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ELA

Three seconds.
Then you are
not alone.

CompanyELA — personal emergency infrastructure for UAE residents.
StatusPRE-LAUNCH · PRODUCT BUILT · ON TESTFLIGHT
Documentela.now  ·  Investor briefing  ·  [DATE TBD]
ELA home screen, protected state
EXHIBIT 01 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 02 · THE PROBLEMFOLIO 02 / 17
The problem

The UAE runs on people who were not born here.

[RESEARCH TBD: UAE expat population + share of residents] live under a legal system they did not grow up in. And in the first hour the real problem is simpler than money — nobody answers.

There is insurance for your health, your car, your home. No product answers the first hour of an arrest.

Dubai skyline, daylight
EXHIBIT 02 — DUBAI, DAYLIGHT PANORAMA
Cost of the status quo
Criminal lawyer, billed per hour
AED 1,500–3,500
Defence retainer, starts at
AED 15,000
The first hour of an arrest
NO PRODUCT ANSWERS
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 03 · THE MOMENT OF ARRESTFOLIO 03 / 17
The moment of arrest

The first hour decides everything.

03.1An arrest begins with a phone being taken.
03.2No one knows where you are.
03.3No lawyer is coming.
03.4Your consulate has not been told.
03.5Your family is calling a phone that does not answer.

The common case is not the worst case — a small administrative matter that escalates because nobody answers the phone.

ELA pre-dispatch countdown screen
EXHIBIT 03 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 04 · THE SOLUTIONFOLIO 04 / 17
The solution

Hold the emergency button for three seconds. ELA does the rest.

Armed in the minutes as a situation unfolds — a stop, a knock, being asked to come along. One 3-second hold dispatches a vetted law firm, informs your consulate, and keeps your family in the loop.

FIRM14:02:11Case brief received.
CONSULATE14:02:12Emergency desk informed.
FAMILY14:02:13A private live link, only to the people you chose.

Live location streams for as long as the phone has power. The response itself is server-run — armed before the phone is taken, it cannot be stopped after.

Pre-dispatch countdown
EXHIBIT 04 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
Active case screen
EXHIBIT 05 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 05 · PRODUCT DEPTHFOLIO 05 / 17
Product depth

Fail-safe by design.

5.1

On your wrist

The Apple Watch mirrors the phone. Three seconds, wherever your hands are.

5.2

Silence counts as a yes

If the member cannot stand down, the countdown sends. Registered server-side: it fires even if the phone is backgrounded, dead, or taken.

5.3

Humans on every case

A trained operations team runs every case from a purpose-built console; the machine dispatches around the clock, and this raise staffs the human rotation to 24/7.

5.4

If the firm cannot act

SLA timers escalate to ops automatically, and a documented no-firm-accepts runbook covers the worst case; multi-firm cycling is built and dormant.

5.5

A confiscating officer cannot cancel it

Ending a case requires the member's own biometric or PIN; ops closure takes two humans, and every step writes a hash-chained audit log.

Watch arm-ready, mirroring the phone
EX. 06 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
Watch active case
EX. 07 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
OPS CONSOLESAFE MODE
QUEUE
SLA 04:12
ESCALATED
SLA 22:05
SLA 31:48
CASE CLOSE — TWO HUMANS
OPS·1 ✓OPS·2 ✓
AUDIT LOG — HASH-CHAINED
#A41F → #0E77 → #B2C9
#B2C9 → #5D08 → #F31A
EXHIBIT 08 — OPS CONSOLE (ABSTRACT)
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 06 · THE MARKETFOLIO 06 / 17
The market

A new category, priced against categories that already work.

Market sizing: [RESEARCH TBD — UAE EXPAT POPULATION, TAM/SAM/SOM]  ·  Our desk research (primary WTP survey planned) puts UAE willingness-to-pay at AED 1,200–2,000 for an entry tier and AED 2,500–3,500 for an insurance tier.

Price anchor — one hour vs one year
One lawyer hourAED 1,500–3,500
One ELA yearFROM AED 750
Global comparables — legal-protection & panic-button subscriptions, $120–615 / yr
ESSENTIAL — INSIDE
SHIELD — ABOVE

Essential sits inside that band; Shield sits above it because no comparable carries insured cover.

Willingness-to-pay bands (AED / yr) — desk research
Entry-tier WTP
1,200–2,000
Insurance-tier WTP
2,500–3,500
ESSENTIAL 750BELOW THE FLOOR — DELIBERATE
SHIELD 3,750ABOVE THE ZONE — INSURED
0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000

Essential at 750 deliberately undercuts the entry floor — accessibility pricing that widens the anchor to Shield. Shield at 3,750 sits just above the insurance-zone top, carrying an insured AED 150,000 promise.

SHIELD CARRIES AN INSURED AED 150,000 PROMISE NO COMPARABLE CARRIES INSURED COVER
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 07 · BUSINESS MODELFOLIO 07 / 17
Business model

A software-margin service wrapped around an insured promise.

1 — Subscriptions
AED 750 / member / yr

Three revenue lines, one membership.

2 — Insurance commission
[10%, UNDER NEGOTIATION]

Of the AED 3,000 annual premium per insured adult, under a group policy in final negotiation with a licensed UAE insurer.

3 — Legal referral
10% of litigation fees

Of litigation fees introduced to the firm.

Company model, July 2026 — assumptions stated · our own assumptions, not a forecast · bars to scale, members
Bottoms-up · funded cohort
AED 1.54M MARKETING ÷ [CAC ASSUMPTION TBD]
Sanity line · 10,000 members
= AED 7.5M subscriptions
Year-1 Low · 100,000
100,000 subscribers
Year-1 Base · 300,000
AED 225M subscriptions
Year-1 High · 500,000
500,000 subscribers

The model is linear: 10,000 members = AED 7.5M in subscriptions. Bottoms-up: the AED 1.54M Year-1 marketing budget at [CAC ASSUMPTION TBD] defines the funded cohort we actually plan against.

The model assumes 50% insurance uptake; our own attach research benchmarks 30–35% in Year 1, 45–55% in Year 2.

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 08 · PRICINGFOLIO 08 / 17
Pricing

Every member gets the same response. Tiers differ in one way only: who pays the legal fees.

Essential
AED 750/yr

Legal fees settled directly between member and firm.

MOST RECOMMENDED
Shield
AED 3,750/yr

Legal fees insured: up to AED 100,000 defence fees + AED 50,000 bond.

Family cover
AED 7,500/yr

Two adults, full Shield each — priced per adult. [FOUNDER DECISION TBD: POST-UNBUNDLING PRESENTATION — PER-ADULT UPGRADE VS FAMILY CARD]

IDENTICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE firm dispatch  ·  consulate  ·  family link  ·  live location

Shield is 5× Essential. Round numbers, deliberately — trust categories do not charm-price.

Membership starts below the cost of one lawyer hour. Apple Pay · card · BNPL split-into-4 IN NEGOTIATION

Membership confirmation screen
EXHIBIT 09 — EXAMPLE SCREEN

Insurance benefits will be provided under a group policy with a licensed UAE insurer, currently in final negotiation. ELA is a membership service, not an insurance company.

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 09 · GO-TO-MARKETFOLIO 09 / 17
Go-to-market

Four channels, one membership.

ChannelMechanismGate — stated honestlyYear-1 mix
Consumer Social-led acquisition; BNPL split-into-4 (39% of UAE digital transactions) is the planned unlock for the AED 15–20k/month professional segment. Agreement in negotiation. 200,000
Corporate Employer-paid seats; target profile: Big-4 professional services, global banks, tech multinationals. Opens after the corporate seat build (roadmap) with PDPL-compliant per-employee consent. No agreements signed today. 50,000
SME Direct sales plus law-firm and insurer co-selling. Same seat-build gate. 25,000
Embassies & consulates Consulate notification is built into every dispatch by design, making consulates a natural distribution partner once live. Once live. 5,000
~280kof the 300k base case
20kremainder unallocated
COMPANY-MODEL YEAR-1 MIX, JULY 2026 · CORPORATE AND SME SEATS ASSUME THE SEAT BUILD LANDS
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 10 · GEOGRAPHIC ROLL-OUTFOLIO 10 / 17
Geographic roll-out

UAE first. The playbook travels.

Year 1
UAE
Prove the playbook at home.
Year 2
First GCC expansion
Saudi Arabia · Qatar · Oman · Bahrain in the plan, sequenced as gates clear.
Year 3
India · China
South America/Mexico and Europe from Year 3 [TBA]
Year 4
Pakistan · Thailand · Indonesia · Malaysia
Year 5
Korea · Japan

Every entry is gated: UAE unit economics proven, plus an insurer partnership per market.

The pattern repeats everywhere: large expat populations, unfamiliar legal systems, no product for the first hour.

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 11 · COMPETITION & MOATFOLIO 11 / 17
Competition & moat

The neighbours solve pieces. Our thesis: no one runs the whole response.

Adjacent categories are pricing comparables today. Capability matrix rendered as a hypothesis to verify: [RESEARCH TBD: CAPABILITY-LEVEL SCAN + FORMAL UAE COMPETITIVE SCAN BEFORE THIS MATRIX IS SHOWN AS FACT]
Comparator Firm dispatch Consulate Family link Live location Insurance
Life360 locationTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFY
Noonlight panic buttonTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFY
MedjetAssist medical transportTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFY
LegalShield lawyer accessTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFYTO VERIFY
ELA the whole response — thesis

= BUILT AND ON TESTFLIGHT TODAY  ·  HATCHED = TO VERIFY

The moat compounds

Server-authoritative life-safety infrastructure — the response runs when the phone does not. Underwriting partnership in progress with a leading UAE insurer and a global reinsurer — hard to replicate. The insurance premium is Apple-commission-free by policy (guideline 3.2.1(v)). Verified members — passport + Emirates ID. Independent pen-test · hash-chained audit · 22 operational runbooks.

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 12 · TRACTION & BUILD EVIDENCEFOLIO 12 / 17
Traction & build evidence

3.2 months. One founder. The whole machine.

3.2
Months
~1,000
Commits
25-step
CI gate
162
Test files
31
Screen states under visual regression
0
Critical pen-test findings — both highs closed and retested

~223,000 LINES OF TYPESCRIPT · 22 OPERATIONAL RUNBOOKS · COMPLIANCE PACK
BUILD FACTS AS OF AUG 2026, FLOORS NOT ESTIMATES

On TestFlight todayiPhone + Apple Watch.
Live on production infrastructureOps console, insurance and firm workflows — in documented safe mode; flipping it is the launch gate.
Partnerships in progressA leading UAE insurer, a global reinsurer, a vetted UAE law firm.
What we do not have yetMembers, revenue, signed corporate deals.
What we haveThe machine that serves them.
Home protected
EX. 10 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
Active case
EX. 11 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
Watch case timeline
EX. 12 — EXAMPLE SCREEN
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 13 · ROADMAPFOLIO 13 / 17
Roadmap

The build is done. What remains is the switch.

Gate — the honest list
  • Flip documented safe mode (live payments, live comms)
  • Vendor licences incl. the background-location licence
  • Signed group policy with the insurer
  • Signed law-firm agreement
Launch
  • UAE
  • One vetted law firm
  • iPhone + Apple Watch
  • Full response
Next
  • Multi-firm dispatch cycling (built and dormant; activates as the firm panel grows)
  • Android
  • Corporate seat management with PDPL per-employee consent
Later
  • Tourist and short-stay passes
  • Membership gifting
  • GCC storefronts
  • "Ask a lawyer" concierge
REGULATORY POSTURE — COMMERCIAL LICENCE [STATUS TBD] · INSURANCE BENEFITS PROVIDED UNDER THE INSURER'S LICENCE — ELA NEVER SELLS, ARRANGES, OR ADVISES ON INSURANCE · VAT TREATMENT UNDER CONFIRMATION · PDPL-COMPLIANT DATA ARCHITECTURE
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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 14 · TEAMFOLIO 14 / 17
FOUNDER PORTRAIT
[TBD]
22 RUNBOOKS INDEPENDENT PEN-TEST 25-STEP CI GATE ON TESTFLIGHT
Team

[TBD — FOUNDER NAME]

Founder bio: [TBD — MUST LAND BEFORE ANY EXTERNAL SHOWING]

What the build already proves: a founder-led, AI-native development process shipped a life-safety product — 22 operational runbooks, a compliance pack, an independent pen-test, a working ops console — in 3.2 months.

Key-person risk, named — bus factor: the plan

The bus factor today is one. This raise staffs a ≥3-person on-call rotation and two senior engineers; a services-for-equity engineering partnership in negotiation adds continuity.

Advisors: [TBD — NAME EXISTING ADVISORS, OR STATE ADVISORY BUILD-OUT AS PART OF THE RAISE]

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 15 · THE ASKFOLIO 15 / 17
The ask

AED 7,000,000 (~USD 1.9M)

The product is built. This capital funds launch, members, and the operations behind them.  Instrument: [TBD]

Year-1 operating budget AED 4.62M + contingency AED 2.38M — segments to scale of the 7.0M raise
1.2M
Technical
1.54M
Marketing
1.88M
Administration
2.38M
Contingency
ADMINISTRATION1.88M
PERSONNEL600K
OFFICE500K
BOARD FEES480K
D&O/PI100K
CONTINGENCY200K

Zero dirhams buy the core build — it exists. The technical line is run-rate, not construction, and the services-for-equity partnership in negotiation would shrink it further. Runway ≈18 months at the Year-1 run rate (7.0M ÷ 4.62M/yr).

Launch

[N TBD] membersfrom the bottoms-up model

Measured Shield attach

Series A on live cohort data

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 16 · CLOSEFOLIO 16 / 17

Within the hour,
it is a case, not a crisis.

ELA

ELA — personal emergency infrastructure.  ela.now · [CONTACT TBD]

ELA is a membership service, not an emergency service, a law firm, or an insurance company.
Insurance benefits will be provided under a group policy with a licensed UAE insurer.

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ELA — INVESTOR BRIEFING§ 17 · APPENDIX — UNIT ECONOMICS ASSUMPTIONSFOLIO 17 / 17
Appendix — unit economics assumptions

The assumptions we will report against.

LineBasisStatus
Service revenueAED 750 per member per year (priced in code)FACT
Insurance commission[10% OF THE AED 3,000 PREMIUM PER INSURED ADULT — UNDER NEGOTIATION]ASSUMPTION
Legal referral10% of litigation fees introduced (agreed structure, pre-revenue)ASSUMPTION
Shield attach30–35% Year 1 · 45–55% Year 2 (research benchmark, not measured)ASSUMPTION
Dispatch cost per case[TBD — MEASURED FROM LAUNCH]MEASURED AT LAUNCH
30-day refund rateTarget <6%MEASURED AT LAUNCH
CAC · LTV · churnMeasured from the launch cohort; reported to investorsMEASURED AT LAUNCH

Each line labeled: fact · assumption · to be measured.