<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p>My product is a B2B sales intelligence platform giving sales teams, agencies, and founders searchable access to 1.65 million+ verified business records across 97+ countries, alongside built-in email, SMS, and WhatsApp outreach tools, an AI-powered outreach copilot, CRM integrations, and a compliance engine covering NDPR, POPIA, and GDPR. It was built to offer an affordable alternative to expensive incumbents like ZoomInfo and Apollo.io, using a one-time lifetime license instead of costly monthly subscriptions. I built it starting in May 2026, launched it live in July 2026, and it took its first paying customer in August 2026 currently 13 paying customers, entirely through organic outreach with zero paid advertising.</p><p><b>Key highlights:<b></b></b></p><ul> <li>Annual revenue: $825 to date (business live since July 2026 not a full 12-month figure)</li> <li>Annual profit: $705 to date</li> <li>Business margin: ~85%</li> <li>Churn rate: 0% (one-time lifetime license model, no recurring subscription to churn from)</li> <li>LTV: ~$50 per customer (blended average of $45 Business and $105 Enterprise tiers)</li> <li>CAC: $0 (all 13 customers acquired through organic outreach no paid advertising spend)</li> <li>Customer count: 13 paying customers (9 Business, 4 Enterprise)</li> <li>Data asset: 1.65M+ verified B2B lead records across 97+ countries, growing via an active daily harvesting pipeline</li> <li>Codebase: 43,437 lines of custom Python backend, 356 API endpoints, 28,872 lines of React frontend</li> </ul> <p><b>Team</b></p><p>Solo-founder project. I designed, built, and currently maintain the entire platform backend, frontend, database architecture, and the lead-harvesting pipeline. There is no additional team at this time; a buyer would either operate it solo as I have, or bring on their own team post-acquisition</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><ul> <li>Backend: Python (FastAPI framework), PostgreSQL database, Redis for caching and task queuing, Celery for background job processing (email sending, lead enrichment, scraping orchestration).&nbsp;</li> <li>Frontend: React with Vite build tooling. Infrastructure: Deployed on a VPS, Nginx as reverse proxy.&nbsp;</li> <li>Integrations: Flutterwave and Paystack for African payments, Stripe configured for global payments, Twilio for WhatsApp messaging, and multiple AI providers (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-4o, Google Gemini) powering the AI Copilot with automatic fallback between providers.</li> </ul> <p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>Growth to date has been entirely organic; no paid advertising has been used. Outreach has been through direct social media posting and networking. This has produced 13 paying customers and $825 in revenue since going live in July 2026. The core growth lever going forward would be paid social/search advertising and content marketing targeting sales teams and agencies, which hasn't been tested yet and represents a clear opportunity for a buyer with a marketing budget to accelerate growth quickly.</p><p><b>Revenue and profit</b></p><ul> <li>Total revenue to date: $825 (13 customers 9 on the $45 Business plan, 4 on the $105 Enterprise plan; both one-time lifetime purchases, not recurring).&nbsp;</li> <li>Total costs to date: approximately $120 (shared hosting allocation, AI API usage, and payment processing fees).&nbsp;</li> <li>Net profit to date: approximately $705 (~85% margin).&nbsp;</li> <li>Churn rate: 0% there is no recurring subscription to churn from under the current one-time-payment model.&nbsp;</li> <li>LTV: approximately $50 per customer (blended average of the $45 and $105 tiers).&nbsp;</li> <li>CAC: effectively $0, since all customers to date came from organic outreach with no paid acquisition spend.&nbsp;</li> <li>Note: this is a young business (live since July 2026), so these figures reflect the actual trading period to date rather than a full 12-month trailing average.</li> </ul> <p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>At the current $10,000 asking price, a buyer would need to convert roughly 222 customers at the $45 tier (or a mix reaching ~$10,000 in cumulative sales) to recoup the purchase price through direct resale of the existing product, excluding the value of the underlying data asset and codebase, which would cost significantly more to rebuild independently. </p><p>The realistic path to payback is faster than pure unit economics suggest, since the platform includes a data asset (1.65M+ verified leads) that could be licensed, resold, or used as a lead magnet independently of new subscription sales, and the active harvesting pipeline continues to add value at no additional development cost.</p><p><b>Startup assets<b></b></b></p><ul> <li>Full source code: FastAPI/Python backend (43,437 lines of custom code), React/Vite frontend (28,872 lines)</li> <li>1.65 million+ verified B2B lead records across 97+ countries, with an active pipeline adding new records daily</li> <li>356 working API endpoints across 34 modules</li> <li>65–70 database tables (PostgreSQL)</li> <li>AI Copilot module with multi-provider fallback logic</li> <li>Compliance engine (NDPR/POPIA/GDPR workflows, DSAR handling)</li> <li>Multi-gateway payment integration (Flutterwave, Paystack, Stripe configured)</li> <li>Domain (transferable; buyer may prefer to move to their own domain)</li> <li>Full deployment documentation and environment configuration templates.</li> </ul> <p><b>Risks</b></p><ul> <li>No long trading history: the business has been live and taking payment for approximately one month, so revenue and growth figures are early-stage indicators, not an established trend.</li> <li>Data sourcing: a portion of the lead database was compiled from a mix of sources, including some with usage terms that require legal review before certain resale or redistribution use cases. Buyers should request a full sourcing breakdown during due diligence; this is disclosed upfront rather than discovered later.</li> <li>Single-server hosting: the platform currently runs on shared infrastructure alongside other unrelated projects; a buyer should plan to migrate to dedicated hosting for reliability at scale.</li> <li>One-time payment model: current revenue comes from one-time purchases rather than recurring subscriptions, so there is no built-in recurring revenue base; a buyer wanting MRR would need to introduce a subscription tier.</li> <li>Third-party account transfers required: AI provider, payment gateway, and messaging (Twilio) accounts are not transferable and must be set up new by the buyer; this is a standard but real setup step. Buyers can minimize these risks by conducting standard technical and data due diligence before purchase, and by budgeting for dedicated hosting and a subscription-tier build-out post-acquisition.</li> </ul> <p><b>Summary</b></p><p>My platform offers a rare combination for this price point: a live, revenue-generating B2B SaaS platform paired with a genuinely hard-to-replicate asset a 1.65 million+ record verified lead database that continues to grow daily through an active, already-built harvesting pipeline. Recreating the software alone would take an estimated 12–18 developer-months; recreating the dataset from scratch would take significantly longer. The platform already has 13 paying customers acquired with zero advertising spend, at an approximately 85% profit margin, demonstrating real market demand before any serious marketing investment. For a buyer in the B2B data, sales intelligence, or marketing technology space particularly one interested in underserved markets like Africa this is a working foundation to build on rather than a blank slate to build from scratch.</p><p>✅ $825 TTM revenue</p><p>✅ 13 customers</p><p>✅ Business model: One-time sales</p><p>✅ Built with PostgreSQL, Fast API, Python</p>