A community-rooted Living Systems Network connecting families with caregivers, medical transport, and companionship — coordinated through one trusted team.
A daughter in Laguna Hills whose mother just left the hospital needs:
Today, she's calling all five. None of them talk to each other. Three of them quote different prices for similar services. One of them never returns the call. Care is fragmented because the providers are fragmented.
"Zero of nine major Orange County home care competitors integrate transport, senior placement, AND a family coordination dashboard. Every one is a single-service agency."
Healthcare systems coordinate within their walls. Insurance plans coordinate within their networks. No one coordinates the post-hospital, in-home, family-facing journey. Abeó is building exactly that layer.
Care, transport, placement, and coordination have been gatekept by institutions that profit from the friction. Abeó takes that power back and gives it to the people and the communities that actually live the journey.
Abeó stands as a health and wellness network — and simultaneously as a community economic engine, creating credentialed employment and pathways for the caregivers, drivers, and coordinators who do the real work.
Built so families win and communities compound.
We're not a rideshare. Not a staffing agency. Not a placement mill. We're the Living Systems Network.
W-2 caregivers. California-licensed Home Care Organization (CDSS HCS 281). Personal care, hygiene, mobility, meals, companionship.
Hybrid medical transport. Uber Health for ambulatory + owned wheelchair-accessible fleet for reliability where Uber can't deliver.
Free senior placement. Curated, conflict-disclosed assisted living and memory care matching — not a referral mill.
The family dashboard. One coordinator, real-time updates, escalation handling. Care Circle Coordination.
Every transport competitor is one of two things: an owned-fleet operator burning capex on idle vans, or a pure rideshare-relay with no wheelchair reliability. Abeó runs both lanes.
Pay-per-ride. Scales to zero when idle. Infinite capacity surge for hospital discharges. HIPAA-enabled dashboard.
2 leased Ford Transit WAV vans at launch. Reliable supply where Uber Health WAV is patchy. Higher margin per ride.
Care Van loses on M-F-only fleet utilization. Pure-Uber competitors lose on wheelchair reliability. Abeó wins because it can serve both lanes from day one.
Other agencies sell one service at $36-$48/hr. Abeó delivers vertical depth across the patient journey — at parity rates, with each phase deepening the relationship.
| Single-service competitors | Abeó (Living Systems Network) | |
|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 today | Caregiving only | Care + Connect coordinator + transport-ready |
| Phase 2 (Mo 9-18) | — | Adds NEMT transport (Uber Health + owned WAV fleet) + pet companionship |
| Phase 3 (Mo 18-30) | — | Adds clinical home health (RN/LVN/PT/OT) under CDPH license + mental wellness |
| Phase 4 (Year 3-4) | — | abeoOS AI platform live · Workforce SaaS · Foundation |
| Legal model | HCO (W-2) | HCO (W-2) — same legal entity scales into clinical |
| Family rate (Phase 1) | $36-$48/hr | $36-$48/hr (parity — depth is the differentiator) |
Phase 1 launches today. Each subsequent phase has gates — regulatory milestones, revenue thresholds, partnership confirmations — before activation. We don't ship vapor.
| Competitor | Model | Caregivers | Transport | Placement | Dashboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrightStar SoOC | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Home Instead | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Visiting Angels NB | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Right at Home SoOC | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| TheKey OC | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Comfort Keepers | HCO | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Care Van | Fleet | ✗ | ✓ (M-F only) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Care 22 | Fleet | ✗ | ✓ (concierge) | ✗ | ✗ |
| A Place for Mom | Referral | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (volume mill) | ✗ |
| Abeó Health | HCO + Hybrid + abeoOS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Every competitor solves one problem. Abeó solves the entire journey.
Almost no OC competitor publishes hourly rates. Opacity is the industry default. Abeó leads with a published rate card. Trust starts with transparency.
| Service | Posture | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Care (Companion / PCA / CNA / HHA) | $36-$48/hr · HCO parity | W-2 caregivers, full benefits. We win on vertical depth — not by undercutting hourly rate. |
| Ride — Ambulatory | $35-$45 base · parity to Care Van | Coordination + reliability are the value, not bottom-dollar pricing. |
| Ride — Wheelchair | $65-$85 base · Owned fleet | Higher margin, reliable supply. Where Uber Health WAV doesn't deliver, we do. |
| Living (placement) | Free to families | Industry-standard model. Curated, conflict-disclosed — not volume mill. |
| Circle (dashboard) | Free with any service | Stickiness layer. 6+ months in Circle = high switching cost. |
South Orange County: dense, affluent, aging, with two major acute-care hospitals and a saturated-but-uncoordinated competitor set.
For a hospital case manager, Abeó replaces three separate vendor calls with one.
"Patient ready for discharge to home. Wheelchair transport, CNA on-site for the transition, and placement guidance if home doesn't work out. Available same day."
MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center — same ZIP, 232 beds, above-average discharges-to-home.
Providence Mission Hospital — South OC's other major acute-care system.
The Orchards SNF (Rancho Mission Viejo) — orthopedic and cardiac post-op pipeline.
Oasis Senior Advisors Coastal OC — Living-overflow referral partnership.
OC Office on Aging — caregiver-list inclusion + SNEMT cross-referral.
South OC dialysis centers — recurring subscription transport revenue.
Two-stage capital plan. The StarHub Studios ecosystem (Jack Polo + Gheric Speiginer) loans pre-seed working capital. The seed round funds scale, not setup.
The valuation is derived, not asserted — a three-leg triangulation (forward-revenue/DCF on the rate-card revenue model, home-care/NEMT comparables, replacement-cost floor) grounded in the deck's own market research and unit economics. The band below traces to the model at financial-model.ts.
| Category | Detail |
|---|---|
| 2x Ford Transit WAV vans | Lease + WAV conversion + 12mo lease reserve. Owned wheelchair fleet from Day 1. |
| Licenses + compliance (~$5K) | California HCO License Application (CDSS HCS 281, ~$5K), commercial NEMT vehicle licensing, business formation, insurance. |
| Initial ad spend + launch | Saddleback case-manager outreach, OC Office on Aging registration, founder-led BD. |
| 6-month operational reserve | Driver payroll, fuel, maintenance, contingency. |
| Category | Allocation | % | What it funds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical & Care Workforce | $560,000 | 28.0% | W-2 caregiver payroll ramp + burden before client revenue covers it; 2–3 care coordinators / case managers; RN clinical supervisor (HCO-required oversight) |
| Fleet & Transport (NEMT) | $300,000 | 15.0% | Expand the WAV fleet beyond the 2 launch vans (+2–3, lease / conversion); ~12-mo fleet fixed-cost reserve bridging to the 250-rides/mo break-even; dispatch / telematics + accessibility equipment |
| Technology & Platform (abeoOS) | $300,000 | 15.0% | Abeó Connect / Circle dashboard + abeoOS build (scheduling, billing / RCM, family portal, care plans); mythOS substrate license (StarHub); HIPAA infrastructure + integrations |
| Sales, Marketing & Partnerships | $260,000 | 13.0% | Saddleback + hospital discharge-planner partnership program; community / senior-network referral; brand + digital + family education; Living (placement) facility BD |
| Licensing, Compliance & Legal | $180,000 | 9.0% | CDSS HCO (HCS 281) + NEMT vehicle licensing; healthcare + corporate counsel (HIPAA, employment); insurance (professional / GL / workers-comp / auto / cyber); MBE/WBE certification |
| G&A & Operations | $200,000 | 10.0% | Founder / executive comp ramp (Brittany + Jack); admin + billing / RCM ops, accounting, payroll service; software / tools |
| Working Capital / Payroll Float | $120,000 | 6.0% | W-2 caregivers are paid weekly while payer / client reimbursement lags — AR float (critical in home care) |
| Contingency reserve | $80,000 | 4.0% | Ramp-variance / regulatory / opportunity buffer |
| Total | $2,000,000 | 100% | Full headline raise deployed to Year-2 regional-scale evidence |
Itemized at the $2.0M headline; allocation flexes across the $1.5M–$2.5M band. The ~$200K ecosystem loan separately funds Phase-1 standup — the seed buys scale evidence, not Phase-1 viability. Every dollar reported against this allocation in the investor update; variance named, not hidden.
A StarHub Studios JV with a structural funding advantage built into the cap table.
Abeó Health is a minority woman-owned business. Brittany Solomon (African heritage — Nigerian and Cameroonian roots) is the Founder and Operational Lead; Jack Polo joins as Co-Founder. Brittany retains founder-of-record status to preserve the MBE/WBE/WOSB qualification. Operating as a joint venture through StarHub Studios PBC on mythOS infrastructure. This is not optics — it materially changes the funding stack and the partnership pipeline.
Healthcare systems and government payors actively prioritize MBE/WBE/WOSB-certified vendors. Abeó's founder profile turns supplier-diversity programs at Saddleback, Providence, and Hoag into a structural preference that competitors can't replicate.
Phase 1 is HCO + NEMT in Laguna Hills. Phase 6 is a global infrastructure layer connecting human care, animal welfare, sustainability, and agriculture — powered by abeoOS.
Abeó Care · Transport · Clinical · Mental Wellness — non-medical home care, NEMT, home health (RN/LVN/PT/OT), counseling.
Abeó Companions · Earth · Harvest — pet care, environmental health, community agriculture and food-as-medicine.
Abeó Workforce · Academy · Foundation — staffing platform, training/credentialing, nonprofit mission-protection arm.
The AI operating system. Navigator · Match · Pulse · Guide · Comply · Insights · Harvest · Earth modules.
| Phase | Focus | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Now | HCO launch | CDSS license · Care + Connect operational |
| 2 · Near-term | NEMT & Companions | CPUC permit · Medi-Cal NEMT enrolled |
| 3 · Growth | Home Health & Mental Wellness | CDPH license · Medicare certified · Academy launches |
| 4 · Scale | Full Ecosystem | abeoOS live · Workforce · Earth · Harvest · Foundation |
| 5 · National | Multi-state | 5+ states · first managed-care contract · $10M ARR |
| 6 · Global | Living Network | 10+ countries · global SaaS · exit-ready |
Comparable exits. Abeó's scope, AI operating system, longitudinal living-systems dataset, community-rooted trust, and impact-aligned mission position it to exceed all precedents.
1. Vertical depth, not hourly arbitrage — Most home care competitors compete on rate. We compete on depth: non-medical to NEMT to home health clinical to AI platform. Each phase deepens the relationship and locks in switching cost.
2. The 10-division Living Systems vertical — To match Abeó, a competitor would need to acquire or build nine additional businesses. That's a 7+ year endeavor for incumbent HCOs built around single-service operations.
3. abeoOS — the data moat — Every visit, check-in, wellness survey, and environmental assessment becomes part of a longitudinal living-systems dataset no one else possesses. Managed ethically and with consent, it's Abeó's most powerful asset at exit.
4. Hospital trust takes years — Saddleback won't refer to a vendor with no track record. The 6-month pilot model gives us a defensible relationship that competitors can't replicate without time.
Bobby John (StarHub Studios co-founder, CTO of HIP Nation in Atlanta) brings deep direct-primary-care expertise. Phase 3-4 integration: Abeó Clinical + abeoOS pair with HIP Nation's DPC playbook, completing the journey from coordinator to caregiver to physician without insurance middlemen. No competitor has this advisor depth or this expansion path.
The last two slides showed the 10-division, 6-phase, global Living Systems Network. Here's the honest line between what's real in Phase 1 and what capital unlocks.
Capital funds Phase 1 and the evidence it produces. Every later phase activates only after the prior one's numbers clear — regulatory milestone, revenue threshold, partnership confirmed. We don't ship vapor.
South Orange County's only care coordination network. One call connects you to vetted nursing, medical transportation, senior placement, and a family dashboard that holds it all together.
Brittany Solomon · Founder · Jack Polo · Co-Founder · Abeó Health · A StarHub Studios JV · info@abeo.health · (949) 987-4605