ideacloud.ai

From Idea to Company at the Speed of Thought.

Pre-Seed · $1.5M Raise · March 2026

Round Closes: Apr 20th
 

Building a company is needlessly fragmented

Today, going from a spark of an idea to a live, funded company requires stitching together 12+ disconnected tools, weeks of research, and thousands of dollars in setup costs — before writing a single line of code.

1

Idea Validation

Founders spend 2-4 weeks doing manual market research, competitor analysis, and viability checks. Most use spreadsheets and gut instinct.

2

Naming & Domains

Searching GoDaddy, Namecheap, checking trademarks on USPTO, verifying social handles across 5+ platforms — easily a full day wasted.

3

Build & Deploy

Even with no-code tools, founders juggle Vercel, Netlify, Supabase, Stripe, and more. Technical debt starts before day one.

4

Incorporation & Ops

Stripe Atlas, Clerky, legal docs, banking setup — another $2-5K and 2+ weeks before the founder can focus on building.

Result: 90% of startups fail, and a disproportionate number never even launch. The friction isn’t the idea — it’s the infrastructure.

One platform. Idea to company in hours, not months.

ideacloud.ai is a vertically integrated cloud platform that collapses the entire company creation stack into a single, AI-native experience — designed for non-technical founders.

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Idea
🔍
Validate
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Name
Build
🚀
Deploy
🏢
Incorporate
📈
Scale
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Idea
🔍
Validate
🏷️
Name
Build
🚀
Deploy
🏢
Incorporate
📈
Scale

AI-Native

Agentic workflows handle the grunt work. The user decides how much control to retain — from fully autonomous to hands-on every detail.

Non-Technical First

Vibe-code editor, natural language interfaces, and guided workflows mean zero coding knowledge required to launch a real company.

Full Stack Ownership

Naming, domains, hosting, compute, incorporation, team management — all under one roof. No more tool juggling.

A vertically integrated stack

Each product serves a standalone market while powering the ideacloud.ai flywheel. Together, they form an end-to-end company creation engine.

ideacloud.ai

ideacloud.ai

CORE PLATFORM

The unified cloud platform. Idea vetting, vibe-code editor, deploy, incorporate, manage teams, run agents — the entire company lifecycle in one place. Think Vercel meets Stripe Atlas meets AI.

🖥️

catabase.ai

INFRASTRUCTURE

Compute-as-a-service layer. One-click VPS & at-home compute provisioning. Eventually an Airbnb-style marketplace for renting out idle compute — turning hardware into passive income.

vybe.domainsvybe.domains

AI-powered domain discovery. Quality scores, trademark checks, social handle availability, API/MCP access for agents. Standalone SaaS + ideacloud integration.

proveit.dayproveit.day

Founder accountability platform. Cadence-based demos & updates, tool integrations (GitHub, Linear, Slack), agentic task delegation, investor feed with TikTok-style discovery.

habitengine.aihabitengine.ai

Reverse-engineer life goals into daily Habit Hour™ routines. Voice-first AI tracking, philosophy alignment scoring, and self-improvement engine.

🔮 eden.gratis

Predictive market intelligence. Aggregates current events, podcasts, and thought leaders to forecast market trends and validate business ideas with evidence.

A convergence of massive markets

ideacloud.ai sits at the intersection of four high-growth sectors, each independently worth hundreds of billions.

$944B
Cloud Computing (2025)

Projected $3.3T by 2033 at 16% CAGR

Grand View Research
$41B
Low-Code / No-Code (2025)

Projected $187B by 2030 at 31%+ CAGR

Adalo / Gartner
$7.8B
AI Agents (2025)

Projected $53B by 2030 at 46% CAGR

MarketsandMarkets
$5.7B
GPU-as-a-Service (2025)

Projected $32B by 2034 at 23% CAGR

Precedence Research

Our TAM/SAM/SOM

TAM — Total Cloud + No-Code + AI Agents$993B
SAM — SMB Cloud + Company Creation Tools$48B
SOM — AI-Native Founders (Year 3 Target)$240M

SAM derived from Vercel’s $200M ARR at $9.3B valuation (Vercel Series F) serving primarily developers; our SAM addresses the non-technical founder segment which is 10-50x larger by headcount.

The perfect storm for company creation

Three secular tailwinds have converged to make this the optimal moment for ideacloud.ai.

🤖

AI Agents Are Production-Ready

Foundation models (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini) can now reliably execute multi-step business workflows. 35% of enterprises already use AI agents broadly.

MarketsandMarkets, 2025
🧑‍💻

Vibe Coding Went Mainstream

70% of new enterprise apps will use no-code/low-code by 2026. Non-technical builders are the fastest-growing creator cohort — and they have zero dedicated cloud infrastructure.

Gartner via Integrate.io
💰

Democratized Compute

Decentralized GPU networks grew 265% in 12 months. Platforms like Hyperbolic offer 75% lower costs than AWS. The compute layer is ready to be unbundled.

BlockEden.xyz, 2026

The insight: Vercel built for developers. Shopify built for merchants. Nobody has built the cloud for the non-technical founder. With AI making coding accessible to everyone, the next 100M companies will be built by people who never opened a terminal. We’re building their infrastructure.

Multiple revenue engines, compounding value

Each product generates independent revenue while cross-selling into the ideacloud.ai ecosystem.

ideacloud.ai

SaaS + Usage

Tiered subscription (Free → Pro → Enterprise) + usage-based compute/deploy fees. Target: $29-299/mo per company managed.

🖥️ catabase.ai

Marketplace

VPS provisioning fees + 15-20% take rate on the compute marketplace. Passive income for hardware owners = viral adoption loop.

vybe.domains

Transactional

Domain sales margin + premium scoring API ($49-199/mo). MCP server access for AI agents — a novel distribution channel with near-zero CAC.

proveit.day

SaaS + Platform

Founder subscriptions ($19-99/mo) + investor platform fee (% of facilitated investments). GoFundMe-meets-TikTok for startup investing.

eden.gratis + habitengine.ai

SaaS

Freemium subscriptions ($9-49/mo). These products drive top-of-funnel awareness and feed users into the ideacloud ecosystem.

The Flywheel: eden.gratis finds the opportunity → ideacloud.ai builds the company → vybe.domains secures the brand → catabase.ai powers the infrastructure → proveit.day proves traction to investors → habitengine.ai keeps the founder executing.

The “Self-Storage” of the digital economy

Self-storage is one of the most recession-resistant asset classes in history. Our infrastructure products share the same structural advantages.

🏗️ Self-Storage

Break-even occupancy~60%
Recession performance (‘08)+5% gain
Demand driverLife changes
MoatLocation lock-in
Nareit — Self-Storage Demand

☁️ ideacloud + catabase

Marginal cost per userBased on serverless infrastructure: Vercel (free tier covers ~100K requests), Supabase (~$0.00002/row), and AI inference at ~$0.002/query. At 1K users, blended cost is <$0.10/user/month. Scales further down at volume.<$0.10/mo
Recession behaviorMore startups
Demand driverAI + job displacement
MoatData + ecosystem lock-in

The parallel: In recessions, people lose jobs and start businesses. Self-storage thrives because people always need space. ideacloud thrives because people always need infrastructure to build. Domains (vybe.domains) are even more recession-proof — every company needs one, and with ~90% renewal rates (per GoDaddy), churn is minimal once purchased.

During the 2008 recession, self-storage was the only commercial real estate sector to post positive returns. (SIOR)

vybe.domains — First revenue, fastest to market

vybe.domains is our beachhead product: low development cost, immediate revenue potential, and a natural on-ramp to the full ideacloud ecosystem.

$10.5B
Domain Name Market (2026)
Business Research Insights
~10%
Annual Domain Churn

GoDaddy reports ~90% retention; high switching costs drive renewals

3
Distinct User Segments

Founders, AI Agents (API/MCP), Domain Investors

Unique Value Props

✓ AI-generated name scoring (resell quality + idea relevancy)
✓ Social media handle availability check across all platforms
✓ Trademark & copyright conflict detection
✓ API + MCP server for AI agents to discover and purchase domains
✓ Domain investor tools for finding undervalued premium names

Why It's Low Risk

✓ Revenue from day one (domain transactions + API subscriptions)
✓ Small engineering surface area — API wrapper + scoring model
✓ No physical infrastructure needed
✓ Natural funnel into ideacloud.ai (found a name → now build the company)
✓ MCP distribution = agents bring customers to us autonomously

We compete with fragments. Nobody owns the full stack.

Existing solutions address one or two steps. We address the entire journey — and the vertically integrated stack creates compounding advantages.

CapabilityVercelReplitStripe AtlasGoDaddyBolt.newideacloud.ai
Idea Validation
AI Domain Scoring + PurchasePartialPartial
Vibe-Code / No-Code EditorBasic
Deploy & HostBasic
Company Incorporation
AI Agent ManagementLimitedLimited
Compute Marketplace
Founder Accountability
Non-Technical FirstPartialPartial

Vercel: $9.3B valuation, $200M ARR (Series F). Replit: $3B valuation (SaaStr). We’re not competing — we’re serving the massive underserved market they don’t address.

Land with domains. Scale through schools.

Two-pronged GTM: a product-led funnel through vybe.domains, and a nationwide hackathon circuit that turns every high school and college into an ideacloud customer pipeline.

Product-Led Growth

Phase 1Q2 2026 — vybe.domains

Domain scoring + API/MCP launch. Target: $15K MRR, 1K domains transacted.

Phase 2Q4 2026 — ideacloud.ai Beta

Full platform with vibe-code editor + deploy. Target: 500 active builders.

Phase 3Q2 2027 — Full Stack

catabase.ai + incorporation + ecosystem. Target: $100K MRR.

Phase 42028+ — Hardware

At-home compute devices + Airbnb-style marketplace. Target: $1M+ MRR.

🏆 The ideacloud Hackathon Circuit

A nationwide entrepreneurship competition modeled after sports — high schools and colleges compete using our platform to build real companies in a weekend.

27K+ high schools and 5,900+ colleges in the U.S.
School → District → State → Nationals
Every participant uses ideacloud to build
Winners get real company incorporation
Sponsors fund prizes, we get distribution

This creates a generational adoption moat — students who build their first company on ideacloud become lifetime users.

The ideacloud Startup League

The largest youth entrepreneurship competition in the country — and every team builds on our platform. Think FIRST Robotics, but for building companies.

27K+
U.S. High Schools
MissionGraduateNM, 2026
5,900+
U.S. Colleges & Universities
EDsmart, 2025
19.4M
College Students (Fall 2025)
NSC Research Center
16.5M
High School Students
NCES via School Poster Makers

🏫 How It Works

Weekend Hackathons: Students form teams and build real companies in 48 hours using ideacloud.ai — from idea validation through live deployment.
Bracket Competition: Schools compete at district level, winners advance to state championships, then a televised national finals — just like March Madness for startups.
Separate Leagues: High school and college tracks run in parallel with age-appropriate mentorship and prize pools.

📈 Why This Is a Growth Superweapon

Near-zero CAC: Schools promote to their own students. Sponsors fund the prizes.
Massive TAM capture: Even 1% penetration = 330K+ student users per year.
Lifetime lock-in: First platform experience creates habit. Students become adult founders on ideacloud.
Brand moat: “ideacloud Startup League” becomes synonymous with youth entrepreneurship.
Media-ready: Bracket-style competition is inherently viral and sponsorable (think ESPN for startups).

The FIRST Robotics precedent: FIRST engages 680K+ students across 3,600+ teams annually and has created a multi-generational pipeline of STEM talent. Its sponsors (Boeing, Google, Qualcomm) pay millions for access. We’re building the same model for entrepreneurship — and every participant is a paying platform user.

680K+
FIRST Robotics students/year
FIRST Impact Report

Technical founders who build fast

We don’t just plan — we ship. Two technical co-founders with a combined 15+ years at the world’s biggest platforms.

AC
Alex Cory
Co-Founder & CEO
10+ Years Software Engineering
Facebook, Google, Discord, EvolutionaryScale
Founder: HackingEDU, Teasit, Ava
9M+ Open Source Downloads
CM
Connor McCutcheon
Co-Founder & CTO
Real-time infra (Meta) + enterprise ops (Starbucks)
Scaled YC-backed companies 0→1,000s users
OSS developer focused on AI acceleration

Why We Win

Technical co-founders = fast iteration, low burn
Multiple products already in development
Shared UI/UX component library already built
Dog-fooding — building companies with ideacloud
AI-augmented dev (we use what we build)
Revenue beachhead (vybe.domains) from Q2 2026
18+ months runway at current burn rate

Raising $1.5M pre-seed to capture the moment

We’re raising $1.5M to go from prototype to product-market fit across vybe.domains and ideacloud.ai core.

35%
Go-To-Market

Hackathon circuit launch, university partnerships, founder community, content & paid acquisition

30%
Engineering & Product

Core platform development, AI-assisted build with lean team, vibe-code editor

20%
Infrastructure & Compute

Cloud infrastructure, GPU compute for AI features, scaling architecture

15%
Ops, Legal & Reserve

Incorporation tooling partnerships, IP, compliance, and contingency buffer

Key Milestones This Round Unlocks

vybe.domains public launch + first $15K MRR
ideacloud.ai beta with 500 active builders
MCP/API integrations live for agent distribution
catabase.ai MVP with VPS provisioning
Pilot hackathon circuit in 10 states (50+ schools)
Position for $5-8M seed round by Q3 2027
ideacloud.ai

The cloud for the next 100 million companies.

Every company starts with an idea. We’re building the infrastructure to take it the rest of the way.

ideacloud.ai🖥️ catabase.aivybe.domainsproveit.dayhabitengine.ai🔮 eden.gratis

Pre-Seed · $1.5M Raise · March 2026

Round Closes: Apr 20th
 

Let’s talk → alex@cory.to