Pre-Seed · Launch.co Startup TuneUp 37

NERVE

The stateful AI operations layer that runs your company while you sleep.

Patrick Hillstrom, Founder & CEOgetnerve.aiMarch 2026

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Knowledge workers are drowning in operational noise.

28%of the workweekspent on email
2.5hrsper dayin unnecessary meetings
$1.8Tper yearlost to poor collaboration

Source: McKinsey, Harvard Business Review

A stateful AI layer that connects everything, remembers everything, and acts on your behalf.

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Intelligent Briefings

Daily briefings synthesized from Gmail, Calendar, and Slack. Know what matters before you open anything.

Smart Actions

Draft emails, schedule meetings, follow up on threads — one click. Nerve doesn't just inform, it acts.

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Multi-Step Workflows

Chain actions into workflows that span tools. Research → draft → schedule → follow up, orchestrated by AI.

The bottleneck isn’t AI capability. It’s state management.

Models are commoditizing. GPT, Claude, Gemini — the capability gap is closing fast. The lasting value is in the state layer: who you talked to, what was promised, what’s overdue, what patterns are forming. Nerve owns that layer.

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Notion Agents

Q&A and triage on docs you've already written. But Notion doesn't read your email, watch your calendar, or notice a deal went cold.

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Lovable

Generates code from prompts — a build tool, not an operations layer. Once the app is built, Lovable's job is done.

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Zapier / Make

Pre-defined automations between apps. Nerve doesn't need you to define the workflow — it detects patterns from ambient awareness.

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Salesforce / Copilot

Team-scoped enterprise tools. Nerve is personal-first: your email, your calendar, your Slack, your patterns.

Nerve is none of these things. It’s a stateful personal operations layer with ambient awareness.

Your nervous system brings you calm.

Your biological nervous system doesn’t add noise — it processes millions of signals so your conscious mind only sees what matters. It brings clarity through total awareness.

Nerve works the same way. It connects to your email, calendar, and Slack — not to overwhelm you with more notifications, but to synthesize everything into calm, actionable intelligence.

The more it knows, the less you have to think about.

INSPIRATION

The aesthetic draws from Deus Ex and System Shock — interfaces designed for augmented humans. HUD overlays that surface signal from noise. Systems thinking applied to daily operations.

Not another dashboard. An augmentation layer.

I’m a solo founder running an entire company with AI agents.

Nights & weekends.

I build Nerve after hours while working my day job. No co-founder, no team, no funding yet.

Instead of hiring, I built 10 AI agents that run Growth, Product, Revenue, Sales, BDR, Pulse, Content, Compliance, and a Chief of Staff that orchestrates them all.

The product IS the process. I’m my own first customer.

Chief of Staff
Growth
Product
Revenue
Sales
BDR
Pulse
Content
Compliance
DevOps

10 AI agents. 124 API routes. Zero employees.

4 weeks live. Growing fast.

Registered Users
Waitlist Signups
Activation Rate
B2B Pipeline (Year 1)
Launch.co Startup TuneUp 37 Selected for Jason Calacanis's accelerator program
First B2B deal in pipeline CRS Credit API (~$30M revenue fintech), $90K first-year target
Consulting revenue stream $500/hr AI orchestration strategy consulting
Full agent architecture shipped 10 agents with guardrails, kill switches, token budgets

Orchestrator pattern with intelligent guardrails.

Integrations
  • Gmail (multi-account)
  • Google Calendar
  • Slack (user-scoped)
  • Web Research
Orchestrator
  • Claude plans actions
  • Skill executors run tasks
  • Workflows chain multi-step
  • Power levels gate complexity
Guardrails
  • Kill switches per agent
  • Token budget caps
  • Email approval gates
  • Audit trail logging
TECH STACK

Next.js 15 · React 19 · Clerk Auth · Upstash Redis · Claude API (Sonnet + Opus) · Stripe · Vercel · PostHog

Three revenue streams from day one.

CONSUMER SAAS
LiteFree1 briefing/day
Pro$29/moUnlimited briefings + actions
Founder$79/moLocked for early adopters
B2B + SERVICES
Team$49–149/seat/moOrg dashboard, admin controls
Agent OS$10K/moCustom agent build + ongoing
Consulting$500/hrAI orchestration strategy

MCP is our enterprise Trojan horse.

Every company with Claude Enterprise can add Nerve as an MCP connector — no IT approval, no vendor review, no procurement. One person connects, the team sees the value, the org converts to a paid plan.

1

Individual connects

One person adds Nerve MCP to their Claude Desktop. Takes 60 seconds.

2

Team adoption

They share it: 'Ask Claude about our pipeline.' Word spreads organically.

3

Org-level conversion

Usage hits critical mass. Admin deploys Nerve org-wide. $49-149/seat/mo.

Zero-friction enterprise sales built on top of Anthropic's distribution.

The productivity software market is massive and fragmented.

TAM
Global productivity software$541B by 2030
SAM
AI-powered workflow automation$78B by 2028
SOM
AI ops for knowledge workers$2.4B addressable now
TAM$541B
SAM$78B
SOM$2.4B

Shipping speed is our competitive advantage.

FEB 21
Product launchOnboarding, briefings, Gmail/Calendar integration
FEB 28
Slack integration + actions engineReal-time scanning, actionable items from conversations
MAR 7
10 AI agents operationalFull agent team with specialized skills across every domain
MAR 14
Guardrails + B2B architectureKill switches, token budgets, email approval gates, multi-tenant ready
MAR 19
Launch.co TuneUp 37 + first B2B dealSelected for Calacanis accelerator, CRS Credit API pipeline

4 weeks from zero to 10 operational AI agents, a B2B pipeline, and an accelerator acceptance.

We’re raising a pre-seed round to accelerate growth.

USE OF FUNDS
40% Go full-time on NerveQuit the day job. Ship 10x faster.
25% B2B infrastructureMulti-tenant, compliance, enterprise features.
20% Growth & distributionContent, partnerships, waitlist conversion.
15% Runway buffer12–18 month runway at current burn rate.
Patrick Hillstrom|Founder & CEO|patrick@getnerve.ai|getnerve.ai

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