Traction · Live numbers
What three months of solo shipping looks like.
Live waitlist count, eight signed letters of intent, and the macOS-app code velocity from the basetool-ai/sussur repo. Round close: 2026-07-28. We publish a monthly investor update on the first Monday and refresh this page quarterly.
Waitlist
22
Organic · zero paid spend
Signed LOIs
8
Anonymized below
Founding cohort
22 / 500
€49 lifetime · first 500
Round close
2026-07-28
Pre-seed · SAFE
Letters of intent
Eight commitments. Names redacted, roles real.
Each line is one signed LOI. Names are redacted by request; role + industry + excerpt are verifiable on a call.
VP of Sales
B2B SaaS · 30 reps
“We will pilot for 30 days as soon as the Team Growth tier is available.”
Solo founder-seller
Devtools agency
“Founding tier locked the moment the Mac App Store listing goes live.”
Independent advisor
Fractional CRO
“I'll bring three of my client teams to the pilot.”
Founder-coach
Sales-training studio
“Embedding Sussur into the next cohort curriculum.”
Sales operator
Vertical-SaaS (legal)
“On-device + EU AI Act readiness lets us run this on regulated calls.”
Head of Revenue
Series B fintech
“Need on-prem LLM option on Scale tier; happy to be a design partner.”
Solo AE
Cybersecurity
“Personal credit card. Will buy as soon as you charge for it.”
Founder-seller
Healthtech (regulated pilot)
“Counsel-cleared to run on-device coaching on pre-sales discovery calls.”
Code velocity · v0.10.25 · snapshot 2026-06-08
Founder shipped this stack solo in 3 months.
355
Commits
483
Test files
11
Versioned LLM prompts
11
Promptfoo eval suites
Each versioned prompt is gated by a promptfoo eval suite, run nightly in CI.
The publishing commitment
Numbers, on a schedule, with the same template every time.
Investors get the email first. The public refresh follows seven days later.
- Monthly investor update
- Sent on the first Monday. Same template every month: revenue (one-time, recurring, Setapp), customers (paid licenses, active business seats), channel (waitlist, trial-to-paid, churn), the one thing that broke, the one thing we shipped.
- Quarterly traction post
- Public refresh of this page with the prior 90 days of numbers. Same data the investors get; you read it 7 days later.
- Code velocity refresh
- Snapshot in data/code-velocity.json refreshed at the same cadence. Numbers below are the most recent committed snapshot.