Built by people who’ve sat at the bedside.
Tiller is built by Tiller Labs, founded by Eric Mathison — a bioethicist who spent years as a clinical ethicist in Canadian and U.S. hospitals.
I’ve worked as a clinical ethicist in Canada and the United States. I built Tiller because I saw what happens when advance care planning is missing on a daily basis.
The hardest cases aren’t the ones with clear medical answers. They’re the ones where the person at the centre of it never told anyone what they would have wanted. The family stands in the hallway, exhausted and grieving, and tries to guess.
“What would Mom have said?” is the question I’ve heard more than any other. The whole point of Tiller is that nobody should have to guess.
Advance care planning has been studied to death by my profession. We know it reduces suffering. We know it eases family grief. We know 83% of Canadians say they want to do it, but it doesn’t get done. People don’t know where to start, forms are confusing, and the right time to do it never quite arrives.
Tiller is the tool I wished those families had. It’s a guided, plain-language conversation. It produces a real legal document for your province. It costs less than dinner for two and takes about as long. And it lets the people you love know what you would have wanted so they don’t have to guess.
— Eric Mathison, PhD, HEC-C
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Ready when you are.
About forty-five minutes, at your own pace. So the people you love don’t have to guess.