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Pre-seed. Operator-shaped. Two revenue streams. Both running today.
Pedagogue Systems is an operating company. The shape is closer to Patagonia or Basecamp than to a Y Combinator SaaS company. Capital is sized to that shape. The dilution curve is shallower. Founders retain decision authority longer.
Stream one
Sell the platform.
Cassion is a governance and audit substrate for staffing operations. Sold to staffing companies in two configurations.
Configuration one · Charter
The charter configuration.
The customer signs the engagement charter and brings governed AI into their operation. Long engagement. Deep value capture. The charter is real and binding; some customers' legal and finance teams will push back. The market is the customers it fits, not the ones it does not.
Configuration two · Level 0
Level 0.
The customer keeps their stack and runs Cassion as substrate only. Governance and audit. No front-office automation. The sales cycle is fast. The friction is low. Recurring substrate revenue plus services. The buyer pool is large: every mid-market staffing firm carrying a failed-modernization story is a Level 0 buyer.
Stream two
Operate.
Pedagogue Systems runs governed staffing operations directly. On its own platform. Margin from week one of every assignment placed. Every shift filled is validation of the platform in the market and revenue at the same time.
The substrate is the moat. Operated, not sold.
Worth naming
Risks worth naming.
- The engagement charter creates real friction in Stream One's high-value configuration.
- Workforce-development partners at the scale the engagement charter requires do not yet exist; some are being built.
- A walk-away covenant raises the bar on the fundraise itself.
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