Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

Savi Security, founded by brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin after a near-miss AI-generated voice-kidnap scam targeting their mother, launched an iOS/Android app and a free site called Scamwise to detect and block AI-powered scams. The company uses in-the-wild submissions (100,000 to date) and AI models (primarily Google Gemini via an AI gateway) to screen texts, voicemails, and live calls in real time; the report highlights rising consumer impact (FTC: $3.5B lost to imposter scams in 2025) and the lowered barrier for fraud due to generative AI.