In Sweden alone, more than 200 000 people are having trouble managing their finances. Primarily because of long-term illnesses, old age, or other impairments. Aider makes it less cumbersome for trustees to support those in need.

Government-appointed trustees are required by law to account for their work. The government are in turn required to review each trustee in order to detect potential foul play. For trustees, this means a lot of administration by pen and paper.

Aider is a tool that helps trustees cut down administration so that they can focus on doing what they're supposed to do, look after the people that need their help.

Starting out from nothing you know you're going to have to pivot a lot. Our first prototype were used to test the assumption that our target audience, primarily people with little to no experience with digital products, would find Aider intuitive.

Focusing on the core features of our product we released our first prototype to a bunch of test users to gather feedback. A couple of iterations later we had a pretty good sense of what would work and what wouldn't. From there, we put our findings into our MVP and released Aider to a wider audience.

I'm proud to say that Aider is now used by trustees all over Sweden and that we have a lot of engaged users that wants to be a part of making Aider even better.

Personally, it was a great experience having been part of all stages of product development, from our first user journey map to launch. We recently launched a new version of Aider with a set of new features that we believe will make the lives of trustees even better. Have a look for yourself at https://www.aider.nu/