We didn’t build another scheduling tool. We built a teammate.
Fido is interpreting-coordination software made by Deaf people who were tired of fighting their own tools. Here’s why it exists, why it’s named after a dog, and where it’s headed next.
Why we named it Fido.
Look at the other names in our category and you’ll notice a pattern. They’re named after the machinery — a grid, a check, a schedule to run, a system to log into. Functional. Forgettable. Built around the job instead of the person doing it. And when software is built around the task, the human ends up serving the software.
So we asked a different question: what’s the best thing you could have beside you at work? A dog. A good dog is loyal. It shows up the same on your hardest day and your easiest one, fetches what you need before you finish asking, never makes the day about itself, and never talks back.
We thought hard about the scheduler — one of the most stressful, least-appreciated jobs in this industry. Hold every requirement in your head, get every detail right, cover every job, under pressure, while almost no one notices when it goes well. Fido is for them: the loyal coworker that fetches the right interpreter, remembers who needs what, and quietly handles the busywork.
We named ours after the teammate you wish you had.
We’re Deaf. We’ve lived the broken version.
We didn’t come to this as outsiders building for a market. We came to it frustrated — as Deaf people who’ve spent years on every side of interpreting: requesting it, providing it, coordinating it, and being let down by the tools meant to make it work.
Too often the software is the bottleneck — slow, rigid, and built by people who never had to live with a missed assignment or a wrong match. Inefficiency gets blamed on the people, when the real problem is a system that was never designed for how this work actually happens.
And this work doesn’t happen the same way everywhere. Interpreter supply, certifications, and Deaf community needs shift from city to city and state to state — what works in one place breaks in another. A one-size-fits-all platform can’t serve a community this varied, so we built Fido to flex to you, not the other way around.
Fido is bigger than interpreting.
Underneath Fido is a coordination engine — matching the right person to the right need, on the right terms, and keeping everyone in sync. Interpreting is where we started because it’s where we live and where the need is sharpest. The same engine runs just as well for any field that matches skilled people to time-sensitive work. Fido for interpreting is the beginning, not the destination.
Built by BE Pivot.
Fido is a BE Pivot company. BE Pivot exists to build real infrastructure for the Deaf and Signing Ecosystem — investing in Deaf people, backing Deaf-led solutions, and embedding the systems our community needs to own, grow, and thrive. This isn’t charity. It’s power-building.
The Deaf and signing world isn’t a niche — it’s an economy, and like any economy it grows when there’s real infrastructure underneath it. That’s the whole goal: a stronger ecosystem. Fido strengthens it directly — modern, Deaf-built infrastructure that interpreting organizations actually own, coordination that stays inside the community instead of leaking out, and people freed to focus on the human part of the work.
Strengthen the tools, and you strengthen the people. Strengthen the people, and you strengthen the whole ecosystem. Learn more at bepivot.com.
Bryce Chapman
Co-founder & CEO
Evan Winegard
Co-founder & CFO