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Investor Pitch · Seed Round

Production-Ready Platform.
The Engineering OS
Raising to Accelerate GTM.

One workspace replacing Jira, TestRail, Confluence, and billing tools — for $2/user/month. Built and live in production. 85–90% gross margin. Pre-revenue seed stage.

$8.5B
Deduplicated Market
85%+
Gross Margin
Pre-GTM
Zero Product Build Risk
Oct '25
Atlassian Price Hike
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Executive Summary

Already Live in Production.
Now Raising to Scale.

Klority is a fully-built, revenue-ready unified engineering platform. We are not a prototype — we are live on AWS, billing customers through Paddle, and ready to grow.

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Production-Ready Platform

Full AWS ECS Fargate deployment. Postgres RDS, Redis ElastiCache, Cloudflare R2 storage. Admin dashboard, billing engine, and API security all live.

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AI Already Deployed

AWS Bedrock (Nova / Claude Haiku) powers live AI Test Case generation. 10x faster than manual QA writing — in production today.

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Billing Engine Live

Paddle integration handles metered usage billing, pro-rata seat calculations, and invoice generation — fully automated.

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85–90% Gross Margin

Infra cost ~$0.10–$0.25/user/month vs. $2.00 revenue. AI overage margin: 98.5%. Designed for hyper-efficient scaling.

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Enterprise Security Built In

SAML SSO, MFA, RBAC, AWS WAF, encrypted RDS, and secrets in SSM Parameter Store. Zero plaintext credentials in infrastructure.

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Global Market Opportunity

Atlassian raised prices 10% in Oct 2025. Data Center EOL by 2029. Millions of teams are actively evaluating alternatives right now.

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The Problem

Software Agencies Are Bleeding Money
on Fragmented, Overpriced Tools.

10–100 person IT companies are stuck between two bad options: overpaying for enterprise tools built for much larger teams, or going without and cobbling together Excel and disconnected point tools. Neither is built or priced for this segment.

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Tool Sprawl: $50+/user/month in Scattered SaaS Subscriptions

Jira ($9.70) + Confluence ($7.15) + TestRail ($38) + a billing tool ($10) = over $64/seat/month. For a 25-person team that's $19,000+/year — just for project tooling.

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No Tool Built for This Segment — So Many Go Without

Enterprise suites like Jira and TestRail are priced and designed for 500+ person orgs. Teams under 100 people often skip PM tooling entirely, running sprints and QA in Excel, spreadsheets, or nothing at all — until the chaos costs them a client.

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Disconnected Finance = Revenue Leakage of 5–10% Monthly

Time tracking in a separate tool means hours get forgotten. IT agencies consistently under-bill on T&M projects — losing thousands in pure profit each month.

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Atlassian is Forcing the Market to Move — Right Now

October 2025: Atlassian raised prices 5–10% across all cloud tiers. Jira Data Center reaches full End-of-Life by March 2029. Millions of seats are in active re-evaluation.

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Market Timing

Four Convergent Forces Drive
SaaS Stack Consolidation.

Macroeconomic pressure and Atlassian price increases are forcing agencies to consolidate tools now.

1

Atlassian Price Hike — Oct 2025

Jira Standard +5%, Premium +7.5%, Enterprise +10%. Maximum Quantity Billing introduced. Budgets squeezed — buyers are searching for alternatives actively.

2

Data Center End-of-Life — 2029

Atlassian's on-premise option sunsets completely by March 2029. Every self-hosted team must migrate. Most are choosing to evaluate all options now, not in 2028.

3

AI is Now "Table Stakes" for Dev Tools

Test management market growing at 16.78% CAGR — powered by AI. Teams won't adopt new tools without AI. Klority ships AI QA generation natively on AWS Bedrock.

4

SaaS Stack Consolidation Wave — 2025–2026

Companies across every sector are cutting overlapping SaaS licenses. CFOs are mandating consolidation. An all-in-one at 80%+ savings is a budget committee's dream.

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The Solution

Five Tools Unified.
One Platform. One Price.

Klority replaces an entire enterprise software stack with a single, affordable, deeply-integrated workspace.

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Agile Project Management

Replaces Jira ($9.70+/user). Full Scrum, Kanban, sprints, backlogs, velocity charts, burn-down, epics, and sub-tasks — with 400ms real-time sync.

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AI-Powered QA Management

Replaces TestRail ($38/user). AI writes test suites from requirements in <10 seconds. Test runs, cycles, defect auto-linking — all native.

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Living Wiki & Docs

Replaces Confluence ($7.15/user). TipTap rich-text editor, version history, and direct task/ticket cross-linking. Documentation that stays alive.

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Integrated Financial Ops

Replaces billing tools ($10+/user). Native timesheets tied to sprint tasks. T&M and fixed-fee project tracking. Auto-generated client invoices.

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CRM & Client Tracker

Replaces HubSpot for agencies. Deal pipelines, contact management, and direct linking to active projects and invoices. No separate CRM needed.

All 5 modules for
$2
per user / month
(billed annually)
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Product · Live in Production

Not a Mockup. Real. Shipped. Running.

Sprint board, AI test generator, financial dashboards, and wiki — all live on app.klority.com today.

Sprint Board — Active Sprint 14 3 days left
Setup OAuth SSO integration
In Review
AI Prompt test run evaluation
QA
Refactor billing proration webhook
Dev
Velocity chart burndown sync
Done
AI Test Suite Generator ✓ 8 cases generated in 7s
Requirement: User must sign up with valid email and MFA OTP...
TC-MFA-01: Success path OTP verification
Generated
TC-MFA-02: Expired OTP failure path
Generated
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Scrum / Kanban Sprints

Real-time board with velocity, CFD, burndown

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AI Test Case Generation

AWS Bedrock Nova Lite / Claude Haiku — live

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Financial Ops & Invoicing

T&M + fixed-fee project cost engine

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TipTap Wiki Editor

Version history + linked ticket references

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GitHub & GitLab Webhooks

Branch tracking directly from task cards

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Paddle Billing Engine

Metered usage, pro-rata seats, auto-invoicing

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Market Opportunity

A $8.5B Market Opportunity
Built on Three Growing Segments.

Bottom-up, each segment is independently large — and together they form a once-in-a-decade consolidation opportunity.

TAM · $8.5B
SAM · $3B
SOM
$15M

TAM · $8.5B — Deduplicated SME Engineering Operations SaaS

Deduplicated market sizing combining SME Agile Project Management ($4.5B), Test Management ($1.5B), and Project Financial Ops ($2.5B). Excludes enterprise-only suites.

SAM · $3B — 10–100 Person Software Agencies & Consultancies

~500,000 software agencies and dev shops globally with 10–100 seats. At average 25 users × $2/seat × 12 months = $3B annual market size in our core buyer segment.

SOM · $15M ARR — 5-Year Horizon (Agency Wedge Focus)

Targeting 0.5% SAM capture across India (5,000+ agencies), SEA, ANZ, and UK. Bridge: 24-month seed milestone is $30K–$50K MRR ($360K–$600K ARR), compounding toward the 5-year $15M SOM target.

* Methodology: Gartner & Grand View Research ALM ($4.5B) + QA ($1.5B) + FinOps/Invoicing ($2.5B) deduplicated for 10–100 seat software agencies at $2/seat/mo.
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Unit Economics

Hyper-Efficient Margins.
Target Operating Model.

Simple, transparent pricing designed for viral agency adoption — with high gross margin potential as workspace volume scales.

Gross Margin on Seat Revenue
85–90%
Infra cost ~$0.10–$0.25/user/mo vs. $2.00 billed price. AWS Fargate + RDS shared tenancy.
AI Generation Margin (Overage)
98.5%
AWS Bedrock cost ~$0.0003/request. We charge $0.02 — 67× markup on AI usage overage.
Seat Pricing
$2 / seat / mo
Annual billing. First seat free. Monthly option at $3/seat. No hidden add-ons.
Revenue Streams
① Seat subscriptions (recurring) ② AI test generation (usage-based) ③ Storage overage at $0.05/GB
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Target Unit Economics Model (Modeled Projections)
Annual ACV: $600/yr for a 25-person agency at $2/seat. Modeled 3-year LTV: $1,800. Target CAC: $150–$300 based on outbound PLG benchmarks. Modeled LTV:CAC Target → 6–12×.
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Competitive Landscape

Unified Platform Beats
Fragmented Best-of-Breed Tooling.

Software agencies choose Klority because connecting project management, QA, timesheets, and invoicing in one tool eliminates profit leakage.

Capability Klority · $2/user Jira Stack · $60+/user Linear · $8/user Plane · Free/OSS ClickUp · $7/user
Agile Project Mgmt ✓ Full ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
AI QA Test Management ✓ Native AI +$38/user (TestRail) ✗ ✗ ✗
Wiki / Knowledge Base ✓ Included +$7.15/user (Confluence) ✗ ✓ Basic
Financial Ops & Invoicing ✓ Native ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
CRM / Client Tracking ✓ Built-in ✗ ✗ ✗ Basic
GitHub / GitLab Integration ✓ Included ✓ Paid add-on ✓ ✓ ✓
Price / user / month $2 $60+ $8 $0 / self-hosted $7
⚡ Linear validated market demand for fast Jira alternatives. Klority expands the category by unifying QA and Financial Ops for budget-conscious SMEs & agencies.
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Platform Readiness

Built First. Raising to Grow.

Most seed companies raise money to build an MVP. Klority raises with a fully-deployed production platform already live — seed capital is growth-weighted to accelerate GTM and expand the roadmap.

Production Readiness & Beta Validation
21
Beta Workspaces
(organic pilot accounts)
100%
Payment Engine Live
(Paddle webhook verified)
$0
Ad spend to date
(100% organic build)
⚡ Conversion Bridge: Converting initial 21 beta workspaces via high-touch feedback loops while running outbound discovery with 15+ active agency partner leads toward the $30K–$50K MRR milestone.
The Real Moat — Platform Completeness
✓5 modules live in production
✓Billing engine processing payments
✓AI QA generation on AWS Bedrock
✓SSO + MFA + RBAC enforced
✓Admin portal with revenue dashboard
✓Jira/Trello CSV importer live
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Full Production Infrastructure

ECS Fargate, RDS Postgres (+ read replica), Redis ElastiCache, ALB, Cloudflare R2, WAF, Route53 — deployed and battle-tested.

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Paddle Billing — Revenue Confirmed Live

Metered seat billing, pro-rata calculations, auto-invoicing operational. 1 paid seat validates end-to-end payment flow works.

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AI QA Running in Production

AWS Bedrock (Nova Lite / Claude Haiku) generating test suites live. The most defensible feature competitors can't quickly copy.

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Growth-Weighted Capital Allocation

Core platform is 100% built & live. Primary funding drives GTM customer acquisition while expanding key roadmap features.

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Target: $30–50K MRR Within 24 Months

Acquiring 100–150 agency customers at average 25–40 seats × $2/seat. Focused GTM on software agencies makes this highly achievable.

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Product Roadmap

Foundation Is Done.
Growth Features Are Next.

Seed funding accelerates the roadmap from complete core platform to enterprise-scale growth engine.

✓ Completed & Live
✓

Agile PM — Scrum/Kanban/Sprints Live

Velocity charts, CFD, burndown, backlog drag-drop, epics, sub-tasks, story points.

✓

AI QA Test Management Live

AWS Bedrock generation, test modules, cycles, runs, defect auto-linking, public reports.

✓

Financial Ops & Invoicing Live

Timesheets, T&M + fixed-fee project cost tracking, Paddle billing, auto-invoicing.

✓

Wiki & CRM Live

TipTap rich-text wiki with versioning, CRM deal pipeline, contact management.

→ Next — Seed-Funded Milestones
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GitHub Deep Integration Q4 2026

PR → task auto-link, smart status transitions on merge, commit tracking in sprint board.

→

Slack & Teams Bi-Directional Bot Q4 2026

Issue unfurling, sprint digests, 1-click card creation, and chat notifications.

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Agentic AI QA (v2) Q4 2026

AI agents that autonomously maintain regression suites and flag stale test cases on code changes.

Mobile App (iOS & Android) Q4 2026

Native mobile for sprint updates, timesheet logging, and defect reporting on-the-go.

Enterprise SAML SSO & Multi-Org Q1 2027

Full SAML 2.0 (Okta, Active Directory), multi-organisation hierarchy, and custom SLA tiers.

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Go-To-Market

Product-Led Growth at the Base.
Enterprise Sales on Top.

The same motion that drove Linear, Notion, and Figma to hyper-growth — with a financial ops upsell that creates deeper enterprise lock-in.

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Phase 1 · PLG — Free Seat Hook

First user is 100% free. No credit card. 10-minute setup. Developers discover Klority, share with their team → organic viral loops drive seat expansion.

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Phase 2 · Outbound — Agency Targeting

Direct outbound to 5,000+ Indian software agencies. Jira migration pitch. The "Jira Free Myth Buster" campaign addresses the #1 objection head-on and converts in 1 call.

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Phase 3 · Partner Channel

Atlassian migration consultants and AWS partner network as referral channel. Target companies evaluating exits from Jira Data Center (2M+ seats migrating before 2029).

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Proven Organic Acquisition

4 live interactive developer tools (Agile Estimation, Retro Board, Risk Matrix, Capacity Calculator) driving real organic impressions in India at 9.8% CTR with $0 ad spend.

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B2B Direct — Proposal Page

Live at klority.com/proposal/ — a printable B2B executive brochure with live ROI calculator for procurement and budget approval cycles at mid-market companies.

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Expansion: APAC & UK Markets

India → Southeast Asia → ANZ → UK. Software agency density in each market creates predictable, replicable sales motion with locally relevant pricing context.

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Technology & Defensibility

Built for Speed, Scale, and Security
from Day One.

A modern, lean AWS-native stack that delivers enterprise-grade reliability at startup cost — with a data-gravity moat that compounds as customers grow.

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Modern Lean Stack

Frontend: React 19, Vite, Mantine UI, TipTap
API: Node.js, Fastify, Drizzle ORM, Zod validation
DB: Postgres RDS with read replica
Storage: Cloudflare R2 (workspace files)
Infra: AWS ECS Fargate, ALB, WAF, Route53

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Enterprise Security — No Upsell

Google SSO + SAML, TOTP MFA, granular RBAC, Redis rate limiting, AWS WAF, encrypted RDS, all secrets in SSM Parameter Store. Zero plaintext credentials. Included in every plan.

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Data Gravity Moat

Financials, timesheets, invoices, QA history, and sprint data all cross-linked within Klority. Once a 20-person team is billing through us, the switching cost is enormous — naturally high NRR.

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AI Infrastructure Advantage

Native AWS Bedrock integration = zero vendor lock-in on LLMs. Swap Nova Lite → Claude → Llama as costs drop. 98.5% AI margin today. Structural cost advantage as AI commoditises.

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The Team

Product & GTM Execution Team
Ready to Scale.

Combining full-stack technical execution with active outbound sales, marketing momentum, and an operational dev pod.

👨‍💻

Shanmuganathan

Founder, CEO & CTO

Vellsoft Solutions · Klority Platform

Core platform & AI architect. Coded the production stack end-to-end (Fastify, React 19, Postgres, Bedrock, Paddle) and manages the engineering support pod.

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Neharika

Founding Sales & Marketing Lead

Part-Time Today → Full-Time Post-Seed

Spearheading agency customer discovery, outbound sales calls, and social content. Validating messaging with early agency pilots and transitioning to full-time post-seed.

🛠️
Active Engineering Pod: 2 Junior Developers (production bug fixes, UI polish, customer support pod). Ensures fast support response and extreme capital efficiency.
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Use of Proceeds

Seed Capital Converts Directly
into Customers, Product & Margin.

Every dollar is deployed against a specific, measurable milestone — no burn-to-learn, no speculative R&D.

50%

Growth & Customer Acquisition

GTM Headcount: Transition Neharika full-time + hire 2x Outbound SDRs & 1x Digital Growth Marketer. Outbound sales campaigns & paid acquisition across India, SEA, ANZ & UK agencies.

30%

Engineering & Product Roadmap

Roadmap Delivery: Shanmuganathan + 2 junior engineers shipping GitHub deep sync, Agentic AI QA v2, mobile apps (iOS/Android), and Enterprise SAML 2.0 SSO.

20%

Infrastructure & Runway Buffer

Scale & Runway: AWS Fargate auto-scaling, Multi-AZ RDS, Redis failover, Bedrock LLM overage buffer, and 24-month operational runway reserve.

Target Milestone at End of Seed
$30K–50K MRR
Runway Target
24 months
Series A Threshold
$1–1.5M ARR
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The Opportunity

Join Us in Building
the Engineering OS
for the Next Million Teams.

Seed Round · 2026
$750K
Post-Money SAFE · 24-Month Operational Runway · Target $30K–$50K MRR
👥 Shanmuganathan & Neharika (Founding Team) 🌐 klority.com 📧 support@klority.com 🏢 Vellsoft Solutions · Klority Platform
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