Mark Tilbury’s apps

Early Opportunity / AI Company Scout

Identify promising emerging AI companies and other early-stage investment opportunities.

Watches for companies getting interesting before they are obvious: hiring patterns, funding, shipping cadence, who is joining them. It reports what is happening and cites it, and stops short of telling anybody to buy.

What a v1 does5 features
  • Signals tracked across hiring, funding and product releases
  • A watchlist with alerts when something moves
  • Everything sourced and dated, nothing asserted
  • Sector views, so a trend is visible as well as a company
  • Published facts only - no recommendations

The market

Adjacent marketPortfolio tracking
$24 a monthcharged by Sharesight, used by investors in over 100 countries

No portfolio tracker publishes revenue or user numbers, so price is the only available evidence. Sharesight charges $24 and Snowball Analytics $299 for professional use. At $29 a month this sits just above Sharesight and far below Snowball's professional plan.

Where these numbers come from
CompanyEarnsReachSource
Sharesight$24/mo PremiumHundreds of thousands of investors, 100+ countriesPublished pricing
Snowball Analytics$12.50 per 10 portfolios · $299/mo proNot publishedPublished pricing
EmpowerWealth-management upsellNot publishedModel, not a disclosed figure

Why this audience

This audience wants to be early rather than right, which is a specific appetite the content feeds. They are watching for the signals - hiring, funding, shipping - without a system for it. Facts gathered and cited suits people who want evidence rather than tips.

Before it can launch

  • Naming a company as an opportunity is close enough to a recommendation that it either registers as an RIA or stays with published facts and disclaimers

What it earns

Drag me Every figure recalculates as you go.

Paying users1,000

0.005% of 20M followers · capped at 50,000

Price per month$29

Opens on the price this idea was costed at, $29.

1,000 paying — 0.005% of 20M followers — × $29 a month = $29,000 a month

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Fifty thousand paying users is the ceiling every one of these pages is drawn against, not a forecast. It opens at a thousand, the bottom of the range, so the first figures you see are the modest ones. What the cap buys is comparability: the same range on every app, and the percentage of the audience it takes as the number that moves.

Is this the one for your audience?

We fund it, build it, and run it. You bring the audience and take a share of the revenue. Nothing to pay and nothing to build.

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