Angel Round · Nerve, Inc. (C-Corp in formation)

NERVE

21 agents. 219 API routes. 1,200 commits in under 90 days. Your nervous system for work.

Patrick Hillstrom, Founder & CEOgetnerve.aiMay 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, Outlook, 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.

And the GTM is different too: leadership wants AI, employees fear it. Nerve respects both.

Every CEO wants AI rolled out yesterday. Every employee is worried it’s coming for their job. Most AI tools widen that gap by trying to replace humans. Nerve takes the opposite stance: respect the operator, give them leverage, let the team see why this is good for them.

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Respects employee intelligence

Nerve doesn’t replace the operator. Every action is human-approved, in their voice, on their terms. Operators stay in the driver’s seat; agents do the rote work.

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Respects company culture

Audit trail, kill switches, human-in-the-loop gates on anything outbound. No black-box autonomy, no surprises for the team, no over-reach.

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Personal, team, org leverage

Personal: hours back per day. Team: a shared brain across the function. Org: unified state across people, processes, systems, and reporting.

The CEO and the IC end up wanting the same thing for the first time.

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.

NERVE IN ACTIONNerve catching a thread that was about to slip

A real breadcrumb from production: Nerve catching a thread that was about to slip, before anyone had to think about it.

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.

I’m not an engineer who built a business tool. I’m not a business person who vibecoded an MVP. I’m an operating executive with over a decade of scaling companies across people, processes, systems, and reporting. Nerve is the operating system I always wished I had.

Instead of hiring, I built 21 AI agents that run Chief of Staff, Growth, Revenue, Sales, Customer Dev, Legal, Research, Compliance, and CS.

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

Chief of Staff
Growth
Revenue
Sales
Customer Dev
Legal
Research
Compliance
CS
+12 more

21 AI agents. 219 API routes. 1,200 commits.

Under 90 days live. First paying B2B contract signed.

1Signed B2B Contract
$360KUnweighted Pipeline
5Paying Consumer Subs
CRS Credit API SIGNED $30M-rev fintech, 2-agent pilot, $5K setup + $1K/mo, expands per agent
Karat inbound Exec-sponsored, ~80h IVE-onboarding pain, $30K build scoping this week
Consulting revenue stream $750/hr AI orchestration strategy advisory
4 more warm B2B conversations $360K unweighted year-1 pipeline
AWS Activate Enrolled. Evaluating Bedrock to improve gross margin on the B2B SKU.
MCP Marketplace submission Nerve submitted as an MCP server. One install for any Claude Enterprise org.
Zapier partnership exploration Active conversation on workflow integration distribution.
LIVE FROM STRIPEStripe dashboard showing $6,232 gross volume and $1,044 ARR, Dec 2025 to May 2026

Paid invoices, Dec 2025 to May 2026: $6,232 gross volume, $1,044 ARR.

Orchestrator pattern with intelligent guardrails.

Integrations
  • Gmail (multi-account)
  • Outlook / Microsoft 365
  • 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
LiteFreeRead-only daily briefing
Pro$29/moUnlimited briefings, full agent team
Operator$79/moVoice + full autonomy, locked rate
B2B + SERVICES
Team$49–149/seat/moOrg dashboard, admin controls
Agent OS$10K/moCustom agent build + ongoing
Consulting$750/hr1.3-mo CAC payback, 33x LTV:CAC, 84% gross margin

Meet users where they already are.

No new dashboard to learn. The same agent system shows up on four surfaces, same state across all of them.

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Slack

Briefings, fire-drill alerts, and decisions land in the channel where the team already lives.

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In-app

Action queue, approvals, and full visibility into every agent in flight at /dashboard.

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Back in Claude

MCP connector. Ask Claude about your pipeline; Claude calls Nerve under the hood.

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SMS / Voice

Approve drafts by text from your lock screen, or just tell Nerve out loud. Briefings and approvals go out over SMS and voice.

And once they’re in Claude, distribution is built in.

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.

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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.

MAR 11
Product launchOnboarding, briefings, Gmail/Outlook/Calendar/Slack integration
MAR 25
First 8 AI agents operationalChief of Staff orchestrating Growth, Revenue, Legal, CS, plus more
APR 8
21 agents + multi-tenant namespacingPer-customer architecture, 219 API routes, kill switches, token budgets
APR 24
CRS Credit API contract SIGNEDFirst paying B2B; 2-agent pilot; expands per agent
MAY 13
CRS pilot expandingWhitespace + churn-trigger dashboards validated; commercial expansion scoped into 3 tracks: private LLM, live credit-data pipe, gov RFP
MAY 21
Pipeline deepensKarat inbound (IVE onboarding, ~$30K, exec-sponsored); Phenix Salon Suites proposal out

Under 90 days, solo, from zero to 21 agents, signed B2B revenue, and a Goodwin C-Corp in flight.

We’re raising a $250K to $500K angel round.

USE OF FUNDS
40% Full-time transition12-month founder runway after I leave the day job.
25% Token burn + Bedrock bridgeCoverage while AWS Bedrock credits land. Current burn $100-200/day.
20% Legal, C-Corp, SOC 2Goodwin Procter conversion in flight; QSBS clock activated for angels.
15% CS capacityLand the next 3 B2B logos beyond CRS.
Patrick Hillstrom|Founder & CEO|patrick@getnerve.ai|getnerve.ai

$500K ARR = cash-flow positive. Not a unicorn. A profitable AI business that compounds.