US$250,000 to make the platform the business
Two properties, one round. The site sells six services and publishes the open material that earns the right to sell them; the platform is where that work becomes something an institution renews rather than rebooks. This money is for the second half.
The round
Instrument — Priced equity. A priced equity round at the pre-money below. No SAFE, no convertible note, no valuation cap, no discount and no MFN side letter — the price is the price, and it is the same for every investor in this round.
Terms proposed by the company as an opening position, not a market quotation. US$250,000 = 16.7%.
Valuation, defended from both sides
We put the two properties together at US$1,250,000 pre-money, US$1,500,000 post. It is the company's own estimate and an opening position, not a market quotation, and no comparable is cited for it because none is published here.
Why not lower. The group's smallest seed shape prices a property at US$600,000 post. At that level this round would cost more than 40% of the company — and it would price as an idea two properties that are live and published today, with a programme library in three languages, a platform running white-label academies, and six services with their scoping and delivery process already written down.
Why not higher. Revenue to date is not published, and this kit does not estimate a market size because no citable figure is available for the segment these two properties actually sell into. We would rather price at something we can defend line by line and grow into a larger number than defend one now on figures we are not willing to show.
Use of funds
The round is sized to a plan. 48% of it goes to the platform, 52% to the site, the programmes and the delivery capacity behind the services.
| Line | Property | Share | Over 18 months | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smoother Experiences — platform engineering Multi-tenant white-label deployment, per-organisation administration, accessibility and security work, and the authoring tooling institutions need to run their own learning experiences on the platform. | Smoother Experiences | 40% | US$100,000 | US$5,556 |
| Learning programmes and content Deepening the published programme library in English, Spanish and French, the AI Learning Challenge, and the open artefacts of the Learning Innovation Lab. | ailearning.global | 24% | US$60,000 | US$3,333 |
| Delivery capacity for the services A delivery lead and the scoping, fieldwork and documentation capacity that turns a signed engagement into a delivered one — the constraint on the service lines today. | ailearning.global | 16% | US$40,000 | US$2,222 |
| Institutional reach and partnerships Reaching the institutions the programmes are built for — education ministries, universities, school networks and corporate learning functions — and the sponsors and funders who back access to them. | ailearning.global | 12% | US$30,000 | US$1,667 |
| Infrastructure, compute and tooling Model inference for the learning tools on both properties, hosting, storage and the build pipeline behind them. | Smoother Experiences | 8% | US$20,000 | US$1,111 |
| Total | 100% | US$250,000 | US$13,889 |
Runway, and what it buys
The plan runs 18 months at an average of US$13,889 a month. What it buys is a platform an institution can be handed rather than shown, a programme library deep enough that the same service sells twice without being rebuilt, and enough delivery capacity that a signed engagement does not wait on the founder's calendar.
Forward-looking. It describes a plan for the money, not a result already achieved.
Ticket tiers, and the rights attached to each
All percentages are at the US$1,500,000 post-money above. Minimum ticket US$10,000.
- Quarterly investor update
- Named in the cap table
- Everything above
- Annual strategy review call
- Everything above
- Information rights — annual accounts and a management summary
- Pro-rata rights in the next round
- Everything above
- Board observer seat for the duration of the plan
- Everything above
- Board observer seat, pro-rata and information rights, held alone
Dilution
What each ticket represents at US$1,500,000 post-money. This is the only cap-table figure this kit publishes; the rest is available under NDA.
| Ticket | Share of the company | Remaining with the founder |
|---|---|---|
| US$10,000 | 0.67% | 99.33% |
| US$25,000 | 1.67% | 98.33% |
| US$50,000 | 3.33% | 96.67% |
| US$100,000 | 6.67% | 93.33% |
| US$250,000 | 16.67% | 83.33% |
What we are not raising for
Not to build the product. Both properties are live, published and usable today — this round deepens them, it does not start them.
Not to fund the CEMI.ai group platform. The shared research, production and delivery machinery is the group round’s job, and mixing the two would let a good number in one hide a bad one in the other.
Not for paid acquisition. The open material is how institutions find us, and buying attention instead would be cheaper to start and impossible to stop.
Not to put a price on what is free. The published guides, the prompt library, the games, the readiness self-assessment and the sponsored programmes stay free, and no investor in this round acquires a say in that.
Minimum viable close, and the window
US$100,000 is the minimum viable close: it funds the platform work in full and keeps the programme library shipping, which is the half of the plan that compounds. Below that the round is not worth doing on these terms.
Close. Rolling close. First close at US$100,000; target final close within 90 days of the round opening.
Relationship to the CEMI.ai group round
CEMI is a group of AI initiatives built on shared infrastructure — one research, production and delivery pipeline serving every sector we enter. Investment is open at two levels. At group level, backing the shared platform — the Personai engine, CEMI Factory and CEMI Solutions — which compounds across the whole portfolio. At initiative level, backing a specific sector business approaching commercialization, with its own market, its own customers and its own economics. This round is the second kind: it funds aiLearning and the Smoother Experiences platform, not the group.
Revenue
Every revenue stream, its buyer and its published price are set out in full on the revenue-streams page. Revenue streams →
Financial terms, revenue and detailed materials are available on request. Figures describe capacity built and operating today; forward-looking statements are identified as such.