Fortell, a New York startup that makes prescription AI hearing aids, is expanding access to more than 30 states through new clinics and a remote audiology service called Fortell Anywhere. The company's custom AI chips use spatial cues to separate speech from background noise in real time, on the device. Independent lab HearAdvisor recorded the highest overall and speech-in-noise scores it has seen for the product. In a double-blind randomised controlled trial, 95% of participants preferred Fortell over hearing aids from all five major manufacturers. New clinics open in Greenwich, Palm Beach, and Boston, with local support in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Devices arrive programmed to the patient's audiogram, and an audiologist fits them live over video. Each purchase includes five years of audiological care, a 100-day home trial, and a three-year warranty.

Fortell AI Hearing Aids have set new performance records in independent testing by HearAdvisor laboratory. The devices achieved an overall SoundScore of 6.0 and a speech-in-noise score of 6.4, exceeding HearAdvisor's five-point scale and surpassing the previous record of 4.5. HearAdvisor uses standardised, objective testing with acoustic manikins to evaluate hearing aids across five measures: speech in noise, speech in quiet, feedback suppression, own-voice quality, and streamed music quality. Fortell's record speech-in-noise result was achieved using first-fit settings without additional tuning. The company uses custom AI chips delivering 235 times more computing power than conventional hearing aid processors, performing up to 100 billion operations per second with latency under 10 milliseconds. Founded in 2021, Fortell develops prescription AI hearing aids fitted through dedicated clinics and remote-care programmes.