Prepared
Assistive AI for 911 — live transcription, translation, and triage
About
Prepared is an assistive AI platform that sits on top of existing 911 infrastructure, transcribing and translating calls live, flagging key cues like 'trapped' or 'fire,' and routing non-emergency calls to AI agents. It is live in 1,000+ centers across 49 states covering nearly 100 million people (company-reported), and raised an $80M Series C led by General Catalyst before its acquisition by Axon. Pricing is not published, transcription quality varies with audio conditions and accents, and the platform raises the usual questions around emergency-call recording and data retention.
What it can do
- Real-time 911 call transcription
- Live two-way call translation
- AI-generated call summaries
- Automated non-emergency call triage
- Key-cue flagging (e.g. trapped, injured, fire)
- Post-call quality assurance tools
Setup
- Contact Prepared/Axon for an agency demo and scoping
- Integrate the platform with existing 911 call-handling systems
- Configure transcription, translation languages, and triage rules
- Train telecommunicators on the assistive AI workflow
- Roll out with QA monitoring of call summaries and triage accuracy
Prerequisites
A 911 dispatch center or public safety agency; existing call-handling infrastructure to layer onto
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 1,000+ centers, 49 states, ~100M people covered — company-reported; $80M Series C led by General Catalyst confirmed by press; acquired by Axon; 66% call-processing reduction is vendor marketing, not independently verified; Emergency-call recording and retention raise privacy questions worth flagging. License: Proprietary SaaS — no open-source components.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · 1,000+ centers, 49 states, ~100M people covered — company-reported
- · $80M Series C led by General Catalyst confirmed by press; acquired by Axon
- · 66% call-processing reduction is vendor marketing, not independently verified
- · Emergency-call recording and retention raise privacy questions worth flagging
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.