Funding
Views on funding are simple, raise enough capital to cover compute costs, a trip to the US, and a minimum founder salary to work on Tact full-time and in perpetuity.
The Route to the US
The American market represents both the largest opportunity and the most demanding proving ground.
- Validate locally — prove the model works with constrained resources, that we can produce the desired data shape for labs with small scale cohort.
- Build signal for big raise — building rich datasets require high capital flow across user acquisition and compute, the US trip is anchored on getting major interest from AI Product teams and labs to validate Tact, and use that as fuel for a fundraise from US investors.
- Enter with momentum — arrive in the US with a working product, data pipeline, and a cohort of writers and examples of end-to-end output, benchmark this against what labs and products expect, and give potential talent a tangible insight into what they will work.
We just need to prove that the data shape we provide is correct, or very close to usable. And create a GTM strategy that continually attracts tastemakers.
Current Position
Starting capital means the product arrives fast, cohort output quality increases based off financial incentive, and trips to the US and hiring initial team is possible to understand the true scale and potential of the Tact.
Compute and data store costs are running from day 0 as the bare minimum for funding coverage.
Minimum Viable Raise
A$250k
This gives Tact 6-9 months to:
- build the v0 creative workbench
- recruit and compensate the first 10-20 tastemakers
- collect 300-500 judgement traces
- produce dataset exports for SFT, preference, critique, and eval use
- validate the data shape with labs and AI product teams
- complete the first US trip
- secure 2-3 design partners or serious buyer conversations