Evergreen
AI voice care · a nucleus + Fibernetics proposal

So you're not the
only one checking in.

Evergreen is an AI voice — Iris — that calls an aging parent on the phone they already own, and a dashboard that tells their family how the call went.

9:02 · Iris checked in — chatted 4 minutes, sounded well
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The one idea

Loneliness is the need. Companionship is the product.

Iris calls every morning so an aging parent has someone checking in — and because she runs at the carrier, she can screen a scam call before the phone even rings. Company is the point; the carrier is the edge.

57%

of Canadians aged 50+ report feeling lonely — and it hasn't improved since 2022. NIA Ageing in Canada Survey

1.1 million

older Canadians live with loneliness — nearly 1 in 5 seniors. Statistics Canada

A real toll

loneliness is linked to depression, cognitive decline, and higher premature-mortality risk. NIA · Statistics Canada

The product

One product, two profiles.

The parent talks to Iris on the phone in their pocket. The family reads what happened on a dashboard. Nothing new to learn, nothing to charge or wear.

Margaret's phone showing her tiles, beside the CareCircle family dashboard

Iris — the call

Iris phones each morning on the landline or handset the parent already uses. She asks how they slept, reminds them about the blue pill at nine, screens callers she doesn't recognise, and rings off. No app for the parent to open.

CareCircle — the dashboard

The family sees each check-in, the callers Iris screened, the medications marked taken, and today's calendar. When Iris can't reach the parent, everyone in the circle gets a text.

What Iris does — six verbs, all of them process

☎
CallsA short check-in every morning.
⦸
ScreensUnknown callers, before the phone rings.
◔
RemindsMedication, at the time it's due.
▤
LogsEvery call, for the family to read.
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NotifiesThe family on a missed check-in.
↗
EscalatesOn the family's standing order.
The standard of care

The family authorises. A trained human executes. We never decide.

Iris may attempt to reach help if the family chain doesn't answer — a standing order the family sets at signup, never a default, and one the parent agrees to out loud, on Iris's first call. Consent is recorded and revocable.

Alongside a medical alert — never instead of one.
The case

We pressure-tested our own pitch.

The first version of this argument was well-written and backwards. Three findings converge — and they point somewhere better than the original claim.

The moat isn't cost. It's control.

Phone minutes stopped being the expensive part. Telephony runs about $0.44 per parent per month; the AI inference we rent runs about $18. Owning the network saves roughly $1.60 — untick "own the network" in the model and the margin barely moves. The real advantage is carrier-native call control: Evergreen can drop a scam call in the signalling path, before her phone ever rings. An app, sitting at the endpoint, structurally cannot.

Scam caller Evergreen — in the network Her phone

Companionship is already commoditised.

Meela is $20 a month and falling. JoyCalls is $9.99. CareYaya gives it away free. There's a free ChatGPT phone number that works on a flip phone, from Canada. Amazon shipped this exact product at $19.99, killed it, and retreated to a $5.99 button. No one wins a price war on rented inference.

So safety carries the price.

Screening unknown callers and escalating on a family's order are the only things a $9.99 competitor and a free phone number structurally cannot ship. They are the only capabilities that support a real price — and the only ones a carrier is uniquely positioned to build. Safety is the business.

$0.44
Telephony / parent / mo
$18
AI inference / parent / mo
~81%
Gross margin at $100 — real COGS, shown
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Pricing

Three tiers.

Priced against what the safety layer costs to run — not against a companion app it isn't competing with.

Basic
$100 / month
  • Scam-call screening
  • Short daily check-in calls
  • CareCircle + real family text alerts
  • Emergency escalation
The safety layer, on its own.
Most complete
Full
$200 / month
  • Everything in Basic
  • Longer daily companionship calls
  • StoryLine keepsakes + good-news
  • Up to 600 minutes a month
Safety plus a real daily presence.
Unlimited
$125 / month
  • Everything in Full
  • Unlimited minutes
  • Bring your own AI key
  • You power the inference cost
For families who'd rather own the compute.

Every plan includes the recorded, revocable consent call and the family's standing escalation order. Evergreen works alongside a medical alert, never instead of one.

See it live

The prototype, end to end.

A working build — the parent's phone, the family dashboard, and a real hands-free call with Iris in the Tessa voice. Walk through it here, then open it live.

The Evergreen prototype: Margaret's phone and the CareCircle dashboard
  1. 1
    Tap the tiles on Margaret's phone

    Call family, talk to Iris, today's plan, photos — the whole parent surface.

  2. 2
    Explore the CareCircle dashboard

    Check-ins, screened scams, medication, calendar, and the live family text alerts.

  3. 3
    Call Iris and talk, hands-free

    A real-time voice call in the warm "Tessa" voice — interrupt her, she listens.

  4. 4
    Trigger a scam or a missed check-in

    Watch the screening and the family alert fire, end to end.

Live prototype

Try it yourself.

Best on Chrome. Talking to Iris needs microphone access. Explore as the family, or sign in to save a real CareCircle.

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