A Message from Phoenix
Inventor • Disability Advocate • Author • Survivor • Founder of WheelchairAbility LLC
I didn't set out to build a company. I set out to solve a problem I lived every single day — reaching for something that had fallen, and realizing the tool meant to help me was already on the floor with it.
The Reacher Keeper started as a fix taped to my own wheelchair. It became a patented mounting system (U.S. Patent No. 11,154,129) because the people around me kept asking for one. That's how everything here is made: with wheelchair users, not simply for them.
Every REACH System we build is measured against one question — does this give someone back a moment of independence they'd otherwise have to ask for? If the answer is yes, we keep going.
"Independence should never be out of reach."
Phoenix Harlee
Invented from lived experience
Designed on a real wheelchair, in real routines — then refined with the community.
Built with users
Feedback from wheelchair users, caregivers, and rehab professionals shapes every revision.
Advocacy first
Dignity and autonomy come before features. Independence is the product.