Our Story

How two exhausted parents built a smarter baby monitor

When our second baby arrived, we thought we were ready. We'd already survived the newborn phase once. We knew about the sleepless nights, the feeding schedule, the foggy mornings. How much harder could two kids be?

A lot harder, it turns out.

Not because the baby was more difficult, but because now we had a toddler who needed us all day and a newborn who needed us all night. We were running on fumes, both of us, every single day.

And every single night, the same scene played out. The baby cries. We both jolt awake. Then comes the whispered negotiation in the dark. "I went last time." "But I have a meeting at 7." "I haven't slept more than two hours straight in a week." It wasn't just exhausting — it was starting to put strain on our relationship. We were keeping score, building resentment, and neither of us was getting the sleep we needed.

One night, completely drained, one of us said something that changed everything: "What if the monitor could just figure out who should get up? Like, wake up whoever's sleeping lightest?"

We laughed about it. Then we couldn't stop thinking about it.

Ben is an electrical engineer who works in patent law. Kim has spent her career launching startups. Between the two of us, we realized we might actually have the skills to build this thing. So we started. Ben filed a patent application. Then he designed a circuit board. Then he built a prototype. Then another one. And another one.

Fifteen prototypes later, Dozzi exists.

It's a small hub that sits in your baby's room and listens for crying. When it hears a cry, it doesn't blast an alarm that wakes both of you up. Instead, it silently alerts just one parent through their smart watch. The other parent sleeps through.

You decide how to choose whose turn it is. You can alternate automatically, set a shift schedule, or let Dozzi use sleep stage data to wake the parent in the lightest sleep — the feature that started this whole journey.

Earlier this year, we were granted a U.S. utility patent on Dozzi's technology. We have additional patents pending as the product continues to evolve. This isn't a concept or a crowdfunding dream. It's a real product, engineered from scratch, protected by real intellectual property, and built by two parents who desperately needed it to exist.

We're getting ready to launch, and we'd love for you to be part of it.