Company Profile

Make My Own Designs LLC (AKA: Speakagent~Speak Agent Inc)
Profile last edited on: 8/6/24      CAGE: 6U8T5      UEI: ZBTRHPDSDT71

Business Identifier: Mobile apps for language learning and communications
Year Founded
2011
First Award
2013
Latest Award
2020
Program Status
Active
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Location Information

610 Poplarwood Place
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
   (301) 956-9229
   info@speakagent.com
   www.speakagent.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: Montgomery

Public Profile

Specializing in development of mobile, touch-screen applications for language learning and augmenting natural language communications, SpeakAgent organizes around serving students in grades PK-6 and their educators and parents. The firm's mission is usefully understood as one of attempting to broaden children?s opportunities by improving their abilities with spoken language or speech alternatives. With SpeakAgent being the trade name for Make My Own Designs LLC, the firm brings a particularly strong background in developing children?s games that are structured such as to be effective in improving vocabulary acquisition and development of expressive language, SpeakAgent develops games, apps and websites that serve the needs of educators, SLPs, and students in grades PK-6. Services offered include: Research: Audience, market, and user experience research. Strategy: Business modeling and go-to-market strategy for PK-6 mobile education products. Pedagogy: Interactive curriculum design. Ideation: Concept development and app design. Accessibility design: For children with special communication needs, cognitive and physical disabilities. Game and app development: Full lifecycle development for mobile and Web platforms. Teacher apps and tools: For data tracking, management and reportin

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2020 1 NIH $150,000
Project Title: A 3-D Multimodal Approach to K-8 Environmental Health Literacy
2018 2 NSF $1,251,062
Project Title: A Massive Open Online Authoring Platform for Language Learning Content
2015 2 DoEd $1,049,980
Project Title: Enhancing Augmentative and Alternative Communication Rates in pre-K Through 6
2013 1 DARPA $150,000
Project Title: R/R&D of neuroplastic games for foreign language learning

Key People / Management

  Benjamin L Grimley

  Aaron Chia Yuan Hung -- Game Learning Scientist (Consultant)

  Lora Lee -- Game Designer And Illustrator

  Shawn Rider -- Lead Technologist

  Christie Timms Sr -- Learning Architect (Consultant)

  Catherine Watson -- Product R&D Manager

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