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Assertion Supported
Chime: Prepared replaces 7-minute human translation delays with instant AI
“A language like Vietnamese could have a whole time of seven minutes for a human interpreter. Whereas where we come in and we just translate it instantly.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 6:07 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prepared AI translation enabled 911 dispatch before human interpreter connected
“Call comes in, it's in Mandarin, and they hit the human interpreter like they normally would, and they just wait because they forget they have prepared, and then they look up, and they're like, okay, I have the transcription, and they could tell the guy was re…”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 11:04 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Insight
Chime: Fragmenting public safety data across multiple systems impairs AI safety
“I think, like, I can't think of a better word, but I think it could be dangerous in the future if you don't bring them together, because AI is only as good as the data you give it. So if you silo all these pieces of information into eight different systems, it…”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 22:08 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Supported
Prepared automates non-emergency calls and provides AI co-piloting for 911 dispatchers
“We have a set of tools that totally offload mundane work off of a nine-on-one call taker, right? Things like noise complaints, parking tickets, non-emergency traffic, or back-end processes like quality assurance. We will do that completely. And then on emergen…”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 0:28 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Supported
Chime: Traditional 911 dispatch infrastructure assumes incoming calls are landlines
“The system that they're using every day built on the assumption that calls are landlines, that they were that outdated.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 2:09 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Disclosure
Chime: Prepared grew to 1,000 emergency call centers across US
“We got from zero to a thousand centers across the country. It was about six of the U.S. On our platform really, really quickly.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 4:03 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Contradicted
Chime: Large California emergency agencies face 40-minute non-emergency hold times
“There's big agencies out in California where the average hold time on non-emergency calls is 40 minutes.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 5:10 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chime: Prepared on track to process over 20M emergency calls in 2025
“We're on a rate this year to process over twenty million calls, right?”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 7:44 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Contradicted
Chime: Hosting All Data Domestically Is Unique in Public Safety Tech
“One is everything's in the U.S. You know, you would think is fairly common, but is unique in the space.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 11:53 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Chime: Emergency supervisors monitor 10 to 20 AI calls simultaneously
“You can have a person in some cities I've selected to do this monitoring. You know, 10 to 20 calls at once.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 14:27 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Disclosure
Prepared closes Series C, raising ~$130M in total funding
“We're rapidly approaching a 150 people, which is great. And then we just closed Series C, which we were excited about. So we raised roughly a hundred and thirty-ish million in funding.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 20:46 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Chime: Future 911 dispatchers will operate like air traffic controllers
“I think in the future, nine-one-one operators become more like air traffic controllers, and they'll be able to focus on what they're really good at, just being an empathetic ear to the caller, and everything in the background is just being done, and the entire…”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 21:07 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Disclosure
Prepared Does Not Train AI Models on Customer Emergency Data
“But we don't train on the data.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 12:15 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prepared deployed software at 911 centers within 24 hours of signing
“We've had centers that have literally signed and the next day are deployed and using it. So that was the quickest effort, 24 hours.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 16:22 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Disclosure
Half of Prepared's team comes from 911 and public safety backgrounds
“So you can think of us culturally as like half of the business is just technologists, people that, you know, come from the valley, et cetera, and or from fast growing startups and Product engineering, et cetera. The other half of the business comes from nine o…”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 17:11 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
Assertion Supported
Chime: New York City spends ~$50M annually on 311
“New York City, this is a 2009 stat, so maybe it's even gotten worse. Spends almost fifty million a year on three one.”
Michael Chime Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 19:56 How AI Will Impact Emergency Response: The Tech That Could Soon Save Your Life w/ Michael Chime
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