Local business is 44% of US private employment and it runs on a phone that nobody has time to answer. We started Operon because that gap is not a technology problem in the abstract. It is a payroll problem, a staffing problem, and a revenue problem, all at once, and it lands on the same person every morning.
Today we are announcing a $48M Series B led by Foundry Line, with Ridgepoint and every existing investor participating.
What the money is for
Three things. Depth in the verticals we already serve, because a plumbing agent and an orthodontic agent are not the same product with different prompts. Latency, because the difference between 900ms and 400ms is the difference between a conversation and a phone tree. And compliance, because the businesses we serve handle health records, payment data, and recorded calls in fifty different regulatory regimes.
- Vertical depth across nine industries by the end of 2027
- Sub-400ms median first-token latency on every voice path
- HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, and state-level AI disclosure coverage in all 50 states
What we are not building
We are not building a chatbot that deflects. Deflection is a metric that helps the vendor and hurts the operator. Every agent we ship is measured on booked revenue, not on containment rate.