About us
In a world of “look but don’t touch”, we are focused on building the next generation of tactile interfaces and experiences to create opportunities for embodying intelligence in ways that feel completely new, yet intuitively familiar. Learn more about our journey.
our Vision
To make designing for sense of touch as affordable, accessible and approachable as designing for sight and sound—by building the 9 bridges needed to bring haptics into everyday life, learning, and technology.
Our Mission
We’re building a future where haptics is core to how we move, learn, and connect.
Through wearables, movement platforms, and accessibility-driven design, The Haptic 9 Co. empowers people to feel their progress—literally. We create tools that teach through touch, elevate inclusive design, and open up new frontiers for embodied learning.
The 9 Bridges
Our vision is to make designing for the sense of touch as affordable, accessible and approachable as designing for sight and hearing. To accomplish this goal, touch needs sustainable scientific and financial investment.
While work on vision was being celebrated and advanced through scientific discoveries from Aristotle to Goethe to Newton, touch was being ostracized. What might happen if we spent as much on touch tech over the last 100 years as we’ve spent on vision or sound tech?
Enter the 9 Bridges…
Our framework for advancing the touch agenda from niche to ubiquitous. This framework goes beyond our company, and we look forward to working with other partners to build this touch-enabled digital world, together.
The H9 Co. | our Menu
We believe the future of interaction is tactile. At The Haptic 9 Co., we’re building that future through distinct yet connected initiatives that turn research into ritual, movement into mastery, and haptics into cultural currency. Whether you’re recovering, creating, or collaborating—there’s a path for you.
Movement 9
A remote movement learning and tracking platform designed for physical therapy. Movement 9a improves home exercise program (HEP) outcomes through gamified engagement and seamless data sharing with physical therapists.
Reimagine Accessibility
Where inclusion meets imagination. In partnership with students, universities and cultural institutions, we transform visual art into tactile experiences—making museums more accessible to blind and low-vision visitors while training the next generation of inclusive designers. It’s how we prototype equity, one object at a time.
HeavyLab 9
HeavyLab 9 makes everyday objects absurdly heavy—on purpose. Each limited-edition drop turns weight into a design feature, sparking curiosity, resistance, and sensory engagement. It’s haptics disguised as hype, designed to make you feel more with every use. Heavy for no reason, meaningful by design.
H9 SRD | Strategy, Research & Design
Work with The H9 Co.’s award-winning team to bring your boldest haptic ideas to life—or simply learn how to build your first tactile application. Whether you’re dreaming big or just starting out, we’re here as your guides. We welcome collaborators, partners, and fellow explorers.
The 9 Values
The 9 Values of The Haptic 9 Co. are at the core of the way we achieve outstanding impacts. It’s a framework that when lived daily through the work of our team, create outsized and empathetic results. It’s our road map for how we want to become our future selves. It’s our guiding light for how we show up to each new challenge. And it’s our biggest hope of how what we do will impact the world.
1. Embodied Intelligence
We believe that knowledge lives in the body. We design tools, stories, and systems that help people feel, learn, and grow through movement, sensation, and physical feedback.
2. Accessible by Design
We build from the margins in. Our products, platforms, and language center inclusion, knowing that universal design isn’t an add-on—it’s the foundation for innovation that serves everyone.
3. Play is Power
Whether it’s learning Kung Fu, exploring mindfulness, or sweeping with intention, we honor play as a transformative force. We gamify not to distract, but to deepen presence and create joy.
4. Weight Has Meaning
We explore resistance, gravity, and touch not just as physical forces—but as metaphors for intention, growth, and depth. We make things heavy, literally and symbolically, because challenge is part of becoming.
5. Narrative Drives Impact
We weave story into every layer—from product drops to rehab routines—because we know that meaning fuels motivation. We create lore, not just features.
6. Crafted with Obsession
We sweat the small stuff. Every object, interface, or conversation we put into the world is a chance to demonstrate thoughtful design, precision, and respect for those who use our work.
7. Iterate Toward Utopia
We build like futurists with our feet on the ground—prototyping, testing, and refining our way toward better futures. Utopia isn’t a final destination, it’s a design direction.
8. Honor Movement in All Forms
From elite athletes to first steps in rehab, from ritual sweeping to wearable sensors, we celebrate all movement as valid, valuable, and worthy of attention. We are not a performance brand—we’re a human motion brand.
9. Own the Mission, Share the Work
We’re building something huge and systemic. Everyone on the team is trusted with ownership, responsibility, and the freedom to shape their impact. And we share credit, recognition, and opportunity across the bridges we build.
Let’s Work Together
Few things are greater than reaching your destination with like-minded explorers. We welcome all who are interested in the landscapes of touch, movement learning, wearables and accessibility to reach out. Get in touch below, or click ahead to learn a bit more about our amazing team.