CHICAGO, IL – September 4, 2025 – The future of senior living operations is here. During its inaugural user conference, ALIS’s CEO, John Shafaee, announced the launch of “Ask ALIS,” the industry’s first AI-powered GPT purpose-built for assisted living, memory care, and independent living communities.
ALIS (Assisted Living’s Intelligent Software) is a privately owned and founder-led company that provides the leading eHR and operational software platform for assisted living communities. By combining cutting-edge AI with two decades of senior living expertise and data, Ask ALIS gives providers a smarter, faster way to manage clinical and financial operations.
Ask ALIS is a native tool securely built entirely within the ALIS platform, making it context-aware while also ensuring the highest levels of resident privacy and organizational security.
Ask ALIS understands the unique challenges of assisted living and supports staff and leadership in real time through conversational text and voice interactions. With Ask ALIS, teams can:
- Holistically summarize resident charts from both a clinical and financial standpoint (available in over 20 languages)
- Generate on-demand reports and graphs without manual data pulls.
- Take actions directly via typed or voice-to-text instructions, such as charting care or recording vitals within ALIS.
- Access insights spanning all ALIS modules and the ALIS App Store ecosystem.
“AI in assisted living isn’t a marketing buzzword for us—it’s a responsibility,” said John Shafaee, CEO of ALIS. “Ask ALIS was built to fit naturally into workflows, helping staff and leaders make better decisions, faster, without ever compromising security. This is not about replacing people. It’s about giving communities an intelligent, reliable assistant that lightens the load and improves outcomes.”
This responsibility is firmly supported by both academic and industry credibility. Reza Borhani, VP of ALIS’s Data Science team, holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University and has co-authored multiple books, including Fundamentals of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Medicine (Springer-Nature, 2022). Borhani emphasized the depth of the company’s AI foundation and why Ask ALIS is different from generic large language models:
“Healthcare data is messy, complex, and deeply context-driven. You can’t just take models developed outside of healthcare and expect them to work in assisted living. That’s why we’ve spent years building our own infrastructure, cleaning and structuring our data, and designing models to fit real-world senior living workflows. Ask ALIS isn’t theoretical—it’s the product of two decades of industry data, seven years of AI development, and a commitment to enhancing, not replacing, the people who provide care.”
Trisha Cole, ALIS’s General Counsel and COO, noted that ALIS’s AI-powered capabilities are only made possible by ALIS’s technology-centered origin. “ALIS was founded by technologists. They meticulously architected ALIS’s foundational infrastructure to support a resident-centric data model, and we have intentionally invested in paying our tech debt along the way and modernizing every aspect of the ALIS tech stack to ensure that ALIS has the most modern, healthy, scalable, and secure information architecture in the industry,” adds Cole.
With the launch of Ask ALIS, the company reinforces its leadership in applied AI for senior living and deepens its mission to extend resident length of stay through an elevated resident experience, reduce administrative burden for staff members, and empower communities and portfolios to navigate the digital transformation ahead successfully. Ask ALIS is expected to be generally available for all clients in Q1 2026.
About ALIS
ALIS is the leading clinical and operational software solution purpose-built for assisted living, memory care, and independent living portfolios. ALIS is fully integrated internally to eliminate duplicative data entry as well as fully integrated externally with designed to solve senior living-specific challenges, including regulatory compliance management across different states, full eMAR management and drug counting, integrated assessments, and family engagement. To learn more, visit www.go-alis.com.