How to Set Up Your Child’s Profile

A 5-minute setup that determines how accurately Satori protects your child

Your child’s Satori profile is not just account information. It is the foundation of how Satori interprets environmental conditions and decides when to alert you.

A few accurate details allow Satori to deliver calmer, more precise guidance. If information is vague or incomplete, the system may become overly cautious or miss the patterns that matter most. The goal is simple: fewer false alarms, fewer surprises, and more confidence that alerts reflect your child’s real-world risk.

Accuracy Creates Protection

Environmental conditions affect children differently. Two kids can live in the same neighborhood, breathe the same air, and still experience completely different outcomes. One child may be unaffected, while another may develop coughing, wheezing, or nighttime symptoms from the same day.

That is why Satori does not rely on generic air quality readings. It uses your child’s profile to personalize what it watches, how sensitive alerts should be, and which time windows matter most.

You do not need medical terminology to set up Satori correctly. You simply need to describe what you have observed: when symptoms tend to show up, what seems to trigger them, and how your child typically behaves day to day. Even small details can significantly improve accuracy.

The more your profile reflects your child’s real patterns, the more intelligently Satori can translate environmental signals into meaningful protection.

What You’ll Need Before You Start

Most parents complete setup in under five minutes. Before you begin, it helps to have a few details ready:

• Your child’s first name (or nickname)
• Your home address
• Your child’s school address (if applicable)
• A simple sense of how severe their asthma feels right now (mild, moderate, severe, or not sure)
• Your best guess on triggers and symptom timing

If you are unsure about certain answers, that is completely normal. Satori is designed to work with real-world parent knowledge, not perfect clinical certainty. The goal is to start with what you know today, and refine over time if needed.

Step-by-Step Setup: How to Answer Each Section Correctly

Satori’s setup flow is designed to be simple, but each section plays a specific role in how alerts and forecasts are calibrated. The best approach is to answer based on what you consistently observe, not what you fear might happen on a worst day.

If you are uncertain about a question, it is always better to choose “not sure” than to guess aggressively. Overestimating sensitivity can lead to unnecessary alerts. Underestimating sensitivity can reduce early detection. Honest accuracy creates the most reliable monitoring.

Parent Contact Information (Simple but Important)

Your email and phone number are not just for registration. They are part of the protection system.

Your phone number is the channel Satori uses to reach you quickly when conditions shift. Your email is used for secure access to your account and occasional longer updates that do not belong in SMS.

A common setup issue is entering a phone number that cannot reliably receive text messages. If your number is correct and SMS consent is enabled, Satori will be able to reach you without delay when a meaningful risk window forms.

Child Basics: Name, Age, and Severity

Your child’s name helps Satori communicate clearly and respectfully, especially during alerts when messages need to feel personal and easy to understand.

Age matters because children respond differently to environmental stress at different stages of development. A younger child’s breathing may be more reactive to cold air, activity, and rapid weather changes than an older child living in the same environment.

Severity is one of the most important calibration inputs. This is not a medical diagnosis. It is your lived assessment of how fragile or stable your child’s breathing feels right now.

If you are unsure, selecting “not sure” is completely acceptable. A common mistake is choosing “severe” out of caution, even when symptoms are mostly controlled. This can cause the system to become overly sensitive and send more alerts than necessary.

Symptom Timing: When Things Usually Get Worse

Many asthma and allergy patterns have strong time-of-day rhythms. Some children struggle most in the early morning. Others worsen in the afternoon, after outdoor activity, or at night during sleep.

When Satori asks when symptoms tend to get worse, the goal is to identify the time window when your child is most vulnerable, not the time when symptoms feel most emotionally stressful.

If you often notice coughing or tightness at night, but the trigger tends to begin earlier in the day, choose the window that best reflects the beginning of the pattern. If symptoms vary significantly and you cannot identify a consistent timing, selecting “not sure” is the best choice.

Triggers and Symptoms: Describe What You’ve Observed

Triggers help Satori interpret environmental signals correctly. If your child is triggered by cold air, smoke, pollen, or exercise, the system will prioritize different patterns and different timing windows.

The best approach is to select triggers you have seen repeatedly. You do not need to select every possible trigger “just in case.” Over-selecting can reduce precision and create unnecessary alerts.

Symptoms help Satori understand how asthma stress tends to show up for your child. Some children cough first. Some wheeze. Some experience tightness or shortness of breath during activity. This information helps Satori shape its messaging and mitigation suggestions in a way that matches what you actually recognize.

If you are uncertain, choose the closest match based on what you see most often.

Activity Patterns: Outdoor Time, Sports, and Peak Activity Hours

Activity affects exposure. When children run, play, or exercise, they breathe deeper and faster. This increases contact with whatever is in the air, whether that is ozone, smoke particles, cold air, or allergens.

Satori uses your child’s outdoor time and activity pattern to understand how strongly outdoor conditions may matter. If your child plays sports or runs hard regularly, timing becomes especially important. A moderate pollution day can become a high-risk day if it overlaps with intense outdoor exertion.

A common mistake is underestimating outdoor exposure because a child “is only outside at school.” Recess, PE, walking between buildings, and after-school pickup windows often create meaningful exposure without parents realizing it.

Parent Availability Windows (Quietly High Value)

This section helps Satori understand when you are typically away from your child, such as during school hours, work hours, or evening routines.

Many parents feel the most anxious during periods when they are not physically present to observe early symptoms. Satori uses this information to time its most protective messaging around those windows, especially if environmental conditions begin shifting.

This does not mean Satori replaces supervision. It simply helps the system prioritize clarity during the hours when you are least able to monitor directly.

Location Setup: Why Home and School Address Matter

Environmental exposure is not city-wide. It can change street by street.

Traffic density, local wind patterns, elevation, and urban structure can all influence whether pollution clears quickly or becomes trapped near breathing height. This is why Satori asks for a home address. It allows the system to monitor conditions in the area that most closely reflects your child’s daily environment.

Your child’s school address is equally important. Many children spend a large portion of their day at school, including outdoor recess, drop-off traffic, and after-school pickup windows. If Satori only monitors your home environment, it may miss important risk patterns that form around your child’s school.

To get the most accurate monitoring, enter full addresses rather than city names. If you do not know the school address or your child is not currently in school, you can still complete setup using only your home address.

A common mistake is entering a parent’s work address instead of the child’s primary environment. The goal is not to track the parent. The goal is to model the air your child is actually breathing.

Why Satori May Ask Follow-Up Questions Later

In some situations, Satori may ask a simple follow-up question after an alert or forecast. These questions are designed to improve accuracy over time and reduce unnecessary alerts.

This is not a medical assessment, and Satori is not diagnosing symptoms. It is simply learning whether certain environmental patterns are meaningfully affecting your child, so future alerts can become more precise and better timed.

You are always in control. If you choose not to answer, Satori will still function normally. But when parents do provide occasional feedback, the system becomes sharper, calmer, and more personalized over time.

How to Update Your Child’s Profile Later

Your child’s breathing patterns may change over time. Triggers can evolve, symptoms can improve or worsen, routines can shift, and school environments can change. Satori is designed with the expectation that your profile may need updates as life changes.

If anything meaningful changes—such as moving to a new home, switching schools, developing new allergies, or noticing a new symptom pattern—you can update your child’s profile at any time.

Updates take effect immediately and automatically recalibrate how Satori interprets environmental conditions for your child.

For step-by-step instructions on making updates, please refer to: How to Update Your Satori Profile & Preferences.

Common Setup Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Satori works best when the profile reflects what you consistently observe. Most setup mistakes happen when parents feel pressure to answer perfectly. The goal is not perfection. The goal is accuracy.

Here are the most common issues that reduce alert precision:

Entering incomplete addresses
Satori needs full home and school addresses. City-level entries are too broad and can reduce accuracy.

Selecting every trigger “just in case”
It is understandable to want maximum protection, but over-selecting triggers can make alerts less precise. Choose the triggers you have seen repeatedly.

Choosing “severe” out of fear
Severity is a calibration setting. If your child is mostly controlled day to day, selecting “severe” can cause unnecessary alerts. If unsure, choose “not sure.”

Answering symptom timing based on the scariest moment
Many symptoms show up at night, but the environmental trigger often begins earlier. Choose the time window when the pattern tends to form.

Underestimating outdoor exposure
Even children who are “mostly indoors” may have meaningful exposure during school recess, PE, sports, and pickup traffic windows.

Skipping indoor context because it feels unrelated
Pets, moisture, humidity, and home conditions can influence how strongly outdoor patterns affect your child. If something is true in your home, it is worth including.

Not updating the profile after life changes
If you move, change schools, or notice a new trigger pattern, updating your profile keeps monitoring accurate.

Each of these mistakes is easy to fix. And even small improvements can noticeably increase the relevance and calmness of Satori’s alerts.