Investors

AI is turning labor into software.

The recurring work businesses used to hire for, or buy tools to attempt, is becoming software. Revenue Engine is AI that runs sales and marketing work while the customer sets direction, configures the rules, approves what goes live, and steers the system.

Backed by 500 Global

The thesis is here. Traction, financials, and round terms come in the conversation.

For prospective investors
What you need to believe

Five things have to be true.

01
Service firms need recurring revenue work to run every week: research, lists, outreach, content, CRM follow-up, and reporting.
02
Most service businesses cannot staff that work well, so it stays dependent on the one person holding it together.
03
SaaS sold them access to tools, not execution of the work, and left the operating burden on the owner.
04
AI can now carry far more of that work, but only when it is wrapped in context, approvals, QA, and evidence.
05
Revenue is the right first wedge, because the pain is visible and the budget already exists.
Why now

The shift is documented, not hoped for.

Four independent signals point the same way: the budget and buyer behavior are already here, but the execution layer between an AI demo and finished work is still missing.

"Services are the new software."
The category shift is from selling access to software toward selling finished work produced by software.
15.3% of budget goes to AI. Only 30% can scale it.
The money is already committed. The missing layer is AI configured around a real business and connected to the workflows where work must finish.
69% of B2B buyers validate AI with a human.
Buyers want AI they can validate and steer, not black-box automation they are expected to trust blindly.
Agencies are failing marketers' AI needs.
The incumbent service model has not turned AI into a customer-controlled execution product, which leaves the wedge open.
The product

AI that runs recurring revenue work.

Markster builds Revenue Engine. It turns a customer's goals, market, voice, rules, and approvals into recurring workflows across research, outreach, content, CRM, follow-up, and reporting. The customer can see what it is doing, approve what goes live, and steer it as priorities change. ScaleOS baselines each business and re‑scores it every month, so the product is configured around evidence instead of guesswork.

For twenty years, growing meant assembling parts: a salesperson, an agency, a CRM, a content contractor, another outbound tool, and hoping someone inside the company had time to make it all work. Revenue Engine is one AI system that does the recurring work across those parts. Markster sells the product that does the work, not a team of people or access to another empty dashboard.

The Revenue Engine is the work it runs, end to end

01

Direction, offer, and market research

02

Lists and contact data

03

Sending infrastructure and deliverability

04

Outbound and reply handling

05

Website and conversion assets

06

CRM and pipeline operations

07

Content, SEO, AI visibility, and creative

08

Reporting and control

The category

Tools sell access. Revenue Engine runs the work.

The customer sets the direction, configures the rules, and approves what goes live. The AI handles the recurring execution and can be steered as the business changes. The work is the product, not a dashboard nobody has time to run.

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How it runs

AI-run work is credible because of the loop, not the model.

Customer context becomes recurring workflows. Revenue Engine runs the approved work, records what happened, exposes the evidence, and improves from the next round of direction.

source

Source map

What the business is, who it serves, how it speaks, and what it can prove.

workflow

Workflow map

The recurring jobs the Revenue Engine runs each week.

approval

Approval map

What the owner approves, and how changes escalate.

evidence

Evidence map

What was researched, sent, published, followed up, and measured.

review

Review map

Weekly reporting and monthly reassessment feed the next cycle.

Why revenue first

The buyer feels this pain without a category lecture.

These are not abstract AI-governance problems. They are ordinary business problems. Run that loop repeatedly, and the product earns the right to run more workflows.

The list is thin.
The message is generic.
The CRM is stale.
Follow-up depends on memory.
Content happens in bursts.
Reports do not explain what changed.
Nobody owns the whole loop.
Revenue stays dependent on one person.
How to compare it

What each model leaves unsolved.

Each of these is genuinely useful. The difference is what the customer is still left to run.

ModelWhat the customer buysWhat remains unsolved
AgencyExpertise and campaign laborThe work often sits outside the customer's operating rhythm.
SaaSAccess to softwareSomeone inside the company still has to run it.
AI toolNew capabilityThe customer still needs context, QA, approvals, and workflow design.
Fractional hireTime and experienceCapacity is still tied to people.
Revenue EngineAI that runs recurring revenue workflowsThe product must prove repeatability, margin, and focus.
What could make this wrong

The serious objections, and the shape of our answers.

The full answers come in the conversation, with customer evidence and operating data. But you should know we have already stress-tested each one.

DIYGeneral AI tools may get easy enough that owners assemble this themselves.Prompts make isolated tasks cheap. Revenue Engine productizes the harder layer: persistent context, connected workflows, approvals, evidence, and recovery when something breaks.
VerticalVertical software companies may absorb parts of the workflow.They can absorb tasks. Revenue Engine connects work across the stack and can use vertical tools as components rather than compete with them.
HorizontalHorizontal platforms may commoditize simple automation.We expect it, and it helps: cheaper automation lowers infrastructure cost while value stays in the configured context, workflow, approval, QA, and evidence loop.
Services dragConfiguration and support may stay too heavy to reach software economics.This is the central diligence question, and the one ScaleOS exists to answer. Configuration and support hours per account are the numbers to underwrite.
ApprovalApproval steps may slow the felt sense of progress.Approval is a control surface, not a tax. Revenue Engine separates repeatable work from the decisions the customer chooses to keep, so review takes minutes rather than becoming another job.
FocusThe wedge may require sharper vertical focus than a broad message suggests.Agreed, and the operating data tells us where: workflow recipes reveal which verticals repeat fastest.

What compounds if we are right: workflow recipes, client source and voice maps, approval and QA history, execution evidence, integration knowledge, and operating memory across similar businesses. These are the assets that make Revenue Engine a more capable and defensible product.

Proof

The thesis, already true for one business.

A one-person agency uses the system Markster has productized as Revenue Engine for recurring revenue work, and its results are a matter of public record. Across the period the system has run, net revenue has grown roughly 17× (about 6.2× in the first year, then tripling again the next), while the company’s headcount stayed at one.

Year 1 baseline
Year 2 6.2×net revenue
Year 3 ≈17×net revenue, cumulative

Net-revenue growth vs the Year 1 baseline, verified against public company filings.

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The company still runs on a headcount of one. Net revenue grew roughly 17× without adding a single hire — the point of software carrying the recurring work instead of staffing it.

“Markster does market research and proposals while I sleep. My team didn’t grow, my system did.”

Founder & CEO of the business in this exhibit

One business is not a pattern; it is the existence proof for the thesis on this page. The numbers to underwrite are configuration and support hours per unit of revenue, and in the first year the system ran, they bent the right way. The rest of the product data comes in the conversation.

The team

Two founders who know the work and built the machine.

Ivan Ivanka
Founder & CEO
Fifteen years running growth at every scale, from the shop floor to Chief Growth Officer of Helmes, a 1,500-person European software firm. He worked at Deutsche Telekom, counted Vodafone among his clients, and built and exited four agencies before Markster. The failure mode was identical at every scale: the business stalls when sales, marketing, and follow-up still run through one person. He built ScaleOS and Markster to remove that bottleneck.
Attila Sukosd
Co-Founder & CTO
Ex-Airtame, shipping hardware and software into Tesla and Netflix. He builds the product architecture, sending infrastructure, deliverability, CRM workflows, and agent orchestration that turn customer direction into finished work queued for approval. It is what lets Revenue Engine support many businesses without tying capacity to headcount.

Lean and AI-native. The founders build the product directly, with no layers between customer evidence and the roadmap. Backed by 500 Global.

The ask

If this is the thesis you want to underwrite, talk to the founders.

Markster starts with Revenue Engine because the buyer pain is concrete. The larger question is whether AI-run workflows become the next form of business software for service companies. We are speaking with a small number of investors about that thesis. If it is one you would want to underwrite, the conversation takes thirty minutes.