Give the Gift of Time · $5M Campaign

Earning humanity's trust to take flight.

In Hyde County, North Carolina, county paramedics are training to answer 911 calls by air — under a declared Public Aircraft Operation their county owns. Akute Networks is the 501(c)(3) building the public operating system for autonomous flight, starting with the emergency network already standing up in North Carolina.

Declared PAO · paramedic-pilots in training Operating today in Hyde County, NC
Why this campaign exists

Minutes decide outcomes. Distance decides minutes.

In dense cities, help usually arrives in time. Across rural America, the same emergency can sit twenty minutes from care — and for two of the most survivable emergencies out there, that gap is the difference between life and death.

<4 min
Window for CPR + AED to give a real chance of full recovery from cardiac arrest.
15–20 min
Average rural EMS response time — vs. 8–10 minutes suburban.
10%
National survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest — 40,000 deaths a year.
105,000
Overdose deaths a year, against a national average response time of 13 minutes.

Sources: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Aware, LACFD, American Heart Association.

Proof it's real

The people whose job it is to trust this, already do.

Statistics make the case for why. The program below makes the case that it actually works.

N924LQ — first aircraft in service, Hyde County
Who's already behind it

Not one champion. A coalition.

A sheriff, a state regulator, a private EMS operator, and the clinicians who'd actually fly it — all pointed at the same program.

Hyde County
Chief Joey Williams

Deputy Sheriff overseeing combined Public Safety and EMS for Hyde County. Has asked the North Carolina legislature to invest in the program.

State of North Carolina
NC Office of EMS

State EMS leadership publicly featured the program at North Carolina's annual EMS conference, alongside other next-generation EMS technology.

Code Blue Resources
Public Safety Channel Partner
Code Blue Resources

Private EMS readiness and equipment partner, already running alongside the Hyde County program today.

Hyde County
EMS Leadership

County EMS chiefs are training to fly under the program themselves — the clearest vote of confidence a clinician can give.

The plan this campaign funds

From one county, proven — to ten, and then a hundred.

$5M takes the model from a single proving ground to a multi-county network with a real command center and training pipeline.

DONE · 2024–2026
0 → 1 · Foundation

Bootstrapped

  • Program design and regulatory groundwork
  • First aircraft and pilot deployment
  • Early operational command system
RAISING NOW · 2026–2027
1 → 10 · Regional

$5M

  • Expanded fleet across multiple counties
  • Command-center buildout
  • Training infrastructure
NEXT · 2027–2028
10 → 100 · Statewide

$30M

  • Regional expansion and full system integration
  • Replication blueprint for other states
  • Positioned for national rollout

What the $5M buys

Public-use / EMS-optimized aircraft (10)$2.5–3M
Standards (2 FTE)$0.5M
Akute operating system (2 FTE)$0.5M
Insurance bond$1M
Ground radarTBD
Choose your path

Here's how to help.

Different partners help this campaign in different ways — pick the one that fits.

01

Fund the mission

Foundations and major donors fund the aircraft, standards, and operating model the market won't build on its own.

give@akute.org →
02

Corporate & foundation partners

Aviation, insurance, and health-system partners who want to co-invest in the network or contribute in kind.

hello@akute.org →
03

Bring this to your county

Sheriffs, EMS directors, and county leaders who want the Hyde County model running where they are.

hello@akute.org →
04

Press & media

Reporting on rural health, EMS, or advanced air mobility? Get the media kit and talk to the team.

press@akute.org →
Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Operating today in Hyde County, NC
Financials available on request — ask@akute.org