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28 May 2026, 09:58
2026-05-28
“AI gave me a chance to do this.” A designer with no IT experience creates an iOS app for parents of children with autism
When Roman Gimon’s son was one year and eight months old, the family first heard about the high suspicion of ASD. Ahead lay fear, dozens of hours of searching for information, Facebook groups, conflicting advice, and the constant feeling that no one could properly explain what to do next.
Today, Roman — creative director of mowMedia, graphic designer, and father of six-year-old Eney — is creating Enchi: an app for parents of children with autism 0 without a development team, without a technical background, and almost entirely with the help of AI tools.
When Roman Gimon’s son was one year and eight months old, the family first heard about the high suspicion of ASD. Ahead lay fear, dozens of hours of searching for information, Facebook groups, conflicting advice, and the constant feeling that no one could properly explain what to do next.
Today, Roman — creative director of mowMedia, graphic designer, and father of six-year-old Eney — is creating Enchi: an app for parents of children with autism 0 without a development team, without a technical background, and almost entirely with the help of AI tools.
«I thought there was some kind of magic pill»
Roman says: the first months after his son was suspected of having autism were like information chaos.
«We read everything in a row — forums, Facebook groups, watched YouTube, looked for any stories of other parents. Like many people in panic, I was also looking for a 'magic pill' at first, some way to 'fix' it,» he recalls on the DOU forum.
Later, another realization came/ «Aeneas is not broken. This is not a disease that needs to be fixed. This is just a different way of seeing the world,» says Roman. It was then that he first acutely felt another problem: in Ukraine, there is almost no one clear place where parents of children with ASD could get basic information without panic, manipulation, and pseudoscience. «Everything was scattered in pieces: documents in one place, advice in another, registration routes somewhere else. I had to constantly check whether the information was at all up-to-date,» he says.
Where did Enchi come from?
The idea for the application appeared a few years ago, but Roman was only able to implement it now — largely thanks to AI.
«I’m not a programmer. I don’t have a mobile team or a development budget. But artificial intelligence became an opportunity for me to at least try to do it,» he says.
Enchi was conceived not as a medical service or a «miracle solution», but as a navigator for parents.
The application already has:
basic routes of action in case of suspected ASD;
explanations regarding documents;
block on family rights;
information about specialists and centers;
media library with books, films and videos;
A simple action planner for parents.
«When there is chaos around, even a regular to-do list helps a lot. Because instead of 'I don’t know what to do,' at least the next concrete step appears,» explains Roman.
A separate large block is dedicated to documents and bureaucratic routes — in particular, applying for disability or deferment.
«At some point, I really wanted there to be a place where information was already collected and explained in normal human language,» he says.
«AI doesn’t do everything in five minutes»
Despite popular TikTok stories about «an app in an evening,» Roman says: AI does not remove complexity, but rather enables a person without a technical background to gradually understand a new field.
Before working on Enchi, he had never used Xcode or worked with mobile development.
«I didn’t understand at all how iOS projects, builds, TestFlight, or App Store Connect work. I’m learning all this literally on the go. And now I understand: if I were starting a second app, I would have done it much faster,» he says.
«I don’t want to sell my parents hope for 'normality'»
One of the main things Roman constantly emphasizes is that Enchi will not be a platform for pseudoscience or manipulation of parents' fears. «I definitely don’t want to see 'miracle cures', aggressive sales of unproven methods, or stories about how to make a child 'normal',» he says.
For him, the app is primarily about support and acceptance. «The hardest thing after a suspected autism diagnosis is the fear of the unknown. And if Enchi helps even a few parents get through this moment a little more calmly, then it was all worth it,» says Roman.
The name of the application is also directly related to his son. In the family, Aeneas was jokingly called «Enchi Penso», and later it turned into the clothing brand Enchipenso, and then into the name of the application. «This whole story actually appeared because of him. At the center of everything is Aeneas,» says Roman. And he adds the most important thing: «Over time, I realized a very simple thing: my child should not meet my expectations. My task is not to „remake“ him, but to be there and help him become himself.»
