The Global Caregiving Crisis Demands a Human-First AI Response

Three Growing Crises ... One Missing Platform

No existing app or AI solution 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 professional caregiver workforce serves a growing High-Needs, High-Cost population — driving avoidable ED visits, hospitalizations, and ever-higher Medicare and Medicaid costs. No platform connects family and professional caregivers on a shared, coordinated system.

Dr. Sandya Pruthi, Mayo Clinic:

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

The Next Best Thing to Being There Yourself

Holo serves 2+ users in 3 ways — the first platform configured by one person to simultaneously serve one or more others, by voice, 24×7.

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 informed asynchronously 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

"Good morning, Margaret! Would you like me to play meditation music while you stretch?" Zero screens. Zero friction. Instant, natural voice access and frequent, daily engagement — personalized by those who know and love them most."An always-available, proactive-voice companion, configured by and connected to those who care."

Voice-AI with Caregivers at the Helm

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

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Unparalleled Experience in Voice-AI and E-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 all before, but the AI wasn't up to building a trustworthy agent with humans-at-the-helm … till now.

Stu Patterson

Founding 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

Founding CMedO

30+ years caring for dual-eligible patients. Gather Health, Present for You, Activate Care, CCA. Deep clinical, in-market experience and entrepreneurial vision of how proactive-voice with HATH will transform healthcare.

Roberto Pieraccini

Founding 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 foremost authorities on voice- and conversational-AI systems.

Steve Chambers

Board Advisor & Fractional CMkgO

25+ years voice & conversational AI. Scaled SpeechWorks to IPO and Nuance to $20B acquisition by Microsoft. Jibo, CallMiner, Polycom.

LifePod Lessons: Hard-Won and Invaluable

We built LifePod before LLMs existed. Here's what we learned — and why the timing is right now.

Human-Centered by Design

Unicorn DTC Opportunity with B2B2C and Global Upside

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

DTC penetration at Year 5 = 3% of TAM — between Calm (2%) and Headspace (3%) comparables. 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.