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Financials

Nine closed months, no rounding

$26K
July 2026 revenue
5.5× November 2025
$313K
ARR run rate
Latest month annualized
89.2%
Gross margin
63.0% nine months ago
23.6%
Compound monthly growth
Revenue, Nov 25 → Jul 26
$131K
Revenue booked to date
9 closed months
$303K
Total cash burned
$34K per month average
29.3K
Subscribers
689 added in July
$522,000
Executive team cost
Annual, current run rate

Income statement

Revenue and gross margin

Cost of service is revenue share alone, so margin widens mechanically as the base grows — 63% to 89% in nine months.

$0$7.5K$15K$23K$30KNov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26

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Monthly detail

Profit and loss, every closed month

Apr 26$17,982$15,26384.9%$8,900$45,496(31,014)38817,040
Dec 25$7,910$5,96775.4%$3,900$39,829(35,419)1925,841
Feb 26$11,355$9,41182.9%$5,100$40,848(32,993)38411,416
Jan 26$7,831$5,94976.0%$5,100$40,799(36,468)2907,684
Jul 26$26,111$23,30189.2%$13,200$54,912(32,301)68929,287
Jun 26$21,351$18,62687.2%$13,200$49,812(31,961)38325,006
Mar 26$14,396$12,24985.1%$6,900$42,784(31,888)48714,898
May 26$19,320$16,70686.5%$11,000$47,416(31,596)39321,428
Nov 25$4,784$3,01263.0%$4,750$40,699(39,415)1884,955

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Unaudited management accounts, US dollars. Interest expense is nil in every period. Software development capitalized at $3,500 per month sits below operating income and is captured in net cash flow. Source: Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement tabs.

Cash

Burn has been flat while revenue ran

$0$13K$25K$38K$50KNov 25Dec 25Jan 26Feb 26Mar 26Apr 26May 26Jun 26Jul 26

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What that means

Nine months of net cash burn between $31K and $39K, while revenue grew 5.5× and subscribers grew 5.9×. The cost base is fixed; the output is not.

Marketing is the only line that scaled — from $4.8K to $13K a month — and it was funded by widening gross margin rather than by more capital.

$13K
Marketing, July
2.8× November
$29K
Payroll, July
First increase in nine months

Cost structure

Where $55K a month goes

  • Payroll$28,500
  • Marketing$13,200
  • Software amortization$6,667
  • Rent$3,211
  • Revenue share$2,810
  • Office admin$405
  • Utilities$119

July 2026. Excludes $3,500 monthly capitalized software development.

Unit economics

The base is mostly free already

$0.89
Blended monthly revenue per sub
Across the whole base
5.9%
Implied paying share
≈1.7K accounts at the $15 list price
$15
List price per month
Versus thousands for traditional advisory
89.2%
Contribution margin
Revenue share is the only variable cost

Roughly 6% of the base carries the revenue today. That is the argument for the pivot in miniature: the paid tier is already a rounding error against the audience, so removing the price removes very little revenue and unlocks the other 94%.

Use of funds

Deploying $2.5M

Marketing and operations take 81% of the round. Product takes 4%, because App 2.0 is already launched.

$2.5MRAISE
  • 45%Operational expensesStaffing, technology upkeep, day-to-day necessities.
  • 36%MarketingInfluencer layer plus paid amplification.
  • 10%HiringMoving contractors to full-time; Enterprise and online verticals.
  • 5%Partnership marketingTargeted support and materials for distribution partners.
  • 4%Product developmentApp 2.0 is shipped; remaining spend is tweaks.

$900K

Into marketing

Against $13K a month today

$250K

Into hiring

Contractors converted to employed roles

$42K

Fixed monthly opex

Everything that does not move with marketing spend

~$80,000

Headcount avoided, annually

Social headcount replaced by partner-driven distribution

Runway

What $2.5M buys, four ways

Going free removes $26K of monthly revenue and the revenue-share cost that sits against it. That is the real cost of the pivot, and it belongs in the runway before any marketing ramp does.

ScenarioMarketing / moRevenue / moNet burn / moRunway
Stay paidNo pivot, no ramp. The floor, and the case that raises no money.$13K$26K$29K85 mo
Go free, hold spendFree access with today's marketing. Proves the pivot cheaply, grows slowly.$13K$56K45 mo
Plan caseBase caseFree, with the round's marketing and hiring budgets spread over 24 months.$48K$90K28 mo
AcceleratedSame budgets deployed in 18 months. Faster to the Series A, thinner cushion.$64K$106K24 mo

28 months

Base-case runway

Comfortably past the 18-month mark most Series A investors want to see a full free-model cycle inside.

0.97× / 5.9×

Burn to ARR / capital to ARR

$303K burned in the closed months against $313K of ARR. Against all $1.85M ever raised, the figure is 5.9×.

$2.5M @ $20M

Round opening January 2027

$22.5M post-money, 11.1% dilution, 64× current ARR.