Three seconds.
Then you are
not alone.
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.
The first hour decides everything.
The common case is not the worst case — a small administrative matter that escalates because nobody answers the phone.
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.
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.
Fail-safe by design.
On your wrist
The Apple Watch mirrors the phone. Three seconds, wherever your hands are.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Essential sits inside that band; Shield sits above it because no comparable carries insured cover.
1,200–2,000
2,500–3,500
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.
A software-margin service wrapped around an insured promise.
Three revenue lines, one membership.
Of the AED 3,000 annual premium per insured adult, under a group policy in final negotiation with a licensed UAE insurer.
Of litigation fees introduced to the firm.
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.
Every member gets the same response. Tiers differ in one way only: who pays the legal fees.
Legal fees settled directly between member and firm.
Legal fees insured: up to AED 100,000 defence fees + AED 50,000 bond.
Two adults, full Shield each — priced per adult. [FOUNDER DECISION TBD: POST-UNBUNDLING PRESENTATION — PER-ADULT UPGRADE VS FAMILY CARD]
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
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.
Four channels, one membership.
| Channel | Mechanism | Gate — stated honestly | Year-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 |
UAE first. The playbook travels.
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.
The neighbours solve pieces. Our thesis: no one runs the whole response.
| Comparator | Firm dispatch | Consulate | Family link | Live location | Insurance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life360 location | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY |
| Noonlight panic button | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY |
| MedjetAssist medical transport | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY |
| LegalShield lawyer access | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY | TO VERIFY |
| ELA the whole response — thesis | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
● = BUILT AND ON TESTFLIGHT TODAY · HATCHED = TO VERIFY
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.
3.2 months. One founder. The whole machine.
~223,000 LINES OF TYPESCRIPT · 22 OPERATIONAL RUNBOOKS · COMPLIANCE PACK
BUILD FACTS AS OF AUG 2026, FLOORS NOT ESTIMATES
| On TestFlight today | iPhone + Apple Watch. |
| Live on production infrastructure | Ops console, insurance and firm workflows — in documented safe mode; flipping it is the launch gate. |
| Partnerships in progress | A leading UAE insurer, a global reinsurer, a vetted UAE law firm. |
| What we do not have yet | Members, revenue, signed corporate deals. |
| What we have | The machine that serves them. |



The build is done. What remains is the switch.
- 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
- UAE
- One vetted law firm
- iPhone + Apple Watch
- Full response
- Multi-firm dispatch cycling (built and dormant; activates as the firm panel grows)
- Android
- Corporate seat management with PDPL per-employee consent
- Tourist and short-stay passes
- Membership gifting
- GCC storefronts
- "Ask a lawyer" concierge
[TBD]
[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.
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]
AED 7,000,000 (~USD 1.9M)
The product is built. This capital funds launch, members, and the operations behind them. Instrument: [TBD]
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
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.
The assumptions we will report against.
| Line | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Service revenue | AED 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 referral | 10% of litigation fees introduced (agreed structure, pre-revenue) | ASSUMPTION |
| Shield attach | 30–35% 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 rate | Target <6% | MEASURED AT LAUNCH |
| CAC · LTV · churn | Measured from the launch cohort; reported to investors | MEASURED AT LAUNCH |
Each line labeled: fact · assumption · to be measured.