The Longevity Explorer Community was started as an initiative of Tech-enhanced Life, PBC.
As a Public Benefit Corporation, Tech-enhanced Life is allowed to combine a “Mission” (like a non-profit) with the focus and incentives of a for-profit company. We think of it as harnessing the best bits of Silicon Valley Capitalism to chip away at some of the more thorny challenges facing society today.
Our Mission is to improve the quality of life of older adults and their families.
In early 2025, the research and publishing aspect of what we do was spun out into a new venture: Longevity Explorers LLC.
Longevity Explorer Activities:
The Longevity Explorers can participate in two quite separate but complementary activities.
- The “Club”: We think of our explorer meetings, as “Club” meetings. They are run primarily for the benefit of members, with a goal of generating insights and learnings and a shared sense of purpose. Our secondary goal is to generate insights that can benefit older adults around the world, which we share via the Tech-enhanced Life website and our Newsletter. Over time, our approach has morphed from regular face to face meetings in separate explorer chapters, to one large “virtual” community that comes together in ad-hoc virtual meetings to explorer specific initiatives (such as “how AI might most help older adults”).
- Sponsored Explorations: Tech-enhanced Life is actively engaged in providing help to companies that want to create products and services that older adults actually want and will pay a premium for. Longevity Explorers may (but are not required to) join Tech-enhanced Life’s “Sponsored Exploration Panel“, which includes older adults, caregivers, and professionals engaged in aging services as well as Longevity Explorers. Members of the Sponsored Exploration Panel are eligible for invitations to participate in Sponsored Exploration projects, organized by Tech-enhanced Life.
Complementary Business Models:
Since February 2025:
- The work of Longevity Explorers LLC is focused on helping older adults and their families, and is funded primarily by subscriptions to our Newsletter, Donations, and a community of explorers who take part in explorations and share their insights because they want to help improve the quality of life of older adults around the world.
- The work of Tech-enhanced Life, PBC. is focused on helping companies develop products that will improve the lives of older adults and their families. Those companies pay for this help. When Longevity Explorers participate in explorations on behalf of these companies, they receive compensation as part of the project.
Our “Customers”
Our activities are focused on benefiting two groups.
Older Adults and Longevity Explorers:
Since we started in 2014, most of the research done by the Tech-enhanced Life analyst team has been made available for free on our website for older adults and their families. And all of the collaborative learning and exploration by the Longevity Explorer circles has also been made available at no cost. And the regular explorer circle “Club” meetings are run entirely for the benefit of our explorers and other older adults like them.
We hope to be able to continue to provide high quality independent research for the benefit of older adults and their families for free, or at a heavily subsidized price.
Companies and Innovators:
Tech-enhanced Life offers a range of services to innovators and companies wanting to develop better products and services for older adults. These services often leverage the domain expertise of our analyst team, but they also may involve participation by Longevity Explorers, and other older adults who are members of the Sponsored Exploration Panel, as well.
Our philosophy is straightforward. We think these services will be of great value to the companies that engage us, and there will be fees for those services. We structure our engagements so that, if explorers participate, they also receive economic benefit from the engagement.