Need

The Caregiving Crisis Demands a Human-First AI Response

No existing app or AI agent addresses all 3 populations at once

Overwhelmed family caregiver
Family Caregivers Are Breaking
53MAmericans providing unpaid care
$1TAnnual economic cost (AARP)

49.5 billion invisible hours of unpaid care annually — often from hundreds of miles away — leaving caregivers overwhelmed, anxious, and sacrificing their own jobs and health to monitor and support their loved ones remotely.

What they want and need:

"To enable aging loved ones to thrive independently … and to know how they're doing, when it matters, all without being there."

Lonely aging care recipient
Care Recipients Are Offline and Lonely
43%Report chronic loneliness
55%Can't use connected tech

55M+ Americans 65+, growing 10,000 per day. Chronic loneliness = health crisis equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. 26M adults 45+ have cognitive or physical disabilities that make touchscreens hard or impossible to use.

What would help them the most:

"A proactive and reactive, effortless connection to the people they love and the online services they want and need."

Overwhelmed professional caregiver
Institutional Care in the Home Is Failing
42MPublic-pay lives (Medicaid LTSS + Medicare Advantage)
$6.7BAdded Medicare cost of social isolation (AARP)

A shrinking workforce of professional caregivers (PCGs) serves a growing High-Needs, High-Cost (HNHC) population — driving avoidable ED visits, hospitalizations, and ever-higher Medicare and Medicaid costs.

A voice channel to proactively engage clients at home

"Voice in healthcare [must] be individualized, proactive, real-time and ambient [to address] our patients' unique needs."

Dr. Sandya Pruthi, Mayo Clinic

Approach

A Voice-AI Agent Named Holo (Helping Our Loved Ones)

A delegated presence, assistant and companion configured by a caregiving team to monitor and support an aging loved one or client, all by voice and text

01
Trustworthy
Trust & Privacy Above All

Configured and controlled by caregivers and their care recipients, not by tech platforms or AI models. User-owned data; user-directed proactivity. Optimized for privacy and trust, not user-initiated engagement or speed.

02
HATH
Humans-at-the-Helm

Holo monitors and proposes, caregivers and care recipients decide — always. Holo enables human-directed, AI-enabled, 24×7 monitoring and effortless engagement.

03
Voice: The Frictionless UX
Voice for All Users

Voice-only UX for care recipients — no apps, no menus, no typing. Voice-only or mixed modal UX for caregivers as well. Voice-text-voice translation whenever needed.

04
WWHD
What Would Humans Do?

Holo says and does what you would direct and want a human caregiver to say and do were they there, on your behalf, around the clock at a fraction of the cost.

Benefits

Holo: The Next Best Thing to Being There Yourself

The first voice-AI companion providing: a trusted presence for caregivers, effortless engagement for aging loved ones and clients, and an augmented connection between them

Family caregiver on phone
A Trusted Presence for Caregivers

Family and professional caregivers configure Holo once and update as needed. Holo reaches out proactively, checks in, escalates — on your behalf, on your terms — and keeps you up-to-date. All via voice or text."Your 24×7 presence, for when you can't be there, personalized to your loved one's needs."

Augmented human connection
An Augmented Connection for Both

Holo doesn't substitute for human connections, it augments and amplifies them. Families feel and stay better connected. Professionals stay informed. Care recipients feel more engaged and less alone."Not replacing caregivers, complementing and extending them by monitoring and supporting their loved ones."

Aging care recipient at home
Effortless Engagement for Care Recipients

"Hi Carol! Would you like me to play quiet music while you go to sleep?" No screens, no friction — effortless access and constant engagement, personalized by those who know and love them most."An always-available, proactive, voice companion, configured with and connected to those who care."

Massive Market Opportunity

Unicorn Consumer and Institutional Opportunities with Global Upside

$4.8BU.S. Consumer TAM
13.4M family-care pairs
$6.6BU.S. Institutional TAM
42M public-pay lives
$11.4BTotal U.S.
TAM
+$10.6BInternational
Consumer TAM
Competition

Agent Market: Consumption vs. Caregiving

No current AI agents, consumer or enterprise, combine multi-user configuration/control with ambient, proactive engagement at the point of care and support.

OWNERSHIP USERS CONTROL SIRI · OPENCLAW · CLAUDE COWORK · HARVEY Single-User Agents Permissioning — it does what the user asks, on demand, for the user. Agent one user apps AI PRESENCE · HOLO Multi-User Agent Governing — it does what caregivers direct and configure for themselves and for care recipients. adapts Multi-User Agent Adaptive Policy Engine caregiver remote recipient Platform-owned and governed, fixed The vendor’s product, on the vendor’s terms. Single user It does local, static tasks for a device owner. Default autonomy and control Acts on its own, by product design and user permission. Relationship-governed, dynamic Users define and own the policies — not vendors or AI bots. Multiple users / beneficiaries Caregiving teams configure Holo to serve them and their care recipients. Delegated control; limited autonomy Humans-at-the-helm, always, via voice. Not a vendor’s agent with ‘task intelligence’ — Holo serves individual caregivers, care recipients, and their relationships.
Team

Unparalleled Experience in Voice-AI and Digital Care

We've built voice- and conversational-AI from the ground up at Bell Labs, IBM, SpeechWorks, Nuance, Jibo and LifePod. We've cared for dual-eligible patients at home for three decades. We've scaled voice companies from startup to IPO and billion-dollar acquisitions. We've done this and more before, but the tech hasn't been up to building a trustworthy AI agent with humans-at-the-helm … till now.

Stu Patterson
Stu Patterson
CEO

30+ years voice & conversational AI. Built SpeechWorks (now Nuance/Microsoft) to global leader and IPO. Cofounder/CEO of LifePod. Pioneer of proactive-voice AI with humans-at-the-helm for caregiving.

Dr. John Loughnane
Dr. John Loughnane
CMO

30+ years caring for dual-eligible patients. Gather Health, Present for You, Activate Care, CCA. Deep experience and vision of how voice-AI agents with HATH can transform institutional healthcare.

Roberto Pieraccini
Roberto Pieraccini
CTO

35+ year voice-AI pioneer. Bell Labs, AT&T, IBM, SpeechWorks, Nuance, Google, Uniphore. IEEE Fellow. MIT Press author. One of the world's authorities on voice- and conversational-AI systems.

Steve Chambers
Steve Chambers
Marketing & Board Advisor

25+ years voice & conversational AI. Scaled SpeechWorks to IPO and Nuance to $20B acquisition by Microsoft. Built Jibo — world's first Social Robot. CallMiner, Polycom.

Near-term Additions to Team

  • An EIR or experienced executive as CEO
  • CTO and lead developers
  • Consumer and institutional sales/marketing leads

The Ask

$3M seed round to develop/test platform, launch consumer Beta and institutional pilots, and fund key hires.