<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p>My product is an AI-powered academic integrity and research platform for students, researchers, educators, and professionals.</p><p>The platform combines multiple academic workflows into one product, including AI detection, similarity analysis, AI humanization, paraphrasing, citation generation, research assistance, academic document analysis, and other AI-powered academic tools.</p><p>I started the platform after identifying strong demand for affordable and accessible academic integrity and AI-powered academic tools. Instead of building a single-purpose application, I developed an all-in-one platform that combines several academic workflows in one place.</p><p>The product launched publicly in May 2026 and has grown to 8,061+ registered users, with 335 identified unique paying customers and 490 successful payment transactions across Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments.</p><p>The business has generated approximately $2.8K in TTM revenue / revenue generated to date, with the majority of growth coming from organic acquisition and very limited paid advertising.</p><p>The platform is fully operational and includes a complete frontend, backend, AI processing infrastructure, authentication and database layer, payment integrations, and multiple academic AI workflows.</p><p>The business was built and operated with a very lean cost structure, creating significant room for a new owner to scale revenue without rebuilding the underlying technology.</p><p><b>Key highlights:</b></p><ul> <li>8,061+ registered users</li> </ul> <p>335 identified unique paying customers</p><p>- 490 successful transactions across Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments</p><p>- 61 unique paying customers in the latest 30-day period</p><p>- Approximately 29% of identified paying customers have purchased more than once</p><p>- Approximately $2.8K TTM revenue / revenue generated to date</p><p>- Publicly launched in May 2026</p><p>- Multiple payment gateways: Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments</p><p>- Customers across multiple Latin American markets, including Peru, Colombia, and Mexico</p><p>- 1,280+ TikTok followers</p><p>- 13,600+ TikTok likes</p><p>- Approximately $5 total spent on paid TikTok promotion</p><p>- AI detection</p><p>- Similarity analysis</p><p>- AI humanization</p><p>- AI paraphrasing</p><p>- Citation generation</p><p>- Research and academic analysis tools</p><p>- Academic document processing</p><p>- Self-hosted AI inference infrastructure</p><p>- Very low infrastructure and API costs</p><p>- Full-stack product with transferable source code, domain, brand, and infrastructure</p><p>- Churn: Not formally tracked because the business is primarily transaction-based rather than subscription-based</p><p>- LTV: Not yet systematically tracked due to the early stage and predominantly transactional model</p><p>- CAC: Not formally calculated; paid acquisition spend has been approximately $5 total, with growth primarily driven by organic channels</p><p>- Profit margin: The business operates with a very lean infrastructure cost base, with core infrastructure and API expenses remaining low relative to revenue</p><p><b>Team</b></p><p>Founder-operated business.</p><p>The startup is currently operated primarily by the founder, who is responsible for product development, technical management, AI integrations, payment integrations, platform operations, customer support, marketing, and overall business strategy.</p><p>The lean operating structure means a buyer can take over the existing business without inheriting a large team or payroll.</p><p>This also creates an opportunity for the buyer to scale the business by adding dedicated development, marketing, customer support, or growth resources.</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><p><b>Frontend</b></p><p>React 18 SPA with Vite 6, Tailwind CSS v4, Framer Motion and Lucide React. The frontend also uses react-pdf and xlsx for document preview and spreadsheet processing.</p><p><b>Cloud backend</b></p><p>Firebase Hosting, Cloud Firestore and Firebase Authentication. Firebase Cloud Functions run on Node.js 20 and handle server-side tasks and payment-related workflows.</p><p><b>AI backend</b></p><p>FastAPI + Uvicorn running Python-based AI services for detection and humanization workflows.</p><p><b>Machine Learning / NLP</b></p><p>PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Sentence-Transformers and Scikit-learn are used for AI detection, NLP processing and similarity-related functionality.</p><p><b>LLM integrations</b></p><p>Integrations with Groq API, OpenAI API and Google Generative AI (Gemini) for selected AI rewriting, analysis and humanization workflows.</p><p><b>Document processing</b></p><p>PyMuPDF, PyPDF2, python-docx, python-pptx and docx2pdf for processing uploaded academic documents.</p><p><b>Automation</b></p><p>Playwright for browser automation and workflow processing.</p><p><b>Infrastructure</b></p><p>AI inference infrastructure configured for Vast.ai and Modal Labs, including self-hosted GPU inference.</p><p><b>Payments</b></p><p>Flow Payments, Culqi and DodoPayments.</p><p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>Growth has been driven primarily through organic TikTok content, direct product discovery, and word of mouth, with very limited paid acquisition.</p><p>The branded TikTok presence currently has approximately 1,280 followers and 13,600+ likes.</p><p>Only approximately $5 total has been spent on paid TikTok promotion, while the majority of acquisition has been organic.</p><p>Despite the extremely limited paid acquisition budget, the platform has grown to 8,061+ registered users, 335 identified unique paying customers, and 490 successful transactions.</p><p>Approximately 29% of identified paying customers have purchased more than once, providing evidence of repeat transactional demand.</p><p>The platform also serves users across multiple Latin American markets, including Peru, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.</p><p>The main untapped growth opportunities include SEO, content marketing, paid search, TikTok scaling, affiliate programs, partnerships with educational communities, recurring subscriptions, credit plans, and further international expansion.</p><p><b>Revenue and profit</b></p><p>The platform has generated approximately $2.8K in TTM revenue / revenue generated to date across its payment providers.</p><p>Revenue currently comes primarily from transactional purchases for academic integrity and AI-related services, including AI detection, similarity analysis, humanization, academic reports, and other premium tools.</p><p>Across Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments, the business has recorded approximately 490 successful transactions from 335 identified unique paying customers.</p><p>Approximately 96 identified paying customers have purchased more than once, representing roughly 29% of the identified paying customer base.</p><p>The latest 30-day period includes approximately 61 unique paying customers, demonstrating continued recent commercial activity.</p><p>The platform currently supports multiple payment providers, including Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments.</p><p>The business has an unusually lean infrastructure cost structure. The main GPU infrastructure costs approximately $0.085/hour, or roughly $61/month when running continuously.</p><p>External AI API usage has remained very low relative to revenue.</p><p>Similarity-related infrastructure currently costs approximately $20/month.</p><p>The business therefore has significant operating leverage and room to scale revenue without requiring a proportional increase in infrastructure costs.</p><p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>The investment can potentially be recovered through continued transactional revenue and improved monetization of the existing user base.</p><p>The platform already has:</p><p>- 8,061+ registered users</p><p>- 335 identified unique paying customers</p><p>- 490 successful transactions</p><p>- Evidence of repeat purchasing behavior</p><p>- An established payment infrastructure</p><p>- Multiple AI-powered academic tools</p><p>- Existing international customers</p><p>- A fully operational technical infrastructure</p><p><b>The biggest opportunity for a buyer is to increase revenue per user through:</b></p><ul> <li>Subscription plans</li> </ul> <p>Monthly credit systems</p><p>- Recurring memberships</p><p>- Bundled academic tools</p><p>- SEO and content marketing</p><p>- Paid acquisition</p><p>- Affiliate partnerships</p><p>- Educational partnerships</p><p>- Further international expansion</p><p>Because the product, infrastructure, payment systems, and user base are already established, the buyer can focus primarily on growth and monetization rather than spending months building the platform from scratch.</p><p>Actual payback will depend on the buyer's acquisition and monetization strategy, and no specific ROI period is guaranteed.</p><p><b>Startup assets<b></b></b></p><p>The sale includes the complete digital product and the assets required to continue operating the business.</p><p>- .com domain</p><p>- Fully operational web application</p><p>- Frontend source code</p><p>- Backend source code</p><p>- Database and application infrastructure</p><p>- AI detection functionality</p><p>- AI humanization functionality</p><p>- AI paraphrasing functionality</p><p>- Similarity analysis functionality</p><p>- Citation generation</p><p>- Research tools</p><p>- Academic document analysis</p><p>- User authentication and account system</p><p>- Credit-based monetization system</p><p>- Flow Payments integration</p><p>- Culqi integration</p><p>- DodoPayments integration</p><p>- 8,061+ registered users</p><p>- Existing paying customer and transaction history, subject to applicable privacy and data-transfer requirements</p><p>- Existing product and operational data, subject to applicable privacy and data-transfer requirements</p><p>- Existing brand and website</p><p>- Technical configuration and deployment setup</p><p>- AI infrastructure configuration</p><p>- Handover and transition assistance</p><p>- Branded TikTok account with approximately 1,280 followers and 13,600+ likes, subject to TikTok's applicable transfer policies</p><p><b>Risks</b></p><p>Key risks include competition in the AI and academic technology market, changes in AI detection technology, reliance on selected third-party APIs or infrastructure providers, payment-provider dependency, customer acquisition challenges, and the need to continuously maintain and improve the platform.</p><p>Another area for improvement is recurring revenue and retention, as the current monetization model is primarily transactional rather than subscription-based.</p><p>Although the platform has demonstrated repeat purchasing behavior, formal cohort retention, churn, CAC, and LTV analytics have not yet been fully implemented.</p><p>These risks can be mitigated through provider diversification, improved analytics, monitoring infrastructure and API costs, expanding acquisition channels, increasing recurring monetization, introducing subscription plans, and continuously developing new academic workflows.</p><p>The platform's diversified feature set also reduces dependence on a single product feature.</p><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>My platform represents an opportunity to acquire an already-built, operational, and revenue-generating AI SaaS in the academic technology market.</p><p>The platform has grown to 8,061+ registered users, 335 identified unique paying customers, and 490 successful transactions, with approximately $2.8K in TTM revenue / revenue generated to date.</p><p>Approximately 29% of identified paying customers have purchased more than once, demonstrating repeat transactional demand, while 61 unique paying customers were active during the latest 30-day period.</p><p>Unlike a single-purpose AI tool, the platform combines multiple academic workflows, including AI detection, similarity analysis, AI humanization, paraphrasing, citations, research assistance, and academic document analysis.</p><p>The business has established payment infrastructure through Flow Payments, Culqi, and DodoPayments, a functioning frontend and backend, existing users and paying customers, a domain, AI infrastructure, and an established product.</p><p>One of the most attractive aspects of the business is its very lean cost structure. Core GPU infrastructure is approximately $61/month when running continuously, while external AI API usage remains relatively low.</p><p>The current owner has invested very little in paid acquisition, creating significant room for a buyer to scale through SEO, paid search, social media, affiliates, educational partnerships, subscriptions, recurring credits, and further international expansion.</p><p>The buyer is not purchasing an idea or an unfinished project; they are acquiring a working product with users, paying customers, revenue, payment infrastructure, source code, and significant untapped growth potential.</p><p>✅ $2,815 TTM revenue</p><p>✅ 335 customers</p><p>✅ Business model: SaaS</p><p>✅ Built with Node.js, TailwindCSS, Python</p>