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In the news & media
The word is getting out
Awards, press, and conversations about Aligna and the invisible mental load families carry. Here is where the movement is showing up.
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Audience Choice Award
MIT
selected for the AI Innovation Lab
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featured in the Williston Observer
Recognition
Selected, awarded, and recognized by the startup and innovation community in Vermont and beyond.
Award · June 2026
LaunchVT Audience Choice Award
Won the Audience Choice Award at the Lake Champlain Chamber's LaunchVT Demo Night, with $5,000 and ongoing support.
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Award · 2026
Fresh Tracks Investors' Choice Award
Won the Investors' Choice Award at Fresh Tracks Capital's Peak Pitch, a Vermont investor pitch competition at Sugarbush.
Selected · Sept 2026
MIT AI Innovation Lab
Selected as one of 20 founders nationwide to showcase Aligna at the MIT AI Innovation Lab, September 12 to 13, 2026.
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Accelerator · Winter 2026
Actuator by BRIC, Winter Cohort
Winter 2026 cohort of Actuator, the Black River Innovation Campus accelerator.
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Media Feature · July 2026
Featured on “Shenanigans with Liisa Reimann”
Reddhi Patel joins Liisa Reimann to talk about Aligna and how the app is designed to make everyday family life simpler, more organized, and less overwhelming.
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Hear Reddhi talk about Aligna, the invisible mental load, and why family life needs a better system.
In the press
Williston Observer · Aug 20, 2026
Williston-based app fosters family harmony
"In most families there is one person who is the default keeper of all logistics. This person remembers, researches and reminds, and they never stop."
The Williston Observer profiles Aligna and Reddhi Patel on using AI to share the mental load of running a home and foster household harmony.
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Meet Reddhi Patel
Founder & CEO, Aligna
Reddhi Patel is the founder and CEO of Aligna, an AI-powered family technology company making the invisible mental load of modern family life visible and shareable. She brings more than 20 years of experience across financial services, cybersecurity, and human-centered design to a problem she also knows personally.
She is an MIT AI-Powered Women Ambassador and a Forbes contributor, and she writes The Default, a newsletter on the invisible work of modern family life.
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Available for interviews, panels, and expert commentary.
- The invisible mental load of modern families
- AI and the future of household coordination
- Women, caregiving, and invisible work
- Building responsible AI for families
- Why shared calendars and chore apps do not solve the mental load
- Founder motherhood and building a technology company
- What 450+ families are telling us about family life today
- Why family technology has overlooked the mental load
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