About Mira · Brooklyn · Lagos · Lisbon

We're building the operator most small businesses can't afford to hire.

Mira was started by three people who had each spent too many late nights clearing DMs for a business they ran on the side. Now we build software that does it for everyone else.

Small businesses lose more revenue to missed messages than to bad ads, bad weather, or bad reviews — combined.

We know this because we ran a free audit on five hundred businesses to start the company. The median operator had $4,820/mo leaking out the side of their inbox — not because they didn't care, but because they were already doing six other jobs.

Mira is the answer to a question we couldn't stop asking: what would it look like if every single-person shop had the same closer as a 200-seat call center?

It looks like this. A small agent, in your voice, in your inbox, at 3am. The math of small business gets a little easier. The operator gets a Saturday back.

— Karim, Júlia & Yves · founders · brooklyn / lisbon / lagos

Small businesses lose more revenue to missed messages than they realize.

Most operators we talk to are doing six other jobs. The inbox isn't ignored on purpose — it's just the thing that gets dropped when payroll is due, the supplier called, and the kid is home from school. So orders go cold, quotes get forgotten, regulars drift.

Mira is the answer to a question we couldn't stop asking: what would it look like if every single-person shop had the same closer as a 200-seat call center?

It looks like this. A small agent, in your voice, in your inbox, at 3am. The math of small business gets a little easier. The operator gets a Saturday back.

How we work

Four operating principles, in priority order.

PRINCIPLE 01

The operator is the customer.

Every decision serves the person running the business and the inbox. We say no to deals, features, or words that don't.

PRINCIPLE 02

Receipts over hand-waves.

Every dollar Mira earns is tied to a thread you can open. We'd rather you trust us less and verify more.

PRINCIPLE 03

Boring tech, weird voice.

Our infrastructure is the dullest it can be. Our writing is not. We picked one place to be clever — the reply.

PRINCIPLE 04

We work in public.

Status, changelog, incidents, postmortems, even the subprocessor list. If we wouldn't publish it, we don't ship it.

As of yesterday

The shape of Mira today.

1,247
Operators on the platform
$2.4M
Recovered last 30 days
14
People on payroll
3
Cities · BK · LIS · LOS
The team

Fourteen people who'd rather be here than on call.

[ Karim ]
Karim Aleem
Co-founder · CEO

Used to run a tile shop in Bed-Stuy. Knows what it's like to lose Saturday.

[ Júlia ]
Júlia Reis
Co-founder · CTO

Built Otterhaus's booking system, then built it 47 more times.

[ Yves ]
Yves Okoye
Co-founder · Design

Spent a decade making messaging UX for telcos. Allergic to bot-talk.

[ Mari ]
Mari Inoue
Head of Eng

Postgres queen. Knows how to delete things irrevocably.

[ Elena ]
Elena Mboto
Operator success

Onboards every new customer personally for their first week.

[ Devon ]
Devon Kahale
Reply quality lead

Reads every replied thread that scored a 3 or below.

[ Anais ]
Anaïs Lefèvre
Security · DPO

Wrote the SOC 2. Wrote it again when we changed our minds.

[ Sven ]
Sven Aakerlund
Inference

Has opinions about token budgets. They are correct.

How we got here

The story, in 14 lines.

Mar 2024

Three friends, one too many missed DMs.

Karim, Júlia, and Yves write a "what if" doc in a shared Apple Note over a long weekend.

May 2024

First prototype

A WhatsApp bot that replies in Karim's voice. Tested on his own tile shop. Books two jobs in a week.

Aug 2024

Free audit · 500 businesses

We email 500 indie shops offering a free leak audit. 312 say yes. The median was bad.

Nov 2024

$1.6M seed

Led by Field Trip, with Operator Collective and 14 founders / operators.

Feb 2025

First 100 operators

Quiet beta, hand-onboarded. 71% activation, 42% paid into month two.

Jul 2025

SOC 2 Type I

Type II followed in Jan 2026. ISO 27001 added Q1 2026.

Nov 2025

Performance pricing

The "pay 6% of recovered" lane. Half of new operators pick it.

Mar 2026

1,200 operators · $2M/mo recovered

You are here. We are not done.

Backed by
Field Trip Ventures Operator Collective Atelier Ventures Founders Fund Seed South Park Commons + 14 founders & operators
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