What’s the Market Offer for an "AI Platform" Like This Today?

by an investor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management

2 weeks ago

I’m evaluating an "AI platform" in the lead generation space with minimal customer traction and no inbound — so, limited commercial growth. However, the development is rock-solid, with no ongoing support costs, and would take a decent tech team 6-12 months and about $500K-$750k to replicate.
Here’s the scenario:
The founder doesn’t have a next step, but there could be interest from others in what’s been built.
The team is open to staying on or stepping down, depending on the deal.


What do you think the market offer would look like for something like this in today's environment?

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intermediary from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

I agree with ^Searchfunder member‌ and ^Searchfunder member‌ regarding valuation. How difficult would it be to replicate? Why is there minimal customer traction and no inbound? How do you know there's product-market fit? What does the competitive landscape look like? How unique is the team? It's really difficult to answer your question without more information.

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searcher from Biola University

My two cents: the AI landscape is still wide open with the big boys like Open AI, Google, Anthropic, etc. jockeying for leadership position so narrowing to an LLM platform becomes daunting. A code base developed on an LLM agnostic development platform may have some value but I can bet you that all the major lead-gen platforms have significant AI developments underway. I think a more niche focus using a specialized language model (SLM) may be more marketable and easily scaled to the particular application. I think it may be more valuable in the long run once a “catalog” of SLMs is developed. Thanks for the tag ^Searchfunder member‌

1 week ago | like reply | 0 likes

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