Everyone is told to use a warm compress. Almost nobody keeps going.
That's the gap Matiya exists to close. The advice is right — heat really does help blocked meibomian glands. But a flannel cools in ninety seconds, a rice bag is either scalding or useless, and nobody can tell whether any of it is working.
Built by people who got tired of squinting.
Matiya started with a founder who spent two years cycling through drops, lid wipes and hot flannels for meibomian gland dysfunction, and never once knew whether things were improving. The clinic visits were six months apart. The days in between were guesswork.
So we built the thing that was missing: a mask that holds the right damp heat for exactly as long as it should, and a scan that turns "I think it's better" into something you can actually look at.
We're a small team of hardware engineers, computer vision researchers and optometry advisors working out of San Francisco — obsessive about thermal control and honest measurement.
The name comes from máti, the Greek word for eye — a small, everyday word for the thing we spend all day trying to take better care of.
Four principles, no asterisks.
Relief is the metric
If your eyes don't feel better, nothing else we built matters. Every feature has to earn its place against that.
Only claim what we sense
We publish exactly what each device measures and what it can't. No implied sensors, no invented numbers.
Made to keep using
Warm compress therapy works when it's done consistently. So we optimised for the tenth week, not the first night.
Your clinician stays in the loop
Matiya produces a report your eye doctor can read. We're the daily layer between appointments, not a replacement for them.
Want the technical detail?
Every sensor, every method, and every limit is written up in full.