07 · Financials
Use of Funds
£1.25m pre-seed. Fully deployed across people and production over 15 months, structured to reach break-even at M15 and position the company for a seed raise from strength.
£1.25m
Pre-seed raise
£6m post
Post-money valuation
15+ mo
Runway to seed raise
£493,622
Cash at M15
Allocation by category
| Category | Allocation | % of raise |
|---|---|---|
|
CEO
George Unsworth · from M1 |
£169,335 | 13.5% |
|
Head of Product
From M1 |
£147,255 | 11.8% |
|
Senior Developers ×2
M1 and M3 hires · full engineering build |
£302,344 | 24.2% |
|
DevOps + Senior AI Engineer
From M3 · infrastructure and AI layer |
£248,846 | 19.9% |
|
Delivery Lead + Ops Support (M9)
From M9 · customer success and operations |
£96,208 | 7.7% |
|
Infrastructure & hosting
Cloud, AI inference, database, DevOps tooling |
£33,700 | 2.7% |
|
AI dev tooling
£440/person/month · Cursor, GitHub Copilot, APIs |
£43,120 | 3.5% |
|
Cybersecurity & pen testing
SOC 2 preparation · external pen testing |
£37,500 | 3.0% |
|
PR & comms retainer
Ongoing PR and communications support |
£30,000 | 2.4% |
|
UX research & user testing
User research, testing, and design validation |
£17,100 | 1.4% |
|
Office, tools, marketing & admin
Co-working, brand, SaaS stack, incidentals |
£76,100 | 6.1% |
|
Equipment
One-off · £5k/person expensed at hire month |
£40,000 | 3.2% |
|
Cash at Month 15
4+ months runway into seed raise |
£493,622 | 39.5% |
Burn phases
Months 1–2
Core team live
£49,000 / month
CEO, Head of Product, and first Senior Developer in seat. Prototype live and closing first dev partnership transactions.
Months 3–8
Full build team
£79,000 / month
Second Senior Developer, DevOps and AI Engineer join. Agentic SaaS platform build. 4 dev partnerships live. 400+ target pipeline warming.
Months 9–15
Product launched
£100,000 / month
Delivery Lead and Ops join at M9. Platform live. 4 dev partners convert to subscribers. Break-even at M15 with 10 paying subscribers.