Omi AI

What Omi AI does

Omi AI, operated by Based Hardware, Inc. (Delaware C-corp, headquartered in San Francisco), builds an open-source AI wearable and software platform that passively captures spoken conversations, transcribes them in 25+ languages, and generates summaries, tasks, and a persistent "Brain Map" memory graph. The core product is the $89 Omi pendant built on a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 with nRF5340 / nRF7002 radios for BLE 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6, paired with a cross-platform app built in Expo/React Native and an MCP/API layer; an Omi Glass smart-glasses developer kit at $299 extends the platform into visual lifelogging, with a $499 consumer version and $799 brain-interface (EEG/EMG) version slated for 2026. The company monetizes through one-time hardware sales, an optional $16/month "Omi Unlimited" subscription for unlimited cloud transcription (free tier includes 1,200 cloud minutes), accessories ($29.99-$59.99), and an app-store revenue share across 1,000+ third-party apps.

Omi AI serves a diversified set of customer segments including individual professionals and consumers, sales teams (14,000+ professionals, including the Tony Robbins sales team and Michael Hyatt/Full Focus), healthcare practitioners (1,000+ clinicians, anchored by a Graham Dermatology case study reducing documentation error rates from 15-20% to under 3% and saving 3-4 hours per clinician per week), and field technicians, all under a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth (free tier, Discord community of 9,000+), enterprise field sales with pilot programs and 7-day trials, community-led hackathons across India, Kenya, Portugal, New Zealand, and Nepal, and CES trade-show presence (2025 and 2026). Security and compliance posture is enterprise-grade, with SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance plus AES-256-GCM encryption and self-hosted Deepgram STT for healthcare workloads.

Name

Omi AI

Legal name

Based Hardware, Inc.

Website

https://omi.me

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Omi AI (Based Hardware, Inc.) sells an open-source $89 AI wearable that passively records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations for individual professionals, sales teams, healthcare clinicians, and field technicians, with a $16/month cloud subscription and an expanding smart-glasses line.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Wearable Devices

NAICS

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (33411), Communications Equipment Manufacturing (3342), Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (334118)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571), Communications Equipment, Nec (3669)

akta.pro primary industry

Voice Assistants & Voice UI (VUI) (HDAAAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wearable Computers (Industrial Smart Glasses/Wrist/Arm-Mount) (HDACALAH), On-Device Speech & Audio AI (wake word, ASR, enhancement) (HDAAAJAF), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• AI wearable devices
• Voice transcription software
• Smart glasses hardware
• AI memory assistant
• Wearable productivity tools

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Hardware Device Sales: One-time purchase of Omi AI wearable device ($89) and accessories ($29.99-$59.99). Omi Glass Dev Kit at $299-$499. Open-source developer kits for custom firmware development.
2. Subscription (Omi Unlimited): Optional subscription starting at $16/month for unlimited cloud transcription. Free tier includes unlimited on-phone transcription plus 1,200 free cloud transcription minutes per month. Recurring revenue with upgrade path from free tier.
3. App Store Revenue Share: Third-party developers build and ship apps to Omi App Store (paid/free). Revenue sharing model for paid apps, contributing to ecosystem growth.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Omi AI builds an open-source AI-powered wearable device (a pendant-style voice recorder) that captures, transcribes, and summarizes conversations in real time across 25+ languages. The hardware is paired with cross-platform mobile, desktop, and web applications, plus a third-party Apps Marketplace, serving both individual consumers and enterprise teams in healthcare, sales, and field service.

Product overview

Omi AI is a hardware + software platform combining AI wearables with cross-platform applications. The core offering includes the Omi AI wearable necklace (voice recorder) for transcription, summarization, and task extraction, paired with mobile (iOS/Android), macOS, and web applications. Product line extensions include Omi Glass (smart glasses developer kit for visual lifelogging), while vertical-specific solutions cover Healthcare (HIPAA-compliant medical scribing), Sales (CRM-integrated meeting capture), and Technicians (field service documentation). The platform features an Apps Marketplace with 1000+ third-party applications, API/MCP server access for developers, and accessory products including wrist bands, wireless chargers, and firmware development kits. Available in consumer, enterprise, and developer tiers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Omi Glass: Open-source smart glasses development kit with camera recording and AI capabilities
• Omi Enterprise
• Omi App Store

Products and services

• Omi AI Wearable (Necklace) AI-powered wearable voice recorder worn as a pendant that captures, transcribes, and summarizes conversations in real time across 25+ languages, with offline recording and local data storage for privacy.
• Omi Glass Developer Kit Developer-focused open-source smart glasses kit for lifelogging and AI-powered memory recall, featuring full-day camera recording, integrated microphone, and 6x the battery capacity of Meta Ray-Bans.
• Omi Glass Consumer Version Consumer-ready smart glasses with all-day recording, transcription in 25+ languages, automatic summaries, and AI-powered memory recall features.
• Omi Healthcare HIPAA-compliant AI-powered medical scribing and clinical documentation solution for healthcare professionals, providing automatic patient visit capture, charting, and EMR integration.
• Omi Sales Sales-focused solution capturing in-person sales meetings with AI-powered conversation notes, deal insights, CRM integration (Salesforce/HubSpot), and manager coaching features.
• Omi Technicians AI-powered field notes solution for service technicians that captures on-site diagnostics, generates job summaries, and tracks follow-up tasks with integrations to service management tools like ClickUp and Asana.
• Omi Mobile App Cross-platform mobile application (iOS and Android) for recording, transcription, and accessing AI summaries; works with or without the Omi wearable device for on-phone transcription.
• Omi macOS App Desktop application for macOS that summarizes online meetings and provides real-time feedback as part of the cross-platform software offering.
• Omi Apps Marketplace Platform hosting 1,000+ third-party and first-party AI-powered applications for the Omi ecosystem across productivity, conversation analysis, health, social, finance, and entertainment categories, with revenue sharing on paid apps.
• Omi Wrist Band Apple Watch-style silicone wristband accessory that allows the Omi device to be worn on the wrist with a screw-lock mount, adjustable strap, and full charger compatibility ($29.99 on sale).
• Omi Wireless Charger Wireless charging pad designed exclusively for Omi devices with precision-engineered coils for optimal charging efficiency; included with the Omi device but sold separately as an extra.
• Omi Firmware Developer Kit Hardware development kit for flashing, debugging, and developing custom firmware for the Omi AI wearable, including a SEGGER J-Link debugger, custom Flash PCB, and support for nRF Connect SDK (Zephyr RTOS).

Quantifiable outcome

• 3-4 hours saved per clinician per week in healthcare documentation
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability9 records

Feature10 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Plaud (note: corrected alias): Already listed above; not duplicated.
• Humane: Humane built the AI Pin, a screen-less always-on AI wearable. Despite shutting down hardware operations in 2024, it remains the most direct conceptual peer to Omi in the ambient AI companion category and serves as a cautionary comparable for unit economics and execution.
• Rabbit: Rabbit's r1 is a dedicated AI device for natural-language task handling. Like Omi, it targets consumers looking for a non-smartphone AI companion, with similar positioning around voice-first interaction and a developer-friendly platform.
• Limitless (formerly Rewind AI): Limitless produces the Limitless Pendant, an always-on AI wearable that records conversations and generates meeting summaries and action items. It overlaps directly with Omi's core value proposition for sales, meeting, and personal memory capture.
• Plaud: Plaud makes the NotePin / Plaud Note, an AI voice recorder pendant focused on transcription, summarization, and meeting notes. It competes head-to-head with Omi's necklace form factor for sales, healthcare, and professional note-taking use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Meta (Ray-Ban Smart Glasses): Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are explicitly referenced in Omi's marketing as the smart-glasses benchmark. Meta combines first-party AI (Meta AI) with massive distribution, brand, and R&D resources, representing the dominant incumbent threat to Omi Glass.
• Apple: Apple's broader wearable portfolio (AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro) and on-device AI stack make it a strategic incumbent. If Apple ships an always-on AI wearable or embeds ambient AI into AirPods, Omi's category economics could shift dramatically.

Emerging players

• Friend: Friend is an AI companion pendant focused on conversational AI and ambient presence. It targets a similar consumer use case to Omi with always-on voice interaction, though with a narrower feature set and no enterprise or healthcare vertical.
• Suki AI: Suki AI provides AI-powered medical scribing and ambient documentation for clinicians, overlapping with Omi Healthcare. Both target the same HIPAA-compliant clinical note-taking pain point, with Suki focused purely on software and Omi offering hardware plus software.
• Abridge: Abridge is an ambient AI medical scribe that records patient-clinician conversations and generates clinical notes. It is a direct vertical competitor to Omi Healthcare for the medical scribing use case where Graham Dermatology validates Omi's value.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/BasedHardware/omi
• Xx.com/omidotme
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/omi-ai

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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