Frictionless Intelligence · Get funded

The story that gets you funded in just 60 days.

You just need to know who to pitch, and how to pitch them. Frictionless Intelligence builds the perfect story that gets you there.

6 investor classes are open to you today.

The Frictionless Score doesn’t decide if you can raise. It decides which investors fit now, and every point unlocks more types, lifts your close rate, and shortens the raise.

smaller checks · lighter terms · keep more of your company

bigger checks · more proof asked · more ownership given up

Family offices

Grants

Pitch comps

Accelerators

Angels · Synd.

Corporate VC

Inst. VC

Grants

Inst. VC

Family offices

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The problem

You understand your product. Investors need to understand your business.

Founders spend years mastering the thing they built. Almost none spend that time learning to explain the business it powers: the financials, the traction, the outcome a customer actually pays for. That gap is why good companies stall.

95%

of startups never see a dollar of funding. Most didn’t fail. They never learned how to sell.

Sell the business.

Not the product.

Sell the business.

Not the product.

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Your story

The story was already in your company. We just help you tell it.

Market

69/100

Story: Every accounting firm still reconciles books by hand, inside a $6B+ market. We can reach $1.2B of it today, starting with the 90K firms already looking for exactly this, worth $54M in the next two years alone.

TAM

$6B+

Back-office software spend

SAM

$1.2B

SMB reconciliation automation

SOM

$54M

90K reachable firms

Product

70/100

Story: Lumen has reconciled real client books since 2024, catching errors before a CPA ever sees them, at 99.2% match accuracy, the only tool in the category that closes the loop end to end.

Live since

2024

Shipping in production

Accuracy

99.2%

Auto-matched transactions

Traction

82/100

Story: 40 firms and their 1,200 clients are already live, and we've never hired a salesperson: 62% of new firms arrive because another firm told them to.

Firms

Active

Clients

1,200

End users

Referral rate

62%

New firms via referral

Sales team

Fully self-serve

Team

58/100

Story: Three co-founders built this on 22 combined years inside fintech and accounting, real operators, not first-time tourists, though you wouldn't know it: the deck still has no team slide.

Combined experience

22 yrs

Across fintech & accounting

Business & financials

38/100

Story: We're asking for $1.2M, and that number is the only one in this chapter: no revenue modeled, no burn shown, which makes this the page investors reread hardest before they reply.

The ask

$1.2M

SAFE, stated plainly

Revenue modeled

Not yet built

Go-to-market

68/100

Story: 1,200 firms found us on their own, product-led, no sales team, no paid ads. The channel works. The only thing missing is a price tag on the tier that would convert them.

Self-serve users

1,200

No sales team

Paid tier

None

Still unpriced

Channel

PLG

Free-to-paid undefined

Fundraising

84/100

Story: A $1.2M ask with a complete arc behind it, problem, proof, and why now, is the reason this reads like a company that happens to be raising, not a pitch looking for one.

Ask

$1.2M

On a SAFE

Narrative arc

Complete

Problem to proof to ask

Foundational

85/100

Story: Incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp with SOC 2 already in progress, ahead of most Seed-stage peers, though the cap table sitting unfilled is the one box left to check.

Entity

C-Corp

Delaware, formed 2023

Compliance

SOC 2

In progress

Cap table

Missing

Not yet uploaded

Upload your deck and your site. Frictionless Intelligence finds what’s actually fundable about your business, across 8 chapters from market to team to financials, and scores it the way an investor would.

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Closing the gaps

Every gap becomes a move. Ask Frictionless does the rest.

Ask Frictionless

Your financials chapter is the biggest lift right now. Add burn and runway and your score moves 3 points, straight into family office range.

My Next Moves is where you see every move you need to make to strengthen your story, ranked by impact. AI drafts the work, or a Frictionless Studio expert works through it with you, and nothing counts until you approve it. Click any move below to see how Ask Frictionless helps with it.

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Get funded

Know who to pitch. Know how to pitch them.

Add a name and a LinkedIn, or search our investor database directly. Frictionless Intelligence builds the full profile of what moves them, ranks how well they fit your thesis, and writes the pitch built for exactly that person.

Find investors

Stage: Pre-Seed

Check size: $50K+

Sector: Fintech

Riverside Angels

92% match

Angel · $50K-$150K · Fintech, B2B SaaS

Overview

Fit

Outreach

Interact

Docs

Meeting

Close

Devon Marsh

Angel investor · Fintech focus · $50K-$100K

50% fit

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Get revenue

Know who needs you. Know how to reach them.

The same intelligence, aimed at your next customer. Search for the accounts that fit, or add your own, and get the profile and the pitch built around the outcome they actually need.

Find clients

Firm size: 5-30

Need: reconciliation

Region: US

Sunrise Bookkeeping Group

89% match

12-person firm · Needs reconciliation automation

Overview

Fit

Outreach

Interact

Docs

Meeting

Close

Meridian Bookkeeping

SMB · $2K-$5K MRR

72% fit

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Studio

Meet the experts who already know your company.

Every Frictionless Expert lives in Frictionless Studio, and steps in already knowing your business. No discovery call, no re-explaining the basics. They pick up exactly where your gaps are, assign the moves that close them, and track whether you actually did the work.

Jordan Ellis

Fundraising & financial modeling · Ex-Stripe finance

Active

What Jordan brings to Lumen Ledger right now: Your financials chapter is scored 38, the lowest in your story, and it's the page investors reread before replying. Jordan has closed 20+ seed rounds and can build your use-of-funds model and pricing story in one working session.