BUSINESS PLAN · V1.0 · JULY 2026

The business, end to end — one document

What Gigabite sells, to whom, at what price, with what economics, gated by what proof. The umbrella over the marketing, sales, operations, and financial plans.

SECTION 01EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

One screen, the whole business

WHAT

An AI-first procurement ledger

Private-label foodservice sourcing run on evidence-backed truth: demand intake → attribute-level equivalency → landed-cost quote → order → payment, all on an append-only ledger.

WHO PAYS

Buyers, on results

Distributors and multi-unit operators pay a take rate on sourced GMV — aligned with provable savings — plus fintech and software lines as they mature.

THE PLAN

$100M ARR in five years

$2M → $8M → $22M → $48M → $100M, gated at every stage. Seed of $6M funds Y1–Y2 to the trust and leverage gates.

SECTION 02CUSTOMER DEFINITION

The anchor buyer, precisely

The wedge is not "foodservice" — it is a specific buyer with a specific pain, where the savings report lands hardest.

ICP ATTRIBUTETARGET PROFILEWHY IT MATTERS
Annual disposables purchasing$5M–$100MLarge enough for real savings, small enough to move fast
Private-label share of purchases≥20%Equivalency and landed cost are live problems, not theory
Active disposable SKUs300+Enough surface for the extraction & matching machine
Sourcing tooling todayEmail · XLSX · brokerNo incumbent system of record to rip out
Decision makerVP Supply Chain / OwnerOne or two people can say yes to a pilot
7–10%
typical strategic-sourcing savings (industry benchmarks); more on tariff-exposed SKUs
$2.3M
avg GMV per buyer at maturity
~$110K
revenue per buyer per year at Y3 pricing
SECTION 03VALUE PROPOSITION

Three promises, all backed by the ledger

V1

Provable savings

Landed-cost quotes with itemized components and evidence links — savings the buyer's CFO can audit, not a vendor's claim.

V2

Defensible substitution

Attribute-level equivalency with explanations. "Is this the same cup?" answered with data, not thumbnails.

V3

Working capital, priced right

Net terms underwritten from actual payment behavior on the platform — better terms than a bank guessing from a bureau score.

SECTION 04REVENUE ARCHITECTURE

Three lines, sequenced deliberately

LINEMECHANICLAUNCHY5 TARGET
TransactionTake rate on sourced GMV, compressing 4.4% → 3.5% by designY1$70M
Embedded financeNet terms, ~1.5% blended fee per cycle on financed volume (0% → 60% of GMV)Y3$18M
Software & dataLedger seats for buyer ops teams; supplier intelligence; category benchmarksY2 pilots$12M
LEDGER SEATS

$6K / seat / yr

Self-serve (Y2) means buyers staff their own review queues — the seat is the queue, so attach follows platform adoption. ~1.5 paid seats per active buyer at maturity → ~$9M by Y5.

INTELLIGENCE & BENCHMARKS

$20–50K / yr

Category benchmarks and supplier intelligence sold as subscriptions once gold tables are deep enough to price — ~$3M by Y5.

RECONCILES

= $12M · Y5

~$1M in Y2 as self-serve launches. The line grows with buyer count and data depth — no separate sales motion.

SECTION 05THE PRICING SPINE

One price, firmed up in three stages

A Gigabite price is never re-guessed. The same figure hardens from a held estimate into a settled fact — like a renovation quote — and every step downstream reads it instead of recalculating. That mechanic is what makes the revenue lines above defensible: the cost is passed through honestly, and our margin sits on the receipt, in the open.

STAGE 1 · LIVE QUOTATION

Held, not promised

The quoted price is held 14 days; factory time is reserved against it.

$53.25 · ±6% est
STAGE 2 · ORDER FINALIZATION

Locked at commit

Order placed; the price is re-checked against the market at that moment, then locked.

$53.25 · ±1.5%
STAGE 3 · DELIVERY SETTLEMENT

Trued to actuals

Goods arrive; estimate and actual are reconciled line by line; savings are rebated.

$52.90 ▾ rebate $0.35
ILLUSTRATIVE · PER CASE · DDP (DELIVERED DUTY PAID)
FOB — factory price40.00
+ Global freight6.00
+ Tariff & customs4.00
= Landed cost50.00
+ Financing0.75
+ Performance guarantee0.50
+ Service fee2.00
= TOTAL DDP$53.25
Cost — passed through at cost (FOB · freight · tariff) Gigabite's model — financing, performance guarantee, service fee
SECTION 06ASSUMPTIONS REGISTER

What this plan quietly assumes

Every plan has load-bearing assumptions. These are ours, written down so the gates can test them instead of everyone discovering them later.

#ASSUMPTIONTESTED AT
A1Buyers will trust AI-proposed matches when every field links to evidenceG1 · Y1
A2Avg buyer sustains $2.0–2.4M GMV/yr through the ledgerG1–G2
A3Savings report → pilot converts ≥40%; pilot → paid ≥70%G2 · Y2
A4Auto-approval reaches 60% without quality-gate breachesG2 · Y2
A5Contribution margin ~60% holds as review labor shifts to agentsG3 · Y3
A6Ledger payment history underwrites credit at losses below bank benchmarksG3 · Y3
A7A new product family onboards in <30 days by Y4G4 · Y4
A8Recognized revenue tracks ~½ of (entry + exit) ARR each year; the burn plan absorbs the ARR-to-revenue lagFinancial plan
A9Logo retention ≥90% (→95% by Y5); NRR ≥110% from Y3 via category and terms attachG2–G3
A10New buyers ramp to steady-state GMV within ~2 quarters of landingG1–G2