Analyst-grade methodology, terminal-grade visuals, powered by a specialized AI agent
> across 3 asset classes, 60 markets, backed by global macro data.

Product app.vinley.ai / Website www.vinley.ai

1. Investors' triple pain

Productivity Bottleneck


  • Traditional analysis workflow takes up to 4 hours from ticker, interpretation, valuation, thesis + risks, manually cross-referencing PDFs, portals, and spreadsheets
  • LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok are faster to generate an answer, but just as slow once you factor in manually verifying it against real filings, uncurated data & lack of charts/visual data

Paying Several Times for the Same Thing

  • Over €1K/year for retail investors spread across separate tools for data, screening, news, and filings
  • Paywalls + overlapping features = paying twice for the same thing — budget wasted, not invested.

Data without interpretation,

interpretation without grounding

  • Traditional platforms like Morningstar, Tikr, Yahoo Finance, Finviz have dense data and charts, but lack guidance & interpretation on what any of it means for a decision. Interpretation is left entirely to the investor.
  • LLMs are fluent, provide confident-sounding explanations that can mask hallucinated figures or inconsistent reasoning between runs. The output looks explainable even when it isn't grounded.
  • Users do not know how to prompt & do not have the right financial education to ask the right questions

Next investment based on intuition & lack of learning from past decisions (own & other users)

  • The end-game of Vinley is to become a superhuman companion incorporating Maddison 'policy net' & Guez 'value net' used both in DeepMind's AlphaGo to suggest next best investment (policy) & assess the odds of making money (value)
  • we want to leverage all the signals and transaction from our users by connecting their accounts to their brokers and see effectively what they transact p=f(n2)


2. Vinley - Where we position us ?

  • We're not just selling a product to someone else — as value investors ourselves, we're building the tool we've always wished existed for our own investment process.
  • We position Vinley not just as another financial analysis/information application.
  • We're pursuing a positioning similar to Canva and Gamma versus their competition by combining best of both worlds, on one-hand the traditional visual elements, on the other side leveraging AI.


2. Vinley is live & already in users' hands

Fully functional web application with users, research workflows and
3 subscription tier (Basic, Plus, Academic) offering

Speed

From 6 to hours to 20 seconds, instant investment insights, no more tab-hopping or manual digging.

Depth

3 asset classes + 60 Markets+ Intangibles + Forensic Accounting flags + Macroeconomics

Deep coverage across global stocks, ETFs, crypto, Brand intelligence, macro indicators, all in one place.

Clarity

Clear, easily textual & visual interpretable and multilingual insights built on quality data

2. Vinley screenshots

2. Vinley screenshots

2. Vinley's Domain-Specialized AI Agent

  • Valuation & investing frameworks. Damodaran's lifecycle methodologies, classic value-investing texts (Graham, Klarman, Greenblatt, Lynch), own 250 pages of knowledge with moat and ROIC analysis, 140 API call/MCP server/4 child AI agents
  • Forensic accounting & fraud detection. Beneish and Altman scoring models, Benford's Law, earnings-manipulation detection, validated against real cases (Enron)
  • Audit standards & academic research. Core ISA standards, audit quality/independence research, AI's role in auditing, regulatory audit manuals
  • Global accounting standards. IFRS, US GAAP, and local standards (India, China) with cross-jurisdiction comparisons
  • Regulatory filings. Full SEC filing library (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, insider forms) with practical interpretation guides
  • Macro, portfolio strategy & corporate performance. Sovereign risk and all-weather portfolio construction, competitive strategy frameworks, organizational performance research
  • Applied case studies. Berkshire Hathaway, Bridgewater, and Enron used to ground theory in real-world outcomes

Vinley is grounded in an institutional-grade corpus — spanning valuation, forensic accounting, audit, global accounting standards, and regulatory filings before it searches the web as fallback.

Pretraining data of frontier models is excluded

2. Vinley main features - July 2026

3. Traction

Building on early momentum, we're poised for accelerated growth and feature expansion

Live today

  • Core product already in market with Web app launched and live since March 2026
  • 3 plans available : Basic (free), Plus & Academic plans available with Plus subscription priced at $14.99/month, Academic at $6.99/month
  • Current core financial metrics after 4 months, approx. 400 users, $5k ARR, ARPU $14.40, LTV $104, CAC $370, LTV/CAC 0.28, Paid users share 10%
  • Academic pipeline of 200-2.000+ users, trend of 1-3 sign-ups per day

Within 12 months

  • Reach 2,700 users with improved free-to-paid conversion from 10% to 20% and LTV/CAC → 1
  • add the "Pro" version, upgrade "Basic" and "Plus" version with credit systems instead of functionality restrictions
  • Continue to strengthen retention and product engagement by directly talking to our users and not just sending surveys
  • Expand product depth & breadth to increase perceived value AND habit-forming product

This round is designed to turn a live product with early monetization into a stronger, more defensible company ready for the next raise.

4. Market Size

$75T

U.S Households Financial assets (US FED)

%40+

Self Directed investors (IIROC)

100M+

Active investor (ESMA)

160M

Demat accounts (SEBI)

(TAM)

$15B+

The entire market opportunity for investment research and analytics tools globally

(SAM)

$4B to 6B

The segment of TAM accessible to Vinley's current product offerings

Market (SOM)

$38M

Realistic 3–5-year goal through direct and partner-driven acquisition ($155/year x 250.000 Users)

A vast and expanding market ripe for disruption.

5. Our main competitors - Large-language models

Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT and xAI Grok

Competition

  • LLMs require adequate user prompting skills & willingness to write agents/skills in markdown language
  • LLMs remain a probabilistic technology with risks of AI hallucination
  • Long latencies when asking for graphs & ineffective resources and credits usage & mostly chatbot-first modality for human-machine interface → analogy to air traffic control that will not be replaced by chatbots as brain processing speed of information is in average 7 times faster for visual vs text*
  • LLMs are moving to search engines and information aggregators using less pretrained information
  • Some LLMs rely on outdated results between 1 to 6 quarters for LLMs (Source: Vinley quarterly benchmark, December 2025)

*Source: Why AI alone is not the future of financial information systems, What neuroscience teaches us about human cognition and multimodal interfaces, Candi Carrera, May 2026

Our differentiation

  • Retail users cannot and do not want to prompt - they are lazy prompters → we include contextualised AI actions triggered by single click through the VInley user interface
  • Designed for users with primary focus on valuation & investment risk
  • Unique features like Forensic Accounting signals confirmed by our Tier 1 users
  • Hybrid human-machine interface → we believe in mixed modality like Canva & Gamma → confirmed by observing our users prompt & brain processing time of information across modalities
  • Visual interpretation (traffic lights) and repeatable analysis workflows (AI trained)
  • One-stop shop across stocks, ETFs, crypto & 60+ markets with intention to expand to bonds → we aggregate best possible databrokers
  • Trust, explainability and repeatable decision support


6. Go-to-market: focused & capital-efficient

Target audience: Active investors and finance native audience.

Phase 1:

Product-Led B2C Growth

Acquire → Convert → Retain


  • Acquisition Channels: Website SEO & GEO, LinkedIn, Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Online courses (9.5K student base)
  • Conversion : Free-to-paid conversion via product


Why our first choice of B2C ? Shorter sales cycle and presales effort, less buying personas involved, no need for integration & customisation while obviously more difficult to grasp, lower compliance requirements.


Phase 2:

Academic & small B2B, B2B2C growth

Partner → Distribute → Scale


  • Affiliate programme & Finfluencers
  • Small B2B institutions (asset managers, financial advisors) accessing Vinley Pro with whitelabeling capabilities and/or through MCP/API capabilities to integrate with their tools
  • Whitelabeling B2B2C
  • Universities (long-term user funnel for professionals) leveraging learnings from pilot projects in Mexico (200-2.000 users)

7. The core team



8. The ask > €500K to accelerate

We are raising > €500K, an acceleration round to build product depth, grow users and set the stage for a larger institutional raise.

Use of Funds

  • Fund team expansion for 12 months
  • Accelerate Vinley 1.3 to 2.0 roadmap delivery
  • Deepen university collaboration on ML for financial report analysis (Top 10 global AI university in UK - NDA signed, workshops ongoing)
  • Improve Discovery, Conversion, Retention (DCR) marketing funnel and retention metrics
  • Prepare for Series A

9. Use of funds - depth, breadth and team expansion

Depth of Vinley

  • increasing depth of technology stack by adding agentic & contextual memory capabilities, multilingual interface on top of already existing multilingual chat capabilities
  • Reducing by 20% AI agent latency through improved performance by reviewing latency (API vs MCP, Copilot vs Foundry)
  • Deeper Forensic Accounting analysis through NLP (Natural Language Processing) in collaboration with top AI university in UK
  • Starting to build specialised language model (SLM) with tabular foundation models (TFMs)

Breadth of Vinley

  • 4th asset class with bonds (corporate & sovereign)
  • adding full international financial reports and audit opinion/audit matters analysis (Step 6)
  • Portfolio performance
  • Gamification through talent & skills tree with XP & levels (pilot phase done on Discord & LinkedIn)
  • Adding Pro subscription with ESG, Sanctions & intangible assets to Vinley (3 databrokers already identified)
  • Uncapping revenue ceiling of Basic & Plus with credit system for all 3 tiers
  • Flywheel / network effects (every prompt shall make Vinley's AI agent better) through supervised learning

Team

  • hiring software backend developer
  • hiring of fractional Chief Revenue Officer for B2B (small advisory firms) & B2Edu (Academic)
  • hiring of 3-year PhD student from University of Edinburgh for AI/ML on deep forensics accounting NLP co-financed (76% to be confirmed) by Scottish government with publication & build up of credentials for Vinley → intention to retain as Chief Scientific Officer

Investing talent tree simplified concept in Gamification

This round is a focused acceleration : funding development sprint across 3 high-impact pillars


Vision & closing words

"My dream is that, 5 to 10 years from now, we'll have built THE reference financial tool for retail investors, serving 100+ countries and over 100,000 users, helping people achieve financial and intellectual freedom by keeping them out of risky, ill-informed investments while educating them.

We are seeking investors that want to pursue the same vision & mission with us."


- Candi Carrera - Co-founder & CEO



Thank you for your time.


Interested to discuss further ?




Product app.vinley.ai / Website www.vinley.ai


Appendix & FAQ



  • User testimonials
  • Why users pay: free-to-paid model
  • Cost of reproduction






User testimonials


Why users pay: free-to-paid model

We help investor save time and make better decisions with deeper , high quality research based on our own experience as value investors incorporating the methods of Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger, Peter Lynch & Joel Greenblatt currently.

BASIC

Onboarding Engine

Built to form habit and deliver core research value from day one

  • Core Research Access
  • Market data & Insights
  • Daily Investors tools

PLUS

$14.99/month

Unlock the full Research Stack serious investors rely on.

Includes everything in Basic + :

  • Undervaluation search
  • Intrinsic Valuation
  • Forensic Accounting Analysis
  • Top Brands
  • Top NPS & eNPS

3 IDEAS TO BE DEVELOPED

PRO, CREDITS, Vinley as a Service

  • Pro seats & Portfolio administrator view for Institutional investors
  • Credit systems to uncap revenue ceiling for Basic & Plus
  • White-labelling for Pro users
  • Consuming Vinley through MCP/API as a Service to reduce cost of customisation for B2B while leveraging our power


Cost of reproduction of Vinley

IP trademark

We want to help users globally. For that reason, we have already registered Vinley trademark in EU & UK.

India, US, Canada have been filed and expected for 2027 due to long WIPO process.

China is being analysed.


Cost of reproduction

We operate as frugal as possible and many colleagues have received sweat capital for their contribution to the company.

From January 2025 to June 2026, for a cash burn of approx 200kEUR, we have invested a total of 11.137,90 hours equivalent to 779kEUR at a modest hourly rate of 70 EUR/h.