Investors · Service-as-Software

Go-to-market, run on autopilot. At software margins.

Markster operates the entire revenue function for owner-led service firms as a single managed system. Copilots sell tools. We sell the work. This is the category investors call Service-as-Software, built for the verticals that are losing their labor first.

Confidential · for prospective investors
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The thesis
The next wave of software companies will sell outcomes, not seats.

Selling tools caps you at what a buyer will operate. Selling the finished work uncaps the category: you are no longer priced against a SaaS license, you are priced against the team the buyer can no longer hire. Markster runs outbound, content, and CRM as one operated system, so a service firm gets a whole revenue department as a monthly subscription. We capture labor budget at software economics.

Why now
The hire is gone. The work didn't go anywhere.

Every target vertical is losing its labor pipeline faster than it can replace it, while owners refuse to add tools they have to operate themselves. The work still has to get done, so someone has to run it for them. The operated-system model is built to fill exactly that gap, and the gap is opening now across the firms we serve.

The structural signals, by the numbers
Accounting professionals (left workforce)300K+
IT / MSP reporting workforce shortage52%
SMBs actively cutting software vendors82%
SMB owners who say AI won't affect them67%
Figures sourced from the market thesis (US Census SUSB, Sequoia, public SMB software surveys). The cognitive gap on the bottom row is the moat: the buyer is shopping for pipeline, not AI.
What Markster is

An operated revenue system, not an agency and not software.

One system replaces the team, the tools, and the management layer a growing firm would otherwise assemble. The client approves in minutes a week and never logs in.

The methodology

A trademarked operating method baselines each client across a fixed set of dimensions on day one, then re-scores every month. It is the rigor layer that makes delivery repeatable instead of bespoke.

The operated loop

Research, outbound, content, and CRM run as one always-on loop. The work is produced in the client's voice and queued for a single weekly approval. Nothing ships without sign-off.

The economics

Delivery is increasingly automated under the hood, so a single operating team carries many clients. That is what converts a services workload into software-shaped margins as we scale.

Traction

The numbers behind the system.

Every figure in this row is a slot to be filled from the data room. Nothing here is a confirmed number until Ivan signs off.

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Revenue per employee
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Accounting / CPA
70 → 33 hrs
Owner's week cut roughly in half while revenue grew, with the full system operated for him. Live in 73 days. (Public, approved proof.)
“Everything is automatic now. Cut my hours in half, doubled my revenue.”Robert · A1 Accounting
Home services / HVAC
50 → 110 appts
Booked appointments per month more than doubled with the same crew, roughly $72K in hiring costs avoided. Live in 66 days. (Public, approved proof.)
“Markster does what 3 salespeople used to do. Same crew, double the work coming in.”David · Comfort Air

Anchor-client outcomes (Kontext Group) are shared 1:1 in the data room, not on this page.

Team

Operators building the system they wished they'd had.

Ivan Ivanka
Founder & CEO
[PLACEHOLDER - confirm bio with Ivan.] Leads positioning, the operating method, and every client close.
Attila
Delivery & infrastructure
[PLACEHOLDER - confirm name, title, and bio with Ivan.] Owns provisioning, deliverability, and the delivery stack behind every operated system.
Advisory & team
Open slot
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The ask

The round, the terms, and use of funds live in the data room.

Sensitive financials are kept behind a request, not printed on an open page. Request access and we'll walk you through the raise structure, the model, and where the capital goes.

Gated
Round & terms
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Use of funds
[PLACEHOLDER - confirm the allocation with Ivan.] Typically delivery automation, vertical expansion, and the operating team.
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The model
[PLACEHOLDER - confirm runway, burn, and projections with Ivan.] Full financial model shared on request.
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Software margins, on a services category nobody else can reach.

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