family alike.
Free. Private. No download. Built by two people who lived it.
- Built by two caregivers who lived it
- Free for every family
- Trusted by families worldwide
The 2am questions
The questions you'd ask, if there was someone to ask.
Ask Ember anything. Here's where most families start.
How Ember helps
Ember sits with you in the hours your care team can't. The night before a hard consult. The week after the bad news lands. 2am with the laptop still open.
Make sense of the words
Paste in a pathology or MRI report and get it back in plain language. Resection, MGMT, IDH, midline shift. The vocabulary no one prepared you for.
Walk in prepared
Draft the questions worth bringing to the neurosurgical consult or the first oncology visit, so the fifteen minutes actually count.
Replay what was said
Go back through an appointment that came too fast to absorb, in your own time, at your own pace.
Tell the people who need to know
Find the words for the kids. Draft the family update or the CaringBridge post without losing yourself in it.
A thread for each person
Anyone in the family can keep their own private conversation, from their own perspective.
When the news changes
If it comes back, or the plan shifts, Ember helps you think through what the options mean and the questions to bring. Never deciding for you, always pointing back to your team.
Trials worth asking about
When you're weighing what's next, Ember can surface clinical trials to raise with your care team, so you walk in already knowing what to ask.
A companion, not medical advice
Ember explains the words and helps you prepare. Your care team makes the decisions, and we'll always point you back to them.
How it works
Start a chat
A short, one-time sign-up. About two minutes, then you're in.
It opens in your browser
No download, no app store. On your laptop or your phone, whenever you need it.
Your own private thread
Pick up where you left off anytime. Each person keeps their own.
Thousands of families found it before we ever announced it.
Most of those conversations happen outside clinic hours, when families need somewhere to turn and there's nowhere else open.
What families tell us
"It's 2 a.m. and this is the only place I can ask these questions."
"I rely on this so much. It's truly a lifeline for me."
"For the first time since diagnosis, I feel like I have somewhere to turn."
A note from us
We built Ember after caring for our own people through glioblastoma. We saw how much families are left to carry alone, especially in the long stretches between appointments, when the hardest questions and decisions land.
We're building the support we wish every family had.
Jason Binder
Forty-five months caring for his wife, Tracy. Twenty-five years in oncology, and it still didn't make sense. So he built the thing he needed.
Angeline Giammona
Ten months caring for her mother, Lupe, while pregnant. She found Ember in a support group, reached out, and stayed to build it.
Questions families ask before they start
Ember offers support and information. It's not medical advice, and it's not a substitute for your care team. We always point you back to them. If you're in crisis, call or text 988 (US) or your local emergency number, any time.
You don't have to hold all of this alone.
Start here.
Free. Private. Built by two people who lived it.