Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
Savi Security, founded by brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, has launched a consumer-focused app to detect AI-generated scams in real time. Inspired by a personal incident where their mother was targeted by a convincing AI voice-cloned kidnapping scam, the founders built a product that screens texts, voicemails, and live phone calls for fraud. The app costs $8/month or $63/year and covers an entire family with no user cap. The startup raised $7 million in seed funding led by Acrew Capital. Savi uses Google Gemini and a flexible AI gateway to power its detection model, which was trained partly using data from a free tool called Scam Wise that received 50,000 submissions in four months. The FTC reported $3.5 billion lost to imposter scams in 2025, triple the 2020 figure, underscoring the growing threat.