Need

Families Need More Care Than They Can Provide on Their Own

Overwhelmed family caregiver
Family Caregivers Are Breaking
53MAmericans providing unpaid care

49.5 billion unpaid hours a year, often from hundreds of miles away, at the expense of their own jobs and health.

Lonely aging care recipient
Aging Loved Ones Are Lonely
43%Report chronic loneliness

A health risk equal to smoking 15 cigarettes a day — and 55% can’t use connected tech to stay in touch.

Overwhelmed professional caregiver
Professional Care Can’t Keep Up
$6.7BAdded cost of social isolation (AARP)

A shrinking workforce serving a growing high-needs/high-cost population at home, driving avoidable ED visits and hospitalizations.

Families need a way to extend their caring presence into the hours and days they can’t be there.
Professionals need a way to monitor and engage with their clients at home.

Approach

A Voice-AI Agent That Extends Family Care Around the Clock

Holo (Helping Our Loved Ones) is a personalized voice companion that helps families monitor and care for aging loved ones — providing companionship, daily assistance, and peace of mind when they can’t be there.

How Holo Works Differently

01
Trust & Privacy Above All

Family and professional caregivers direct what Holo says and does — not tech platforms or AI models.

02
Humans-at-the-Helm

Holo monitors and proposes; caregivers and care recipients decide and direct — always.

03
Voice for All Users

No apps, screens or typing for loved ones or clients; caregivers use voice or text.

04
What Would Humans Do?

Holo says and does what you’d want a caring person to, 24×7, at a fraction of the cost.

Market

A Large, Underserved Market for Everyday Care and Companionship

Holo is a subscription service, not a home-care product. Family-caregiver Beta first; institutional pilots soon after.

Family caregiver on phone

For caregivers: a trusted presence that checks in, reminds and escalates — on your terms.

Aging loved one at home

For loved ones: an always-available voice companion, connected to the people who care.

Initial market
Consumer: Family Caregivers
$4.8BU.S. TAM

13.4M private-pay, family-care pairs (25% of 53M in U.S.) × $30/month avg.

Year-5 target: 579K pairs, $244.8M revenue — 3.4% of Year-5 TAM

Buyer: a family caregiver or caregiving team paying monthly.

Expansion · from Year 2
Institutional: Health Plans
$6.6BU.S. TAM

16.9M Medicaid LTSS lives × $25 PMPM + 25M MA members × $5 PMPM

Year-5 target: 41 contracts (5.1% of 809 MCO/MA buyers), 198K lives, $75.7M revenue

Buyer: Medicaid MCOs and MA plans and in-home care providers.

Year-5 revenue: $320.5M
Uncounted upside: +$10.6B international consumer TAM · in-home care providers · CCRCs

Go-to-marketLaunch direct to family caregivers, growing through social, WOM and family/friend invites; deploy health-plan pilots, already in discussion, in parallel.

Competition

Most AI Agents Serve Individuals on Demand … Holo Connects Families Around the Clock.

Families personalize and choreograph ongoing care for someone they love — and Holo carries it out, by voice, every day.

Illustration

Jen can’t possibly be with her mother, Mary, every day. She sets up Holo to say “Good morning!”, remind Mary of her evening meds, and suggest a Sunday call with the grandkids whenever possible. If Mary misses an important reminder, Holo checks in again and texts Jen. If Holo detects a fall or Mary cries for help, Holo alerts the family right away via voice and text.

Why single-user agents can’t do this:

OWNERSHIP USERS CONTROL ALEXA · 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

We’ve Built This Before — and Lived the Problems It Addresses

We built voice AI at Bell Labs, IBM, SpeechWorks, Nuance, Jibo and LifePod, cared for dual-eligible patients at home for three decades, and scaled voice companies to IPO and billion-dollar exits. Until now, the tech couldn’t deliver a trustworthy agent with humans at the helm.

Stu Patterson
Stu Patterson
CEO

“I’ve always wanted to use online tech so one person can help another … and many can help millions.”

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Dr. John Loughnane
Dr. John Loughnane
CMO

[Personal statement to come]

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Roberto Pieraccini
Roberto Pieraccini
CTO

[Personal statement to come]

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Steve Chambers
Steve Chambers
Marketing & Board Advisor

“After my mother died, I watched my stepfather struggle with loneliness. I wished there were a way to keep him connected, engaged, and supported every day.”

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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.