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Enterprise wholesale ordering, built for small manufacturers.

Unlocking capacity, powering growth, and building resilience — a subscription platform backed by 25 years of shipping the same thing custom, now SaaS.

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25 yrs
shipping this platform, custom
$2B
GDP facilitated to date
3
paying SaaS customers
100+ hrs
recovered per customer / mo
~13
customers to breakeven
The story, at the depth you want it

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Team & Advisors

Who's building it

A founder with 25 years building this platform and a cross-functional team that has already shipped it for real wholesale customers.

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The Problem

Why wholesale hurts

Small-to-mid wholesale manufacturers are running their entire B2B operation on retail tools — and it costs them $20K–$80K per year plus 100+ wasted hours per month.

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The Solution

What we do about it

Built2Buy replaces the retail-tool patchwork with a wholesale-native platform that cuts $20K–$80K in annual waste and recovers 100+ hours per month — at $500/mo base.

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Traction

What's real today

Three paying SaaS customers live in production. 2,300+ leads sourced, 122 qualified. Post-revenue and capital-efficient from day one.

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Market

How big it gets

TAM of $3.4B across ~285K US product firms, every count independently verified against Census data. Our Year-2 target is 0.1% of our SAM.

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The Ask

What we're raising

We are raising $150K to fund 12 months of AI-optimized go-to-market at a sub-$5K/mo non-payroll burn.

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Investment Readiness

Where we honestly stand.

The Village Capital VIRAL diagnostic — eight dimensions, nine stages. Hover any square on the full grid for the evidence behind its status. We show what's done, and what isn't.

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Product · Stage 3 — Done

Team has built a working prototype and a product roadmap

Live production platform serving global customers via Natural Earth Paint since January 2026. 10 Forward sales CMS in active use. UPS shipping plugin is a confirmed patent candidate (Stewart Myers, 2026-05-11 — software business method patent).

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The Ask

A focused round to turn a proven product into a growth engine.

The constraint isn't whether it works — 25 years and three paying customers settle that. It's go-to-market. This round funds a dedicated sales motion and an AI lead engine already running 24/7.

Raising $150K
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Diligence

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Pitch DeckFull investor pitch deck (v8)Available on requestRequest →One-PagerSingle-page company summaryAvailable on requestRequest →Financial ModelRevenue projections and unit economics — in final reviewIn final reviewRequest →