€1M pre-seed. Marketing drives user growth through CAC; salaries and overhead are fixed; compute follows the user base. Drag to test scenarios.
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Free-tier generation cap bounds this — compute is a managed dial, not open-ended demand (brief §9).
Assumptions: loaded salary cost includes employer fees. New users/mo = marketing ÷ CAC. Compute is modeled on the average active base over the runway (linear ramp from zero, gross of churn), with generations/user blended across all acquired users. The 2.5 blended generations/user/month is an assumption, not a brief figure — the brief states per-tier caps (Free 5, Basic 25, Pro 60, Pro+ 130) and a staged acquisition schedule, but no blended rate; 2.5 is the value consistent with §12's compute allocation, and the slider is there so you can test others. Unit cost €0.051/generation = the brief's $0.054 (§5b: $0.039 Replicate + $0.014 Anthropic + $0.001 GCP) at its stated €1 ≈ $1.06, matching §12's "roughly €0.05 per generation."
Burn and runway are solved together, because compute depends on the runway it helps determine. The €55,000 buffer is reserved off the top and never spent: runway means months until the buffer is reached, not months to zero cash — matching §12's "reaching the seed gate with cash in hand, not at zero." Revenue (RevenueCat subscriptions) is not netted off, so this is a gross burn model and therefore conservative.