The Global Caregiving Crisis Demands a Human-First AI Response

Three Growing Crises ... One Missing Platform

No existing app or AI agent addresses all three at once — Holo will.

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 … and to know how they're doing, when it matters, all without being there."

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:

"An effortless, voice connection to the people and activities they love … and the virtual world."

Institutional Care in the Home Is Failing

20M+Lives cared for by professionals

0Proactive channels for ambient client engagement

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. No app or platform exists for HNHC remote patient monitoring, engagement or data collection (e.g., for RPM and LTSS/MDS).

Dr. Sandya Pruthi, Mayo Clinic:

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

Holo: The Next Best Thing to Being There Yourself

A delegated presence configured by a caregiving team to monitor and support a remote loved one or client, all by voice,

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 via voice or text."Your 24×7 presence, for when you can't be there."

An Augmented Connection for Both

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

Effortless Engagement for Care Recipients

"Hi Carol! Would you like me to play meditation music while you stretch?" 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 by and connected to those who care."

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Voice-AI with Caregivers at the Helm

Five layers of AI — seamlessly integrated, always under human control.

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Human-Centered by Design

Configured by multiple users. Serving their relationship. Adapting by voice.

Agent Market: Consumption vs. Caregiving

No current AI agents, consumer or enterprise, combine caregiver configuration/control with ambient, proactive engagement at the point of care.

Unicorn DTC Opportunity w/B2B2C + Global Upside

TAM grows ~5% per year as 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day.

DTC penetration at Y5 = 3% of TAM — between Calm (2%) and Headspace (3%) comparables. Base model: $25 PMPM.
B2B2C follows DTC: existing institutional relationships accelerate the sales cycle, with ROIs delivering ED and hospitalization reductions worth multiples of PMPM cost to capitated MA plans and ACOs.

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

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

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

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

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.