Discover/The Pitch/#177 Aleoop: Show Me The Sales!

No more free work: founder draws line after POC period

The Pitch · #177 Aleoop: Show Me The Sales!

“Like, we can't serve enterprise customers without SOC two compliance and and a level of regulatory rigor.”

19:19 / 19:56

Mhmm. Like, we can't serve enterprise customers without SOC two compliance and and a level of regulatory rigor. So that's, like Her whole pipeline. Yeah.

Exactly. The whole pipeline.

On the three that you're onboarding Yeah. Are those going to be free?

Free for the POC period, and then after that, we're done. No more free. No more free work. Yes. What are you raising, and what are you hoping to learn with that? Yeah. Yeah. So we absolutely need to hire an ML engineer, a full stack engineer, and then once we have enough of a customer base, a customer success ops person. So raising a million today is, like, the kickoff of the pre seed raise. I've raised a $165,000

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A founder discusses the necessity of SOC 2 compliance for enterprise customers and outlines their fundraising strategy. They're raising $1M pre-seed to hire ML and full-stack engineers, having already secured $165K, and emphasize ending free proof-of-concept work.

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Shows a founder's strategic pivot from free POCs to paid enterprise deals while outlining specific hiring and fundraising plans.

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