The Autism Dad

Tracto is a free app that helps parents better support their autistic kids (feat Augmental Technologies) S5E3


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My guests today are Herman Lintvelt and Michael (Fox) van der Linde of Augmental Technologies (Pty) Ltd. They created a FREE app called Tracto that is empowering parents to better support their autistic kids. I love bringing you resources that can help improve your families the quality of life. It's even more satisfying for me when something is as affordable as free.

Check out this episode and let me know if you have any questions..

You can find more information about Tracto at tracto.app

Guest bios and contact info:


  • Herman Lintvelt


  • Role: Founder, CEO, CTO


  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hermanlintvelt/


  • Herman Lintvelt has more than 20 years experience in creating software products, and in growing productive software teams. He has been involved in various startups over the last number of years. He specializes in initiating projects; growing the software architecture and team structure so both can start lean, and scale when it needs to. He is passionate about using technology to develop products that empowers people.


  • Michael (Fox) van der Linde


  • Role: Founder, Chief Product Officer


  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfoxsa/


  • Michael has 11 years of technology product management and entrepreneurship experience. During this period he has managed various local and international technology product portfolios ranging from digital health and telematics. He also has extensive experience in managing technology product roadmaps within various company maturity levels, from start-up, scale-up and NYSE listed company environments.


  • Michael is passionate about addressing meaningful problems by leveraging software, hardware, data science, design and business model innovation.



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