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Who’s behind the thing you sit on all day
From your chair, every cushion listing looks the same: a white-background photo, a brand name invented last quarter, the same promises in the same order. You’re about to trust one of them with most of your sitting hours, so here is exactly who you’d be trusting. Everything on this page is public record or plain fact; where the facts run out, the page ends.
- Aylio customers, all products
- 750,000+
- Issued US patents
- 10
- Stars across 4,500+ Amazon ratings
- 4.3
- Days to try it at home
- 100
The short version
Aylio is an independent small business, not a house brand. Max Krishtul founded it in 2008, making fitness and wellness products; more than 750,000 people have bought an Aylio product since. The cushions began in 2013, designed with Larisa, an occupational therapist, and engineered around pressure points instead of padding over them. She has helped shape every cushion that carries the name. The Socket Seat came later still, and is now what Aylio mainly makes. Designed in Miami, Florida.
Everything we make is sold on Amazon, by us — the official listings are here, along with how to tell one from a reseller.
One idea, held since the first cushion
Almost every cushion answers pressure the same way: put something softer between your bones and the chair. Aylio’s designs start from the opposite move — take the contact point out of the cushion entirely, so the two bones you sit on have nothing to press against. Padding redistributes your weight; a cutout removes it. What actually happens between your pelvis and the foam is laid out in how it works.
Patents as proof
Aylio holds 10 issued patents — the record of trying things, keeping what worked, and throwing out what didn’t. The core one, US9723928B2, “Sitting bones cushion,” (opens in a new tab) sits at the patent office for anyone to read, including you. The paperwork matters for one unglamorous reason: it pins the geometry down in public, and the geometry is the product. The Socket Seat’s openings are 3.5″ wide, set 6″ center to center, with 2.5″ of foam between them — those numbers are what make the cushion work for the sit-bone widths it is designed for, and the bridge only holds if the foam around it is firm enough not to sag into the openings under your weight.
The materials get the same outside scrutiny. An independent SGS lab tested the cushion’s mesh, leather and foam for lead, cadmium and six phthalates — none detected. The report (CANEC1827148501, 2019) is available on request.
If you are a clinician or ergonomist weighing the cushion for the people you see, the clinician page collects the geometry, the fit range, the materials record and a printable measuring handout in one place.
One flagship, sold where you already shop
Aylio sells two cushions today, and one is the flagship: the Socket Seat (opens in a new tab), $99.99 on Amazon, where it holds 4.3 stars across 4,500+ ratings; the other is the coccyx cushion, for pain centered on the tailbone rather than the sit bones. Amazon handles checkout, shipping, and the free returns, and every Socket Seat order is covered by a 100-day trial — long enough to take a firm cushion through its full adjustment period on your actual chair.
If it won’t fit, we’ll say so before you spend a dollar
The geometry is fixed, so it does not fit every pelvis — narrow sit bones can land on foam instead of open space. The fit check takes your measurement and gives you a straight answer either way.
How to reach us
Questions before or after you buy go to [email protected].
That’s the whole story — a founder, an occupational therapist, one idea about where your weight should and shouldn’t land, and the years since spent refining it. If you’re weighing the Socket Seat for your own chair, the fit check is the right first stop, and the cushion itself is on Amazon (opens in a new tab) when you’re ready.