Ch. 01 — In Stealth · Pre-Seed Open

We're
killing
the pen.

Your finger just became the most powerful input device on Earth.

Oura turned the finger into a health tracker and built an $11B company on track for $1.5B in 2026 revenue.CNBC · Oct 2025 RingIt turns the same finger into the first universal input device — write in the air today, on any surface next, in any language, converted to digital text in real time.

Raising
$750K
Pre-Seed · SAFE
Wearables 2030
$186B
Grand View Research
Smart Ring CAGR
29.3%
Fortune Business Insights
Loading 3D Ring
Titanium · Ultra-slim
On-device AI · Haptic
Multi-day Battery · Wireless
02 The Problem
Five centuries

The pen was perfected in 1564. Since then we have invented the typewriter, the mouse, the touchscreen, the voice assistant — and not one of them replaced the act of writing by hand. We still stop, still search for paper, still lose the thought between the idea and the keyboard.

We built rockets.
We built artificial minds.
We still forgot the pen.

A note in traffic. A signature on a package. An idea in a meeting. A sketch on a wall. The world has spent five centuries adding friction between the human hand and the digital page. RingIt removes it.

We are not making another smartwatch. We are not making another notes app. We are creating a new category — wearable input — and we are doing it as a platform shift, not a feature.

03 How It Works

Three seconds
to digital.

01

Wear the ring.

Slide RingIt onto your index finger. Slim, titanium-framed, with on-device intelligence built in. It disappears on your hand — until you need it.

02

Write on anything.

Write in mid-air today — and on any surface (table, wall, your palm) as we extend it. RingIt captures every stroke, curve, and letter with surgical precision.

03

Instantly digital.

On-device AI converts handwriting to text before your hand leaves the surface. Notes, messages, signatures — delivered to your phone in real time.

04 The Opportunity

The fastest-growing
category in consumer technology
is also the most under-served.

TAM · Global Wearables 2030
$186.14B

The global wearable technology market, growing at 13.6% CAGR through 2030 — one of the fastest-growing categories in consumer electronics.

Grand View Research · 2025 Report
Wearables CAGR · 2025–2030
13.6%

Annual growth across all wearable categories from 2025–2030, accelerating as on-device AI matures.

Grand View Research · 2025 Report
Smart Ring Sub-Segment CAGR
29.3%

The ring is the fastest-growing wearable form factor: $416.9M in 2025 → $3.77B by 2034.

Fortune Business Insights · Mar 2026 Report

Oura built an $11B company by reading the body. The next $11B reads the intent. — CNBC, Oct 14 2025

05 The Intelligence

The category Oura
didn't build.

Smart rings today read what the body is doing. They are passive sensors. They cannot help you do anything. RingIt opens a second axis on the same form factor — input — turning the most personal piece of jewelry into the most universal interface ever shipped.

A doctor's cursive. A child's first letters. An executive's lightning scribble. One ring that reads them all — and turns them into action before the keyboard catches up.

5.5M
Oura rings sold to date — proof the ring form factor has reached mass adoption.
CNBC · Oct 2025
$11B
Oura's valuation in its Oct 2025 Series E — the benchmark for what a finger-worn category leader is worth.
Fidelity-led Series E
29.3%
Smart-ring market CAGR through 2034 — the fastest-growing wearable form factor.
Fortune Business Insights
On-device
All AI runs locally on the ring — private, instant, and works fully offline. No cloud dependency.
Private by design
CONCEPT_FRAME / 001 REC · STEALTH RINGIT // PROTOTYPE REVEAL — Q4

A glimpse — not the answer.

The full reveal happens behind closed doors.

There is an initial working POC and a filed patent — presented live to serious investors on a private 30-minute call. The how stays behind closed doors.

06 Field Notes
Essay · 5 min read · RingIt Field Notes

Why the next wearable revolution
won't be a smartwatch.

The wrist has been mapped, sensored, and saturated. The next decade of wearable technology will not be louder — it will be quieter, smaller, and worn somewhere we have not yet learned to look.

Ten years ago, the smartwatch was supposed to replace the phone. It did not. What it became, instead, was a peripheral — a notification surface, a fitness sensor, a wallet. The replacement never came because the form was wrong: too large to forget, too small to type on, too visible to feel personal. The wrist demands attention; the next interface will refuse it.

The category that wins the next decade will not announce itself. It will be silent, ambient, and worn the way a wedding band is worn — without thought. Three forces are converging to make this possible right now: motion sensors small enough to disappear into jewelry, on-device AI capable of understanding intent without a network, and a generation of users who have grown tired of looking at screens to do simple things.

We are building inside that convergence. The category we are creating is not "smart ring." Smart rings today read the body — heart rate, sleep, recovery. The category we are opening reads the intent. It captures what a person means to do before the keyboard, the screen, or the app catches up. It is the difference between measurement and authorship.

The companies that built the last wave — Apple, Oura, Whoop — succeeded by giving the body a number. The companies that build the next wave will succeed by giving the hand its voice back. The mouse, the touchscreen, the keyboard: each was a generational platform shift that produced trillion-dollar markets. The next one is now overdue.

We are not in a position to share the entire architecture publicly. What we can share — on a call, under NDA — is a working air-writing concept, a filed patent (covering air + any surface) and defensible IP position, and a path from a $750K pre-seed to a category-defining seed round inside twelve months. The rest happens in private.

07 The Landscape

Everyone is reading the body.
We are reading the intent.

Health Wearables

Oura · Whoop · Ultrahuman

Passive biometric sensors. Excellent at telling you about your body. Silent on what you want to do next. Worn for measurement, not for action.

Smartwatches

Apple Watch · Galaxy

Notification surfaces and fitness peripherals. Demand attention to use. The screen is the interface — which is exactly the problem.

Stylus & Smart Pens

Apple Pencil · Livescribe

Brilliant on the right surface. Useless everywhere else. Tied to a tablet, a tray, or a special pad of paper. Not ambient.

A new category

RingIt

A wearable input device. Worn like jewelry, used like a thought. The form is silent. The category is new. The full picture is shared only with investors under NDA.

08 The Founder
Shlomi Aflalo, Founder of RingIt
Shlomi Aflalo Tel Aviv · 2026

Shlomi Aflalo

Founder & CEO · Software Engineer

"I am not building this because I think it can be built. I am building it because I cannot believe nobody has yet."

Software engineer by training, builder by default. After years of shipping production software, I started building RingIt because the seam between the human hand and the digital screen is the most under-engineered surface in consumer technology — and the moment to build the first universal input wearable is now, before Apple or Samsung notice the gap.

The technical thesis, the IP position, and the path from pre-seed to a category-defining seed round are shared on a 30-minute call. The site qualifies interest. The conversation is where the substance lives.

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09 The Ask

$750K. Twelve months.
One working prototype.

A focused pre-seed round that takes RingIt from validated concept to a working ring on a real finger, writing real text. Structured as a SAFE at a $6M valuation cap — terms shared on the call.

24%

Hardware Lead

$180K

Senior hardware / firmware engineer — ex-Oura, Fitbit, or Pebble background. Owns the ring electronics and device platform.

20%

ML Engineer

$150K

AI / ML researcher in gesture & handwriting recognition. Owns RingIt's proprietary motion-to-text intelligence.

18%

Hardware Prototyping

$135K

Component sourcing, miniaturization, three ring prototypes, and industrial design with a hardware partner.

14%

AI & Data Collection

$105K

Proprietary motion-paired handwriting dataset — the moat the model is trained on. Compute, labelers, and pilot recordings.

8%

Patents & Legal

$60K

A filed provisional patent plus additional filings — covering air- and on-surface motion-to-text and the ring form factor. C-Corp formation. Employment paperwork.

16%

Founder · Ops · Buffer

$120K

Founder runway, operating costs, FCC/CE certification prep, and a contingency buffer through the prototype phase.

From pre-seed to shipping product.

Mo. 0–3 · Foundation

Patents filed. Team built. First circuit.

Filed patent on gesture-to-text (air + any surface). Two founding engineers. First working prototype recognizing single characters.

Mo. 3–6 · Working Prototype

Ring form factor. Words, not just letters.

Compress electronics into a wearable ring. Train on full word recognition (English). Closed-beta companion app. Investor demo.

Mo. 6–12 · Seed Round

$3–5M seed. Pilot with field-ops partners.

Raise seed on working prototype + benchmarks. Paid pilots with logistics and healthcare. Expand languages. Begin DFM.

Mo. 12–18 · Pre-Production

Pilot units shipped. Path to launch.

Manufacturing partner selected. FCC/CE certification underway. 500 pilot units in paying enterprise hands. Series A conversations.

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