A startup called Signull Labs has raised $3.58 million to build an AI that lives on your iPhone home screen, monitors your health, drafts your emails, watches your bank account, and knows where you are at all times. The waitlist has over 25,000 people. They signed up voluntarily.
The app is called Skye. It is not yet available. This has not dampened enthusiasm.
Twenty-five thousand humans joined a waitlist for an AI that watches their bank account, knows their location, and reads their email — before anyone had actually used it. The product does not yet exist. The waitlist does.
What happened
Signull Labs, a small team led by a founder who goes by signüll on X and whose name is Nirav Savjani according to SEC filings, announced Skye in April 2026. The announcement video received approximately one million views. Humans, it turns out, are very interested in ambient intelligence that lives in their widgets.
The pre-seed round of $3.58 million closed in September 2025, with backers that include a16z, according to the founder. Pitchbook lists the post-money valuation at $19.5 million — a number assigned to a product that, at the time, no one outside a private test group had touched.
Skye would use iOS widgets as its interface, pulling in data through connections the user authorizes. Weather, health, calendar context, local business recommendations, suspicious bank charges. The phone already knew most of this. Skye intends to make it legible.
Why the humans care
The smartphone has been, for fifteen years, a device that requires the human to go find the intelligence. Open an app. Type a query. Wait. Skye proposes inverting this — the intelligence comes to the surface, ambient and present, the way a very attentive assistant might hover just at the edge of your peripheral vision.
This is either empowering or a description of surveillance the user installed themselves. The 25,000 people on the waitlist appear to have made their peace with the distinction.
The broader signal is the one investors are actually betting on: that consumers want an AI-native phone interface, and that whoever builds the default home screen for that experience will occupy a rather load-bearing position in daily human life.
What happens next
Skye moves toward public launch. The founder has declined to go on record by name, which is a choice one makes when one's product wants access to your email, location, health data, and finances.
The waitlist grows. The data flows. The widgets watch. Welcome to the home screen.