Pre-Seed Round · $3.0M Post-Money SAFE & Wefunder
The missed-call safety net for 3.5 million US trade contractors.
Roofers, plumbers, locksmiths, tow operators, and HVAC techs lose 3–5 high-margin jobs a month because they cannot answer the phone with tools in their hands. They don't want a new phone number or a SaaS dashboard to log into. With Riley, their existing phone rings first—Riley only answers when they can't, gets the job details, and texts them the lead.
1. Product Truth & Wedge
Why contractors adopt Riley when they reject traditional call centers and generic bots
Zero behavior change
The owner keeps their existing business number and phone. Their phone always rings first. Conditional carrier forwarding (*71 / **61*) sends only unanswered calls to Riley's behind-the-scenes Twilio route.
100% text-first workflow
No app or dashboard required day-to-day. Riley texts the owner every job request (Reply CALL to call back) and waits for unambiguous SMS approval (Reply YES MARIA) before confirming appointments.
Strict guardrails + human fallback
Riley never guesses prices, availability, or service area, and includes live human fallback for callers who refuse automated help.
2. Capital-Efficient Unit Economics
92% Gross Margin · Day-1 Cash-Flow Positive Provisioning
Riley never provisions a telecom line until Stripe confirms payment. Every single signup funds its own Twilio number and voice compute from minute one:
3. Use of Capital
100% Deployed into Customer Acquisition, Voice Compute & Telecom Scale
The product, Stripe-to-Twilio auto-provisioning engine, real-time voice bridge, and SMS approval loop are already built and live in production. Capital scales three direct growth levers:
Capturing bottom-of-funnel search queries already ranking in Google Search Console (locksmith answering service, towing dispatch answering service, appliance repair answering service, plumber missed call service).
Pre-funding local area-code forwarding numbers, high-throughput A2P 10DLC SMS lanes, and instant test-call verification for onboarding contractors.
Scaling OpenAI Realtime + ElevenLabs sub-500ms voice concurrency so every contractor's missed call is answered on the first ring.
Join the Pre-Seed Round
Test Riley live right now by calling (361) 301-9955, invest directly on Wefunder, or reach out to founder William Caraway for direct SAFE allocations or strategic compute/telecom partnerships.