Website text export · 6 September 2026 Cleopas : Business + Capital Timeline Business + Capital Timeline One capitalisation. Fast learning. The plan deliberately front-loads people, research and paid user testing so Cleopas reaches the market quickly without making a second fundraising round part of the technical architecture. A$15M recommended. Roughly A$9.05M is currently allocated across the first 24 months. The balance remains protected runway and acceleration capital. Why this capital structure The money makes the product stronger. The first 50 questions are expensive because we want them attacked properly. The first 1,000 beta participants are expensive because we want hours of use and detailed feedback, not vanity registrations. More engineers and researchers early buy speed. The remaining reserve buys independence if revenue, research or infrastructure takes longer than expected. NOW · AUGUST 2026 Method + research proof Burial pilot externally stress-tested. Claim decomposition, source dependence, evidence-family separation and maximum defensible language now form the current architecture. People Founder-led work, current engineer, external reviewers Capital Existing capital / founder-funded Gate Ready to encode the reviewed method into a real product. 0 to 3 months Build + private alpha 4 to 6 engineers begin the governed product while the internal research team starts the first 10 Gold Questions and prepares the wider 50-question programme. Private alpha begins in weeks 6 to 12. People Engineering 4-6; research ops 4-6; external specialists; 25-100 alpha users Capital Front-loaded engineering, research setup, compute, legal and first scholar reviews Gate Can the live system answer unscripted questions without outrunning evidence? 3 to 6 months Closed beta + research factory Staged paid cohorts begin. Research and engineering operate in parallel. Questions 11 to 20 introduce harder counterarguments. The system starts assisting claim decomposition and research preparation. People Hundreds of users; research and engineering teams both active Capital Paid users, specialist review, tooling, evaluation and product iteration Gate Does deep paid use expose repeatable failure modes and real question demand? 6 to 12 months Expanded beta + first 50 governed questions Build toward approximately 1,000 intensive paid participants and 50 deeply governed user-facing questions. User conversation data begins changing research priorities. People Up to ~1,000 intensive testers over staged cohorts; broader scholar network Capital Major beta spend, 50-question peer review, continued engineering and research Gate Are research hours per governed topic falling while integrity holds? 12 to 24 months Demand-led Evidence Landscape Topic ordering becomes increasingly user-led. System-assisted research improves. External experts focus on contested frontier judgments. Revenue and supporter economics are tested without making survival depend on them. People Growing research network, engineering scale, selected partners and broader beta/public cohorts Capital Product scale, research expansion, sovereignty pathway, controlled distribution Gate Do users, researchers and the system form a repeatable learning flywheel? 24+ months North Star A living human-governed Evidence Landscape where real user questions reveal what should be researched next, AI accelerates the work, and humans retain authority over governed knowledge. People Research organisation potentially as strategically important as engineering Capital Deploy reserve only against proven learning and growth Gate Can Cleopas expand breadth without integrity degrading? Capital discipline Raise once does not mean spend once. The recommended A$15M commitment should be governed through annual budgets, board controls and milestone gates. Unused capital remains runway. If the product learns faster than expected, the reserve accelerates sovereignty, research breadth and distribution. If it learns slower, the same reserve prevents a forced second raise at exactly the wrong time. Downloads Word documentPlain textCLEOPAS.AI · Business + Capital Timeline